Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End Poster, News, etc

[magicalwands]

Hmm, after 10 years, would Will age? Cause if he doesn't...and Elizabeth does...you get the picture.

[PapiBear]

Not staying in the theater for the entire credits to run upon first viewing = not a true film fan.

Getting up and leaving during the end credits is something the great unwashed masses do. True film fans will always stay until the last frame of film flickers on the screen.

Plus, given the fact that the previous two films had post-credits scenes, to not stay for one this time around, especially upon your first viewing, is just being careless.

[Disney-Fan]

Sorry, but after a 3 hour movie my feet want to be elsewhere other than boring credit-watching. I've seen it twice and on both occassions left at the official ending. I'd rather watch the post-credits scene on YouTube.

[Disney Duster]

Well, maybe some people really don't care about the endings, but like PapiBear said, to not think there would be a post-credit scene would be, I'm gonna say it, dumb. Though I did hope I wasn't making my friends stay for nothing, because sometimes Disney can be inconsistent, like with their Platinum Editions, every film had a commentray or Walt's Story Meetings until the surprise of the century, Cinderella had none.

But seriously, everyone should have known there'd be a scene after the credits. My friends and I shouted "Easter Egg!" in the theater to try and stop people from leaving. Some people sat down, some left, and then some sat down but got up again after just a few more seconds of credits. Are the credits that bad?

[myr_heille]

Are the credits that bad?

They certainly aren't. I thought the music track was great during the credits. Plus, I always like to watch credits, I feel like it's the least I can do to thank the people who made me have fun in the last 2 or 3 hours Of course it's a bonus when the credits are interesting, like Pixar outtakes stuff, or Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

[PapiBear]

Are the credits that bad?

They certainly aren't. I thought the music track was great during the credits. Plus, I always like to watch credits, I feel like it's the least I can do to thank the people who made me have fun in the last 2 or 3 hours Of course it's a bonus when the credits are interesting, like Pixar outtakes stuff, or Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

At last, a true film fan. We can hang.

[Pluto Region1]

PapiBear, I loved Tia Dalma too, (people complained about her accent beinmg hard to understand but it made her interesting and it was sexy), but I liked her more in DMC. AWE strangely mis-used her. Like she wasn't a character anymore, just a love object for Davy and a way of making the end battle cool. What was with that? And I'll be honest, when she was unleashed I expected her to become wind or ocean in the shape of her face. She became crabs. WTF?! She deserved better than that... But crabs? Come on.

Well felt like we really got to know more about her this time. In DMC she was so hard to understand, and she played such a minor role... this time we got to have alot of respect for her power and knowledge and get a backstory. Plus if Disney gets wind of her popularity they are likely to write her back in (that is, if they indeed have written her out).

I didn't get the sense that her character WAS killed off. I mean, after that whole bit with them telling her that DJ had betrayed her... Because when she was freed from her earthly body, she ultimately didn't do much except turn into a bunch of crabs and go into the ocean. So I think they've left it wide open for her to return in a sequel, perhaps to extract some sort of revenge. Also she could easily reform back into Tia Dalma - she seemed to indicate that she was "locked" into that earthly body by the pirate brethren but now she's "unlocked" so I took that to mean she could come back in any form.

I agree with you - why is she turned into crabs?! I was really expecting her to be like a mermaid or something really big and encompassing that we would see under the sea like an image of "goddess of the sea" , but crabs?! That was totally bizarre!

I agree with Papibear in that she was just beautiful as she was - dredlocks and the teeth and the face makeup all made her very atractive in my opinion.

I don't know if we should assume this is the FINAL movie of the series; if the box office #s are good, Disney will then be more likely to negotiate with the actors for a 4th movie.... They won't want to kill this if it looks like they can continue to make huge box office and franchising off it.

[Disney Duster]

Well, during Dead Man's Chest, I swear my friend was getting information from somewhere because she told me Tia Dalma was in a relationship with Davy Jones and that was who stole his heart. But she doesn't remember telling me, so maybe I figured out that Tia Dalma was Davy Jones' lover during Dead Man's Chest. What could have given it away was that she knew so much about him, and his heart, and his lost love.

This is relevent because this knowledge may have made Tia Dalma more interesting to me in Dead Man's Chest, combined with the fact that I didn't know much else about her, as this was her first appearence, and she was mysterious. But in At World's End, it seemed like the pirates were controlling her, just using her in their plots to get back Captain Jack or have the powers of the sea on her side. So that's what made me think she was being more used than standing on her own.

I also think she's beautiful as she is, but true beauty is what someone looks like as themselves, without anything fake. So I can see how fake teeth (as in, the gold isn't her real teeth) or unclean hair wouldn't be her true beauty. It depends on how you look at it.

You know, Pluto Region1, you were insightful to me. I wondered why on earth Disney would continue making sequels, when three is considered the perfect number, and trilogies the perfect collection. But it must be because they think they can make so much money off the new films. Unfortunately, I think the pirates mania is waning, and after At World's End didn't do as well as the first two films (as in how much box-office dropped off after the first week), I can only see them making less and less money.

I'm fine with more pirates, but the general public might be tired.

[Jules]

Not staying in the theater for the entire credits to run upon first viewing = not a true film fan.

Getting up and leaving during the end credits is something the great unwashed masses do. True film fans will always stay until the last frame of film flickers on the screen.

Plus, given the fact that the previous two films had post-credits scenes, to not stay for one this time around, especially upon your first viewing, is just being careless.

Well said! Personally, I too like watching till the end of the end credits, till the last frame of the closing studio logo. Call me obsessed, but I'm not content unless I do it.

Unfortunately, I hardly ever do it because when I'm at the theatre, the people I'm with aren't going to stay through till the end of the end credits so I'm forced out of the theatre.

When we're watching a movie at home, my father almost always makes me explode. As soon as the last scene of the film is over he says "OK. Lower the sound volume and take out the DVD". Hello? Maybe I want to listen to the "nice" music that's playing over the credits! Or maybe I just want to read the credits. Of course, my father always needs to watch something on TV exactly at the end of the film, like the news - so I never watch the end cedits.

[Pluto Region1]

You know, Pluto Region1, you were insightful to me. I wondered why on earth Disney would continue making sequels, when three is considered the perfect number, and trilogies the perfect collection. But it must be because they think they can make so much money off the new films. Unfortunately, I think the pirates mania is waning, and after At World's End didn't do as well as the first two films (as in how much box-office dropped off after the first week), I can only see them making less and less money.

I'm fine with more pirates, but the general public might be tired.

Well there was the public announcement (somewhere) there's been consideration of possibly a 4th one... and the movie certainly left enough loose ends to have further sequels. But I don't think there's been any further public information on that. Although #3 didn't do as well, the article that MM1 has posted stated all studios know that the 3rd in a series never does as well. So I was thinking, Disney might continue the movie franchise as a purely financial move, cranking them out every few years, and be satisfied with a fair return on the investment, but not necessarily a spectacular return on the investment. There's also the whole issue of the talent (Johnny, Keira etc) and whether they will commit to future installments.

One thing I thought of after I posted last night, and wanted to mention - #2 and #3 were made together so they were able to release them relatively close together. Assuming that nothing has been decided about making a #4, they'd have to start from scratch and so it would be a few years (3 or 4?) before we'd see #4, and this may affect the momentum of the franchise (by that time POTC might all but be forgotten). But then again, maybe the public could use a break from pirates for awhile.

I have to agree with everyone here - it was a long movie (or so it seemed) but once I got past the confusing first part where they're in the orient, I was fully engrossed in it from beginning to end.

Also, I was thinking - they may make the plots particularly intricate like that, knowing fans of the film will go 2 or 3 times just so they can completely figure out the plot. Again, I'm just speculating.

BTW, I know this is going to sound silly but the whole thing with the teeth.... some of the actors (mostly the male pirate ones) seemed to have greenish or what appeared to be rotting teeth. But I think Tia Dalma's character was the only one with blackish teeth - so were her teeth supposed to be in an advanced state of rot, or supposed to not gross people out as much be looking black instead of green, since green would seem more like "rotten" and black wouldn't necessarily strike us as rotting? Anyone have any thoughts on this.

I think Keith Richards looks better dressed up as a pirate than he does in real life - the whole pirate look goes with his rugged chiseled face I think.

[kbehm29]

I still think that they chose a lousy time to release this movie. Why in their wildest dream would they CHOOSE to release a movie in the same month as Spiderman 3? And don't even get me started on the whole Thursday release thing.
This movie would have done a lot better (box-officely wise) if they would have made smarter choices. Personally, I think it came too close to the last one. They would have done better to wait until next year to release this movie.

[PapiBear]

I still think that they chose a lousy time to release this movie. Why in their wildest dream would they CHOOSE to release a movie in the same month as Spiderman 3? And don't even get me started on the whole Thursday release thing.
This movie would have done a lot better (box-officely wise) if they would have made smarter choices. Personally, I think it came too close to the last one. They would have done better to wait until next year to release this movie.

The film had the fifth largest 3-day opening weekend in motion picture history, set a new record for the four-day Memorial Day Weekend in the US, has already earned over $200 million dollars at the US box office, had the widest opening weekend at the US box office, shattered the worldwide box office record by surpassing $400 million in its first six days (beating Spider Man 3's record).....

• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
  
  Current Tally as of June 8, 2007:
  
  Total US Gross = $228,969,881
  International Gross = $408,800,000
  Worldwide Gross = $637,769,881

....and you're complaining that it could have done better??!?!?!?!?

Over half a billion dollars in two weeks isn't good enough for you?????

[Jules]

Do you mean Pirates 3 has actually beaten Spidey 3 in the long run? If so, that's exactly what Disney wanted - so now they should be very happy.

[rexcrk]

I was a little upset that the after-credits scene from Dead Man's Chest (the dog with the cannibal tribe) had nothing to do with this movie. Although, I don't see HOW it could have an effect on the movie, but it would've been great nonetheless. We all know that the end seen from Curse of the Black Pearl was important for Dead Man's Chest (Jack the monkey taking the cursed medallion) and I had to defend my staying after the credits from Dead Man's Chest to my friends by saying "Ok guys don't worry, that dog scene will have some importance in the third one"

...fortunately none of them seemed to remember me saying that, so I was out of the clear for that one

[lord-of-sith]

But the dog/cannibal scene was called back to in AWE when the dog appeared for Captain Teague, and Pintel and Raghetti gave each other half-confused looks (aka: How did it escape?).

[Anthony]

But the dog/cannibal scene was called back to in AWE when the dog appeared for Captain Teague, and Pintel and Raghetti gave each other half-confused looks (aka: How did it escape?).

I was wondering the same thing.

[Dottie]

But we're given an explanation for that, aren't we? Somebody (I don't remember who) says' "Turtles!" (a nice reference to Jack's favorite way of escaping from islands)

[JiminyCrick91]

But we're given an explanation for that, aren't we? Somebody (I don't remember who) says' "Turtles!" (a nice reference to Jack's favorite way of escaping from islands)

That whould be Captain Teague with a srug and "Sea turtles, mate.".

[Dottie]

But we're given an explanation for that, aren't we? Somebody (I don't remember who) says' "Turtles!" (a nice reference to Jack's favorite way of escaping from islands)

That whould be Captain Teague with a srug and "Sea turtles, mate.".

Yes, that's it. Didn't remember the exact words and who said it. Thanks.

[thatartguy]

I always like to watch credits, I feel like it's the least I can do to thank the people who made me have fun in the last 2 or 3 hours

Yeah, the 8-12 dollars to get in that pays their salaries wasn't enough of a thank you. *LOL* Credits are only good for the people in the movie so they can put them on their resumes. (Although I like to watch them too. )