Some random thoughts about PoC III
May. 28th, 2007 06:45 amI saw Pirates of the Caribbean 3 tonight. I can't sort out my thoughts about it properly yet, but I will say one thing:
Barbossa RULED this movie. He just did. The whole darn movie was basically two and a half hours of Barbossa being awesome, and that was just fine by me. It was about five minutes into the movie that I realized that Barbossa had suddenly catapulted himself to the status of my favorite character, and he stayed that way all the way through to the end.
Other non-spoilery bits:
Elizabeth was about 300% more awesome in this movie than in the previous two.
DOGGIE! Seeing the return of the shaggy dog literally made the entire movie for me. Those of you who know me know that I have this gigantic hang-up about dogs in movies... As in, if a dog dies, I bawl uncontrollably for hours. I mean, I bawled when a dog died toward the beginning of Jaws. So when I saw the end of PoC II and the poor dog's fate was left hanging in the air... Well, I was kind of beside myself. I've been angsting about that poor dog for an entire year, hoping that maybe his fate would be resolved in PoC II. And it was. And that made me very happy. Yay!
Okay, that's it for the non-spoilery bits. Maybe a longer post with spoilers later.
Oh, and one final thing: PoC III = More, and more egregious, retcons than X3 and Spiderman III combined. Okay, granted, it's kind of hard to top "Your uncle's REAL killer!!" and "She had multiple personality disorder this whole time!" as far as egregious retcons go. But Pirates comes darn close. Those of you who have seen or been spoiled for the movie, you probably know what I'm talking about.
Edit May 28th: Oh yeah, and icky, icky race issues. I heard - and I can't confirm where, but somehow I doubt it's not true - that the producers actually but Chow Yun Fat in yellow face because he didn't look "exotic" enough. And Tia Dalma especially was a big giant Magical Negro.. Well, at least she was until the very end. Without spoiling too much: In the end, instead of helping out the white characters, Tia Dalma basically gives them a giant epic supernatural "Fuck you!" Which was kind of awesome.
Barbossa RULED this movie. He just did. The whole darn movie was basically two and a half hours of Barbossa being awesome, and that was just fine by me. It was about five minutes into the movie that I realized that Barbossa had suddenly catapulted himself to the status of my favorite character, and he stayed that way all the way through to the end.
Other non-spoilery bits:
Elizabeth was about 300% more awesome in this movie than in the previous two.
DOGGIE! Seeing the return of the shaggy dog literally made the entire movie for me. Those of you who know me know that I have this gigantic hang-up about dogs in movies... As in, if a dog dies, I bawl uncontrollably for hours. I mean, I bawled when a dog died toward the beginning of Jaws. So when I saw the end of PoC II and the poor dog's fate was left hanging in the air... Well, I was kind of beside myself. I've been angsting about that poor dog for an entire year, hoping that maybe his fate would be resolved in PoC II. And it was. And that made me very happy. Yay!
Okay, that's it for the non-spoilery bits. Maybe a longer post with spoilers later.
Oh, and one final thing: PoC III = More, and more egregious, retcons than X3 and Spiderman III combined. Okay, granted, it's kind of hard to top "Your uncle's REAL killer!!" and "She had multiple personality disorder this whole time!" as far as egregious retcons go. But Pirates comes darn close. Those of you who have seen or been spoiled for the movie, you probably know what I'm talking about.
Edit May 28th: Oh yeah, and icky, icky race issues. I heard - and I can't confirm where, but somehow I doubt it's not true - that the producers actually but Chow Yun Fat in yellow face because he didn't look "exotic" enough. And Tia Dalma especially was a big giant Magical Negro.. Well, at least she was until the very end. Without spoiling too much: In the end, instead of helping out the white characters, Tia Dalma basically gives them a giant epic supernatural "Fuck you!" Which was kind of awesome.
