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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End: 2-Disc Limited Edition

December 18, 2007

Even though Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) was a massive box office success, there was the general consensus that it was a let down in comparison to The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). There was just too much plot, most of it hopelessly... 

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End: Limited Edition

November 8, 2007

Even though Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) was a massive box office success, there was the general consensus that it was a letdown in comparison to The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). There was just too much plot, most of it hopelessly... 

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

December 5, 2006

While no one predicted the phenomenonal success of the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, the success of the sequel was pretty much a slam dunk provided that the filmmakers didn’t mess around with the formula too much. They didn’t. In fact, they... 

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest: Collector’s Edition

October 8, 2006

While no one predicted the phenomenal success of the first Pirates of the Caribbean film (2003), the success of the sequel was pretty much a slam dunk provided that the filmmakers didn’t mess around with the formula too much. They didn’t. In fact,... 

Kingdom of Heaven: Director’s Cut

May 23, 2006

Kingdom of Heaven (2005) was Ridley Scott’s costly epic about the Crusades that promptly flopped at the box office in North America. Clearly, the studio and Scott were hoping for another zeitgeist galvanizing response to this film like with Gladiator... 

Elizabethtown

March 7, 2006

Cameron Crowe is something of a rarity in that he’s a filmmaker who makes deeply personal films within the Hollywood system. From his debut with Say Anything (1989) to his best film to date, Almost Famous (2000), he effortlessly blends comedy and drama... 

The Three Musketeers

February 20, 2006

To date there have been numerous cinematic adaptations of Alexandre Dumas’ novel The Three Musketeers that go back to 1903. More than a hundred years later the first version rendered in 3-D was made by Paul W.S. Anderson, the man responsible for the... 

Kingdom of Heaven

January 13, 2006

There’s a moment in Kingdom of Heaven where our hero Balian asks his enemy Saladin what the city of Jerusalem is worth to him. “Nothing,” he replies. “Everything.” This paradox is the prevailing problem with the film itself;... 

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Special Edition

November 8, 2005

For many years pirate movies have been box office poison. One only has to look as far back as Roman Polanski’s misfire, Pirates (1986) and the mega-budget flop, Cutthroat Island (1995) to see how low the genre has sunk since the heady days of Errol... 

Troy

July 19, 2005

Since the surprise success of Gladiator (2000) there have been several sword and sandal epics that have tried to replicate its glory. None have come close. One of Hollywood’s most recent attempts has been Troy (2004), a fast and loose adaptation of... 

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