Pirati! (A bad man would do you good.)
Or at least Dean and Sam should be fighting evil undead mummies with Elvis and a black JFK in a nursing home in Texas, if my brain - which dearly wants to cross Supernatural with Bubba-Hotep - is to be believed.
Of course, I can't write dialogue or humor, so someone else is going to have to get on that, but if you just watch the movie it is so CLEARLY obvious.
But prior to Bubba with emmmitt and page5grrl was Pirates (Pirates!) on Friday. To which I say, squee! The first half is a little too exposition-heavy, a little too hammy with referencing the first movie, and one sequences goes on entirely too long, but once it gets going, it's enormously fun, and sets up well for the third movie next year.
If you'd asked me this time Friday, I'd've said that Norrington was not a character whom scruffiness would suit. But oh god, yes, it does, since it apparently brings out all his snark. And a lovely vocal register somewhat lower than Jack Davenport uses as Steve that just made me want to purr.
The movie does suffer from its human villain being pretty boring - sneer, exposition, and plot manipulation, lather, rinse, repeat - though the conflicting loyalties/priorities it does set up give the Jack-Will-Elizabeth-Norrington interactions a bit more of an edge.
Speaking of which, the three-way sword fight at the end was awesome. I'm always a little puzzled by people who are bored by fight sequences, because as long as they're choreographed well? So hot.
Though that was a good example of how the whole "...and then they made me their chief" sequence detracts from the movie. Having one frenetically-paced rolling-sphere running fight diminishes the impact of the second one when it comes around - if the waterwheel fight/jungle chase scene weren't so well put together, it would've been more tedious.
Also hot? Keira in boy clothes. Although one can't help looking at her in the movie and think of the pictures of her from the premiere and wonder what the hell happened that she dropped some 15 pounds. And even Orlando has managed to keep some of the extra muscle he put on for KoH - at least, he's not as scrawny as he was in Troy. Character-wise I really love the darkness they brought of Elizabeth kissing Jack into the trap. She does feel an affinity for him, but she'll dirty her hands to get done what needs doing -- we saw it in a smaller way in the first movie, and here she takes that a further step. And poor Will, who sees the kiss, but maybe not the trap? I'm unclear on that point, but either way, he looked so hurt - and maybe a little resigned? Or at least, not completely surprised. In an ideal world, the third movie would end with OT3 sailing into the sunset (or dare I say it, OT4? I couldn't really buy Sparrington based on Norrington from the first movie, but now he fits in with all them just fine), but I am curious to see how they'll actually resolve it.
And how much do I love the Flying Dutchman, the living undead ship? And that the Pearl was once sunken! It's a perfect touch for the the ship that's been so anthropomorphized and haunted in fiction.
Lastly, hurrah! (or huzzah!) for the return of Barbossa -- I'd completely forgotten Geoffrey Rush was filming the sequels with them, so it was a total surprise to see him back. I can't wait to see what becomes of him.
Nifty little quiz thing:
At the end of the third world, the Lightning Beings burnt symbols into the bodies of the Stone People to guide us (the beings of the fourth world) in our struggle to achieve spiritual prefection. These stone people have great properties. They not only guide and warn those who find them. but can also allow us to access the powers and energies they represent.
Compiled by Sun Guide Creativity.
Which Native American Legend Suits You?
Of course, I can't write dialogue or humor, so someone else is going to have to get on that, but if you just watch the movie it is so CLEARLY obvious.
But prior to Bubba with emmmitt and page5grrl was Pirates (Pirates!) on Friday. To which I say, squee! The first half is a little too exposition-heavy, a little too hammy with referencing the first movie, and one sequences goes on entirely too long, but once it gets going, it's enormously fun, and sets up well for the third movie next year.
If you'd asked me this time Friday, I'd've said that Norrington was not a character whom scruffiness would suit. But oh god, yes, it does, since it apparently brings out all his snark. And a lovely vocal register somewhat lower than Jack Davenport uses as Steve that just made me want to purr.
The movie does suffer from its human villain being pretty boring - sneer, exposition, and plot manipulation, lather, rinse, repeat - though the conflicting loyalties/priorities it does set up give the Jack-Will-Elizabeth-Norrington interactions a bit more of an edge.
Speaking of which, the three-way sword fight at the end was awesome. I'm always a little puzzled by people who are bored by fight sequences, because as long as they're choreographed well? So hot.
Though that was a good example of how the whole "...and then they made me their chief" sequence detracts from the movie. Having one frenetically-paced rolling-sphere running fight diminishes the impact of the second one when it comes around - if the waterwheel fight/jungle chase scene weren't so well put together, it would've been more tedious.
Also hot? Keira in boy clothes. Although one can't help looking at her in the movie and think of the pictures of her from the premiere and wonder what the hell happened that she dropped some 15 pounds. And even Orlando has managed to keep some of the extra muscle he put on for KoH - at least, he's not as scrawny as he was in Troy. Character-wise I really love the darkness they brought of Elizabeth kissing Jack into the trap. She does feel an affinity for him, but she'll dirty her hands to get done what needs doing -- we saw it in a smaller way in the first movie, and here she takes that a further step. And poor Will, who sees the kiss, but maybe not the trap? I'm unclear on that point, but either way, he looked so hurt - and maybe a little resigned? Or at least, not completely surprised. In an ideal world, the third movie would end with OT3 sailing into the sunset (or dare I say it, OT4? I couldn't really buy Sparrington based on Norrington from the first movie, but now he fits in with all them just fine), but I am curious to see how they'll actually resolve it.
And how much do I love the Flying Dutchman, the living undead ship? And that the Pearl was once sunken! It's a perfect touch for the the ship that's been so anthropomorphized and haunted in fiction.
Lastly, hurrah! (or huzzah!) for the return of Barbossa -- I'd completely forgotten Geoffrey Rush was filming the sequels with them, so it was a total surprise to see him back. I can't wait to see what becomes of him.
Nifty little quiz thing:
At the end of the third world, the Lightning Beings burnt symbols into the bodies of the Stone People to guide us (the beings of the fourth world) in our struggle to achieve spiritual prefection. These stone people have great properties. They not only guide and warn those who find them. but can also allow us to access the powers and energies they represent.
Compiled by Sun Guide Creativity.
Which Native American Legend Suits You?