Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Everybody's doin' it! Time for me to weigh in on Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
You know, I feel like each of the three movies exists in a totally separate universe. They all have such a different feel from one another. In some ways it's good, because it keeps it from being a rehash of a rehash of the same old schtick, but then of course the side effects are unfortunately schizophrenic. The sheer length of the film also emphasised the fact that it bounced all over the place. Again, eh, I don't know if that was necessarily good or bad; I was certainly never bored, but I found myself thinking, "Wait, what? This is so freaking random," more times than I could count.
I'm not even going to pretend that I managed to follow who was on whose side, who betrayed who, who made a deal with who, who violated said deal in favour of another deal only to be screwed out of new deal by who. Um... what? I still get confused when I try to go back over the events of the first film, in which everybody only switches sides once or twice.
It's official: Elizabeth possesses the Kiss of Death. Starting with the end of the last film: she kisses Jack, he gets eaten a minute later; now she kisses Sao Feng, he gets impaled a minute later; she kisses Norrington, he gets impaled a minute later; she kisses Will, he gets his heart carved out of his chest a minute later. Sheesh, talk about having a bad track record with men!
Speaking of character deaths, I went three-for-three on the ones that I called -- Norrington, Beckett, and Swann. Not that I should get any extra points for these, because they were all extremely predictable. Still, though, I had my fingers crossed for Norrington and Beckett to make it through (sorry, Governor Swann...). Well, as long as it was going to have to happen, I suppose they both got quite good death scenes. THAT'S RIGHT. NORRINGTON IS OFFICIALLY A GOOD GUY. AND I AM FINALLY VINDICATED IN MY LOVE FOR HIM. And Beckett is officially badass; but we already knew that, too.
I hope they make a sequel where Jack's search for the Fountain of Youth leads him to St. Augustine and they just happen to decide to film some of it on location and it just happens to be when I'm up at school and they just happen to decide to bring Norrington back and I just happen to stalk everybody from the movie. Oh yes. How beautiful would that be? < /wishful thinking>
A few more quick random thoughts:
-Murtogg and Mullroy FTW!
-Ahahaha at Tia Dalma's crabs being the manifestation of her power. Just... uh... yeah.
-Also, is it just me or did she totally go Ursula at the end? Turning all gigantic and then creating a giant whirlpool of doom -- way to rip off your own movie, Disney.
-Lo-o-oved the scene with Giselle and Scarlett at the end; that was one of the few moments that felt like it was straight out of the first movie.
-Pirate lord who says two words with the squeaky little girl voice? How can something so pointlessly random be the funniest part of the whole movie (seriously, I laughed way too hard at that)?
-Favourite costume of the movie goes to Will, who is totally working that burgundy shirt.
You know, I feel like each of the three movies exists in a totally separate universe. They all have such a different feel from one another. In some ways it's good, because it keeps it from being a rehash of a rehash of the same old schtick, but then of course the side effects are unfortunately schizophrenic. The sheer length of the film also emphasised the fact that it bounced all over the place. Again, eh, I don't know if that was necessarily good or bad; I was certainly never bored, but I found myself thinking, "Wait, what? This is so freaking random," more times than I could count.
I'm not even going to pretend that I managed to follow who was on whose side, who betrayed who, who made a deal with who, who violated said deal in favour of another deal only to be screwed out of new deal by who. Um... what? I still get confused when I try to go back over the events of the first film, in which everybody only switches sides once or twice.
It's official: Elizabeth possesses the Kiss of Death. Starting with the end of the last film: she kisses Jack, he gets eaten a minute later; now she kisses Sao Feng, he gets impaled a minute later; she kisses Norrington, he gets impaled a minute later; she kisses Will, he gets his heart carved out of his chest a minute later. Sheesh, talk about having a bad track record with men!
Speaking of character deaths, I went three-for-three on the ones that I called -- Norrington, Beckett, and Swann. Not that I should get any extra points for these, because they were all extremely predictable. Still, though, I had my fingers crossed for Norrington and Beckett to make it through (sorry, Governor Swann...). Well, as long as it was going to have to happen, I suppose they both got quite good death scenes. THAT'S RIGHT. NORRINGTON IS OFFICIALLY A GOOD GUY. AND I AM FINALLY VINDICATED IN MY LOVE FOR HIM. And Beckett is officially badass; but we already knew that, too.
I hope they make a sequel where Jack's search for the Fountain of Youth leads him to St. Augustine and they just happen to decide to film some of it on location and it just happens to be when I'm up at school and they just happen to decide to bring Norrington back and I just happen to stalk everybody from the movie. Oh yes. How beautiful would that be? < /wishful thinking>
A few more quick random thoughts:
-Murtogg and Mullroy FTW!
-Ahahaha at Tia Dalma's crabs being the manifestation of her power. Just... uh... yeah.
-Also, is it just me or did she totally go Ursula at the end? Turning all gigantic and then creating a giant whirlpool of doom -- way to rip off your own movie, Disney.
-Lo-o-oved the scene with Giselle and Scarlett at the end; that was one of the few moments that felt like it was straight out of the first movie.
-Pirate lord who says two words with the squeaky little girl voice? How can something so pointlessly random be the funniest part of the whole movie (seriously, I laughed way too hard at that)?
-Favourite costume of the movie goes to Will, who is totally working that burgundy shirt.