comment #1

jeffmcm says ...

Make up your mind: horseshit or agreeable.

comment #2

LOTGA says ...

Working at a theatre, we recieved an e-mail a few weeks ago regarding theatre rentals saying that our head office has heard rumblings of PotC being around three hours or longer.

comment #3

York "Budd" Durden says ...

God--three hours? Shoot me now.

Hell, I switched the last off about 80 minutes in. My wife and I looked at each other and both agreed that life was too short for another frame of it.

comment #4

Wrecktum says ...

The movie will be considerably shorter than 3 hours. Good lord, where do people get this stuff?

comment #5

Edward says ...

If POC 2 had been any longer that stupid waterwheel scene would have never ended!

comment #6

JoeGreenia says ...

This has always been the problem with this series. Too much of a good thing. There are some fun bits, but they flog them to death.

comment #7

NYCBusybody says ...

I loved the first Pirates, thought the second was agreeable but far too long. I truly hope this one doesn't overdo it. Hollywood really needs to remember the less-is-more maxim these days.

comment #8

frankbooth says ...

The first one FELT like it was three hours. Depp was moderately funny, and the movie was overpraised because it was just average instead of being as horrible as everyone expected. I gave up after that, because it's not my job to watch this stuff.

Enjoy the show, Jeffrey!

comment #9

Craig Kennedy says ...

Yeah, bloat is one of the sins of this franchise. It was especially galling in the 2nd one because it smacked of smugness. Like a comic who thinks he's really funny because he used to knock 'em dead in the Catskills but the world has long since moved on and you're just waiting for him to stop mugging and bring out the girl who takes her top off. Or they were so enamored of every precious frame of film and so convinced that it was all killer that they just couldn't bear to keep 1/24th of a second away from eager adoring audiences. Chop it down to 60 minutes and 2 might've been bearable.

comment #10

Terry McCarty says ...

Coming soon: THE LEARNING ANNEX seminar NO CUTTING ALLOWED:WHY EVERY FRAME OF MY FILM IS SACRED with guest lecturers Jerry Bruckheimer, Gore Verbinski, David Dobkin and Judd Apatow.

comment #11

Terry McCarty says ...

Coming soon: THE LEARNING ANNEX seminar NO CUTTING ALLOWED:WHY EVERY FRAME OF MY FILM IS SACRED with guest lecturers Jerry Bruckheimer, Gore Verbinski, David Dobkin and Judd Apatow.

comment #12

Geoff says ...

It will be way too long as usual.

comment #13

nemo says ...

"I wouldn't have disliked the second one if it had been, say, 20 or 30 minutes shorter."

WHAT?!? I can't believe my eyes and ears!

Jeff Wells claims that lopping a mere 20 minutes off POTC II would have made him NOT dislike that movie? I don't believe that. Lopping off 20 minutes wouldn't have made me stop disliking it, and I don't feel one tenth as strongly about it as Wells!

Though I did like the Bill Nighy parts.

Considering the whole Keef Richards father-snorting ballyhoo, I'm surprised Disney didn't choke when Depp said his eyesight was still fine when his crew saw he had hair growing on the palm of his hand.

Father-stabbers ... Mother-rapers ... Father-rapers ... Father-snorters!

comment #14

The Movie Man says ...

I still think that the POTC franchise is basically THE MATRIX all over again. Everyone laughs at the idea of the first one even being made (Keanu sci-fi, pirates theme ride movie), everyone shockingly flips for it, a trilogy is greenlit, everyone gives the incomprehensible, bloated second helping a free pass because "its building" to the third, and then third turns out to be even shittier and the entire enterprise is put in proper perspective.

comment #15

sandekat says ...

I really love these movies. ( No, really, I'm intelligent, very, not a donkey except when I vote, and I resist being led....like a donkey.) They are funny, exotic, well acted.....they remind me of the florid adventure films of yore......the locales are beautiful......the ships are magnificent....the distressed fabrics top notch.....the tourqoise water a fantasy.....the characters superb.......all ya gotta do is sit back and let go. I wish they were longer.

But one dividend of this series is one I used to get irritated by.....the incessant chatter of the 'natterers'.......those 'film lovers'....of 'taste'.....you know who you are:" I enjoyed the first one, but the second, oy vey"...."too long, too dumb."..".beneath me"..."too loud, too many effects"...."how could anyone like, love such drivel"......on and on, droning the same shit over and over......pearls before swine...

.. No point in arguing. I know exactly why I love them, and I'm very sure that anyone who can't understand it now, never will. Oh well(s)...

But Jeff......20 or 30 minutes shorter and you'd have changed your opinion?!!....Now that's hilarious.

comment #16

Dan Revill says ...

I think if it were 20-30 mins shorter, I would probably have watched it another time in the theater. It was enjoyable enough, but I have to agree with Wells, these types of films should be shorter.

comment #17

GKLondon says ...

I have it on good authority that the current cut stands at 2 hours 50 approx. Grin and bear it, you know we're all going to go see it.

comment #18

Hallick says ...

"I have it on good authority that the current cut stands at 2 hours 50 approx. Grin and bear it, you know we're all going to go see it."

Speak for yourself (unless you just did - sorry 'bout that)! The first movie was great, but the second movie made me feel like I was trapped in something interminable; and, miraculously considering the thing's running time, I've already forgotten most of what happened on screen.

And to respond to a previous post: some pearls may be cast before swine - but sometimes they're ejaculated on the suckers, too.

comment #19

thatmovieguy says ...

An industry tip sheet that is generally accurate is also listing an approximate running time of 165 minutes -- so don't hold your breath waiting for a 100-minute quickie.

comment #20

Joshua Mooney says ...

Nemo wrote: "Father-stabbers ... Mother-rapers ... Father-rapers ... Father-snorters!"

Sir, that's the only thing I've seen, heard, felt or lived that made me laugh in the last six days. I heard it in my head with Arlo Guthrie's quivery, nasal delivery.

Eh. I must be older than I thought.

That being said, the trailer ALONE makes this movie seem like it will last a lifetime. Doesn't it cost more money to make longer movies? Or at least to PROJECT longer movies? These filmmakers are incredibly self-satisfied about a franchise that amounts to about 30 seconds-per-film of Depp's campy witticisms and mascara. And burying Bill Nighy's glorious, mournful face under all those tentacles. And now Keef's walking the plank over his sniffing-the-old-man reference? That's just bad business. Of COURSE he was taking the piss, as any true Stones fan knows. He ain't snorted nuffing stronger than Visine since he had Brian Jones's bones dredged up by grave-robbers and ground in with a moldy, moribund Quualude way back in 1996. (Admittedly a hostile act).

comment #21

jeffmcm says ...

You've laughed once in the last six days? Jesus Christ, get on some medication.

comment #22

Joshua Mooney says ...

jeffmcm: I didn't count the times I've made MYSELF laugh. Surely you can tell those are innumerable. (A-hah-hah-hah. Etc.) As to medication: I spend a full hour, once a week, putting the pills I need to survive into three different 7-day pill holders. Morning noon and night. The ingesting of them is some serious business, I assure you.

"Get on some medication," you suggest? Jesus! How much medication can a simple, frail, God-given human body contend with? We're not all as fortunate as the likes of you. Have a little sympathy, fella.

"You've laughed once in the last six days? Jesus Christ, get on some medication.

Posted by: jeffmcm at April 6, 2007 11:23 AM"

comment #23

christian says ...

these movies are the equivalent of the bloated 60's roadshows.

comment #24

jeffmcm says ...

Sorry to hear about your numerous suppositories.