Speaking of that, Jones’ introductory scene is consistent with what we’ve heard about him so far.
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What, did he quit all of a sudden? If it was concern about smoking in a Disney movie why put the pipe in in the first place? Sorry, but it’s just a strange pet peeve that little details like that, that make the character seem more three dimensional by their very presence, are just shoved aside for pure exposition. By the way, what happened to his pipe? He has it in the very first scene but thereafter it never appears again. Jones is charismatic, almost in a deal making, Jimmy Hoffa kind of way, but you can tell just from looking at him that he knows the scales are tilted in his favor, and if you don’t accept his nice guy deal, he will make you an offer you can’t refuse. But whereas Barbossa gave off an air of a gentleman, whose only crime was being of low birth and thus condemned to a life of hard labor on a ship, Jones doesn’t have that class based charm as Barbossa. Both characters are definitely sailors, they’re simple and direct and have little time for frivolity. Jones slowly examines the men his crew have captured, and he has a strange sort of charm about him, not unlike Barbossa. It’s a shame they’ll throw all this credibility and build up away the very next time we see him, but let’s enjoy this moment.įirst, Jones has a peg leg, and as we know any pirate with a peg leg has his street cred. Will first battles Jones’ inhuman crew, is beaten, and meets Jones, and our first impression of him is not lacking the build up to this moment. We first encounter him at the shipwreck where Sparrow has sent Will to take his place on Jones’ ship. He doesn’t make his appearance until 1:17mins, and only has 14 mins of screen time. This guy gives "poor unfortunate souls" a whole new meaning ^_^ĭavy Jones, in Dead Man’s Chest, is a much more mysterious villain than Barbossa in Curse of the Black Pearl. In Davy Jones we see the beginings of greatness, but the form is so inconsistent he just ends up muddled, confusing, and unfinished, like the rest of the movies.
It’s like having a mess of legos sitting in front of you, and the choice to either just stack them as high as you can, one on top of the other, until you run out of bricks and hope that the sheer size of your construct will impress the crowds, and actually bothering to look at the directions and create something with a shape. They had all the components, but they couldn’t put them together.
In Jones, we have what could have been a truly great film villain, along the lines of Darth Vader, Dracula, or Ursula. I consider the sequels to be a guilty pleasure of mine, I don’t expect anyone else to enjoy them, but I do hope you’ll share the admiration for a bunch of wonderful concepts that could have been truly epic.Īnd this is our main problem when you boil Davy Jones down to his most basic components, and where I’m tempted to pull some punches. So instead we have a loosely weaved story with stray threads coming and going every minute.įor this reason expect to see quite a few Pirates of the Caribbean entries here in the coming year, as this is one of my personal crusades. The writers had the idea for their grand epic stored away in their brains, but they couldn’t compress it down enough to have all the right pieces in place for the final showdown. It was like Disney went to and pulled up the most bland writers who never finished their stories (not that yours truly has ever had that problem >.>). Script writing probably looked like this, but with more cheetos and fewer lady monkeys.
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