Piratepalooza

[featherynscale]

On Saturday, in an act of film-based masochism, we watched both older Pirates of the Caribbean movies and then went out to see the new one (my ass is still numb). At World's End is wildly stupid, and also wildly enjoyable. Which is, I suppose, what people expect. It also contains ships in more landscapes than seems reasonable (Pirates Based in the Caribbean but also Sailing Elsewhere?), which is fun.
kittenpants thinks of the potential abuses in the slash fiction community -- will we see Jack/Jack now? Some discussion followed in which we decided that Jack/Jack is an improbable pairing, because 1) two Jacks probably couldn't shut up long enough to get to any sort of meaningful business, 2) Jack has to be the top, so all you get with Jack/Jack is a oneupmanship contest, and most importantly 3) no self-respecting Jack Sparrow would ever turn his back on another Jack Sparrow.

Thing I most wanted to know after the film: What happened to Davy Jones? Did he reconcile with Calypso after he died? Did she forgive him? Did she suck him down to the depths to torment his soul for all eternity? What? That was the resolution that I wanted in the final scene -- I'm pretty sure that Elizabeth wanted to have Will's kid and that Will was the sort of guy who generally does what he's responsible to do, so the actual last scene was pretty unnecessary, IMHO.

Second best part: Captain Teague, keeping the Code. When he walks onto the screen, half the theater starts busting up laughing, except for the guys next to me, who are all going "Who's that guy? Why is that funny?". Oh well.

Also: They shot the fucking monkey out of a fucking cannon. Who can ask for anything better than that from a film like this? I ask you.

Comments

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

No, I asked if he was still undead. We never saw him go skeletal, and he seemed more like a normal monkey in this one. That's why we wondered if something had happened to him in the intervening space that we had missed.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I just realized that the entire 3rd movie appeared to be in daylight. Is that right? Seems to me from the first movie, they only went skeletal in direct moonlight...

Wow, look, that's me, overthinking the film again...

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

Well, there wasn't a reason to do the moonlit/skeletal gimmick in this movie. The rest of the crew was human again, after all.
It was just one of those random thoughts that runs through my brain.