Comments on: Fixing Pirates of the Caribbean

By: Lara Burnett

Lara Burnett — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:29:32 +0000

I did notice that when I watched the movie! I can’t believe it wasn’t changed, either. Definitely makes more sense your way.

I loved your “40 inspirational speeches in 2 minutes” video on youtube, that was amazing.

Hope you get the recognition you deserve for your work!

By: rachel

rachel — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:53:54 +0000

barbossa has the apple (or some apple) *all* the time with the longing that someday, somehow, he could taste it. so he tries to take it out of his pocket after he opens his chest to see the wound and then tries to eat it real quick-like before dying.

i think the most ridiculous part of all is that the MB version only has FOUR stars where the original has 5.

By: something

something — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:06:49 +0000

You do realize that you can still stab them while the curse is in place. This in effect causes the flesh to be torn of course this won’t bother them because they can’t feel it. Now all vital organs and such are in place but are useless because of their immortality. The shot tore the organs and before Barbossa could repair them with moonlight the curse was lifted. This in effect made him mortal but with ready torn organs and so he drops dead. Use your head before complaining about stuff that makes sense already

By: Agent_Irons

Agent_Irons — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:59:14 +0000

‘zombie healing factor’ is the returning to darkness effect. When that happens, the fleshy body ‘reverts to saved’, where saved is when the curse was inflicted. It works like a hologram. Injuries ’stick’ but only to the not-hologram body, the skeleton.

Explains everything. Captain Jack is fine because he’s impaled, big deal. When he steps out of the light his flesh ‘reverts to saved’ and he’s fine. Barbarossa is shot -> big hole in his chest that doesn’t kill him. He stays in the light, so no ‘revert to saved’. Curse lifted -> big hole. Hole-> bleeding, bleeding -> death.

This explanation implies that all the pirates in the moonlight when the curse was lifted die immediately, unless that’s an exception?

By: dimar

dimar — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:29:50 +0000

good point,
well executed,
where did that
frig’n apple come
from anyway?
strange….

By: Darin

Darin — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:05:01 +0000

Sorry to necro the post, but it is after all about immortality and zombies and shit. All those ‘bullet is still in the chest people’ need a clue.

If the bullet is in the chest to explain his death, why or why is there blood spilling out of his chest? Bullet ‘leftovers’ would stay in the chest, internal bleeding, bad for movies. Enough said, at least think it through, better yet overthink it.

MB keep up the good work.

By: Ched

Ched — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:25:09 +0000

Well Done.

By: Heero yuy

Heero yuy — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:14:16 +0000

WOW you guys really didn’t get it!?
Its so simple the bullet that Sparrow shot became lodged in Barbossa heart so when he was made mortal again the bullet became fatal seeing as how it was still stuck in his heart.DUH!o.O

By: M Kitchen

M Kitchen — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:30:51 +0000

Without a doubt, your cut is better.
Nice work.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:56:08 +0000

You know, I’ll almost buy the toggling between moonlight/non-moonlight as being a “reset” button for any damage inflicted upon the zombie pirates. I can’t really think of any reason why that couldn’t be true.

But it seems to take a lot of reading between the lines and assumptions to have Barbossa’s death make any logical sense.

I still say, if you establish early on that Barbossa cannot be harmed until the curse is lifted, than really, you should try not to have him get fatally wounded until after the curse is lifted. The movie manages to handle this moment artfully enough so that 99.9% of viewers (including me) won’t question what they saw when they first see it. But still, it’s a moment that deserves overthinking.