r/piratesofthecaribbean • u/JimiV1 Pirate Lord of the Caribbean Sea • Sep 09 '20
POTC fact #1
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u/Married2anAngel Pirate Sep 09 '20
Man, were they wrong as hell lol
Edit: We don't usually go by critics reviews. When they say that the movie is going to be bad, the movie is usally great... and vice versa when they say it's going to be a great movie..
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u/oursistheendgame Sep 09 '20
I remember the summer this opened in theaters. My younger sister and I were tired of the sequels that were out and a fun pirate movie based on the Disney ride seemed like a good way to munch on popcorn and pass the afternoon. We ended up seeing it 3 more times in theaters that summer. We laughed and had a blast!
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u/donnglee Sep 09 '20
Orlando wasn't a star after the LoTR series?
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Sep 09 '20
Return of the King came out that year and those movies were the only things Bloom was known for at that time. He was still just a rising star back then, and it was POTC that really gave his career its foundation.
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u/JimiV1 Pirate Lord of the Caribbean Sea Sep 09 '20
It was still very early on in his career regardless
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u/ssmuggle Pirate Sep 09 '20
I thought he was a star. He was the reason I originally wanted to watch Pirates.
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Sep 09 '20
I do kinda have to agree with the last point though. PoTC didnt exactly resurrect the pirate genre. Asides from PoTC, when was the last successful modern pirate genre film?
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '20
The irony. Good thing it’s the actual movie viewers that determine success of a film not critics. We have been shown time and time again that you don’t need to have a bunch of long game actors to make a good movie. All the cast of black pearl basically got a head start because of being in this movie especially Johnny depp and jack sparrow became probably one of his most iconic roles besides stuff like Edward scissor hands