Oh, and Jack Davenport all scruffy and piratey ? = hawt. And that fight with Jack and Capt. Jack and Will -- fun.

I have no idea what this is, but it just earwormed me with the elf song from the animated Hobbit.

It's Edward Norton's new film. I saw a trailer for it and it's about a real cowboy in THE Valley who falls for Evan Rachel Wood.

I was just wondering if it's going to be crap or good.

I REALLY need to see some pirates. I may call in a marker for a free babysitter for a matinee.

Ed Norton + Evan Rachel Wood is an interesting and slightly disturbing idea, that I may well have to see.

ETA: It's doing well on metacritic, with lots of reviews (mostly from Cannes, I'm sure).

Sumi, is it worth going to see by myself this weekend if I am a big old loser who can't get anyone to go with them until next weekend?

Thanks for the link, Gris!

Pirates!

I second the love for scruffy Norrington. One of the fun things about the movie is that a couple of times I thought, "This new character is fine, but I do kind of miss so-and-so from the first one." And then so-and-so would appear!

I think Rossio & Elliott may have outlined this the same way Raiders was done -- where they just thought of all their favorite movie scenes/stunts, and wrote a plot where they could do them. Or outdo them. I think it's actually more linear than the first one; maybe they figured that was only fair since there's quite a cliffhanger ending. It does barrel along, so I only realized it was about to end about 2 minutes before it did. I'll think of more later, but at the moment my favorite throwaway moment is the discussion of how "kraken" is pronounced. Oh, and the prisoners reaching through the bars for Elizabeth instead of the keys. It seems a bit more... I want to say "violent" but that's not it, because, duh. I guess in the first movie people who get killed in the battles are kind of redshirts, and they mostly just get run through and fall down dead. This one gets a little more gruesome.

My only mild disappointment was that the fishy pirates just aren't as intrinsically cool as zombie pirates were.

Bring teenage girl repellant. A bunch sat in the row behind me. I think I lasted 20 minutes before I moved to the third row to get away from them. Oh, as expected, you should stay through the credits. Or you can go out, visit the bathroom, run into a friend you haven't seen in ages, catch up on everything you've done for the past decade, and then go back to catch the end of the credits. They're long, is what I'm saying.

I saw Down in the Valley a while ago, and didn't like it. I didn't hate it like the people I was with hated it, but I didn't like it. It was interesting and whatever, but really slow and then really over the top. Like a western, apparently? Also, I couldn't get over my age-gap squick.

Lee, I went alone. Wouldn't have missed it just to go with other people. Plus, I totally want to see it again.

Oh, and there is something at the end of the credits. . . so wait 'til the bitter end.

YAY. That's what I going to do tomorrow then.

eta: or maybe I'll go see it with Hec and JZ, now that I've read my email.