Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End & Weird Eating Ways
Woot! I finally watched Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
Okay, to be honest, I'm not crazy about it. It was, well, too confusing. It didn't help, of course, that I could hardly understand what some of the characters were saying... Tia Dalma and Davy Jones, in particular, had the strongest accents. My cousin and I were saying that when the DVDs come out, we'd watch it again with subtitles. I started to GET it towards the end, but I still had questions from when I couldn't follow the plot at the beginning...
- Where was Jack exactly, at the start? Was that an island? Was Davy Jones' Locker an actual place at the end of the world? What had he been doing there? Going nuts? Why was he seeing so many of himself running around?
- So Davy Jones was supposed to be like a guide for souls who perished at sea and he was working for Calypso, who turned out to be Tia Dalma, before he betrayed her because he thought SHE betrayed THEIR LOVE. Hmmm...
- When Elizabeth found out her father had died, why was he (and some others) on a boat, while there were other souls who were simply floating underwater?
- If Tia Dalma was Calypso, then why did Chow Yun-Fat (sorry, I forgot his character's name) call Elizabeth Calypso?
- Why did Jack want to kill Davy Jones and be trapped as the immortal captain of The Flying Dutchman? Why did he change his mind at the end?
- Why did the pirates want to free Calypso? As it turned out, she didn't do anything to help them.
- What the hell was Will playing at? I didn't get ANY of his actions and ended up seeing him as a dirty, rotten traitor. Speaking of which...
- WTF?!? Are we supposed to believe that Elizabeth loved Will back? Throughout the movie, I really didn't get a sense that these two loved each other. Will was obsessed with betraying people to rescue his dad. And Elizabeth, well, she was too busy being a pirate, wasn't she? I just don't understand why she would love him after all his treachery... At the end of the second movie, everyone, particularly Elizabeth, was really breaking down after Jack's death. That didn't transfer at all to this movie...
- Anyway, I can't believe that in a Disney movie, we got a kissing-of-the-knee/inner-thigh-obviously-post-coitus Will/Elizabeth. Yikes! And yuck. I don't like Will at all and find him icky.
- I was so sad when Norrington died despite the fact that I hated his guts for turning in Davy Jones' heart to the East India Company dude.
- Okay, I know it seems like I'm complaining a lot, but really, there were good parts too. Anything with Jack in it was a winner, basically, which is why I'm disappointed that there wasn't enough Jack! The Singapore parts at the beginning seemed to stretch too long. I was like, 'where the F is Jack?!?'
- Funniest moment: When Davy Jones stepped on land, but he had a bucket of water on his feet! Hahahahaha, I just COULD NOT STOP LAUGHING!
- Other good parts: The VISUALS!!! Wow. Everything, from the colors, the costumes, the sets, the choice of shots, the action sequences... BREATHTAKING!!! Here are some pictures:
I LOVE all the graphics from when Jack was in Davy Jones' locker:
Hee hee, this is a funny moment:
Some more with the mini-Jacks:
And, well, because I must admit that I'd much rather see Jack & Elizabeth together:
- Other things I liked: the Pirates' council. The assortment of characters was hilarious. Keith Richards was also cool :D.
Verdict: It's still great fun and Jack Sparrow is as lovable as ever, but the plot was rather questionable. I feel like the writers were making things up as they went along, like they didn't have a clear idea on how to explain everything from Pirates 2, so they pretty much changed gears and started pulling things out of thin air. I felt like the characters changed drastically and their motivations for doing so and their other actions weren't clarified better.
- Pirates 4? The end indicated another Pirates movie (the Fountain of Youth!), but Will's fate gave the writers an 'out' for not including him. Keira Knightley's popularity means that she'd most definitely come back and I can totally see a scenario for Elizabeth to join Jack, but the, like, twenty-second bit after the credits in this movie was very odd: Ten years later and Elizabeth was still on the same island Will left her, but now she had a boy for company (obviously Will's son). Had she been waiting for him all this time? Wow, that sucks... I don't know, let's see how it goes. I'd still see Pirates 4 for Johnny Depp, but I'd much rather if Orlando Bloom wasn't in it and I'd be fine if Keira wasn't in it too...
I'm sure many of you disagree with me. Well, I'd love to hear what you guys thought of this movie :D. I avoided your posts earlier because I didn't want to be spoiled, so I pretty much have no clue as to how fandom's been reacting to this sequel.
The movie finished around 10 tonight, but since I didn't get a chance to properly eat beforehand, I was somewhat hungry. So I went and got PANCAKES :D. It was raspberry and rhubarb, with mascarpone cream cheese, sandwiched between two buttermilk pancakes. It was superbly delicious, but now I'm too full. And I can't sleep on a full stomach. Yep, I'm a freak, but I must sleep when I'm hungry. So I'm waiting it out. Another hour and I'll be good (currently 3am). Ideally, it'd have to be at least six hours between when I last ate and sleep, but that would translate to me sleeping at sunrise, so, yeah, uhhh, no. 'Wish I'd had the late dinner TOMORROW night though, since I need to stay up to catch F1 in Canada anyway... Oooh, I haven't checked Qualifying. Hope my boy does well :).
Lastly... I know I still have to do my New Zealand pics, but I took some pictures earlier and I MAY post them and some goodies in my next post.
For now, I'm killing this last hour with Goblet of Fire. If I fell asleep in the middle, bloody fantastic!
P. S. Isn't this icon of Ron I found just too flippin' funny?. Gah. I need more icon capacity. What's the cheapest you can buy from LJ? Anyone know?
Okay, to be honest, I'm not crazy about it. It was, well, too confusing. It didn't help, of course, that I could hardly understand what some of the characters were saying... Tia Dalma and Davy Jones, in particular, had the strongest accents. My cousin and I were saying that when the DVDs come out, we'd watch it again with subtitles. I started to GET it towards the end, but I still had questions from when I couldn't follow the plot at the beginning...
- Where was Jack exactly, at the start? Was that an island? Was Davy Jones' Locker an actual place at the end of the world? What had he been doing there? Going nuts? Why was he seeing so many of himself running around?
- So Davy Jones was supposed to be like a guide for souls who perished at sea and he was working for Calypso, who turned out to be Tia Dalma, before he betrayed her because he thought SHE betrayed THEIR LOVE. Hmmm...
- When Elizabeth found out her father had died, why was he (and some others) on a boat, while there were other souls who were simply floating underwater?
- If Tia Dalma was Calypso, then why did Chow Yun-Fat (sorry, I forgot his character's name) call Elizabeth Calypso?
- Why did Jack want to kill Davy Jones and be trapped as the immortal captain of The Flying Dutchman? Why did he change his mind at the end?
- Why did the pirates want to free Calypso? As it turned out, she didn't do anything to help them.
- What the hell was Will playing at? I didn't get ANY of his actions and ended up seeing him as a dirty, rotten traitor. Speaking of which...
- WTF?!? Are we supposed to believe that Elizabeth loved Will back? Throughout the movie, I really didn't get a sense that these two loved each other. Will was obsessed with betraying people to rescue his dad. And Elizabeth, well, she was too busy being a pirate, wasn't she? I just don't understand why she would love him after all his treachery... At the end of the second movie, everyone, particularly Elizabeth, was really breaking down after Jack's death. That didn't transfer at all to this movie...
- Anyway, I can't believe that in a Disney movie, we got a kissing-of-the-knee/inner-thigh-obviously-post-coitus Will/Elizabeth. Yikes! And yuck. I don't like Will at all and find him icky.
- I was so sad when Norrington died despite the fact that I hated his guts for turning in Davy Jones' heart to the East India Company dude.
- Okay, I know it seems like I'm complaining a lot, but really, there were good parts too. Anything with Jack in it was a winner, basically, which is why I'm disappointed that there wasn't enough Jack! The Singapore parts at the beginning seemed to stretch too long. I was like, 'where the F is Jack?!?'
- Funniest moment: When Davy Jones stepped on land, but he had a bucket of water on his feet! Hahahahaha, I just COULD NOT STOP LAUGHING!
- Other good parts: The VISUALS!!! Wow. Everything, from the colors, the costumes, the sets, the choice of shots, the action sequences... BREATHTAKING!!! Here are some pictures:
I LOVE all the graphics from when Jack was in Davy Jones' locker:
Hee hee, this is a funny moment:
Some more with the mini-Jacks:
And, well, because I must admit that I'd much rather see Jack & Elizabeth together:
- Other things I liked: the Pirates' council. The assortment of characters was hilarious. Keith Richards was also cool :D.
Verdict: It's still great fun and Jack Sparrow is as lovable as ever, but the plot was rather questionable. I feel like the writers were making things up as they went along, like they didn't have a clear idea on how to explain everything from Pirates 2, so they pretty much changed gears and started pulling things out of thin air. I felt like the characters changed drastically and their motivations for doing so and their other actions weren't clarified better.
- Pirates 4? The end indicated another Pirates movie (the Fountain of Youth!), but Will's fate gave the writers an 'out' for not including him. Keira Knightley's popularity means that she'd most definitely come back and I can totally see a scenario for Elizabeth to join Jack, but the, like, twenty-second bit after the credits in this movie was very odd: Ten years later and Elizabeth was still on the same island Will left her, but now she had a boy for company (obviously Will's son). Had she been waiting for him all this time? Wow, that sucks... I don't know, let's see how it goes. I'd still see Pirates 4 for Johnny Depp, but I'd much rather if Orlando Bloom wasn't in it and I'd be fine if Keira wasn't in it too...
I'm sure many of you disagree with me. Well, I'd love to hear what you guys thought of this movie :D. I avoided your posts earlier because I didn't want to be spoiled, so I pretty much have no clue as to how fandom's been reacting to this sequel.
The movie finished around 10 tonight, but since I didn't get a chance to properly eat beforehand, I was somewhat hungry. So I went and got PANCAKES :D. It was raspberry and rhubarb, with mascarpone cream cheese, sandwiched between two buttermilk pancakes. It was superbly delicious, but now I'm too full. And I can't sleep on a full stomach. Yep, I'm a freak, but I must sleep when I'm hungry. So I'm waiting it out. Another hour and I'll be good (currently 3am). Ideally, it'd have to be at least six hours between when I last ate and sleep, but that would translate to me sleeping at sunrise, so, yeah, uhhh, no. 'Wish I'd had the late dinner TOMORROW night though, since I need to stay up to catch F1 in Canada anyway... Oooh, I haven't checked Qualifying. Hope my boy does well :).
Lastly... I know I still have to do my New Zealand pics, but I took some pictures earlier and I MAY post them and some goodies in my next post.
For now, I'm killing this last hour with Goblet of Fire. If I fell asleep in the middle, bloody fantastic!
P. S. Isn't this icon of Ron I found just too flippin' funny?. Gah. I need more icon capacity. What's the cheapest you can buy from LJ? Anyone know?