Movie Monday: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead men tell no tales

Are you a fan of these pirate movies? Well then you're in luck because part five has a lot of the things you might have liked from the previous movies, but at the same time it also has a lot of issues the other movies had as well. To me the best Pirates movie is the first one, Curse of the Black Pearl, but that doesn't make this movie terrible. Just not as good as it could've and should've been.

What's going on in part five?

 You know the usual, a curse and only one man to stop it...yes Captain Jack Sparrow! But once more it's not just Jack but he gets some helpers along the way. Henry, the son of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, Turner and Carina Smyth. Once again the places of Will and Elizabeth seem to have been taken over by a new couple and you can pretty much predict how that ends. At the same time Jack gets himself into more and more trouble, the villains are dumb and always there to just see Jack escape, there are a lot of familiar faces in this movie and the big bad villain in the ghost of an old enemy of Jack. Seems like a good movie? Unfortunately not as good as you might like...

Sparrow?

 When you have an amazing actor like Javier Bardem at your disposal and half of the movie he keeps saying Sparrow then you know that there is something wrong with a movie. He started pretty good, a creepy introduction and you even find out why he turned into a vengeful ghost, but towards the end of the movie you just can't help but laugh at him. The British navy plays a role, a small one, but it's so insignificant that it's hardly worth mentioning. You're mostly following Jack and crew through the movie, which is fine because Jack Sparrow is probably the main reason why people even want to see this movie. But as I mentioned before there are several familiar faces turning up in this movie, so maybe fans of the first three movies want to stick around for that and see a glimpse of Will and Elizabeth.

Is this movie worth seeing?

 It depends, do you like the previous Pirates of the Caribbean movies? If so then you'll probably be ok with this movie. Even if it's just to close off the story because supposedly this is to be the last Pirates of the Caribbean movie, at least with Jack Sparrow. If you're hoping for a spooky and exciting adventure then you're sadly mistaken. Sure there is a lot going on but it's not that exciting and definitely not spooky. I think the movie had a lot of potential but just caves in under all the things that go on and somehow nothing of it really keeps you excited for the movie. I think the movie is fine to watch once, but once you've seen it you can store it somewhere and never think about it again. I know that sounds harsh but I prefer to be honest with you instead of lying.

Reacties

Een reactie posten

Populaire posts van deze blog

Button bashing

It seems that more and more games want you to smash on the buttons of the controller, which seems like fun but knowing that this weak piece of plastic can´t handle much it´s not the smartest way to handle your controller. In the good old arcade days I could smash on buttons, ok nothing too crazy but at least those machines had a lot more resilience than these weak controllers we have now. You have to pay a small fortune for one of them and they fall apart with the slightest bit of force you use. After smashing a couple of controllers out of frustration I learned to be careful with them, but when games force you to be an agressive button basher it doesn´t really help. Button bashing is nothing new but I do seem to see it in more and more games, even games that could easily do without this abusive way of treating your controller. Instead of button bashing people came up with the idea to press a certain series of buttons in a sequence, I first saw this in God of War which was fun. But s...
Meer lezen

Movie Monday: Mr & Mrs Smith

There are movie that might not look good at first, when you hear about it, but once you see the movie then you know that it's a fantastic movie. What really made Mr & Mrs Smith so good was the acting of the two main stars in the movie, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. They had so much fun making this movie that it's an absolute joy to watch the movie. Which is good news for people that are looking for a fun movie to watch! Married to a spy? The story of Mr & Mrs Smith is pretty simple, a man is a spy and marries to a woman not knowing that she's a spy too. Apparently both of them are unaware of eachothers activities until their paths cross in their spy life, which leads to a lot of fighting and explosions. It's really not the action that makes this movie so much fun to watch but it's the humour. Mr & Mrs Smith is the type of movie that shows that a movie can be ten times better when the actors are actually enjoying themselves making this movie, instead ...
Meer lezen

Sinful Sunday: Why are you so serious?

When I play a game I don't want to be serious, I just want to have fun and relax. Honestly real life is serious enough and I don't need that in games. Who cares who wins or who loses, just have fun and that already makes it great! Unfortunately there are gamers that take certain games way too serious, so serious that they literally forget to have fun which is quite frustrating to deal with. These kind of players are so serious that they probably left the fun behind when they started the game. Sigh... Serious gamers are lame gamers? There is nothing wrong about being serious, but I think there is a time and a place for everything. When I play a game with my friends then I'm not being serious nor am I serious when I start up some random multiplayer match. Sure it's nice to win but it's not everything! Things become more serious when there is something at stake, for example in ranked matches or during a tournament. I understand that things are more serious there an...
Meer lezen