goes to sit with JZ and juliana
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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Ailleann - May 22, 2007 11:10:46 am PDT #8664 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Atropa - May 22, 2007 11:11:32 am PDT #8665 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
say that someone here (not that there is any such person) were that kind of person, would it be reasonably safe to assume that such a person, loser though they be, would find this last installment pleasing?
What JZ asked.
(Except that I don't think DMC is a better movie that the first one; I think it's just as good. But then, I freely admit that any claims I have to good taste in movies are easily overpowered by my hindbrain going "Yay Pirates! Oooh, supernatural magic-y plot points! Zombies! Pirates!".)
Sean K - May 22, 2007 11:17:58 am PDT #8666 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
JZ, I'll happily go with you to see it. I mean.... a hypothetical person would go with another hypothetical person. Hypothetically.
Jessica - May 22, 2007 11:18:11 am PDT #8667 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
JZ, I honestly have no idea. I really truthfully have no idea what people who liked the second one liked about it. Which isn't meant to sound judgmental, just that when DMC came out and everyone was squeeing over it, the conversation may as well have been in ancient Sumerian. We just didn't see the same movie.
Volans - May 22, 2007 11:20:36 am PDT #8668 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Oh, I totally want to see PotC3. PotC remains a favorite movie.
erikaj - May 22, 2007 11:24:09 am PDT #8669 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I liked the second one, but didn't quite lose myself in the story as much...there were many minutes of "Dag, this has been on for quite some time."
JZ - May 22, 2007 11:26:32 am PDT #8670 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
JZ, you wanna go see POTC3 with me? We can squee in the losers corner together.
It's a date!
Jess, it's okay. I remember that ages ago you said you'd desperately loved some movie almost everyone else hated (my brain wants to say Death To Smoochy, but it's been too long to remember for certain), and that you said that in the end all you could say was that if you like this sort of thing, this is just the sort of thing you will like, and that the movie in question was just the sort of thing you liked. PotC:DMC was a total that kind of movie for me, and if the third one is anything like it, I will be a very (irrationally) happy camper.
Polter-Cow - May 22, 2007 11:27:30 am PDT #8671 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
POTC 2 had some set pieces that went on too long and a complete time-waster of a "crazy natives" subplot, but I liked the meat of the movie.
beekaytee - May 22, 2007 11:37:01 am PDT #8672 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
POTC 2 had some set pieces that went on too long and a complete time-waster of a "crazy natives" subplot, but I liked the meat of the movie.
This and the hamster ball of death just left me tepid.
I'm really only interested in seeing how the dog!king has been getting on since we last saw him.
And Chow Yun Fat, of course.
Polter-Cow - May 22, 2007 11:47:56 am PDT #8673 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
This and the hamster ball of death just left me tepid.
I thought it was amusing, but then they just began defying physics and falling thousand of feet without being harmed, and it became annoying. There's only so much suspension of disbelief one can offer to a movie about pirates and ghosts and sea monsters, after all.