I saw PoTC yesterday. A group of us met and we ended up going to a different showing becuase the first one didn't have any seats together. As I was leaving I heard an AMC employee say "that showing only has 35 seats left".

The trailers before the movie sucked. It was the new Will Farrell movie, some movie about kids making a fake college, the Kevin Costner rescue thing with Ashton Kutcher --which looked interesting if it weren't Costner (and the trailer was too long). The movie about stuff that comes alive in the museum -- that might be interesting.

PoTC started out slow, I didn't come away WOWed by it like I thought I would. Maybe if I hadn't been semis poiled.

But these were the things I loved -- Elizabeth betraying Jack. She's a much more interesting character than Will I think. Norrington, bitter scruffy Norrington, slightly like Wesley but a bit of Holtz thrown in. The creature make up was just AMAZING. Davy's octopus arms for a beard, the mussels growing on the side of Bootstrap Bill's neck and all the great emotion the actors showed through that.

The Kraken. Esp the shot of Jack, sword in hand, facing down the mouth of the kraken. I want that for wallpaper. The three way sword fight and the Hamster Wheel, but that could have been cut down a bit. nice bit with Will stumbling around dizzy.

Barbosa taking a bite of the apple! although at lunch after I got in a discussion, someone claimed that Barbosa and the cursed men couldn't eat when they appeared as skeletons but that's not right because none of them could enjoy anything at all.

My slight spoiling mildly ruined the surprise of Barbosa for him, but watching his boots walk down the steps was great. And I knew about Norrington, but I would have figured out as soon as I heard his voice.

Over all the movie was lots of fun.

askye, that shot you want for your wallpaper was pretty awesome. As Vonnie said, it's very iconic. I half-expected the movie to end right there.

John Rogers is one of the writers for Transformers. I had no idea it was supposed to be a dramatic and scary thing. Huh.

I had to laugh at the Transformers trailer because it didn't look anything like what I remember from the cartoon.

The trailer makes it look like the movie is from a human point-of-view (Robots are fighting! Aaaaah!!!) rather than the robot point-of-view. In other words, it doesn't look like it's actually about the Transformers at all.

But Michael Bay is directing, so lots of shit will blow up! Yay!

John Rogers is one of the writers for Transformers. I had no idea it was supposed to be a dramatic and scary thing.

Hey, they're more than meets the eye.

they're more than meets the eye.

I can't believe I set you up for that and didn't even notice.

May 25, 2007 people - mark your calendars for POTC:AWE!!

I want a Pirates Trilogy Day -- can I have one??!!??

they're more than meets the eye.

I can't believe I set you up for that and didn't even notice.

I can't believe I was the first one to make the joke.

I half-expected the movie to end right there.

P-C, I think it did. Everything else was just wrapping up, showing the conflict between Will and Elizabeth that will be present in the next movie, and setting up the cliffhanger. If they just stopped right there there would be too much confusion, I think.