Last Thursday night, the wonderful loving finance and I went to a Midnight showing of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. I was excited! Really excited actually - so excited I brought it up during the Podcast and Jayson made fun of me.
The first Pirates movie I saw somewhat on accident. I had gone to the theater planning to see something else that had just came out - but hadn't planned enough in advance because that movie was sold out. I can't even remember what it was, regardless, Pirates took its place! Jack Sparrow quickly became a staple in my circle of friends. Rum party's were thrown, pirate theme party's, everyone quoting lines and such. I was hooked - fast forward to Pirates 2. Now the franchise has become a little self aware. The producers and writers started thinking, now what can we get away with. What sort of crazyness can we introduce, webs can we form, holes can we make? Pirates 2 was fun, it didn't have the charm of the original but the new characters were super interesting and it was a lot of fun.
Then came Pirates 3 - this is a total disaster. There are about 30 ideas happening all at once and this movie really takes a turn for the absurd with the last 40 minutes. Knowing that a real battle of ships at sea could quickly turn into a boring sequence of events - they summoned up a giant whirlpool that surprisingly allowed the ships to still move quite well whist turning the tension up a notch. If that wasn't enough, Orlando Bloom and Kira Knightly decide MID BATTLE that they need be hitched and Geffory Rush is MORE than happy to do it whist calmly killing everyone around him. I know its a fantasy movie about Pirates and Curses but GIVE ME A BREAK.
I will allow such shinanigans - however Pirates 4 didn't do much for me. It almost felt like a filler movie. Oh sure there are a few swashbuckling moments, Jack is his Jack self, but none of the other characters took on much depth for me. I was excited for Jack to meet up with a new bunch of lowlifes and swap stores, but most of their stories got tossed out and replaced with 40 minutes of un-needed action and comic relief. Honestly the first 30 or so minutes of the move weren't needed at all - could have easily been summed up in a quick chat between a few characters with minimal loss. And Blackbeard was pretty cool - but he didn't get much depth either... blah... that's what I get for expecting Jerry Bruckheimer to put a little something extra in the mix that isn't already blowing up.
The first Pirates movie I saw somewhat on accident. I had gone to the theater planning to see something else that had just came out - but hadn't planned enough in advance because that movie was sold out. I can't even remember what it was, regardless, Pirates took its place! Jack Sparrow quickly became a staple in my circle of friends. Rum party's were thrown, pirate theme party's, everyone quoting lines and such. I was hooked - fast forward to Pirates 2. Now the franchise has become a little self aware. The producers and writers started thinking, now what can we get away with. What sort of crazyness can we introduce, webs can we form, holes can we make? Pirates 2 was fun, it didn't have the charm of the original but the new characters were super interesting and it was a lot of fun.
Then came Pirates 3 - this is a total disaster. There are about 30 ideas happening all at once and this movie really takes a turn for the absurd with the last 40 minutes. Knowing that a real battle of ships at sea could quickly turn into a boring sequence of events - they summoned up a giant whirlpool that surprisingly allowed the ships to still move quite well whist turning the tension up a notch. If that wasn't enough, Orlando Bloom and Kira Knightly decide MID BATTLE that they need be hitched and Geffory Rush is MORE than happy to do it whist calmly killing everyone around him. I know its a fantasy movie about Pirates and Curses but GIVE ME A BREAK.
I will allow such shinanigans - however Pirates 4 didn't do much for me. It almost felt like a filler movie. Oh sure there are a few swashbuckling moments, Jack is his Jack self, but none of the other characters took on much depth for me. I was excited for Jack to meet up with a new bunch of lowlifes and swap stores, but most of their stories got tossed out and replaced with 40 minutes of un-needed action and comic relief. Honestly the first 30 or so minutes of the move weren't needed at all - could have easily been summed up in a quick chat between a few characters with minimal loss. And Blackbeard was pretty cool - but he didn't get much depth either... blah... that's what I get for expecting Jerry Bruckheimer to put a little something extra in the mix that isn't already blowing up.
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