My wife and I got to spend a night alone….or at least a few hours to go to dinner and a movie on Friday. We saw Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. We enjoyed it, but as with most movies that are the middle of a trilogy, it felt incomplete. I do think that it was a good movie, and I enjoyed the fact that all of the same actors were in it (down to the most irrelevant character). I hate it when people are replaced and the studio just expects you to accept the new person in the old role.Just as a point of reference, the latest issue of Rolling Stone confirms that Keith Richards will have a small role in the third installment of Pirates:
"............when filming of the second Pirates movie began. Pirates of the Caribbean III, due out next year, will begin filming in August, with a promised appearance by Richards himself, already nicely recovered, thank you, after falling out of a coconut tree in Fiji and undergoing surgery for a head injury. Says Depp, "I didn't have to talk him into it. I said, 'It's up to you, but I think we could have a ball."
As we sat in the theater, watching all of the trailers for the other new movies, some seemed like they could be cool……………but one became a bit laughable. If you saw the “teaser” for the movie Transformers, you’ll know what I mean. Go to the official website and pretend that you don't know it's for this movie. It begins looking like another Independence Day type of movie, but as soon as I saw what it was, it made me disinterested immediately.
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Dam it, I can't download flash 8 that is needed. I will have to look at it later.
I can't stand it when they put someone new in. Except when they die. In Harry Potter, the Dumbledore they had died after movie 2. And that sucked, but you understand. It's not like he chose it.
Was it just me or did Depp act a little swishier in this one? If he runs like that in real life, I bet he got beat up as a kid a lot.
Actually Fuzz, in the interview that I read with him, Depp says that historically Pirates (no matter how rough they seemed) had some homosexual tendencies. They felt woman on board was bad luck and would be out at sea for months and years at a time. The cabin boys got to look pretty good about 6 months in.
i am looking forward to seeing Oprimus Prime in all his CG glory...
I heard that about Keith and thought it was great. I'm very curious to see (hear) if hes at al intelligible in the next film!
-- david
It seems I am definitely in the minority when it comes to the new "Pirates." I just couldn't stand it. I thought it dragged on way too long, and it just didn't hold my interest. And Mike..."it felt incomplete"? That may be the understatement of the century! The damned thing doesn't even have an ending! Ah, well. I've resigned myself to the fact that there's clearly something wrong with my brain when it came to this film. Funny aside...my youngest brother called me up one night and asked if I had seen it yet, and, if so, what I thought. When I expressed my displeasure, he exclaimed "Thank God! I was starting to think I was the only one!" So it's two against the world...
By the way, I seriously can not wait a whole year for The Transformers. I loved the teaser.
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