Best film performance by Johnny Depp since he became Captain Jack (no cameos)

Some great looking stuff in that film, he looks oddly amazing when his health is failing and face showing blood.

the ladies are better prepared to answer whether the Depp Star is hot when he uses accents. In his own way he's created a male niche kind of Meryl Streep career.

i liked his VO in the Hunter doc.

which is to say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOHCjGhy6vY

Dark Shadows was fun i guess

See, I liked "The Lone Ranger" quite a lot, but was it too bound into American history for the US to like it?

The Lone Ranger was considerably better than I expected. Still not actually good.

i got a text from my son after he saw it that said "The Lone Racist" and that's alls i know

lol

Was he uncredited in 21 Jump St? Cos that's a lot better than anything here I've seen.

(No cameos)

Have seen zero of these, might watch the Gilliam one day, will never see any of the others

You should see Rango, it's pretty great! Sweeney Todd wasn't bad either; even though Burton has made lots of awful films in the 00s, this story was obviously tailor-made for his style. Though it was painfully obvious Depp can't sing... I don't understand the recent trend of having non-singing actors try to sing in musicals (see also: Moulin Rouge, Dancer in the Dark, etc)... If you want to have famous actors in your musical, what was wrong with the old technique of having the actor do the spoken lines and hiring a proper singer to dub his/her singing parts?

Recent? Check out "Lost Horizon" (1973)

Actually, I think I was more meaning "At long last love" but hey.

Well yeah, I didn't mean it hasn't done before, but in the recent years it seems to be more like the rule than the exception.

Think the success of Mama Mia especially suggested that cinema audiences are less interested in 'good singing' than they are in celebs 'having a go' - even 'bad singing' expresses personality etc in a way that miming never can, and occasionally there's the odd celeb who actually turns out to be a decent singer (eg Meryl Streep).

I haven't seen Sweeny Todd but Burton did make a big thing of saying he wanted everyone's voice to sound recognizably the voice of the actors. I'm sure he said he wasn't really into musicals and didn't like it when characters could sing in a voice that seemed alien.

Given we have been putting up with actors who can't act for years, there's no reason we shouldn't put up with singers who can't sing.

BTW, my theory for the Depputizer's recent streak is that he's finally starting to look a little old, and therefore prefers to hide behind pancake make-up and dark glasses. I think it was his bit in that Ricky Gervais thing I saw on a plane where I thought, wow, he does look his age, it's just been ages since I've seen his face.

(btw I saw Malkovich play Wilmot in The Libertine onstage a few years before the movie, and the opening monologue especially was amazing.)

I love Ed Wood but he's my least favorite part about it by a long shot.

I saw the preview for the Ralph Steadman documentary and it has Johnny Depp in it, because anything tangentially related to Hunter S. Thompson has to have Johnny Depp in it, and he looks at some of Steadman's works and says "Fantastic. Just marvelous." or something like that so I'd like to vote for that if I could please.

I think voting for the Rum Diary would qualify as a thumbs-up to Depp's patronage of all things Hunter

Given we have been putting up with actors who can't act for years, there's no reason we shouldn't put up with singers who can't sing.

here is everything wrong with modern civilization in a pithy sentence

Brando in Guys & Dolls (1955)

Eastwood AND Lee Marvin in Paint Your Wagon (1968)

Peter O'Toole in Man of La Mancha (1972)

sorry but no one was going to a SwTodd movie after all these years w/out a name actor, and the singing wasn't awful.

Depp was perfectly fine in Sweeny Todd; if anyone in that cast was a problem, it was HBC (and really that came across as more of an intentional choice that didn't always work)

I don't think anyone's even mentioned it, but his performance in Finding Neverland was quite good.

i think i might've liked bad singing more than Depp's Bowie impression. it's the sound of him more than the absence of chops that i find underwhelming

Kinda weird that we can't actually vote for Captain Jack, which presumably prompted all of this crap, but which in itself is a pretty fucking entertaining performance that elevates an okay if too-long filler pirate movie to a pretty funny, energetic too-long filler pirate movie. The sequels saw very rapidly diminishing returns on the schtick, and he may well have been replaced by CGI in the one with Penelope Cruz, but I rep for the first one.

i left it out cuz i thought it was more interesting to see his filmography without four of those things clogging up the list

wisely saved first Pirates movie for library disc, bailed after a headachy half hour

saw it at the movies with children, threw one of them thru the screen when the pirates sailed back to the same island for the 3rd or 4th time i dunno the red mist was down by then

Yeah, it seems have been first written forwards from a story outline, and then backwards from "but we already filmed this action sequence, if we cut that part of the plot, what will we do?" It just has too many double-crosses and double-double-crosses, especially for a kids' movie, should have been caught on the first draft. But I was entertained enough to actually go see it a second time in theaters when a different group of friends was going.

The classic film 'goof', one of the invading pirates yells "Geronimo" as he swings from boat to boat.

enjoyed the first one alright, depp and rush were fun in it, there were some fun action set pieces, it felt old fashioned in a welcome way, and it was far far far better than any could've expected from a gore verbinski adaptation of an amusement park ride. after that they seemed to think they were making an epic, or several epics it was such an incoherent mix of dumb mythologies, the fun was drained out and they became ridiculously tedious. as verbinski-depp collaborations go i'll still take rango.

Totally. First one would have been a great and well-remembered fun summer flick, except that the second two are almost Matrix-level in terms of dispersing any goodwill through piled-up Macguffins, extra characters, characters racing each other to nowhere and back, mystical gibberish and action padding in order to make the second two movies a "set" of some kind. If there had to be a sequel, they should have taken a deep breath and eased off on the "everything must be a trilogy" thing, come up with a good one-movie story about some pirates (not necessarily the same ones) and let that be that. There was nothing more to gain by more Jack Sparrow except overexposing him and ruining the fun, and there was nothing more to learn about any of the rest of the characters. Bill Nighy was fun but had nothing to really do but flop around and gurgle at people.

Gutsy thing would have been an all-new cast and story and bet on the audience trusting the brand to deliver, not Johnny Depp, but pirate fun. I couldn't believe it when they made a fourth one years later, and really can't believe that it's one of the top-grossing films of all time, as I never talked to anybody who gave a shit about seeing it. Predictably they're making a fifth one which means that Depp will have been doing this kooky one-off role for thirteen plus years.

the last pirates was the least successful domestically but HUUUUUUUGE foreign

2011 was a big year for "i can't say i know anyone who repped for that" movies - Transformers 3, Hangover II, The Twilight Movie With The Wedding, Pirates 4, Cars 2 and Sherlock Holmes 2 all in the top 10.

(i took fast five, mission impossible 4 and thor out as movies i've heard someone rep for)

(oh and The Last Harry Potter)

you ppl know a lotta pantswetting reppers

yes, we have friends

Better:

http://200movies1woman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/the-pirates-band-of-misfits02.jpg

Can't remember if it's better:

http://theadventuresoftransman.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/1734_mm4998rfue.jpeg

We just watched Muppet Treasure Island the other night. It was okay, couple of really good gags (mostly in the songs), but not better than the first Pirates flick. Tim Curry's mugging is pitched well for the kid-level audience; I'd have accepted him in a re-cast Pirates sequel. As a kid I remember liking Shipwrecked okay, can't remember anything about it though.

i'm ok w/ that movie now but man few movies have disappointed me as much as yellowbeard did at the time

enjoyed the first one alright, depp and rush were fun in it, there were some fun action set pieces, it felt old fashioned in a welcome way, and it was far far far better than any could've expected from a gore verbinski adaptation of an amusement park ride. after that...they became ridiculously tedious.

― balls, Monday, August 4, 2014 11:42 AM (1 hour ago)

sums it up for me. did enjoy the first one a hell of a lot, even on the 2nd pass.

when I rented the first one eleven years I couldn't believe this was a two-hours-plus movie. I couldn't recommend it because it was too damn long and the material sucked and it was obv padded.

Pirates 2 overall really isn't that good, but that whole sequence with the water-wheel really is the best sequence of the whole series. I might also be nostalgic for the days when movie executives thought a trilogy was as far as a franchise could go.

the problem with a lot of trilogies today is that they really should be one movie (cf. the hobbit series) and there are a lot of "trilogies" that end up being four movies with the last two padded out, like "why make 900 million domestic when you can make 1.2 billion" i guess is their way of thinking.

Even though he keeps making them, Johnny Depp is a little bit confused by the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels. "They had to invent a trilogy out of nowhere," he candidly tells EW about the last two movies. "It was plot driven and complicated. I remember talking to (director Gore Verbinski) at certain points during production of 2 or 3, and saying: 'I don't really know what this means.' He said, 'Neither do I, but let's just shoot it.' This guy is this guy's dad, and this guy was in love with this broad. It was like, 'What?'" If those movies eventually made sense in postproduction, Depp admits that he wouldn't know it: "I did see the first one. I have not seen the second one or the third one."

Used to love The Crimson Pirate when I was a kid.

My fave Pirate movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZyWlcPt2IY

caught most of sleepy hollow last night, the last burton i have real fondness for. seems unfairly slighted, i've seen it grouped in passing w/ truly terrible burton like wonka or alice. i'm not sure if it's due to the somewhat poor script or it being the moment ppl realized christina ricci isn't much of an actress, but it looks fantastic, there's a fun embrace of darkness and gore, and there are enough moments that feel like it was made by the same guy who did pee wee's big adventure and beetlejuice. depp is alright in it, he lapses into cute mannerisms but there's some actual acting as well. i'd take it over anything listed above as well as pirates.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

only two with no votes!

The best film probably won, though I guess you can't really credit it's greatness to Depp. (He is good in it, though.)

caught most of sleepy hollow last night, the last burton i have real fondness for. seems unfairly slighted, ...but it looks fantastic, there's a fun embrace of darkness and gore, and there are enough moments that feel like it was made by the same guy who did pee wee's big adventure and beetlejuice. ...i'd take it over anything listed above as well as pirates.

― balls, Tuesday, August 5, 2014 11:13 AM (12 hours ago)

otm. easily burton's best looking film, w/ much of the credit likely due to emmanuel lubezki.

"Transcendence" is the worst movie I've seen in a while, simultaneously super-dumb and super-self-important. Not even fun, just a glum lump of a movie with terrible acting from Depp and Rebecca Hall.

Looks like nothing new but well done:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie/black-mass/review/820013

Wasn't keen on Out Of The Furnace but at least there are no Afflecks in this one. Kind of looking forward to it, but have been disappointed by recent critically acclaimed Boston Crime movies, they don't make 'em like Eddie Coyle any more!

Aint that the truth, love that movie