On Stranger Tides - first thoughts, part 3
Spoilers!
Part 1, Part 2
This will be the last part, I think. Also the most mingled. I have only a handful of minor thoughts and doubts yet. For now, of course. ;)
Why Jack destroys the lighthouse? No, I mean some other reason than diving with fiery illumination. No other reason...? Oh, come on, there must be some... OK, probably I'm to believe that he wants to switch off the light, to put end to all that gory madness, but switching the light off by making A Big Exploding Hell Visible From The Moon is rather odd way...
If Barbossa really cut his leg off, when caught by The Pearl's rigging rope, can I get a word of explanation why he didn't cut the rope instead?
In September 2010, when I saw one of the first photos from Greenwich, I wondered if Jack's facial hair are really greyish, or my eyes mistake me? Of course, I got the explanation when saw the good Judge Smith, but then, in the first impression, I thought Jack's face is somewhat powdered along with the 'grey' beard... But a bit later it sank in me - hey, mates! we've got here possibly the most unexpected thing in canon PotC ever - Jack is clean washed! I mean really and thoroughly! Look at his hands! It's the next thing which had been making me wonder - his hands on some magazine covers photos. I thought it a make-up fail, but now I think it was deliberate. If I'm no mistaken, he's undoubtedly dirty again not before the jungle, when he catches the droplets from the leaf.
Now, I don't think it's enough to explain his fairer hair, but at least I can believe easier that he was able to tell the difference in five-days-at-sea crew...
Why mermaids grow legs at land, if they're useless? Maybe she needed just to acquire practice? Maybe it was Syrena's first time on land?
By the way, how it is that a mermaid carried through jungle feels fine even if pissed, but a mermaid tied down in jungle suddenly feels unwell?
And the glass coffin asks for breaking. Why not just a big wooden barrel? Yeah, I know, Disney decides, not Blackbeard...
Why Philip didn't even think about asking the mermaid what her name is? Why he just named her? This annoys me, really. And then, we don't know her name in fact, hmm?
Scrum has a short memory... or just an unbreakable heart. He'd got to know Tamara better than he'd like, and he's still enamoured. Aww... *g*
So Barbossa has his own ship finally. Had he got any before, ever, at all? Now, can I have the hope that he get off The Pearl at last, eh? However, ahem, you know, I can have some tiny doubts... OK, A Big Fat Distaste as for The Horrifying Yatagan of the Force. I could take it at Blackbeard, as his attribute, but... Barbossa? Man, it looks almost as it wields Barbossa more than Barbossa wields it... And Queen Anne's Revenge as the abode and embodiment of dark powers was satisfyingly creepy, but Queen Anne's Revenge as The Sword-Driven Speed-Boat of the Caribbean becomes ridiculous.
By the way, she's amazingly fast, eh? Pfff... Pearl's Die Hard Fan mode on London-Florida(?) in less than three weeks...? Huh?
I love The Pearl in the bottle! So good that she's with Jack again, even in this state. And I love that she isn't just crammed inside, but she still sails, in their own eternal storm. She's the most beautiful and most inspiring thing in OST, in the visual department.
It was pointed already on potc_discussion that there's a plot hole in the pursuit after Jack. Why the soldier leaves his musket? And I'll add - why Jack takes it? That's an interesting case of a movie mistake, I think, cause look at this: a soldier as a real man would never leave his weapon, but of course he has the reason to do it as the soldier-the movie character - he has to leave it for Jack. Now, Jack-a real man could need a gun, but Jack-the movie character takes the gun for nothing, as it turns out later. This gun is just a gun hanged on a wall, which didn't fire in the last act, nor in whichever act.
And speaking of the palace guard, they're fine boys and brilliant looking, but rather not the brightest blades in the arsenal, eh? To knock a captive almost senseless, only to have to carry him next... OK, maybe that's just 'watch your moves, pirate' in advance. But a month of scrubbing of kettles in the garrison kitchen, for this one who cut the banner rope. First, at least two dozens of men on the street below, in the space clean of people, and then to cut the rope or... just why they didn't shoot? There wasn't 'take alive', was there?
Jack as The Sole Voice of Reason, persuading that's better to let Barbossa and Blackbeard fight on their own, with a comfortable wiev and making bets for others, is definitely one of the best things in PotC ever. And he is the one called daft?! Oh, thy madness, the world...
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OK, that's it, for now. I'll go to read other's thoughts, at last, since I've been avoiding it almost everywhere until writing down my own. Comments and possible discussion welcomed and appreciated, as always! :)
Part 1, Part 2
This will be the last part, I think. Also the most mingled. I have only a handful of minor thoughts and doubts yet. For now, of course. ;)
Why Jack destroys the lighthouse? No, I mean some other reason than diving with fiery illumination. No other reason...? Oh, come on, there must be some... OK, probably I'm to believe that he wants to switch off the light, to put end to all that gory madness, but switching the light off by making A Big Exploding Hell Visible From The Moon is rather odd way...
If Barbossa really cut his leg off, when caught by The Pearl's rigging rope, can I get a word of explanation why he didn't cut the rope instead?
In September 2010, when I saw one of the first photos from Greenwich, I wondered if Jack's facial hair are really greyish, or my eyes mistake me? Of course, I got the explanation when saw the good Judge Smith, but then, in the first impression, I thought Jack's face is somewhat powdered along with the 'grey' beard... But a bit later it sank in me - hey, mates! we've got here possibly the most unexpected thing in canon PotC ever - Jack is clean washed! I mean really and thoroughly! Look at his hands! It's the next thing which had been making me wonder - his hands on some magazine covers photos. I thought it a make-up fail, but now I think it was deliberate. If I'm no mistaken, he's undoubtedly dirty again not before the jungle, when he catches the droplets from the leaf.
Now, I don't think it's enough to explain his fairer hair, but at least I can believe easier that he was able to tell the difference in five-days-at-sea crew...
Why mermaids grow legs at land, if they're useless? Maybe she needed just to acquire practice? Maybe it was Syrena's first time on land?
By the way, how it is that a mermaid carried through jungle feels fine even if pissed, but a mermaid tied down in jungle suddenly feels unwell?
And the glass coffin asks for breaking. Why not just a big wooden barrel? Yeah, I know, Disney decides, not Blackbeard...
Why Philip didn't even think about asking the mermaid what her name is? Why he just named her? This annoys me, really. And then, we don't know her name in fact, hmm?
Scrum has a short memory... or just an unbreakable heart. He'd got to know Tamara better than he'd like, and he's still enamoured. Aww... *g*
So Barbossa has his own ship finally. Had he got any before, ever, at all? Now, can I have the hope that he get off The Pearl at last, eh? However, ahem, you know, I can have some tiny doubts... OK, A Big Fat Distaste as for The Horrifying Yatagan of the Force. I could take it at Blackbeard, as his attribute, but... Barbossa? Man, it looks almost as it wields Barbossa more than Barbossa wields it... And Queen Anne's Revenge as the abode and embodiment of dark powers was satisfyingly creepy, but Queen Anne's Revenge as The Sword-Driven Speed-Boat of the Caribbean becomes ridiculous.
By the way, she's amazingly fast, eh? Pfff... Pearl's Die Hard Fan mode on London-Florida(?) in less than three weeks...? Huh?
I love The Pearl in the bottle! So good that she's with Jack again, even in this state. And I love that she isn't just crammed inside, but she still sails, in their own eternal storm. She's the most beautiful and most inspiring thing in OST, in the visual department.
It was pointed already on potc_discussion that there's a plot hole in the pursuit after Jack. Why the soldier leaves his musket? And I'll add - why Jack takes it? That's an interesting case of a movie mistake, I think, cause look at this: a soldier as a real man would never leave his weapon, but of course he has the reason to do it as the soldier-the movie character - he has to leave it for Jack. Now, Jack-a real man could need a gun, but Jack-the movie character takes the gun for nothing, as it turns out later. This gun is just a gun hanged on a wall, which didn't fire in the last act, nor in whichever act.
And speaking of the palace guard, they're fine boys and brilliant looking, but rather not the brightest blades in the arsenal, eh? To knock a captive almost senseless, only to have to carry him next... OK, maybe that's just 'watch your moves, pirate' in advance. But a month of scrubbing of kettles in the garrison kitchen, for this one who cut the banner rope. First, at least two dozens of men on the street below, in the space clean of people, and then to cut the rope or... just why they didn't shoot? There wasn't 'take alive', was there?
Jack as The Sole Voice of Reason, persuading that's better to let Barbossa and Blackbeard fight on their own, with a comfortable wiev and making bets for others, is definitely one of the best things in PotC ever. And he is the one called daft?! Oh, thy madness, the world...
-------------------
OK, that's it, for now. I'll go to read other's thoughts, at last, since I've been avoiding it almost everywhere until writing down my own. Comments and possible discussion welcomed and appreciated, as always! :)