here i was watching pirates of the Caribbean III for the second time. the first time i watched the movies with a friend of mine who had not seen the prequels and i had to give him the skeleton structure of the story before entering the theater. later on i found that he enjoyed the movie. the second time i watched the movie with a friend of mine who had already watched the prequels and was disappointed at the end of the movie for it did not offer anything that was offered in the previous edition. why this conflict??. now, why do the public have huge expectations about sequels of movies, especially movies that had touched their heart in some way or the other??? isn't the backbone of any movie the story in itself??? shouldn't the characters revolve around the plot rather than story revolving around the characters???
before i say more, let me tell you that pirates...1and2 were a fun movie, full of comedy. but by the way they ended the IInd part, one should have guessed that the story line is going change and the fun would be replaced by action and adventure. and what ultimately appears is a real pirate movie, the way it should have been made. the action is really good and graphics mind boggling, but what keeps you on the edge is that the movie is that it has got the very nuance of a pirate movie, betrayal, deceit, and name what you and you got it. yes it is a little confusing and one has to actually understand the basic structure of the story to enjoy the movie. it cannot be in any ways be compared to the prequel s they were only the build up to the ultimate fight between pirates and the other side. how can anyone expect to see humour when people are being killed or when the protagonist has to choose between his love and his dad, or when Capt Jack Sparrow himself is required to change from his usual humourous self into a real captain of a ship that has to enter the battle field. and yet many movie goers are complaining that the movie was not good...
movies is not a medium that should be enjoyed just for the fun part of it. it's time we come out of the thought that fun is the only way of enjoying something. a good movie is no longer seen for what the movie is worth or what the movie has to offer. it is only seen for the sake of having fun. no wonder great movies like The Queen or The Pianist or as a matter of fact even Namesake did not click at the box-office. these movies had something to think about in them, not fun alone. the movies that do work well these days are the ones with countless action sequence and mind boggling graphics. aren't anyone missing the movies of Martin Scorceses or Rob Reiner or Michael Mann, where stories are told so that people wake up to something new??? with the present state of cinema am pretty sure that there would not be anyone who appreciates the likes of Schindler's List or Raging Bull for they no longer come under the genre of fun movies.
coming back to the topic of Pirates III, i believe the public opinion aint doing an justice. For there was not even a single movie before that attempted what the crew of pirates attempted, that is give a story in three editions, where story is told the way it has to be told. one can claim that Rocky series or Ranbo series or even the native Munnabhai series did wonders at the box-office. but then i'd like to point out that they did not just say one story. Rocky and Rambo showcased different stories based on one character, Munnabhai just retained the humor and rolled out an entirely different story(the cast on the sequel was same as that in the first but with different character assigned). besides, Munnabhai was a hit as everyone expected something and what came out was something in the opposite direction as such. thus it was accepted.
what am trying to say here is that every movie should be treat as a different individual even it it's a sequel or prequel (we seriously cant say that sam is tom's son so should have all the traits of tom as that could be a preposterous concept). the minute we start seeing movie for the very nuance that is in store for us, we'll start forgetting to compare it with anything that we have seen before bearing any resemblance to this. and the minute we start doing that, sequels will no longer be a movie with expectations, it will only be a movie out there to be enjoed the way it has to be.
before i say more, let me tell you that pirates...1and2 were a fun movie, full of comedy. but by the way they ended the IInd part, one should have guessed that the story line is going change and the fun would be replaced by action and adventure. and what ultimately appears is a real pirate movie, the way it should have been made. the action is really good and graphics mind boggling, but what keeps you on the edge is that the movie is that it has got the very nuance of a pirate movie, betrayal, deceit, and name what you and you got it. yes it is a little confusing and one has to actually understand the basic structure of the story to enjoy the movie. it cannot be in any ways be compared to the prequel s they were only the build up to the ultimate fight between pirates and the other side. how can anyone expect to see humour when people are being killed or when the protagonist has to choose between his love and his dad, or when Capt Jack Sparrow himself is required to change from his usual humourous self into a real captain of a ship that has to enter the battle field. and yet many movie goers are complaining that the movie was not good...
movies is not a medium that should be enjoyed just for the fun part of it. it's time we come out of the thought that fun is the only way of enjoying something. a good movie is no longer seen for what the movie is worth or what the movie has to offer. it is only seen for the sake of having fun. no wonder great movies like The Queen or The Pianist or as a matter of fact even Namesake did not click at the box-office. these movies had something to think about in them, not fun alone. the movies that do work well these days are the ones with countless action sequence and mind boggling graphics. aren't anyone missing the movies of Martin Scorceses or Rob Reiner or Michael Mann, where stories are told so that people wake up to something new??? with the present state of cinema am pretty sure that there would not be anyone who appreciates the likes of Schindler's List or Raging Bull for they no longer come under the genre of fun movies.
coming back to the topic of Pirates III, i believe the public opinion aint doing an justice. For there was not even a single movie before that attempted what the crew of pirates attempted, that is give a story in three editions, where story is told the way it has to be told. one can claim that Rocky series or Ranbo series or even the native Munnabhai series did wonders at the box-office. but then i'd like to point out that they did not just say one story. Rocky and Rambo showcased different stories based on one character, Munnabhai just retained the humor and rolled out an entirely different story(the cast on the sequel was same as that in the first but with different character assigned). besides, Munnabhai was a hit as everyone expected something and what came out was something in the opposite direction as such. thus it was accepted.
what am trying to say here is that every movie should be treat as a different individual even it it's a sequel or prequel (we seriously cant say that sam is tom's son so should have all the traits of tom as that could be a preposterous concept). the minute we start seeing movie for the very nuance that is in store for us, we'll start forgetting to compare it with anything that we have seen before bearing any resemblance to this. and the minute we start doing that, sequels will no longer be a movie with expectations, it will only be a movie out there to be enjoed the way it has to be.
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