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quietish weekend...Mom and I went to see the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie on Saturday which was not without it's minor incident. I had booked the tickets online on Thursday. Got out of the car on Saturday, got the tickets out. Guess what date is on them? Not Saturday. Thursday. Doh.
Oh well, maybe we can get them changed. In we went, the young lad on the cash register said if he couldn't change them he'd refund them and we would then just re-purchase. Ok. Except something wasn't working so he had to call for a manager. *shrug* Manager arrives, just takes the paper tickets and initials them and then says Oh, there is no 4:30 show for that today. Wha? Couldn't someone have told us? Then he says, but there is a 4:00 show (it's currently 4:05). Again. Why didn't you just say that? Tsk. Ok, can we go to that? He checked that it wasn't sold out, and as it wasn't we went along to the theatre. It also happened to be the 3D showing which we didn't want to see but didnt' have a choice at that point. Grabbed the glasses and went in, where the trailers were still showing so it was all good.
We liked the movie. It wasn't as good as the very first one, most sequels aren't, but it was definitely better than number 3. Lots of swashes to buckle and classic Captain Jack. Geoffrey Rush is back as Barbossa and Ian McShane is Blackbeard, both excellent! There were mermaids, too, which were very well done and not just a little creepy and unsettling.
The quest is to find the Fountain of Youth. Jack had the map. He's heading for it, taking Blackbeard and his crew, but so is Barbossa who has gone over to the government side as a legal "Privateer". Jack's old first mate, Gibbs, had the map for awhile and memorized it so he ends up leading Barbossa's ship there and the Spanish have somewhere got a map to the fountain's location as well and they're bent on getting there first. Barbossa has his own agenda as do the Spanish. Throw Penelope Cruz in there as a former lover of Jack's and is Blackbeard's long lost daughter. She's far better than Keira Knightly, I must say.
It's more of the same, good fun, a great romp.
We went for Chinese food after and had a good meal there. (Fan's in Dartmouth) and yesterday I did laundry and had a Psychoville marathon.
Oh well, maybe we can get them changed. In we went, the young lad on the cash register said if he couldn't change them he'd refund them and we would then just re-purchase. Ok. Except something wasn't working so he had to call for a manager. *shrug* Manager arrives, just takes the paper tickets and initials them and then says Oh, there is no 4:30 show for that today. Wha? Couldn't someone have told us? Then he says, but there is a 4:00 show (it's currently 4:05). Again. Why didn't you just say that? Tsk. Ok, can we go to that? He checked that it wasn't sold out, and as it wasn't we went along to the theatre. It also happened to be the 3D showing which we didn't want to see but didnt' have a choice at that point. Grabbed the glasses and went in, where the trailers were still showing so it was all good.
We liked the movie. It wasn't as good as the very first one, most sequels aren't, but it was definitely better than number 3. Lots of swashes to buckle and classic Captain Jack. Geoffrey Rush is back as Barbossa and Ian McShane is Blackbeard, both excellent! There were mermaids, too, which were very well done and not just a little creepy and unsettling.
The quest is to find the Fountain of Youth. Jack had the map. He's heading for it, taking Blackbeard and his crew, but so is Barbossa who has gone over to the government side as a legal "Privateer". Jack's old first mate, Gibbs, had the map for awhile and memorized it so he ends up leading Barbossa's ship there and the Spanish have somewhere got a map to the fountain's location as well and they're bent on getting there first. Barbossa has his own agenda as do the Spanish. Throw Penelope Cruz in there as a former lover of Jack's and is Blackbeard's long lost daughter. She's far better than Keira Knightly, I must say.
It's more of the same, good fun, a great romp.
We went for Chinese food after and had a good meal there. (Fan's in Dartmouth) and yesterday I did laundry and had a Psychoville marathon.