u/Hi_Im_zack

What director would be a perfect fit for a certain actor, while the actor being perfect for the director's vision. Like a Dinero/Scorsese duo we never got

Man I'd love to see Jake Gyllenhaal get behind the camera of more big names, he's a little under represented in that regard, Fincher and Denis Villeneuve being the only ones I can think of. And ofc Michael Bay. But he has yet to work with Scorsese, Spielberg, Coens, Wes Anderson, Nolan and Tarantino. Idk how he dodged the last three because those guys have casted half of Hollywood in their movies.

But one director I'd really love to see Gyllenhaal work with is PTA. Would be fkn amazing. This is my number one dream team

Number two is Matthew Lilliard with Safdies

I just watched both films back to back and was shocked to find out Curse of the Black Pearl is reddit's favorite of the franchise, while the other one gets lumped into the "unnecessarily sequals" discussion

Don't get me wrong the first one is a great movie, but the 2nd one had that Shrek 2 thing where you can tell the writers had these crazy grand ideas but didn't have the budget or time to fit into one movie. So after the first one does well, they get more creative liberties and more money to spend

And they fucking went ham on it, unleashing a damn Kraken on the the big screen and giving us what is one of the greatest special effects work in the modern era, that somehow looks better than what's coming out 20 years later

This movie had everything, great character, witty dialogue, great platforming action scenes with some insane choreography, PERFECT set design, and memorable character, Davey Jones is already iconic, but I can't help pausing the movie and looking at his crew because each one is so unique and meticulously designed, there's tones of details they just had to add where lesser artists would've ignored, like putting the little eye on the side of the hammer head guy. to me that's a labour of love

Ofc it's not a perfect movie, would've liked an extra moment with will and his father bonding, and the final scene was painfully sequal baity, but that felt more like a post credit scene, to me the movie ended with Jack Sparrow facing the Kraken

TL;DR: Dead Man's Chest improved on everything the first one did and then some.

Obviously we live in a hyper capitalist environment that's eating itself. But can it all go down if five people with the most amount of influence say enough is enough? Or does it take more than that

I know people call them long and boring, which is why haven't watched yet, but I do like some expositional dialogue and intriguing bureaucratic back and forths

Is this done well in the prequels? Or is it just another one of Lucas' shortcomings. I've already seen Andor which gave me this itch. And I know it won't be on the same level.

I struggle with this film because on one hand PTA is my favorite director, and I know he excels at creating messy complicated relationships and turning them into something profound. And this movie does that, you can see how he he writes characters first and doesn't care about a satisfying plot or taboo subjects. And on other this relationship is too taboo, in fact it's pedophilia

My theory:

I know some people say the ending was like a dream sequence. But I think the ending did happen, and the bad audio was on purpose to throw us off into thinking it was a dream. But it's obviously not an endorsement or a happy ending

This movie is about the 70s. And tells us that it's not all glitz and glamor, throughout the whole thing you are bombarded with racism, sexism, police assault, homophobia, even the young Hollywood star who represents that era is shown to be fucked up.

But most of all this movie is showing you how women were used in that era to get ahead, almost every man in the movie has a transactional elationship with a woman, the racist guy with the Japanese wife is the most explicit. The old actor who views Alana as a symbol of his younger days and doesn't even know her name, the young actor who brags about his wife to high schoolers, even his butler can't help but bring up that time he worked for Julie Andrews. And even the gay man who Alana thought was not like the rest of them is once again using her.

And the main relationship represents the 70s and old eras in general, you romanticize it, but it's still fucked up.