Ho hum, ho hum...

[filmfemmezan]

Yes yes, I know that I need to do my massive PR update, but as I sucked it up to go see the franchise that broke my heart last night, I need to vent about that first. Keep in mind, I'm no film snob, no one wants to like a movie about pirates MORE than me. Hell...I planned my entire pirates b-day party last year around the release of the second

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[affectingly]

Oh, Suzanne, how I love thee. I enjoyed watching the movie, but yeah... several gaping plot holes of WTF to be found. Seriously, what the hell was going on with the Calypso=Elizabeth shit? (Not to mention that the entire Calypso plot line was anticlimactic as hell and totally convoluted.) And why the hell did there need to be multiple Jack Sparrows *after* they got out of Davy Jones' Locker?

Still, it was pretty to watch. And I did loved Keith Richards as Jack's dad. Oh Keith... maybe they should have had him snorting the ashes of loved ones in character? That may have been amusing.

[filmfemmezan]

Re: Calypso=Elizabeth, don't even get me started. So frakking absurd, especially when we have the fakest Jamaican accent since Kendra invaded Buffy in 75% of the movie...gee, I wonder who Calypso is...the white waif of a girl or the chick with dreads who keeps casting bones and bringing folks back from the dead and speaking in riddles and getting her Davy Jones locket shot in close-up.

Sigh.

Silly Asians, whitey is never gonna be the corporeal home of a PMS-y sea-goddess, even if she does wear silly hats and gets a spray-on tan...

[conob]

...and has alarmingly perfect make-up. Wonder how many takes they had to do on some of her lines; there's one place where her eyeshadow changes mid-scene.

I kind of appreciated the Calypso misfire, since Elizabeth is exotic to Sao Feng in the same way that Tia Dalma is exotic to the Black Pearl's core crew. But there was zero attempt to make it comprehensible, as you say, and things bumped around way too much.

[scribe_kayla]

I feel you. Though, I just love watching Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow so much that I could watch him watch paint dry and be OK with it. But yes, the plot was entirely incomprehensible. At least with the second one, I thought it had to be convoluted so it could wrap up in the end. But with addition of yet ANOTHER plot point (Calypso), the plot only got worse.

Barbossa was quite fun, and Jack in Davy Jones locker was lots of fun. But at some point after that, I lost track of who was trying accomplish what, and how. Still, Jack at the end in his little boat with his compass = LOVE.

[anonymous]

Barbossa = love. Rush is a-freakin-yay at the helm. And Monkey!Jack makes me smile too.

That said...eh...yeh, there were weaknesses and double droople crossing which all worked out exactly how we know it would after the first 10 minutes...

...But hell. I sorta...have this guilty itch to go see it again.

[ixchelmala]

I suppose my point is this- it's not that Pirates 2 or 3 are incomprehensible, it's that they're not worth comprehending.

You know... that was my issue with it. Like just understanding the fecking dialog. There were a few things I kinda liked, like the way Elizabeth was made captain, then king, funny, but you pegged it with the first 20 min and for me Davy's locker was good too.

But overall, after digesting it for a day, it feels like they realized how sloppy some of their loose ends were and matched that shit up to their focus group findings, the silent majority ones, and filled the movie with it.

Aw well.