Earlier Today:
We overestimated the crowds today; an hour early for the latest Pirates flick and the theatre is empty. Yesterday we were twenty minutes early and there was nothing but breakneck seats left: Front two rows, twenty feet (at best) from the screen and far too low to see anything without a near-ninety degree head tilt. Ouch. We walked out.
Today the crowds are not, or at least not yet. If only to make me feel less the fool for wasting an hour of my life in an empty theatre, listening to the same ten minute loop of bad audio commercials, I hope for standing-room only by the start of the flick.
Arrrgh, Pirates! Will I like it? Totally irrelevant; I am here today as a parent. As long as the chilluns are happy, it will be a successful squat in the dark. If only the fecks, er, folks, running this joint didn’t pump in snippets of pop music and bad soundtrack albums. Teriyaki Boys? More like Turkey Suck Boys. Give me Chemical Brothers or silence. Still, the stadium seating is nice. With luck we will have a cell phone and yap-free experience today.
Time for a popcorn and slushy break — my eyes are getting tired of trying to make out the page in this low light.
Several hours later:
Pirates. Argh! Lots of action, although it looked like they tried hard to make it look more like a Disney ride. Funny, that. Sorry to blow the suspense for those of you who haven’t seen it yet, but it ends unresolved. A complete mess, actually. People who died in the last one are back for this one. I guess the first is like the whole “Who Shot JR?” episode of Dallas: A dream sequence. Hmmm. Plenty of laughs for the kids, although one thought it seemed kind of violent. I guess we’ll have to see the next one to see how it all turns out. Or watch any other adventure movie. Still, kind of fun in comparison with spending those two and a half hours mowing.
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I just loved it … what a creative and crazy visual feast! I see it as a big set up for #3 which I simply can't wait to see … I may see it a couple more times with the kids before #3. We have the DVD for #1 and watch it again every few months. I am happy that Barbossa was finally reunited with "jack" (no, the monkey's called jack!). Keith Richards will be joining as Jack's father … what a cast of castaways!
I want to see #3 as well, if only to get closure for #2. I loved #1, and liked most of the second, but felt that it was repetitive at times. Not only of the first, but of itself. The runaway water wheel was a great fight scene, but we'd already seen the stunt itself done in the runaway bone cage balls. And why can't people just stay dead? Harumph! Anyway, Geoffrey Rush is great, so having him back should make three much more interesting. Still, I felt that they could have tossed Nicholas Cage's "National Treasure" character in the mix and he would have fit in perfectly. That and Tortuga and the bayou scenes were straight out of the Disney rides. And what about the whole "Thou shalt not touch land for x years, Davey Jones" stuff? If he can't touch land, surely having his heart rolled in dirt like it was being prepared for a dip in the deep-fryer would be a bad ting, mon . . .
I really hope they kill off the East Indea Trading Co. prick in #3, and that he STAYS dead.