Had it been released before the Pirates films i think it would have been recieved better. Considering i would rather watch this than them.
I agree.
I liked the visuals of the trailer, went to the cinema, which I do extremely rarely, liked the film, bought the DVD, liked the film even better. It belongs to my most often watched fun films. I watched it far more often than the PoC-films.
For me it combines all I want to be offered by a fun film: action of the sportive kind, humour, a strong heroine, an initial dislike between hero and heroine, an enduring hero who undergoes a change of his belief system and sacrifices himself for the greater good, good colours, interesting sets, convincing costumes.
In the PoC-films the humour belongs to Jack Sparrow and the "enduring hero with changing belief system" belongs to Will. In the PoP film both features are combined in Dastan. That enhances my enjoyment. Moreover, I decidedly prefer parkour to sword-fencing (yet sword-fencing to pyrotechnical action or car races). Additionally, I prefer Jake Gyllenhaal's acting to Johnny Depp's and Orlando Bloom's.
I think, it's the mythical part of the sands of time and gods who bestow them, the fairy tale part of a father who wants his son to become wise, the saga part of a son who kills his father involuntarily and has to redeem himself that offends many first time viewers as it reminds them of children's morality tales or stuffy sagas. It's perhaps only on second view that one realises how much quality entertainment is hidden in the film.
Or it's just the other way around, some see it simply as a children's action film and realise only at second viewing how much of human myth is hidden in the film (I belong to the second part of the audience because I have a penchant for myth in the sense of a memory system of human social education).
--- each brain develops its own preferences ---
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