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.

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[adammaker.livejournal.com]

Next Time:
Pirates of the Caribbean IN SPACE!

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

We had a long discussion on the monkey today. Was the monkey still undead? He seemed more chipper and normal in this one.
Yes, we have nothing better to do, it seems...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

We will sail upon the phlogiston! I'd watch that, actually.

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

Still undead, or the cannon would have killed him. Though he did something very un-undead (life?) like afterwards, which left me and mullein quibbling over it, but I forget what that was.

I'd expect the chipper would be due to being back on Barbossa's shoulder, and not being shot at by Jack regularly.


And I think that leaving Davy Jones' fate ambiguous was a decent touch, now we can have him show up in a weird, uber-powerful ship doing some other bit of Calypso's business, after he made up with her, or on the run from her, or something. In any case, leaving it unknown means we can be surprised when he shows up.

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

They did that - it was called Return of the Jedi.

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

The monkey didn't need to be ressurected - as we saw at the very end of the first movie, he kept his cursed Aztec gold coin.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I note a distinct lack of ethernauts and airships in Return of the Jedi. Also, Pirates of the Caribbean would have been better with a wookiee.

Further, are Pintel and Ragetti the Biggs and Wedge of the franchise, or does that honor go to the arguing British guards? (I blame the fish people.)

[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.

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

I like to think of them as Gargantua and Pantagruel, but Wedge Antilles and Biggs Darklighter work just fine.

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

my ass is still numb

Now you know one of the reasons I bounce up and down from my chair so much when we're watching movies at the house. Probable ADHD issues aside, it keeps the posterior from getting too settled...

[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.

[starrthinks.livejournal.com]

I loved it, I thought it was too much and absolutely epic and over the top. Yay! I wanted more info on Calypso/Davy/the first Pirates binding her etc. I wanted more of the lore dammit!

[karinablack.livejournal.com]

OMG!!! Calypso is the bayou woman isn't she??