Pirates 3

[lyssie]

Incoherent: GLEE.

I'm not sure I have words for how much I enjoyed this movie. How much I loved the fact that the characters were so awesome, and the women--!! Elizabeth is the Pirate King. WTF. That is so awesome beyond words (Jack, you old dog!)

I've seen people saying they didn't understand half of what was going on, and... um... Maybe I'm just used to pulling the plot apart as I watched, but I didn't have any trouble juggling the multiple plot-threads.

Though, this is NOT a movie for children. It starts with people being hanged. Jesus, that was a depressing sight. But the singing made it better. Ye gods, I loved it.

Jack in whitespaceland, with Moondiscs to help him escape was also awesome as fuck.

Calypso. Loved Tia Dalma, and loved her personality. And I loved the way it remained constant to her character, in the end. She was going to destroy them, but then Davy Jones was taken and Will made the pledge for his life--And I think she abides by her own rules, in some ways, Lord Pecker and his ship were payment for the debt of being chained.

Elizabeth in the beginning. With the weapons. And the large amount of them. And then having to kick ass without pants. Poor girl. But so so awesome.

UP IS DOWN is also WONDERFUL.

And Elizabeth/Will/Jack OT3. Someone has to be the man in that relationship, and it sure as hell ain't Will or Jack.

Comments

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

I am very amused by your comments.

I heard the same things about the confusion, but I had no problem following any of the plot, either.

Poor, poor, pantsless Elizabeth. Do you think we could somehow equate Elizabeth with Cam? Also, I thought Kiera was pretty amazing, with the tough-girl-ness, and the angst over her father--and kudos to them for not showing him actually dying, just him dead--and then the whole swaggering piratical bit. Oh wait, that was the whole movie. I kinda want her pirate outfit.

whitespaceland=awesome.

I was pretty happy with the movie overall. A little longish, but not bad at all. Doesn't beat the first for sheer fun, but wins over two by miles.

[kalibex.livejournal.com]

Convoluted and long, but pretty @#$ing entertaining. Also pretty @#$ing Surreal, but I like that kind of @#$%, so...

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Thank you ;)

Keira was pretty awesome. I liked her (mostly) in the first movie. Loved her in the second, and just frakking adored her in this.

I still don't know what could have been cut. Any less plot, and it would have dragged, and, well, cutting any of the scenes would have lessened the impact of the whole thing.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Convoluted is good. Otherwise that would have been a boring movie.

[angualupin.livejournal.com]

And Elizabeth/Will/Jack OT3. Someone has to be the man in that relationship, and it sure as hell ain't Will or Jack.

Truer words were never spoken.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Indeed. (it solves everyone's problem, really. And is kinda scarily hot...)

[foible.livejournal.com]

It's not scarily hot -- It's frakking art. *g*

[foible.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Elizabeth certainly swash and buckled with the best of them, even without pants. :)

[timjr.livejournal.com]

Dude, the opening was... I will admit the singing, like, moved me to tears, that was so awesome.

...and Ragetti, as always, had the movie-stealing moment for me. In the maelstrom of special effects and stunts... Him being the one who knew how to free Calypso... that was perfick.

[thekatebeyond.livejournal.com]

Oh, man! I forgot about the part with all the weapons. How great was that? I mean, it's not as if it hasn't been done before, but somehow it just seemed all new when you're looking at this pretty little slip of a girl. That's the really terrific part of her being so kickass, is that she manages to pull it off while being so darn dainty.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I have great love for the fact that she has grown from the first movie. And also that she wasn't always right.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

The opening was incredible. It was scary and yet disturbingly uplifting. Not to mention macabre.

That WAS nice, actually. Because you had to be a little bit in love with her to do it, and I don't think Barbossa was.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I was reminded of Aeryn and Vala both, oddly. (especially Vala with the "oh, wait" bit. Because, um, that is SO a Vala moment)

And she is small, but so's Will, when you look at him--actually, they're very evenly matched. Much like John and Aeryn (HAH. It all comes back to Farscape, in the end--well, given their wedding ceremony, it totally does).

[timjr.livejournal.com]

What I thought, especially with how ridiculous Barbossa tried to say it the first time, was that Hector (hehehehe) had never really loved anyone but himself, so he had no clue what to do, there.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Brains, people! We go to movies to use 'em! And unlike Spiderman, the plots all slot together without feeling forced... But then again, there are pirates in this movie, so, it kind of trumps everything.

And, actually, I'm pleasantly surprised that they were allowed to put so much plot in the movie.

Hah! I am... amused and slightly disturbed, I think. What's odd is that I was expecting them not to have much to do in this movie, and they had things to do. And weren't relegated to damsel in distress. Which, yay!

I would kinda like a Barbossa of my own, really. *contemplates*

[skellingtonjon.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling that a lot of the movie will be explained if you buy the videogame.

But I might just be a great big mean old cynic, or summat...