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Pics Of Penelope Cruz In Character For PIRATES 4!!
Merrick here...
RadarOnline has a bunch of photos of Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz in character for the fourth PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN film - as far as I know this is our first look at Cruz as Angelica.
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Jul 27, 2010 3:20:53 PM CDT
PENELOPE CRUZ'S BREASTS ARE FUCKING AMAZING!
by isleptwithkathybatesandallthatigotwasthi
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I just don't like Cruz. I can never understand a word she says. Will see the movie, though.
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for a pirate. Depp's dirty. throw some dirt on her. but as it doesn't look like a film shot maybe they're heading to the mud-slinging tent. as for the film, though I'll likely see it either way, I'm still not convinced there was a need for a 4th POTC film. maybe they'll get back to the fun of the original. we'll see.
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... on their way to tarmac a few drives and sell a few pegs....something tells me Cruz will be fucking abhorent in this movie. Maybe its the hat.....
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try for a first? wow
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I don't think the average AICN reader is placing this movie at the top of their Must See list, but hopefully it will be entertaining, and not just "entertaining enough" to be given a pass and give way to yet another "entertaining enough" sequel.
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I even hated the first one. In Theaters. As I watched it. So don't say I hate them cause they are popular or massive now. Just terrible movies. Depp is entertaining, no doubt. Geoffrey Rush fucking brought it in the first and third one. But other than that, garbage. Just the stupiest fucking stories and plots I've ever had to watch. The first one was just light hearted retardedness with skeletons and making up nonsense as they went along. Fine. Just not my cup of tea. I hate lighthearted retarded for the most part. But the next two amped themselves up with such a grand sense of mythology and epic weight, like these characters meant something, I just wanted to puke. So self-important. None of it ever made any sense anyways.
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I was over these movies after the first one. Please stop making these!Johnny Depp has become a parody of himself!
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I was born and raised in San Antonio, and I can guarantee you that there are at least 10,000 Latinas in SA better-looking than her, and with much sexier voices.
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...tarmac a few... huh? To many Britishisms there bro, ease up, willya? Or give us the 411 on what you just said? Two countries separated by a common language, etc.
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Any news from comic-con about it?
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PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING DECENT IN THE UNIVERSE COLOUR CODE OR TAG MERRICK'S POSTS SO I DON'T CLICK THROUGH TO THIS KIND OF STUPIDITY EVER AGAIN. ITS LIKE HAVING SOME GUY THAT SENDS YOU CRAPPY FWD'S ALL THE TIME
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is this the natural tits disney was raving abt/
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Jul 27, 2010 3:38:44 PM CDT
Penelope Cruz is 1 Million times hotter than Keira Knightley
by backrivercatfish
That is all.
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Tits or no tits give me Keira every day of the week...something about that anorexic brit just does it for me
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3rd sucked because it was like FOUR hours long shit.
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...with my balls on her chin
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"Volver", "Broken Embraces" are 2 of my fave flicks. i'd watch her in anything.
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I bet she swallowed his thetans.
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hell, I even watched Banditas because of Cruz and Hayek. Oh, how I wish Hayek would be in this too.
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Her as a Pirate would bring the guys in.
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You know, one with a plot that makes sense... They royally fucked up At World's End when it was actually setup quite nicely in the far superior Dead Man's Chest. Jack in the world of the dead should have been cut completely and instead he just fights his way out of the Kraken in the funny Jack way we expect, or Jack is revealed to be some other kind of entity of the sea that was protected. Fuck knows, ANYTHING would have been better than the direction they took. The Singapore stuff was ok and the 12 pirate lord thing would have worked if they hadn't dragged it out forever. The ending to Davey Jones and Calypso's story was pathetic. Not even and ending. Bill Nighy (and ofc ILM) totally BROUGHT IT to this series and he got an utterly lousy payoff for his troubles. DAMMIT!!! About 2 good scenes in At World's End.
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...with Pirates 3 dragging on so damned long.
Huge POTC fan,have been since the first,and hoping dropping off Elizabeth and Will will pay off. -
...Then they buried themselves under their own mythology with the sequels. You can explain everything you need to know about the plot of the first one quite succinctly, while the sequels require tons of exposition to make a lick of sense. I have higher hopes for this one, since it's based on a pre-existing pirate novel that they're shoe-horning the characters into. Hopefully, that will mean the story has some decent structure and pacing.
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I love me some Penny. Gawd damn she's a hot piece!
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Otherwise,not so much.
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she sounds like fuckin Lil' Lupe."My puussy...is like a maseen."
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Just ignore it when it comes to POTC 4. Davy Jone was not turned into a ball-less lackey, the Kraken was not killed off-screen with a throwaway line, etc.
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And NO CLIFFHANGER! Make it TOTALLY self-contained like the first movie.
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Damned iPhone keyboard!
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I can't get excited about these films. Even if the supporting cast is great on paper - Rush, Nighy, Pryce etc.
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(my balls)
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Jul 27, 2010 4:44:52 PM CDT
I WANNA STICK MY HEAD B'TWEEN HER TITTIES
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
They are really good breasticles.
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I looked at the photos. There's a guy wearing a t-shirt and a girl in camo shorts. That makes no sense!
POC is the greatest fucking movie series of all time. POC 4 will murder your face with awesomeness. -
Jerry Bruckheimer - PLEASE STOP!
Johnny Depp - PLEASE STOP! Many people used to respect the fact that you used to actively avoid mainstream blockbuster drivel. The first was in various parts - delete as applicable - funny/enjoyable/good/cliched etc. Just like The Matrix - the first film gets ruined by the memory of two pieces of rubbish that followed! -
And yes, La Cruz has corking norks. Carry on.
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type movies with zero plot and acting. Yawn.
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The last two films have been rubbish. It's like the Matrix trilogy again, the first one was great, imaginative and hugely enjoyable, but they utterly failed to live up to it in the sequels.
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That's why Cruise tried to get with her. I know, I know she's got a nice rack. But lady looks like a dude.
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Jul 27, 2010 4:54:04 PM CDT
LOOKS LIKE A COUPLE OF COMIC-CON ATTENDEES AT THE BEACH
by bringingsexyback
I'm not excited!!!!!!!
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You have to be metally retarded to enjoy those movies. Everytime I see Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley I want to kill them.
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...the first three. Love the first one. Seems to be a lot of hate rollin' around AICN the past week. S'all good. It goes in cycles I guess. Regardless of all that, looks like a GREAT gig! Look how happy all those people appear to be. I think working on a POTC movie in Hawaii has now been added to my wish list.
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Obviously having back Rush is must, that goes without saying, but am I the only one that dug the rest of the Black Pearl crew, and enjoyed that we got them in all the movies? Not so much the Sacco and Vanzetti, whatever the fuck their names were, Pinetti and C3PO, but Gibbs, Marty and the guy with the parrot were always around too, and I did like that they were in all the films. I will miss them in 4.Call me a chump, but I think the reveal shot with Gibbs passed out with a bottle on his chest sleeping on a pig is one of the biggest laughs of the series.
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Penelope Cruz has great tits...
You don't look at the mantlepiece when you're poking the fire. -
Ths original was way better than it ever had any right to be (a movie based on a themepark ride for fuck's sake!).It was jolly little adventure of pirates, zombies, cursed treasure and salty lashings of yo-ho-ho.I have no fucking idea what they were trying to do with the sequels though. Its almost like the makers thought they producing some kind of Lord of the Rings-style epic or something.Like I said in another talkback, the only good thing about the two sequels was the outstanding digital work on Davey Jones - it still looks incredible and is one of the few uses of CGi that I've genuinely been impressed by.But both movies sucked. I think this new film is basically an apology for them.
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FUCKING LOVED THE GIRL OF YOUR DREAMS. I'm actually going to see this film, considering the cast losing two wastes of fucking celluloid and picking up much better actors.
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And no, her tits are not that great. Want to see a girl with a great rack? Google Michelle Marsh or Sophie Howard or Keeley Hazel or Lucy Pinder. Now those are some tits!
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Historically, they were running all over the place at the time. Lot harder to run across the British in the Caribbean.
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No more Orlando Bloom cockblockery.
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No more artificially drawn out trilogies, please. Let's see if a 4th can stand on it's own, and if it's still got legs as a series, make another stand-alone part 5, and so on. Let them be a series of fun spinoff adventures from the heavy, overdone "trilogy"!
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Agreed with J-Dizzle! Google those at once.
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You hate the Pirates films so why'd you click on this link? Seriously, I'd love to know.
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J-Dizzle you speak the truth.. and your links are lovely.. but remember Cruz is not a model she's an actress. A hollywood actress.
And in this era when big tits are disappearing from the silver screen she should be commended for still having a pair.
Look at the once buxom Jennifer Connelly? Now, flat as a pancake. Denise Richards - ditto breast reduction. Angelina Jolie? dieted and over exercised herself till her tits were as bony as her arms.
We need some real women up there. For the future of male entertainment. We need Cruz to swell up her chest with pride and take some salty sea men on in this movie. -
YUCKY Chick.
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I love Paz Vega and find her a million times more attractive, the funny thing is how similar she is to Cruz.
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You don't have to like her, but to call Cruz FAT is insane!!! Only compared to a flat-chested, no-ass having stick like Keira Knightly could Penelope Cruz be considered fat! You guys who think every woman who is not anorexic is fat baffle the hell out of me!
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Consider me "metally" retarded then.
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Jul 27, 2010 6:26:47 PM CDT
THIS MOVIE WILL BE LIKE LOST'S "ACROSS THE SEA"
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
At the beginning, people will think "What the fuck is this...?"By the middle, they'll be shouting "This is fucking pointless!" at the screen.Nobody will be around at the end because they'll all be taking a shit to make themselves feel better.
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I really like all 3 of these films... equally.
And I DON'T think that anyone who hates them is a stupid bastard.
So there.
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You think Cruz is fat, short and ugly (?). Unless, you're dating Mary Elizabeth Winstead, you're talking out of your ass - and you're not dating Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Let's see your girlfriend!
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like me.
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they should have gone with that well-known award-winning actress, Lucy Pinder, instead. What were they thinking? Why not go the whole way and get Merilyn Sakova in. I mean, if you nerds just want breasts...
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and that's a good thing...
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Cruz really goes all out in her roles and has taken some intense ones. Think she took role because it'd be fun. If you were an actor and you were offered the chance to do the pirates movie wouldn't you?
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She was one of the best things about HOT TUB TIME MACHINE. Damn I wanted that movie to be way funnier than it was.
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they arent as good as gugino's...she is the only reason i am going to see sucker punch...and it better have lots of cleavage, or im gonna throttle snyder
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you are thinking the grownups...and that was salma hayak...whose boobs should be bronzedi love latin boobies
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felt too watered down to me and had no where near the Monkey Island vibe I was hoping for (anyone that ever played that game will know its influence on POTC, and will know what im talking about). I dont know if it was due to lack of money the first time or because Disney was playing it safe. But either way I have never understood the love for the first film, imho its the weakest. Noiw the sequals, another story altogehter for me, they really feel like just one big blast of imagination, and the production design is amazing. Imho they also do what good sequals should, greatly expand the universe/world in which the filnm takes place, while adding new characters. I agree that Bloom and Kneightly were two black holes of charisma, and often annoying, but Depp and Rush made up for it, and Bill Nigh's Davy Jones is a fucking awsome villain, with some of the best cgi ever done. Literally fools the eye...
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people dont get about the Pirates sequals story wise? So many claim the films made no sense, I would to have that expalined to me, because unless you have difficulty keeping up with a plot more complex than a saturday morning cartton, I just dont ge tthe confusion
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i Think its a very good idea that its a stand alone adventure, and the addition of Cruz and Ian Mcshane is pretty cool imho. Not to mention Cruz's magnificent boobs...
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is based on? Im just wondering if its any good.
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The latina bombshell for me is Maria Conchita Alonzo (80s era)
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Watered down? It was from Disney. You know, they usually do the fluffy cartoon animals? It was pretty dark for Disney, which is why I liked it.
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I just re-watched it the other day. Lizzy Kaplan is the Spin reporter that John Cusack ends up with. Try checking the facts next time.
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but she bares a striking resemblance to an ostrich...
http://becauseitreallyispersonal.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/ostrich.jpg
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You think I'm talking about Cruz. See where I referred to an earlier post in my original subjuct line? Ok, misunderstanding over. Moving on...
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cpmparing it to its obvious influences such as Monkey Island, thats all dude. Imho the sequals were darker (which I liked very much), but they were much more like the aforementioned inspirations, and thus more surreal and imaginative imho compared to the first film...
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sexy I think, and thats better in some ways...
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Singer from Mexico. Great voice, awesome body. Bounce a coin off any part of her body. On her CD "Border Girl" does a female cover of the Kiss song, "I was made for loving you" and its throaty, animal good.
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The first one was near perfect. Even more miraculous considering that it was based on a Disney ride! Although 2 & 3 were uneven and movies I don't want to revisit too often I loved what they were going for. I'd watch them take another crack at it. Overall the movies are pretty fun.
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It began just great with Wil looking for Jack Sparrow, and the scene on the island with the cannibals is excellent. I liked the bar fight scene too. The ending with Barbossa is fantastic.
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Jul 27, 2010 9:15:04 PM CDT
oh my god that fugly talentless chick is starring in the film?
by killik
rapidshare all the way baby,all the way.
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Pirates3=god awfully terrible.
and you know what annoyed me the fuck in no3? that they turned a WASP chick not only the boss of the chinese pirates but the boss of all the foreign pirates.Yes i know that the Hollywood eventually had to make the female protagonist a stronger and more important character to the plot of the story,after all we live in the era of feminism and we also need to keep satisfied the female demographic of an adventure movie's audience no?,but do they have to make her the leader of the chinese pirates by replacing the coolest chinese super-star actor who had only a brief appearance in the flick? what the fuck is this shit?
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It was a fun pirate film about hunting for buried treasure. On par with 1 in my book.
World's End was shit, though. You haters can have that one. And the reason it was bad was the ramping up/continuation of EVER plot line started in 1 and 2. With those all tied up and the "trilogy" finished, I feel safe in my assumption that Stranger Tides should be able to do well. -
And I'm one of the few that really liked Memoirs Of A Geisha! But Nine verged on aweful and was certainly quite pedestrian in style. Adventure films, just like musicals, are all about creativity within the chorography. Where as Verbinski showed great flare for old fashioned slapstick comedy chorography and rhythms on his very first fearure Mouse Hunt, Marshall has had ample opportunity to indulge himself with big time studio musicals Chicago and Nine, yet has come up short each time. Dudes no Busby Berkeley, that's for sure. But seeing as he's got all of Verbinski's core crew back, it'll likely work out. Dariusz Wolski and Hans Zimmer will go along way in legitimizing Marshall's tenor. However I think the lack of Rick Heinrichs' production design will be felt.
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She's a boooooooooooooring, mom. Then again maybe doesn't drink means smokes pot and is a nympho-maniac.
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Now THAT was a hell of a film. Good to see them back together.
I enbjoyed the first three Pirates flicks as well. I even tried to sneak some water from the Pirates ride in Disneyworld back home on the plane FFS! The series still has legs and Disney knows it.
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You only wish you can sit next to a girl like that.
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I like Penelope Cruz. She's crazy hot, yes, with a friendly smile and surprisingly big boobs, yet also happens to be quite a good actress. "Volver," anyone? If you think Cruz is all flash and no talent, see that film. It'll change your mind about her, guaranteed. She really did a great job in that film.
As for "Pirates 4"... I'm not terribly down with it. The first movie wasn't bad, since I like Johnny Depp in almost anything, but I just don't care that much about the story. Didn't do much for me at all. Therefore I skipped the second and third movies altogether and still have no desire to see them.
That said, I know this is a popular series and wish Marshall well on the fourth film.
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The ship comedy in Number 2 was great too. I like how the Black Pearl gets reintroduced with Jack running towards the boat.
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then i guess your dicks have gathered mountains of dust from inactivity.She was super hot when she was younger and still working in Spain.Just go and watch her in that spanish flick where Banderas (i think) keeps fucking her throughout the whole movie.she was pure fire and nothing like what she is nowadays.sure nobody will say no for a night with her,but that doesnt make her prettier.ask Tom Cruise.
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They're not in this one?
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onally, I think thats a very good thing as their story had no where left to go after the events of pirates 3. Plus they were always the least interesting characters by far imho...
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was pretty funny in DMC.
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But, I did like the whirlpool battle. That was amazing.
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Jul 27, 2010 10:59:40 PM CDT
If the first 3 are supposed to mime the 3 original Star Wars Fil
by beyondthunderdome2girls1cupbillcosby
then I hope this next one is like Raiders of the lost ark.
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My life is now complete.
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most boring films ever made. Don't remind me of that piece of crap.
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Yeah, I agree they didn't really have anywhere to go after the end of 3. . .I guess it's just odd to me in terms of continuity. Like they could've taken a backseat from a character POV and been more supporting role type.
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the first ones are fantastic fresh films, entertaining and fun, but the sequels suffer badly from the powers-that-be trying to make them 'worthy'and full of 'meaning' rather than popcorn fun.
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I envy you.
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Jul 28, 2010 3:12:47 AM CDT
Dead Man's Chest is notable for it's awesome cliffhanger
by mattmanreturns
Keira making out with and subsequently murdering Jack, and then that final shot of Barbossa is fucking awesome. But it needs about twenty minutes shaved off of the first half, specifically the cannibal nonsense, which just goes on forever. Jack getting fruit thrown at him is extremely tedious. Also, there's one rolling cage too many. It all gets a bit redundant. Still, it's a fun movie, if a bit bloated.
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Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Jul 28, 2010 4:24:18 AM CDT
when i read the headline i thought the pic would be hotter
by dioxholsterreturns
i thought she will be as hot as those History channel pirate doc babes but this pic is not
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How's it going matey?
Pikie is a derogatory term for Gypsy or travelling person. Not the kind who walk about with horses and carts, but the scruffy type you get in Englandwho always seem to have flash cars but live in caravans with 30 other family members, don't wash and are predominately Irish. Have you seen the Guy Richie movie Snatch? Well, Brad Pitt played a Pikie in that. See it. You will understand what I mean. Tarmac is a substance that is used to surface roads and driveways (the very hard black stuff, also called Macadam.)Pikies generally tour neighbourhoods looking to tarmac driveways VERY badly and fleece people out of their money, fuck off with the cash after a piss poor job never to be seen again. And you thought that Jehovahs Witnesses were bad knocking on your door.... -
Plus Rico Mambo = DISNEYMARVELFAIL
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I don't know what they did to her.
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He was much better before he started making these idiotic PIRATES films. He and Burton need to make another ED WOOD.
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I've been following movie news religiously throughout my entire adult life (an most of my teen years) and I have to say it: the older I get the more this shit depresses the fuck out of me. Daily I subject myself to the pain of Hollywood's mockery of cinema lovers with increasingly mediocre and sometimes blood-curdlingly goddawful crap. Remake after senseless remake; pointless sequel after pointless sequel; ass-bad adaptation after ass-bad adaption. It feels like decades pass between anything remarkable or even watchable. It's going to be a long while before anything even remotely as good as "Inception" comes around. :-( /// POTC 1 was surprisingly entertaining given the we all thought it was going to suck shit; POTC 4 won't be anything other than pure shit- the Jack Sparrow character is no longer fun or even slightly amusing... he is just a sad assclown of a character who is probably reviled by Mr. Depp as much as he is by audiences.
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I went in thinking it was going to be awesome because I love the first 2, particularly the original. Instead it was nonsensical horshit. Yeah a pirate is going to give his whole fleet to the whore he just tried to rape. And yes all she needs to do is tell his first mate that and he'll believe her. FUCKING HELL! And the whole movie is like that!
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there can't be enough money in this for him...
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Our greatest exportation. ¡Arriba esas tetas!
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one lucky Spaniard.
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id give a left nut to chew on those puppies.
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Could only make it better.........
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and not Rusted Root?
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My fucking hats off to you...Excellent Porn comparison.
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Or did they just shove one in for the obligatory T&A? To be serious and on topic for a second...Just make it Jack and Barbossa being fucking pirates and write a script up to the abilities of the talent and we'll have a fun movie.Ok...now back to talking about boobs and hot latina gash.
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Just pay attention, it's great.The Davy Jones/Calypso thing is the darkside of the Turner/Swann story. Bitch chose not to show up after 10 years, he rats her out and becomes a tentacle douchebag. He even recognized Will&Liz's parallel, and skewers him. What a dick.Becket's death stands out as a truly beautiful moment, as well as the matrimonial kiss. Will's kid is just heartbreaking. Jack and Barbossa are fucking great too.Oh and Fett, He thought she was Calypso, hence the rape and promotion.
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Hell yea it would make it better!
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just sayin
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LOL Thanks dude! That was the funniest thing I have read all day. You win this talkback.
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He'd be an idiot NOT to sell out, for as much as he gets paid for these movies. Depp still makes smaller movies though (Rum Diary). And Sparrow is a character perfectly suited to his quirky style.
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Yeah... I'd have to agree with you about PotC vs Kick Ass. Sadly I doubt this will happen. Kick Ass' returns were modest at best, while the PotC series has been a financial juggernaut to date. There is more risk with PotC, but the payoff for all involved is potentially huge. Kick Ass was a little film that no studio would finance and as it turns out, they didn't know how to distribute it either.
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They should have given Cruz' role to the hottie wearing the green cap, dark blue top, and white shorts. Instead we get a chick with witch's nose, slug lips, and an annoying lisp.
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Dammit!!! I was really looking forward to this! Aronofsky+Robocop=Win
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Penelope take off your clothes!!
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All the Hit Girl / Nic Cage parts were amazing, and if the movie had focused on them, it would've been a huge hit. Instead, it centers on a lethargic teen, and equally sleepy villains. The movie got too "talky," and not in a good way (Inglourious Basterds). I didn't hate it, but I just couldn't get into it.
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What a pile of shit that was.
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... is this supposed to be news? Since when AICN became THE SUN?
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Pirates has a HUGE fan base because young and old people alike love it. I was lucky enough to attend sneak previews of the last two Pirates movies, and every seat was filled with kids and adults.
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Those latinas are mexicans. Penelope Cruz is spanish. Yes, there is a difference between the mexicans and the spanish, you american gringos.
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The two sequels, while they had some good stuff in it, they just tried too hard.
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You know, i do want this next Pirates movie to flop. Becasue that way, it wouldmake 3 flops in a row for Jerry Bruckboy. And few things bring me more joy and happiness about the movies then to see a Jerry Bruckboy movie fail miserably at the box office. and this yea,r i saw TWO Bruckboy's movies fail miserably at he box office, while the champion is one of the smartest, well made, original movie of the last 10 years called INCEPTION. Last year it brough me cinematic misery and pain,this year it brings me joy and happiness. Where all years like this. Well, with more good movie,s of course, because besides INCEPTION and a few other smaller more obscure movies (like VALHALLA RISING), the blockbusters this year are nothing to write home about.
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where have you been?
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It's called vacations.
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Yeah, job, fiscal responsabilities and all. More then can be said about the JarJar Abrams' fanboys.
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Mayne she is a puritan pirate. The puritans were the only people who bathed regulary back then.
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to ask you to please clarify for me how exactly Portugal is different from Spain, as in culturally, politically, linguistically etc....And what is the relationship like between the Spanish and Portugeuse?
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also hoping she would be more wenchie looking, not least of all so those glorious boobs could be shown off a bit more (really you can never have enough of boobs being shown off)...
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ossa is wearing, looks like some kind of naval uniform (there are a lot more pictures at screenrant.com, including pictures of Rush as Barbossa, and he looks really different)
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Ah! so this is the site where 90% of talkbackers fling vitriol and hate around, and, (to quote Kev) endlessly discuss movies the claim to hate, yet, can't stop talking about... Bloody hell, they're movies. I wish you lot were this vocal about George Bush. POTC films were entertaining. Were they shakespeare? No. Were they important? NO. Were they fun? Yeah. Thus, I like em.
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Believe it, the diferences are immense. Though there could be some superficial similiaritude,s the differences are enough to not make a mistake about confusing the two. For starters, there isn't exactly a spanish people per se, because spain is a colelction of different countries with different people living under the same country name. In fac,t the real name of spain is THE UNITED KINGDOM OF SPAIN. The portuguese and Portugal is just the only people and country that mananged to stay independet from Spain. The other iberian people which has the closest direct relation, culturally and linguistic, are the Gallicians, which speak a different dialect of portuguese, and not at all a language related to spanish (though some gallicians out of pride try to claim that gallician is an indeepdent languag,e in truth it's a dialect of portuguese). spain is made of different people: Galicians, asturians, basques, catallans, arangoenzes, castellanos and andaluzians. Each have a distinctive culture, different from each other. All they have in common is they use the same common language, called castellano, which most people call spanish. But the basques, gallicians and catalans have their own independent language, which is now being brough back and started to be retaught as schools. The point of my long winded post is that there is no true spanish people or spanish culture per se. Most of what you think is spanish culture is in fact justa representation of Madrid's culture and way of life, whioch is not even representative of the whole of Castilla, much less the whole of Spain. And Portugal is even more different. If you have to point to oen important aspect of portuguese culture, is that we are a far more sea oriented people thenthe spanish, which,for all their exploits in the americas and the discoveries, were a much more lang people. The portuguese absorved much more international influences then the spanish throughout history, We the portuguese have had always a much diorect relationships with other countries like England and France, our traditional allies against Spain. Spain used and still is in many ways much more closed to foreign influences and international relationships, while Portugal was always much more open, again because of the sea and how important it is for our culture and history. When Portugal closed itself to the world from 1932 to 1975, that was an aberration in our own history. Spoain, on the contrary, has always been pretty proudful of it's own self-isolation toward things from afar. Which in many ways is a contrdiction, becaue Spanish cultyure is indeed influenced by may elements, none more strongly then the moorish occupation of the Andaluzia for over 1000 years of it's histiory, which still reflects tremendously.If you ask what are the differences between the portuguese and the spanish, i say a bloody hell of a lot. Portuguese food and wines are better, for starters. So much so, many stuff sold as spanish for abroad markets are in fact produced and grown in Portugal, just stamped spanish. They take advantage to the fact that internationally Portugal's products are not yet very well known.
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As for the typical relationship between portuguese and spanish, it's the typical attitude between neibour people who in the past used to waged war with each other: cordial but suspicious. The fact that the spanish can be bullish and have an attitude that borders on arrogant doesn't help. But that might be the older generations, i find the younger spanish much more easy going and friendly.
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to turn on their spellcheckers.
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to having found a number of Spanish people I have met quite arrogant. But as you say thats very contradictory that they are proud of their isolation when they are indeed so influenced by North Afrivan culture...
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sh style clothing of the period in that picture?
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d the Monkey Island games? Or have you read Tim Powers book upon which this POTC is based "on stranger tides"?
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independent from the united Kingdom of Spain?
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They'll have to change quite a few things to fit Sparrow and the gang into the story, but it's a great starting point. I'm cautiously optimistic.
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I'm pretty sure this won't flop. Even if it sucks, it'll still have a massive opening weekend (As The Lost World taught us). I personally hope this is a stand alone story, and has more of the serial feel of the Indiana Jones movies. And I can't help but be excited about Ian McShane as Blackbeard.
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Hey bro how's it going? I really enjoyed Kick-Ass....
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...yes they made a fucking boatload of money, and people seem to love them but the sequels should have gone the Indiana Jones route with the Jack Sparrow character. Instead they had to tie all the original characters and plot threads from the first movie, make the relationships "darker more complex". Hell this action adventure escapist fun. I enjoy the first, think the other two are utter shite and am glad that I watched them on DVD on which rental was paid for by my sister...
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two thirds, but I did nt like the last act. I really feel the film shat all over itself. After clearly setting up that we were seeing a film set in the "real world" and that things would play out the way they really would. The movie became the very comic book cartoon that it says it isnt. All of a sudden Hit girl can dodge bullets when running down a hallway that has numerous guys shooting at her (unless they are worse shots than the average Stormtrooper), has the ability to do Matrix like laws of pysics bending stuff like reloading gun clips in mid air, and overpower grown men (bearing in mind she slike what? 11?). And the final straw was the fucking jet pack for me. Such a pity, why could nt they resist the urge to have a big ridiculous finale? I still liked it and thought it was entertaining, but I really wish it didnt shit the bed in the last 20 mins like that...Just my two cents Rouge....
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Well, I have been better, although I have a job, my financial situation is dire, at this moment there are some very basic essentials that I do not have in my house that should never ever be not there, I won't say what because quite frankly it's too embarrassing to say. That's how bad it is right now. I get paid today but it means nothing, every cent I have has to go to rent. Anyways enough of my crying like a bitch....While I agree that Kick-Ass did go a bit over the top at the end, it did not kill the experience for me, I thought the end was just fine, the physics thing was stretching it a bit, but in the end I found the entire movie quite enjoyable from start to finish, and to be quite honest I was not expecting to enjoy it as much as I did....I did not go in thinking i was gonna hate it, I just figured it was gonna be just a fun but forgettable comic book movie, and was pleased to have been surprised. Nothing much on tap for the weekend, my kids want to see Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, so I am getting it for them, and honestly I kinda want to see it myself, so I'll be watching it with them. How's all by you? Still hot as hell there? It's cooled down a tiny bit here, but still too hot.
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