The Reel Rejects - PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END (2007) IS AN UNDERRATED EPIC ADVENTURE!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:00:30 I think that's all we say after before we get to the questions. Yeah, I think so Okay, let's turn the brain back on let's answer the questions from the patrons on let's answer the questions from the patrons. We only got two. The first one's from Valerie Fisher. She says, Hello, Tara and Aaron. Thank you for reacting to the pirate franchise. I love these movies. My favorite part in this one is when Elizabeth makes her speech to the pirates. What was your favorite scene from this one? I really I liked that scene as well. I thought that that was really fun that they gave her that speech to like get him going. I mean, this is not one of my favorites of the pirates, obviously, like I was really trying to feel something and I thought, well,

Starting point is 00:01:21 we know me, I deal with like depression, sometimes I'm tired and I was like really thinking while I was watching this movie Why don't I feel that like wonder and excitement as much as I did with the other ones? And I think maybe it's just like there was just so much going on and it is it is fairly fairly long, but I think I really liked the part because I was gonna be sad if Jack Sparrow was gonna stab the heart.

Starting point is 00:01:51 I was like, they gotta find work their way around that and I thought the smartest writing move was that he sees that William is already dead and he stabs the heart with William's hand and he becomes obviously the captain of the ship and then he gets to be on that ship with his dad. I like that a lot. What about you?

Starting point is 00:02:12 Man, yeah, as you're talking, I was thinking through the movie and there's a lot of stuff that happened in this movie. There's a lot. There's a lot. It's a dense movie. I like the scene with Jack Sparrow talking to himself and it was like all the different Jack Sparrow's before

Starting point is 00:02:27 the rest of the the crew came to get him and the the scene where they're going back and forth to flip the boat over. But yeah, there's just a lot of of of dense action happened in this one. I wish it had more of the heart, more of time for character because I feel like plot and moving pieces took precedent over, you know, the importance of the relationships with Elizabeth Swan and Will Turner. Not to say that stuff was absent from the movie, but I feel like that was part of the

Starting point is 00:02:59 heart of the first two, the lengths in which we're willing to go for the people we love and the people we care for but in spite of you know it not having that stuff as much I can't say I Disliked watching this movie. I think it is my least favorite of the three we've watched so far But I think it still has the character Consistencies of what we've known them to be even if there is new revelations of information that seems like they would have said in the first two, like the fact that there are nine pirates that have this, you know, Illuminati of pirates, and then like, oh, this is like new information

Starting point is 00:03:34 that seems like it could have been relevant, or at least mentioned in the first two, because I feel like the first movie did a really good job of establishing, like, oh, yeah, Bill Turner, Bootstrap Turner was shot off and taken off the Black Pearl, and he's in David Jones' locker, and that's a threat that's picked up in the second movie.

Starting point is 00:03:55 But none of the stuff involving, you know, what Jack Sparrow knows and the possessions that he has has or established, even in the line in the last one. And maybe I missed them. and the possessions that he has or established, even in the line in the last one. And maybe I missed them. I think they're just pulling it out of their butt. To be like, let's make a third movie. What do we do?

Starting point is 00:04:12 What do we do? Yeah. But I mean, that first scene where they're taking, where they're going to get the information, where they get the Asian pirates involved, and it's like a whole kerfuffle Oh, British people came. Yeah Like a lifetime ago. I was like, what's the first scene? Yeah, okay No, I think that was scene that really stood out because I think visually

Starting point is 00:04:38 It contrasted with the rest of the darkness of the movie was Jack Sparrow right before he got saved and he was going a little crazy. So I'd say that was my favorite scene. That was, yeah, that was fun. I, and I'm glad that they brought it back sort of as a callback a couple of times with him being in multiple places. The weirdest part, I think, with that and him being in multiple places was the ship the dream Like and him being in purgatory and it was not it wasn't weird in a bad way It was weird in a good way It just seemed like it was done by a completely different director and I kept trying to think of his name He made

Starting point is 00:05:21 What is the hotel one where you look at the poster and it's like bright and colorful was Anderson. Thank you. That reminded me of a Wes Anderson film right where it's like it's very precise. And I thought it was just very interesting. Obviously they had to make it different to make it a dream sequence and they're showing us that he's going cuckoo by having him in there multiple times. It's just funny, though, that that is not even the biggest thing about this, that he goes crazy. We don't even really focus on that because we have it. We get away from it and then there's, like,

Starting point is 00:05:59 seven other pathways to this script. Yeah, it's just an array of things happening. I never really felt particularly drawn to the villains of this story. Me neither. Yeah, I like David Jones better in the second one. Well, right, and remember when they're meeting and there's three and three and they go to make the switch,

Starting point is 00:06:21 they're like, you can take Jack, I'll take William. Right, it was sort of like, what are we doing? Like, I get it, but I also, I didn't care at that time. I was like, I don't, to me, they were all a little bit the same. Except of course, like, Jack Sparrow, William, and then a swan, we get it. But the rest of them, I didn't feel strongly

Starting point is 00:06:43 one way or the other. And I think I should have. I think I should have in that moment had an opinion as to who goes where. And I did. Oh shit, it should have been an exciting moment. Like, oh crap, they're all meeting all of the pieces together. I didn't care. Yeah, because I feel like it was just dense. And it's weird because, like in my private time, and you on the channel

Starting point is 00:07:03 have watched long movies before, like the Lord of the Rings movies, and how you really cared for those movies. So I wonder what the difference is as far as a dense movie with a lot of moving parts. I mean, I think it's the way that you deliver that denseness. It's as though I thought that they were like, the first two movies were fun,

Starting point is 00:07:25 but let's make this like a real movie and the script has to be like really good because there were some good lines in here and I can't remember them because I was like really just trying to watch the movie going why don't I love this right now? And I couldn't completely figure it out. There was some really great writing in here

Starting point is 00:07:46 in terms of just the dialogue and stuff, but not all of it, because it was like a lot of zigzagging. This movie felt like it would have made a better mini-series than a movie, because I feel like the amount of pieces that we had moving around didn't allow it to breathe in the way where it could be narratively satisfying.

Starting point is 00:08:09 And yeah, this was just like spread out a little bit more to allow us to, you know, really stick with our characters, allow the fact that she became the pirate king to live a little bit longer. Cause like that happened really quickly. And then, you know, we had the battle and then she was off and I wish a lot of these characters because it felt like a movie that was already long but stuff has happened before between two and three that we're just now picking up back into and I yeah I don't know it didn't pull me in the way that I would have liked I didn't dislike watching this movie. I think that these

Starting point is 00:08:45 are characters that I still really enjoy. You know, I think the fact that we had Barbota, Barbados, Barbosa back in the movie, I felt he felt totally consistent to who he was in the first movie, which I did enjoy. I liked that Jack Sparrow felt like himself. And you know, the motivations were there for Will. The motivations were there for Elizabeth Swan. But again, there's just so many moving pieces. We don't really get to spend the time that we want to with them. And even the stuff with the wedding,

Starting point is 00:09:16 I think that's where they got engaged. I think that scene, even though it seemed to be fun and cheeky and like, oh, the swashbuckling spirit. I think that scene bothered me because just the placement of it felt unnatural and I didn't like it. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:09:32 But yeah, I mean, it's still, you know, it's the conclusion to the story. I'm hoping that the the next one breathes a little bit more. But yeah, and this is a very long-winded way of answering your question, so thank you for sending this in. But yeah, I think that's how I feel about the movie as a whole, and that was my favorite scene of how to pick one right now, moments after the film is over. That's the one that stuck out the most. There you go, all right. Now, last question is from Jay Rushton.

Starting point is 00:10:01 He says, what is the name of your boat and where do you sail? Hmm. Hmm. That's a great question. There's a lot of... Sail somewhere warm where the water's warm. Yes. And the name of my boat. Hmm. I don't know. There's a lot of good boat names. They have the Black Pearl in here. They

Starting point is 00:10:23 have the Flying Dutchman. Mine would either have to be like Juice in it or like Awesome Sauce. Like, yeah. I don't know, the... It's a tough one. Crimson, the Crimson Spider, I don't know.

Starting point is 00:10:43 The Crimson Spider. That's the name of my ship, Crimson Spider. I don't know. The Crimson Spider. That's the name of my ship. The Crimson Spider. OK, where are you going? Where am I going? I'm trying to have a good time. Where do you sail? I'm sailing first to the Maldives.

Starting point is 00:10:58 I'm trying to have a good time with the Maldives. Kick my feet up, have a good time. Going to Jamaica. I'm going to all the Caribbean's. Yeah That's what I'm talking about. Yeah Spain as well all the all the the cities that feel like they have a different variety of peace one Italy as well I'm hitting I'm hitting all the spots. I want I'm trying to try the different wines trying different You know excursions there are at these different places and just

Starting point is 00:11:30 I'm with you on that Okay, so I guess Overall I'm trying to think of like more thoughts of what I could actually give you guys with this film I think that, you know, the motivations, like you were talking about earlier, Aaron, it's William has the motivation, he wants to save his father.

Starting point is 00:11:55 Then there's also the motivation of like the Davy Jones heart thing, and who's gonna do it, who's gonna take over the heart, all along with the motivation, and we have to have all nine things to get to the brethren, Along with the motivation, we have to have all nine things to get to the brethren. Along with the motivation to either keep or release Calypso and find her. Along with the motivation from Davy Jones and Calypso, that whole love affair. Along with like the motivation that Swan and William still like each other, even though they did give us a little bit of a tease,

Starting point is 00:12:28 a bit of a callback, like when they first arrive on the beach and she's like, Jack, and she goes to run to him, but she looks at William and thinks better of it because he probably, as we saw, it was resolved like, oh, you thought I loved him, because remember, he saw them cast. That's just, that's a lot, right?

Starting point is 00:12:49 There's just, there's a lot of things going on in here. I think that they're all good and fun in their own way but there was just something about it that maybe it's the length added in with how many plot points we're trying to add that made it, I don't know, like a little too dicey for me, that I wasn't able to just feel the excitement and the wonder like I did in the other movies.

Starting point is 00:13:18 This felt more like I still liked it, but more of a chore. And I think that's because there was so much going on and I was really trying to figure out why I wasn't feeling it or feeling as excited about it. That's kind of where I'm at with it, but I still had a lot of fun. I think all of the actors are really, really, obviously very talented and really great.

Starting point is 00:13:53 It is fun seeing William, Sparrow, Swan, Davy Jones, and Barbossa, like, all together. That's a lot of fun. I get the idea that's in this script, but for some reason, I don't know. I just, the fighting was also very cool stunt choreography and obviously the makeup special effects I do think we got a practical fire explosion in that first scene when they are In the canoe whatever meeting the other the other team, which I thought was super cool Yeah, I don't know I think those are those are all my thoughts I hope that the next one that I do get that excitement and the wonder of like the pirates feeling back. That's what I want. Yeah. Yeah. Listen, Reject Nation. When we started our reject nation shop, I honestly thought that we would only sell to like a handful of people who liked our channel.

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Starting point is 00:16:05 So, you know, I'm here for the pirate vibes. I'm here for the characters. I think all the actors did a really great job. Some stuff didn't entirely make sense to me, or maybe some stuff was a little bit rushed over. You know, we have characters dying and being moved in different positions off screen. We have characters in precarious positions that are happening off screen as well. And we're like, oh, I would have liked

Starting point is 00:16:28 to have seen that. Maybe if this movie was put into two parts, maybe it would have allowed it to be more entertaining, you know, give us some time and anticipation for that ultimate culmination that happens at the end with all the different pirates. Cause we kind of rushed past the fact that they allude to the fact that that's, what's his name? Jack Sparrow's dad. And the fact that all these pirates come into play and maybe there could have been more interplay in trying to get the pirates all together in the first place.

Starting point is 00:17:00 That could have been fun. Cause we see these different pirate crews of different nationalities in different parts of the world. We have like a French pirate crew, we had an Indian pirate crew. We have like a couple of different Asian pirate crews. And I think that, you know, maybe if we would have found a reason to or found like a stronger narrative pull to bring all these people together to take down the British over there. I don't know, I'm just trying to think on the fly about things that could have made this

Starting point is 00:17:30 a little bit more enjoyable, because I feel like the first and second movie definitely had that swashbuckling fun feeling, and this one felt like we were trying to wrap things up, and it felt a little bit like playing catch up, and like I'm necessarily doing homework, but I Just didn't care to keep up sometimes. Yeah, I just felt like a lot of information like extremely exposition heavy and

Starting point is 00:17:57 So we can get the people in the places we need to for the story at certain times And I don't know, I feel like when a story's made in that kind of way and you see those parts, it makes it a little less fun. But luckily the actors are giving their all, so it still brings us entertaining when you see different people interacting in different settings and stuff. For sure. But yeah, I guess those are my thoughts for now on that.

Starting point is 00:18:26 But Tara, would you like to guess what it got wrong with tomatoes? Okay, I'm gonna go critics. 58. And the audience, 69. Critics, 69. Critics, 43. Okay, phew. Ha.

Starting point is 00:18:50 Well, audience, 72. Yeah, I knew it. I knew that the audience, like, that's the thing. I am with the, I'm never on the critic side, and for some reason, like, I just am not, I wasn't as invested, and there's, there's a reason why in the execution. And I get, I think that's why that is so low.

Starting point is 00:19:10 But I'm still glad that the audience has liked it. I think it's because we still have what we came here for, right? We still have Sparrow, we still have Swann, we still have William in it. And there's still like great fights and there's exploration and we're still doing pirate stuff. And there's still nice little callbacks to Disney,

Starting point is 00:19:30 to the ride, you know, Disney stands. We love that stuff. So I'm not surprised that it has a 72 or whatever from audience. What's you looking up next? She's like, I'm ready, dog. Maybe a couple of facts before we wrap it up. I just thought you were gonna ask me questions.

Starting point is 00:19:59 I was like, you're pulling it up on the TV. You do realize that, right? I do, I think we read all of our Patreon questions. No, no, we did. I thought you were going to ask me to guess something. And I was like, I'm going to be looking right at it. No, no, no. I just pulled up trivia.

Starting point is 00:20:14 Because I don't do the box office stuff. Yeah. You want to read the first one? Sure. The most expensive film ever made at the time, not adjusted for inflation. The budget ran over $300 million and that's the budget of all three Lord of the Rings films

Starting point is 00:20:32 combined, god damn. That is a disappointment. I just, wow, okay. I mean, that's just a lot of money. They did have phenomenal sets. It did all look really gorgeous and perfect. They're just something that the story just didn't pull me in, but that may just be me because we heard audiences are 72%. So I don't know. Okay. The next one says the green flash is real, but very rare optical phenomenon during sunrise or sunset that is best observed at sea.

Starting point is 00:21:08 Really? It is caused by the refraction of light in the atmosphere amplified by a mirage. Okay, I didn't know that that was a real thing. All right. That's cool. At around 23 minutes, the scene in which Jack the Monkey is shivering

Starting point is 00:21:23 was accomplished by the concert efforts of the special effects team in animal training department. The effects guys made a small wooden barrel with a vibrating plate on top. The animal trainers taught the monkey to sit with her arms crossed on the plate. Okay. Yeah, because I was wondering that. I was like, they didn't, there's no way they made the monkey that cold to be shivering. And so I was like, but it also doesn't look CGI.

Starting point is 00:21:48 But then I thought it has to be shivering. That's cool. Yeah, that's a really cool like little insight to how they did it practically, which is great. Okay, it says the I'll read the not that one, but the next one. A real life cancel pirates existed at one time the Brethren of the coast Was a loose coalition of pirates and Buccaneers active in the 17th and 18th centuries in the Atlantic Ocean Caribbean Seeing Gulf of Mexico they had a base on the island of Tortuga off the coast of Haiti and in Port Royal This is a historical comment here

Starting point is 00:22:24 Okay, the Brethren were originally French and British Protestants, but their ranks their ranks were joined by other adventurers of various nationalities, including Spaniards and Africans. OK. I'm not as much into history as this person. Helpful. Cool, though, for those history buffs out there. You want to read a couple of spoilers? Yeah. OK. helpful, cool though for those history buffs out there. You wanna read a couple spoilers? Yeah, okay. At around two hours and 35 minutes at the end,

Starting point is 00:22:51 back at Tortiga when Jack figures out that Barbossa stole his ship and gets slapped by the two women, Scarlett and Giselle, look at Jack's wrist. He has his mum tied around his belt, the shrunken head. Oh, I love that. I did not notice that. That's cool, on his belt. That's awesome.

Starting point is 00:23:10 Okay. Okay, I'll read another one. At around two hours, 30 minutes, the farewells Elizabeth receives from the pirates echo their greetings and farewells and pirates at the Caribbean, the curse of the Black Pearl. Pentel, who met Elizabeth with Hello, Pop It, says bye, Pop It.

Starting point is 00:23:27 Captain Barbossa, his first thought was Miss Turner, calls her Mrs. Turner. Elizabeth tells Jack Sparrow, would never have worked between them, which Sparrow had earlier told her, right? After they had like, I think kissed or something in the previous movie. I forget when he told her that, but that's a really fun callback, I think, kissed or something in the previous movie. I forget when he told her that,

Starting point is 00:23:45 but that's a really fun callback. I like that. That's cool. What do you think? Any like last thoughts? No, I think that, you know, they wrapped it up in a way that feels like it's full circle, you know,

Starting point is 00:24:02 even though it was very dense of a movie. I think all three of these movies have their fun to be had. I enjoyed the first two a little bit more than this one. Yeah. But yeah, that said, the way this ends, it feels like there's another adventure that they set up that is going to be explored in, I think, at Stranger Tides. So yeah, I'm looking forward to that. Hopefully it's not as convoluted and plot thick as this one.

Starting point is 00:24:27 But I still like the pirates. Yeah, still stoked on it. Still excited to watch the other ones, hoping there's a bit of a change when it comes to the script and the delivery of the story and the plots. We shall see. Still, obviously, I'm a Disney stan,

Starting point is 00:24:43 so I love pirates. Nonetheless, it doesn't matter. This is just one of those movies that I didn't love it as much. Excited for the next one. Thank you guys for joining. Do all the YouTube things, like comment, subscribe. Follow us at Real Rejects everywhere.

Starting point is 00:25:00 You know what to do. Join Patreon. We will see you guys on the next one. You know what to do. Join Patreon. We will see you guys on the next one. Jameson McIntosh. John, would you want to as part of your pirate crew? I would. I would. And I think you would be the perfect first mate on my ship.

Starting point is 00:25:20 All right. You know, you would have the full pirate regalia peg leg. You know, I would gladly cut your leg off just to help you maintain the authenticity. But, you know, you've demonstrated such consistency and such dedication as a royal reject and such subservience to our will, which is what everybody on the crew of a pirate ship needs, you know, like a worshipping adulation for their captain, which is me and Greg and us. I think that's a great pick on top of that, too. He'd be a belligerent drunk.

Starting point is 00:25:50 Yes, yes. The rum's always gone in your belly. What else are you supposed to do in a strand? Let's see. It's freaking boring. Yeah. So some stuff or, you know, take a lover. We just know he's a royal enough that like if we ran out of like actual cannons I Jump in the can jump in the can and be a blast off to you know

Starting point is 00:26:11 That's the most likely loyalty we need around here So thank you Jameson for for being a part of our patreon page and for being here for so long Thanks for the support buddy. You're the cannonball

The Reel Rejects - PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END (2007) IS AN UNDERRATED EPIC ADVENTURE!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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