It's been about 40% slower than we predicted this weekend. I really thought Pirates was going to kick Spidey's ass but maybe there's too much else going on this weekend. I bet it will hold a lot better than Spidey did... but I've been wrong before.
See, in my fantasy, when I'm kissing you... you're kissing me. It's okay. I can wait.
Oz ,'First Date'
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Laga - May 28, 2007 8:32:17 am PDT #8762 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Kevin - May 28, 2007 8:46:18 am PDT #8763 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Pirates... Long. Any movie which makes me think about my lunch, not doing so well.
Tsotsi
The director of that voted for Serenity at the Edinburgh Film Festival audience awards: true. Tsotsi took the audience award.
Don't know if it's opened in the states yet, but 28 Weeks Later is excellent. It's the sequel to 28 Days Later, the British zombie film from a few years back. I went into it completely blind (hadn't seen any publicity) and it helped.
sumi - May 28, 2007 2:44:25 pm PDT #8764 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Brego, Aragorn's horse in TTT and RotK is recovering from emergency colic surgery.
I knew that he had been competed in dressage but for some reason had no idea that he was a Dutch Warmblood.
(Hopefully, he is quite well now.)
Beverly - May 28, 2007 4:19:18 pm PDT #8765 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Link isn't working, sumi.
DavidS - May 28, 2007 4:31:21 pm PDT #8766 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Saw Pirates this weekend. Long and disappointing. By the time Jack and Davy Jones were fencing on a yard-arm in the middle of a maelstrom I realized that (a) that sounds cooler in theory than in actual swordfighting interest and (b) there hadn't really been any swordfights up until then. Some general melee but nothing like the cool blacksmith fight in the first one, or the uber-choreographed waterwheel fight in 2.
It felt like they'd lost the thread of what was most interesting about the story, and the characters' motivations were so muddled and conflicty. It made the characters seem incoherent instead of complex.
I had liked the second movie a lot, but this one was far less fun, far less interesting. Keith Richards was perfect though. Liked that. Chow Yun Fat was wasted. Everybody should go watch A Better Tomorrow and see why he's so esteemed.
Keira Knightly failed to convince me of her action hero bona fides. All the plot turns were potentially interesting, but in the end felt like plot turns instead of character developments.
quester - May 28, 2007 5:00:30 pm PDT #8767 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Just got back from the Bloated Gay Pirate Movie and I gotta agree with David and others. There were moments I liked and character notes that were nice, but it was too much special effects and not enough character development. I think I'll just file it away with the Matrix sequels and just love the original forever.
sumi - May 28, 2007 5:23:24 pm PDT #8768 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I corrected the link -- I hope it works now!
§ ita § - May 28, 2007 8:01:23 pm PDT #8769 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wow. I liked PotC3. Much better than 2--the couple who came with us wanted to know if they should bother to see it. Told them, only if they wanted to see a few cool stunts which didn't really fit into the story anyway.
As for 3...it wasn't as funny and surprising as the first one, but I liked the twists and turns, and didn't feel the length at all. I liked the ending, in which no one really got what they wanted, although there was some light for the leads. I was disappointed at the offscreen death of Admiral (?) Swan, but liked Elizabeth's despair. I also bought her random ascent through the ranks of pirates basically because she gave good shriek. Orlando Bloom took a few acting classes since the release of the first one too. I would definitely have liked more Chow Yun Fat, but that's pretty much my default state of being. There is never enough of him.
Oddly, the saddest part for me, the part where the deaths seemed most human was when they killed the Endeavour. Suddenly it felt like carnage. Not quite sure how that got me, and the rest were just what happens in movies like that.
Monkey was great.
§ ita § - May 28, 2007 8:04:54 pm PDT #8770 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Scanning back for other PotC comments I noticed bon had said:
As if the parkour sequence in James Bond were at the end-- two hours in you're thinking come on, get to the big finish!
Honestly, if they'd put the parkour sequence in instead of the whole Bond falls in love thing, I'd have been much happier. I mean, as it was I wanted the big finish something awful, and what we were given wasn't the slightest bit interesting to me. Parkour would have been a huge upgrade.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 28, 2007 8:06:48 pm PDT #8771 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I was once again thwarted in my intent to see Waitress, as the 4:30 and 7:30 screenings were sold out. Well, I would have been like ticket holder #498 in a 500 seat theater at the later one, so I opted out. But it does make me hopeful about the movie sticking around a few weeks.