Originally Posted By Autopia Deb I just saw it for the second time and liked it even better than the first time. It is definately better than DMC, which I only bothered to see once in the theater. Usually when I see a movie that long I get quite figgity, even if I'm enjoying it, but that didn't happen on either viewing. My only real problem with the movie was the poor payoff for Tia Dalma. She either should have kicked serious butt, or just gone "thanks mates" and returned to the sea. What was all that about turning into the 50 foot woman, screaming at them and then leaving in a fit of crabs? I almost wonder if there was more in the script that was cut for time. I also would have liked more of Norrington and a better payoff for him. Either embrace the villain or the hero. I guess there was too much else going on for him to get much screen time or character development. Too bad.
Originally Posted By Kira I was told that the original cut of this film was nearly 4 hours long, my guess is many of the characters lost some of their storylines in this footage.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs <<Kira: I was told that the original cut of this film was nearly 4 hours long, my guess is many of the characters lost some of their storylines in this footage.>> Ah yes, the Special Extended Kira Edition; I can just see you telling Bruckheimer that four hours is *still* not long enough.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x It's not..not for any of the 3 Pirates movies, or the 4 (soon to be 5) Harry Potter Movies. Who came up with the stigma that 3 hours was just long enough and anything longer was bad????? Just put in an intermission. The theaters would make more money!!
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs <<x Pirate_Princess x: Just put in an intermission.>> Yeah, just like in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" or "The Beatles' HELP!"
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x ^ Monty Python? The Beatles? What are those? LOL Just kidding. I'm young, but not THAT young. Didn't Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz have intermissions?
Originally Posted By Disneyma ^^ The Sound of Music did. I saw Pirates for the second time today, I think I enjoyed it more the second time around. I felt I "understood" more of the story. Well, seeing it twice and taking the last couple days to read this thread! lol
Originally Posted By brotherdave GWTW certainly did. I pretty certain that Wizard of Oz did not. It's running time is under 2 hours long. Many other movies DID have intermissions, though. I'm pretty sure that most epics like The 10 Commandments, Ben Hur, Sound of Music, etc, all had them. Heck, even Chitty Chitty Bang Bang had an intermission, which has a shorter running time than either DMC or AWE!
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x Yes, I definitely understood it better once I read this thread after seeing it the first time. I was able to listen for certain aspects and watch for certain things, which helped me absorb the info the second time around.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x I guess when you're a kid and the Wizard of Oz in scaring the heck out of you, it feels like it's 5 hours long LOL I vaguely remember the Sound of Music being really long...almost like WWI itself. LOL
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle >>So, why would Will have to have his heart cut out to be captain of the Dutchman?<< I wondered the exact same thing! It seemed to be totally irrelevant.
Originally Posted By fkurucz <<Many other movies DID have intermissions, though. I'm pretty sure that most epics like The 10 Commandments, Ben Hur, Sound of Music, etc, all had them. Heck, even Chitty Chitty Bang Bang had an intermission, which has a shorter running time than either DMC or AWE!>> I remember that back in the 60's most movies had intermissions. Of course that was before the advent of the multiplex. Cinemas were single, stand alone jobs, often with big curved "Cinerama" screens.
Originally Posted By threeundertwo Back in the old days, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, the theaters near me showed double features. We thought sitting through two movies was a great thing. I guess we had longer attention spans back then.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs <<basil fan: Davy Jones cut out his own heart because he was spurned. It was his choice, not part of the Flying Dutchman gig. So, why would Will have to have his heart cut out to be captain of the Dutchman?>> I would guess that so he could live forever. If he was dead, the Dutchman would have no captain, Kiera would be a widow and there'd be a worldwide collective gasp from female moviegoers between the ages of 12-56...and Kira. He was pretty much dead anyway, so his father was doing him a favor. But then...Jack was also contemplating about cutting out his heart so he could be the captain of the Dutchman and live forever. I'm assuming the Dutchman and its crew will be around for a while and...man this is too complicated. Why couldn't this have been a simple epic like Lord of the Rings? Have you people conversed with the MousePlaneteers about this? Or the Doombuggiers? Or the Jim Hillians?
Originally Posted By ToonKirby I remember an intermission when I saw "Gandhi" in the theater back in '82. I don't think intermissions would fly nowadays ... the general public isn't used to it. They'd leave after the first half thinking the movie was over. It happened with "Grindhouse" with its "fake" intermission.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x That's because people today don't have the attention span to go to the bathroom or buy popcorn and then go back to the theater.
Originally Posted By basil fan Y'know, it wasn't too long ago that anything over 2 hours was out, out, out with theater-owners. They knew they'd have fewer showings per day and insisted that films be cut down to 2 hours tops. At least, that's what I read. Was Fellowship of the Ring the movie that made long movies "in" again? Or was it something earlier? Basil of Baker Street--His Limits <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/basil/limits.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/ basil/limits.html</a>
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x I have no clue. I watched the first LOTR movie at midnight, and fell asleep. I've never had the desire to see any of the other ones. They're too long. LOL Just kidding.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs So THAT was the problem with the Mansion and Country Bear movies...they were just too SHORT! If they had just been stretched out into a 3-hour length AND a trilogy, they would have done well!
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<Y'know, it wasn't too long ago that anything over 2 hours was out, out, out with theater-owners. They knew they'd have fewer showings per day and insisted that films be cut down to 2 hours tops.>> I think they have since learned that they make a heckuva lot more on concessions than they will ever make selling tickets. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they brought intermissions back.
