Tag: Johnny Depp
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Review: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES
I found Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales appallingly touching. I nominally resist the notion of a movie made “for the fans,” but then, if you’re not making a fifth Pirates film for the fans, I don’t know who you’d be making it for. Everyone else is gone: the people who liked the first movie on…
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Destroy All Monsters: Mad As A Hatter And Half As Fun
As of today, we cleanly divide Depp’s career into two parts: before Jack Sparrow, and after. Certainly, for my generation and and a lot of other people, Johnny Depp before Jack Sparrow (and, arguably, including at least the first instance of Jack Sparrow) was one of Hollywood’s rarer, braver gifts: an idiosyncratic, deeply committed performer…
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Review: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL
A Pirate’s Life For Me This was my original review for Pirates of the Caribbean 1, presented unedited. Sorry, Gore. I figured it out later. Hidden behind a cringe-inducingly lengthy title, crappy Disney theme park ride origins, and a directorial pedigree almost as low as Michael Bay’s, Pirates of the Caribbean somehow still manages to be…