19 deleted or extended scenes. Bloopers. Documentaries, diaries, galleries, scene deconstructions, histories of the ride, lots of commentaries by the stars and the director and the scriptwriters. An interactive history of pirates. A documentary on the ships used.
And the DVD-rom stuff includes a virtual viewer for the ride, a scriptscanner that lets you follow along with the movie, a storyboard viewer, and coolest of all, an effects studio that lets you scan in your own portrait and see yourself as a cursed pirate.
Some of the easter eggs include a time-lapse movie of the cave set being built, and a computer model runthrough of the ship battle scene.
"And really bad eggs..."
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It's on sale December 2nd. Think of this as an annoying teaser.
Easter eggs:
On the 2nd disc, click on "Fly on the Set," move right to highlight the monkey's fang, and press Enter on it to see a time-lapse movie of the construction of the Pirate's Cave set.
On the 2nd disc, click on "Below Deck," move left to highlight the medallion,and hit Enter to seean animated computer model runthrough of the ship-to-ship battle sequence.
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Hmm.. My sister's birthday is December 3rd... I wonder if she'd like it too much to let me borrow it soon afterward.
I haven't seen the movie yet, although I tried to go a few times, then got busy, thinking "Ah, it'll still be here next week." And then it wasn't. To top it off, I've had the music from it stuck in my head on and off since the middle of September because the marching band I'm in did a Pirates of the Caribbean show. (And it was a really great show, if you're into that sort of thing.)
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That was a great movie. Plus, my X-Men II: X-Men United DVD's arriving right on top of it, courtesy of Amazon.com.
The only depressing bit about Pirates' greatness is that the other Disney movie, Haunted House, looks like it won't be half the fun Pirates was.
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Officially, no. At a stall at the flea market I visited looking for cute birthday presents for my wife, yes. I was very surprised to see it there, considering retail places don't usually even get DVDs that early, it was a booth that's been there for several years and has a good rep, and they were prolly risking fines and Disney wrath by offering it before the release date. Not a bootleg, but a bit shady nonetheless. To square it ethically in my mind, I'm treating it like a review copy and praising it to the skies, which I would have done anyway since it is really very cool and almost makes up for the complete, utter, total lack of marketing for the movie. Which frankly still confuses me. No t-shirts, no Lego Black Pearl sets, no action figures, no cursed medallion necklaces, no stuffed rotting monkeys, no nothing. Not even a novelization. Just a soundtrack, and now this. I could almost understand it from anyone else, maybe even respect it, but this is Disney. Disney! They can no more resist marketing spinoffs than I can resist Chick-Fil-A's sweet tea. Something is truly weird there.
Anyway, she was nicely surprised, if "surprised" can be defined as "squealing loudly in the middle of Golden Corral during the breakfast buffet" (where we gave her her prezzies).
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Just finished watching it with the Gore Verbinski/Johnny Depp commentary turned on. Aside from some repetitive "Oh he's great, yeah, she's just amazing" comments, it's pretty good. You get to hear about the scenes that weren't included, why they were cut, and how some of the shots were put together. There were quite a few scenes that were shot in pieces and spliced later that I hadn't noticed at all, which surprised me.
Next, the Ted Elliott/Terry Rossio commentary. I'm looking forward to that...
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Toretha - really? I checked online bookstores for the title and didn't see anything, but I haven't gone and actually looked. I'm afraid to, it is physically impossible for me to leave a bookstore without buying at least one book, and that's only if I have armed guards keeping me from more.
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It's out! Everybody go get it so we can talk!
Listened to part of the screenwriters' commentary this morning. Trivia nugget: the dust thrown at Will in the blacksmith fight scene was cocoa powder, which means that you've got a chocolate-covered Orlando Bloom.
I'll step back for a bit while you think about that...
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My friend's getting it yet this morning and we're going to have a lunchtime Blooper Reel viewing. We can't live without Pirates anymore - it's been a month since I've seen the movie! A whole entire month!!
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I went and got it at Media Play last night at midnight. They even handed out little pirate flags with each purchase.
I didn't get the chance to watch much last night, but the bloopers and deleted scenes were great. And the cheesy little "Diary of a Pirate" part cracked me up.
*sigh*
Chocolate-covered Orlando Bloom???
*swoons*
It's just so great!
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I picked it up at Safeway while shopping for milk and cereal. It's funny how a trip to buy breakfast food turns into a $20 DVD purchase.
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