fear and loathing in the caribbean: or, how i learned to stop worrying and love the sea turtles.

[shadowcaptain]

[needless to say, spoilers ahoy. as in, a lot. watchy-watchy before clicky-clicky, savvy? (no, really.)]

pirates of the caribbean: the curse of the black pearl exceeded absolutely everybody's expectations, especially when held up next to the country bears and the haunted mansion. it was good, it was deep, it was depp. and there was interesting

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[thirdbase]

notlookingnotlookingnotlooking...

damnit. Guess I have to go see it this weekend so I can read this.

[sabine42]

duuuuuuuuuude.

this is why I need to see it again.

and

all the way up to that whole sao-feng-turns-rapist-and-then-gets-pointlessly-killed bit

STILL pissing me off.

[rimrunner]

all the way up to that whole sao-feng-turns-rapist-and-then-gets-pointlessly-killed bit

Goddamnit, me too. I've been a Chow Yun-Fat fan since I saw Hard Boiled and The Killer about ten years ago. He's tremendous fun to watch, and (along with several other actors, as shadowcaptain enumerates), he's just wasted here.

[sabine42]

Yeah...been a fan of his for a while, too, although not until Replacement Killers, and then of course his non-action stuff like Anna and the King, but have started netflixing his older films.

Both as and action star and an amazing actor, he wasn't given enough here...so sad :(

Wow.

[starfyrone]

The only major loose end to me was why did Beckett freeze at the end.

Followed slightly as to why Calypso didn't just harsh on all of them once free (mostly explainable as that after finding out it was Jones that betrayed her, she didn't give a damn about any of this anymore, but it seems more likely she should have been "kill them, kill them all", but since that would end the movie a climatic battle too soon, I understand why they punted that).

The rest of the story parts are there if you were watching, or easily inferred from what was there.

For me it was a bazillion times better than 2, and quite possibly better than one.

[anigma_i]

And we've never seen the scene where the innocent person who we wouldn't expect to be hiding any weapons on them pulls out more and more like clowns out of a volkswagon.

And what about the Black Pearl - is it self repairing? I seem to recall it getting fairly well beaten up over and over again, but it never looks beat up and we don't see any new wood.

[word_herder]

"So I am offering you a job. In the employ of the East India Trading Company. Working for me."
"We've been down that road before, haven't we? And we both know how you get when your advances are spurned." (jack holds up the brand on his wrist)
"I had contracted with you to deliver cargo on my behalf. You chose to liberate it."
"People aren't cargo, mate."

Absolutely. Brilliant. Have you ever considered a career as a screenwriter, or something? You have vision.

oh... um...

[shadowcaptain]

thanks -- and i have considered it -- but those lines really were in the script at one point. :) it's not a theoretical cut scene, it really is a cut scene. (i took the lines from the novelization.)

dunno if they filmed it or not; i'm hoping they did. blew me away too; i've been telling people about that scene all weekend.

Re: oh... um...

[word_herder]

Where did you find the novelization of the film?

(And it doesn't disappoint me in the least; I still think you'd make a good screenwriter.)

Re: oh... um...

[shadowcaptain]

thanks a lot! ("dreams deferred," and all that . . .)

found it at borders over the weekend. i can't even find proof of its existence online, but it's labeled as a "borders exclusive," $12.99, all three movies in a hardback "collector's edition."