It was a better display of stuff than Princess Bride. But I still like that one best, because it's character-revealing. This one was more pyrotechnics with one point of suspense: who will end up with the key? Don't get me wrong--very clever and breathtaking and wins the choreography competition hands down. Just not the plot/character one.

Yeah, I LOVED that scene.

Oh, the Princess Bride one still pwns all.

re rowboat guy: Oh. Well, that'd do it. I heard other people in the audience saying "What?" and someone nearby explained, but I guess they were translating when I thought they were repeating the line and I'd missed it.

So... never mind!

Re Hec's whitefont: Hm, I dunno if I believe he'd put "preserving the pirate lifestyle for other people" above his own survival. I suspect the end-of-piracy thing has more to do with the East India Co turning up everywhere.

Hmm. I'm not sure which sword fight I like better (between PB, PotC1 and PotC2).

I think I shall have to rewatch all of them, just to be sure.

Throw in Rob Roy while you're at it. Eeeh movie, fantastic climactic duel.

Back to PotC2: Elizabeth and Jack trying to seduce one another -- over to their moral side, natch --? Hottest. thing. evah.

Also, when Norrington said "I want to serve under Captain Jack Sparrow!" I blurted out 'I bet you do!'

And you're right, ita, this swordfight is all pyrotechnics and no heart. I do not care, for I am shallow.

Funnily, the first movie bothered me because I grew near a (the?) Port Royal which was a hotbed of piracy--the pirate capital of the world, and one of the richest cities in the Americas. So it was jarring to see their Port Royal, peaceful, and with dramatic cliff coastlines.

I just watched a History Channel special on Port Royal, and it was jarring to hear them call it that, because it was not the city of the movie at all.

Agreeing with Betsy's whitefont.

Talking with a friend and remembering one of the best parts of the movie: "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" done in the style of the film score. So awesome.

As I'm always a couple of weeks behind, this weekend I saw Supes. I wanted to see the Devil Wears Prada, but it was sold out (whereas Superman is still playing on FIVE screens at the local Loews. Because they're not showing POTC I guess.)

Went back and read the whitefont. Mostly, I'm with ita - this wasn't my movie. I didn't think it was bad, by any means, and there were a few moments I pretty much loved, mostly inside-jokey stuff like the "It's a bird." "It's a plane." "No, look, it's..." moment. And I liked that he rescued Lois in a space-plane disaster, for comic history's sake. Parker Posey was great. And I actually really liked Kate Bosworth, but she's so completely my type, physically, that my brain may be on "want!" mode more than evaluation mode in that judgment.

Bad things: the Plan was painfully dumb, the angst scenes and action scenes were generally too long and laid on too heavily, and I don't like the idea of a Superman Baby at all. I came out feeling kind of "So?" about it. And my butt hurt, but I blame myself arriving too late to sit far enough back for that.

Reviewer: Frankly, this movie made my ass hurt. I really shouldn't have had the chance to think that so frequently...it was a little slow, too.Ha.