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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) - 5 corrections

Directed by Rob Marshall, starring Geoffrey Rush, Ian McShane, Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

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Drinking from the chalice with the mermaid's tear should give the drinker the years the other person would have lived. Both Angelica and Blackbeard were minutes away from death, so Angelica should have died minutes later. [It's time remaining in their natural life. The vitality, or life essence they contain transfers to the other person. The chalices are not clairvoyant. They cannot determine if you'll get run over by a carriage when you're seven years old, or drown when you're fifteen. It's how long your body would remain alive under ideal circumstances. Poison was shutting Blackbeard's body down, but he had plenty of life left in him.]
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The silver chalices have glass cups set in a silver goblet, and these cups break when the chalices are damaged by the Spaniard. When Cruz's character "drinks" from the chalice, you can see that the glass is broken before the silver rim, so when she tilted it to drink, the contents would have poured out of the hole, not into her mouth. [When Jack first nears the Fountain's location, the water is dripping "upwards." Its magical nature prevents it from acting as water normally does, such as leaking out of the damaged cup.]
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This is more of an "out-of-character" plot hole. In the previous movie, Jack Sparrow was bent on acquiring the Flying Dutchman because he would be able to roam the seas forever. Yet, in this movie he philosophizes how he doesn't have the desire to live forever. [Yes, because he's learned his lesson about the cost of immortality during the course of the previous film. Now, regaining some youth and extending your life a bit is not the same thing as living forever.]
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Barbossa and Captain Jack Sparrow have been captured by the Spaniards and are each tied to a tree. Barbossa removes his wooden leg and lifts it high above his face in order to drink the liquid (presumably rum) that was concealed in the hollow top. Captain Jack then takes the wooden leg and holds it under his lips. He tilts it very slightly, then smacks his lips, but there is no way he could have gotten any rum from it in that position. [Why not? Just because Barbossa tipped it high doesn't mean his mouth was wide open to let the liquid freely pour in. It could still have been full enough for Jack to trickle a bit of rum into his mouth; just enough to steel him for what he was about to attempt.]
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This film takes place during the reign of King George II, who was crowned as King in 1727, almost nine years after Blackbeard was killed in North Carolina. [This fact was mentioned by Jack Sparrow in the storyline. The premise is that Blackbeard somehow escaped or survived the battle where he was supposedly "killed." Just how he did so is never explained, though in the film, he possesses some supernatural power that may have made this possible.]
Edit Corrected by raywest