Movie Review - Spoilers for Pirates 4
Okay, so apparently this is where I come to rant about things I see/read now.
Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Strange Tides. On Stranger Tides? I don't remember. Too lazy to look it up. (Brief sidebar to state how much I hate the woman who lives above me and her click clack heels and the fact that she's seemed to make a habit of waking me up every morning by throwing things to the floor.)
This movie lived up to my expectations; that is - it wasn't near as good as the others, but was as good as Dead Man's Chest. Dead Man's Chest was entertaining, but it felt lacking. Which is exactly what this movie felt to me. The new characters weren't very interesting. I loved Penelope Cruz as Angelica and her character was the strongest of the new ones, but she was the ONLY new character I liked (though I'll admit that every time she was thrown around I went !!! in my head and desperately hoped it was a body double because I know she was pregnant while filming this). Blackbeard had no motivation to make him likable. Oh, sure, he was going to die at the hands of the one legged man but that's not the same as Davy Jones from 2 and 3 who had the back story of Calypso.
Perhaps my biggest problem with the movie was the lack of new music. I figured going in that even if the movie sucked the music would be amazing because it's the same guy who did the first three and I love love loved all of those. But no. It's just a rehashing of all the old music. I think I found maybe one new two minutes of music that was maybe used twice. That was a real let down for me.
I think that's all I have to rant about for this movie. All in all, glad I saw it. Probably won't buy it on DVD the same way I enjoyed Iron Man 2 and didn't buy that on DVD. Although I will probably see the inevitable Pirates 5 in theaters.
Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Strange Tides. On Stranger Tides? I don't remember. Too lazy to look it up. (Brief sidebar to state how much I hate the woman who lives above me and her click clack heels and the fact that she's seemed to make a habit of waking me up every morning by throwing things to the floor.)
This movie lived up to my expectations; that is - it wasn't near as good as the others, but was as good as Dead Man's Chest. Dead Man's Chest was entertaining, but it felt lacking. Which is exactly what this movie felt to me. The new characters weren't very interesting. I loved Penelope Cruz as Angelica and her character was the strongest of the new ones, but she was the ONLY new character I liked (though I'll admit that every time she was thrown around I went !!! in my head and desperately hoped it was a body double because I know she was pregnant while filming this). Blackbeard had no motivation to make him likable. Oh, sure, he was going to die at the hands of the one legged man but that's not the same as Davy Jones from 2 and 3 who had the back story of Calypso.
Perhaps my biggest problem with the movie was the lack of new music. I figured going in that even if the movie sucked the music would be amazing because it's the same guy who did the first three and I love love loved all of those. But no. It's just a rehashing of all the old music. I think I found maybe one new two minutes of music that was maybe used twice. That was a real let down for me.
I think that's all I have to rant about for this movie. All in all, glad I saw it. Probably won't buy it on DVD the same way I enjoyed Iron Man 2 and didn't buy that on DVD. Although I will probably see the inevitable Pirates 5 in theaters.