Pretty pretty pirates...and not so pretty ones
Just got back from Pirates.
Wow there are a lot of pirates in this movie. I think the whole Elizabeth as pirate captain and then pirate king thing, was just dumb. I wouldn't follow her anywhere. Especially not if I was a pirate.
Things I didn't like:
Elizabeth (but that's a given, she's always gotten on my nerves since the first movie although she annoyed me less in this one, so I guess that's saying something)
Norrington dying and not becoming a pirate. Boo.
Chow Yung Fat dying without doing much of anything. Boo.
Jeffery Rush's overacting.
Tia/Calypso's enunciation or lack there of, if you could even call it that.
Beckett's complete uselessness in this movie. Was he supposed to be the bad guy? I didn't notice seeing as how he's about as threatening as a limp pastry.
What happened to all the clever dialog from the first movie? The second had too many throwbacks to the first movie, but this one just didn't have any zing at all.
Things I did like:
Ship full of Jacks!
Getting to see Jack's full body tattoo on the ship full of Jacks.
Will showing his pirate roots instead of floundering around after Elizabeth. Plus he looked hot at the end with the Jack inspired head scarf.
The "wedding" during the battle and Barbosa doing the honors.
The monkey and the parrot have become major characters. WTF? But at least their bits were funny, as opposed to say Pintel and Ragetti in this one.
Flipping the ship over. That was just awesome.
The Black Pearl sailing in the desert on crabs. Very cool.
The ten pieces of what we've got lying around in our pockets. Funny and very piratey.
They made Keith Richards look more alive than he's looked in decades. That's the true magic of Hollywood working right there kids.
Not to say that I hated the movie. I think it was entertaining, but the first one is still the best. A fun summer flick, but so far the film industry has been 0 for 3 this summer for me. Spider-man 3 was so-so. Shrek the Third was so-so. And now Pirates was so-so. I'm holding out giddy hope for Transformers, but there's just that whole Michael Bay "Explosions are pretty! Jerry Bruckheimer has nothing on me! Woo!" problem. We'll see.
Wow there are a lot of pirates in this movie. I think the whole Elizabeth as pirate captain and then pirate king thing, was just dumb. I wouldn't follow her anywhere. Especially not if I was a pirate.
Things I didn't like:
Elizabeth (but that's a given, she's always gotten on my nerves since the first movie although she annoyed me less in this one, so I guess that's saying something)
Norrington dying and not becoming a pirate. Boo.
Chow Yung Fat dying without doing much of anything. Boo.
Jeffery Rush's overacting.
Tia/Calypso's enunciation or lack there of, if you could even call it that.
Beckett's complete uselessness in this movie. Was he supposed to be the bad guy? I didn't notice seeing as how he's about as threatening as a limp pastry.
What happened to all the clever dialog from the first movie? The second had too many throwbacks to the first movie, but this one just didn't have any zing at all.
Things I did like:
Ship full of Jacks!
Getting to see Jack's full body tattoo on the ship full of Jacks.
Will showing his pirate roots instead of floundering around after Elizabeth. Plus he looked hot at the end with the Jack inspired head scarf.
The "wedding" during the battle and Barbosa doing the honors.
The monkey and the parrot have become major characters. WTF? But at least their bits were funny, as opposed to say Pintel and Ragetti in this one.
Flipping the ship over. That was just awesome.
The Black Pearl sailing in the desert on crabs. Very cool.
The ten pieces of what we've got lying around in our pockets. Funny and very piratey.
They made Keith Richards look more alive than he's looked in decades. That's the true magic of Hollywood working right there kids.
Not to say that I hated the movie. I think it was entertaining, but the first one is still the best. A fun summer flick, but so far the film industry has been 0 for 3 this summer for me. Spider-man 3 was so-so. Shrek the Third was so-so. And now Pirates was so-so. I'm holding out giddy hope for Transformers, but there's just that whole Michael Bay "Explosions are pretty! Jerry Bruckheimer has nothing on me! Woo!" problem. We'll see.