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.
You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.
Xander ,'Help'
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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
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.
beekaytee - May 22, 2007 12:05:00 pm PDT #8674 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Amen!
And the gravity immune water wheel of death scene seriously made my backside sore. ForEVer and EVer and EVer oy vey.
Lee - May 22, 2007 12:41:24 pm PDT #8675 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
JZ, you wanna go see POTC3 with me? We can squee in the losers corner together.
OOH OOOH. I want to be in the loser's corner too! That actually came up this weekend, since Pete started talking about POTC3, and I said I should start making plans for a movie outing.
juliana - May 22, 2007 1:41:08 pm PDT #8676 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I should start making plans for a movie outing.
It'll definitely be playing at the Metreon, but this weekend is bad for me. Next weekend, maybe? (And Saturday nights are bad for me. Because I suck.)