Heh. Either one is an improvement today, so no worries.

I deleted my comment because I made a mistake with the whitefont and didn't want to spoil anyone.

And speaking as someone who hasn't seen the movie yet (Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I get to see Pirates tomorrow!), I very much appreciate it.

I saw Clerks 2 last night. I liked it, didn't love it. The writing felt much more forced than previous Kevin Smith outings, as if this universe didn't quite fit right anymore. But still, I liked checking back in with the characters -- I can see why he wanted to go back to them, even if I'm not sure it was the right move. It's a wholly unnecessary addition to the View Askew world, and it feels like a step backwards for Smith as a writer and as a director. (Whatever you thought of Jersey Girl otherwise, it at least looked like a professionally made film. And while part of the original Clerks charm was the low-budget-no-experience look, it looked that way because they really did have no budget and no experience. Going back to that style now just seems deliberately lazy.)

All of which sounds much more negative than I mean to come across -- most of the movie is hysterically funny, and fun to watch if you don't pay too much attention to the meta.

I kind of have a soft spot for Jersey Girl, actually. But I know I have strange taste.

I've never been able to watch more than a few minutes of it, though in theory I support the making of movies in which Jennifer Lopez' characters die.

POTC

I think some people posted that they liked the organ music from the movie. I bought the soundtrack today and the track Davey Jones contains the music from the organ and the locket. It's available on megaupload here.

PotC1, spoiler if you haven't seen it:

Just rewatched it in preparation for seeing PotC2, and I didn't see this the first time around: after the credits is a clip showing the little monkey swimming back to where the treasure was, and he's a regular monnkey - no curse. But then he steals one of the gold coins, and he becomes undead again. So that's why the monkey's curse didn't get lifted - he went back and stole a coin. Same as Jack becoming briefly undead when he had a stolen coin. Incorrigible pirate monkey.

Seems an awfully accomodating curse, really. "No, you can come back to life! And you don't even have to kill anyone! See, us Aztec gods, we're reasonable. Just don't fuck with our gold, man."

OMGPiratesyay!

Um, that is, I saw it tonight, and liked it lots. I think my favorite character was the voodoo witchy woman. I loved Elizabeth chaining Jack to the Pearl, and her remorse about betraying him being read as grief by Will. And oh! Scruffy Norrington! I want to know more about why he ended up that way.

I was completely unspoiled for the return of Barbosa. I clapped my hands in glee at that point.

And because I'm predictable in a magpie sort of way, not only did I love the "Something shiny" line, but I want a replica of the heart locket that both Davey Jones and the voodoo queen had.

In conclusion, again, OMGPiratesyay!

I am a dolt and misread Will's misreading Elizabeth's remorse as grief as Will's reading Elizabeth's remorse as...remorse.

Bad news from the Miami Vice set.

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