Fenrir wrote:am i the only one who stayed till after the credits?
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No, you aren't. I stuck around for the crackerjack. But I'm the movie-geek type that sticks around through the end creds anyway.
So. My review.
"I got a jar of di-irt! I got a jar of diii-irt! And guess what's in it!"
And yes, I "costumed" in pirate garb. I put that in quotes because that's pretty much the way I dress all the time, a nice mixture of Bohemian and piratical garb.
Davy Jones flat-out ROCKED. I thought he wouldn't get a lot of screen time but he was all over the place and he and his crew pretty much rewrote the book on sea monsters. They run rings around the Lovecraftian Deep Ones. Did anyone catch the one with a moray eel nesting in its belly? Eegads, when they cut another one open and rotten fish spilled out I could bloody well SMELL the stink. That was so sickeningly righteous.
The three-way fight between Will, Sparrow and Norrington was classic, especially the part on the mill wheel.
The shot with Jack Sparrow going head-to-head with the Kraken was beautiful, I wouldn't mind getting that as a tattoo. We'll see if I'm still jazzed about it seven years from now, if I am then I will. Be cool to render it like an illustration on an old piece of parchment.
I missed about half the dialog but I wouldn't mind going back two or three times to get it.
Okay, here's what I think was happening with <i>that scene</i> between Sparrow and Elizabeth.
Spoiler alert.
She was tricking him into backing up against the mast and chaining him to it so he would appear to be the captain that went down with the ship, thus showing himself "honourable" and getting Davy Jones off his tail. So now, yeah, okay, the Black Pearl's gone crunch but I get the feeling Sparrow ain't dead, and now he's a free agent. He's not in Davy Jones' debt anymore. Gods know Sparrow wouldn't have volunteered for it, he's such a blaggard.
Most of the people I've met that saw the film bitched about it ending the way it did. Gah, kids these days!!! I want to yell at them, "Haven't you heard of cliff-hangers?!?" Yeah, we're gonna have to wait until next May to see the next one, so what?! It'll be good, it's coming, just get on with your life and wait it out!
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Anyway, I heard a tale that they didn't really write out a script, they just assembled an ensemble cast who play well together, sketched out ideas and a rough plotline for the effects crew to follow, and let the actors play it out. The editing was a little choppy but not annoyingly so, and I had a blast 'n a half. Judging from the laughter and general crowd reaction around me, so did everyone else in the theatre.
But the high point for me? Those two Mutt 'n Jeff pirates. I loved those guys. They had all the best lines!