I just got back from seeing the big gay pirate movie #2! And I loved it!
How many people sat through the entire credits to see the extra scene?
I did poorly on quiz 1, got all but 14, 21, 23 and 30 on quiz 2. There's a third one?
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
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quester - Jul 29, 2006 3:47:30 pm PDT #3233 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Cashmere - Jul 29, 2006 3:52:56 pm PDT #3234 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I stayed until the end scene. I had to convince the woman I went with to do so. I had to tell her that the people on the internet said it was worth it.
Megan E. - Jul 29, 2006 4:05:49 pm PDT #3235 of 10001
How many people sat through the entire credits to see the extra scene?
i did!
DavidS - Jul 29, 2006 4:12:22 pm PDT #3236 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
How many people sat through the entire credits to see the extra scene?
We did.
Incidentally, my current theory about Pirates is that it was a movie designed for fandom. It spent a lot of time on world-building and lore and triangulating the relationships and making the characters murkier. All fandom fodder.
The first movie had less of that. This one seemed consciously designed to make a LoTR (movie edition anyway) type world.
Lee - Jul 29, 2006 4:14:19 pm PDT #3237 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
What Hec said, and then the second time I saw it, I made Juliana and Suzi stay while I went to pee.
Jessica - Jul 29, 2006 4:30:08 pm PDT #3238 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It spent a lot of time on world-building and lore and triangulating the relationships and making the characters murkier.
From where I was sitting, it spent a lot of time on special-effects-driven set pieces, and with no attention paid to character or story development at all. Your "murkier" is my "made both inconsistent and incoherent for the sake of cheap laughs and filler."
Vonnie K - Jul 29, 2006 4:30:26 pm PDT #3239 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Trailer for Scorsese's The Departed, the American remake of Infernal Affairs: [link]
Huh. For some reason, I thought Matt Damon was playing the undercover cop and DiCaprio the mole in the police. It's the other way around. The trailer's not really singing to me, but then, I loved the original A LOT. Not sure how much of Tony Leung's soulfulness DiCaprio would be able to capture.
Ailleann - Jul 29, 2006 4:33:12 pm PDT #3240 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
I stayed the first time (with much protest from my friend who wanted a cig), skipped the second for a restroom break.
I agree with what Hec said about building a fandom. Murkiness abounds, all for the purpose to lead into the third movie.
ChiKat - Jul 29, 2006 4:37:30 pm PDT #3241 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
From where I was sitting, it spent a lot of time on special-effects-driven set pieces, and with no attention paid to character or story development at all. Your "murkier" is my "made both inconsistent and incoherent for the sake of cheap laughs and filler."
I'm sitting with Jessica. Because of the time spent away from character development, I found I didn't care about the characters at all. For me, movies and tv are about character and I was disappointed in this movie.
quester - Jul 29, 2006 4:46:14 pm PDT #3242 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
RE: Pirates - I loved the muddling up of the characters. And, I know it was kind of bloated but so was the first one. It was all good by me.
A friend at work thought the ending was abrupt, but I thought it was just right. I liked the way familiar characters kept popping up in unexpected places.