Corrected entry: There's a big problem in the end, when Barbosa is shot. At the time he is shot, the curse is not yet broken, but Will breaks it by throwing the coins back with blood on them. Then Barbosa feels the shot, and dies. But why doesn't all the pirates on board of the Dauntless die? They have been shot and cut with swords before the curse was broken, just like Barbosa.
Phil C.
Corrected entry: After Elizabeth's dream scene, she gets up and opens the drawer of her bedside table to get the medallion out. She takes out a false bottom to reach it, and the real bottom holding the medallion is full of dust. It shouldn't be dusty with the fake one over it.
Correction: Unless the false bottom was absolutely 100 percent airtight (unlikely), dust would find a way to get in anyway. Ask any housekeeper who has to take care of seldom-used items in drawers.
Corrected entry: If having the treasure means that you're cursed then why weren't Keira Knightly or Orlando Bloom ever cursed?
Correction: Because Will's father originally GAVE him the medallion -- Will didn't take it from the hoard with the intention of keeping it. Captain Jack Sparrow, by contrast, couldn't resist taking one from the chest for himself (or does it deliberately to protect himself) and winds up under the influence of the curse because of it.
Corrected entry: Port Royal, Jamaica, is built on a low spit of sand south of Kingston Harbor, nowhere more than about ten feet above sea level. The movie set has it built atop hundred-foot basaltic cliffs.
Correction: Even if the city IS meant to represent Port Royale, Jamaica, its look is not inaccurate. It is true that modern-day Port Royale is much different, but that is due to the earthquake of June 7, 1692 that destroyed the original Port Royale and sank it beneath the waves, altering the island's geography significantly. The time period of the movie is before the earthquake, when Port Royale was still a thriving buccaneer haven.
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Correction: Debatable point. While Barbosa's definitely shot before the two coins are dropped back in the chest, it could be argued that the moon plays an important part. As seen when the pirates have a bomb thrown at them then are shoved out of the moonlight, the lack of moonlight seems to regenerate skin over their bones. It's not just an illusion - they're either solid or skeletal depending on moonlight or not. Therefore it could be argued that injuries they receive when skeletal are repaired when they go out of moonlight. Any injuries they receive when solid don't affect them because they're cursed - we never see the effect of an uncursed solid injury except on Barbosa. Therefore because he's wounded and then the curse is lifted, when he's not under the "healing" moon, any recently incurred injuries have their full lethal consequences.
Phil C.