Because if it is, I don't wanna be right.
While I wasn't a huge fan of the second Pirates movie, I still was willing to give the third one a chance and managed to see it this weekend (it's part of a last-minute movie binge before the girl arrives into our lives), and I have to say, I did enjoy it more than the second one.
It's bigger and messier and you may want a flow chart to cover all of the double-crossings, triple-crossings and even quadruple-crossings, but somehow it made more sense to me than in the second one. Maybe it was the fact that they weren't on land or on a cannibal island, but I actually kind of dug the political wheeling and dealing.
I actually dug the trippiness of it all -- from the pirate musical number to the multiple Jacks and everything else. I can't explain why, but it just seemed like the good pirate acid, if you know what I mean. And seriously, the fight in the whirling maelstrom was fun to watch -- it seemed lighter on its feet than the hamster wheel for some reason to me.
Maybe it was Barbossa. We're all so used to Captain Jack, everyone's favorite mincing pirate, that we've forgotten what a lovely foil Barbossa is for Jack. I enjoyed watching the two play off of each other (and if they actually do a fourth movie, I'm hoping that it'll just be Barbossa and Jack driving each other insane).
One thing I hated was the OMG!ANGSTY!TWU!WUV! story of Elizabeth and Will. Good lord. You'd think that for a couple that had such a hot torch for each other, they'd actually communicate what the hell they were thinking. Fortunately, that doesn't last too long and really, they got rid of the stupid love triangle, so I didn't have to roll my eyes so hard they fell out of my sockets. I also liked the ending for the pair -- it's kind of bittersweet and romantic at the same time. Exactly what I like in my romantic stories.
I also still don't get what's the big deal about Elizabeth and why every man who sees her wants to boink her. Personally, I'd rather be be Tia Dalma with the crazy outfit and crazy accent. Either that or the monkey. Who doesn't love an undead monkey?
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Tia Dalma FTW! Rotten teeth and all.
I still will not see the POTC3 since I found out that
********** kicks it.
After I found that out, I was like "That movie can blow me."
Elizabeth totally killededed that movie for me. If I had to listen to her screeching "encouragement" one more time...blech. I just didn't like her character by the end. Or Orland's, either. Funnily enough, the reel on my movie snapped and melted at the end, right after those two had their big scene, but before the very last one, apparently.
Meh.
Double meh.
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