I corrected the link -- I hope it works now!

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.

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.

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.

Good to know that the movie has success. I wasn't bowled away by it, but I came out liking all the characters.

Waitress ended up 5th in the weekend's box office tally.

Waitress ended up 5th in the weekend's box office tally.

Wow, definitely showing all the signs of being a sleeper hit, especially given the blockbuster behemoths currently playing. Such a damn shame Adrienne Shelly isn't here to enjoy her success.

Wow. That is just excellent. But kind of foils my hopes for seeing Nathan Fillion elsewhere. (Specifically, in Lost next year as Kate's hubby. ) Alas.

Ooh, that also means that it may get a wider release and actually play in my town.

Talk about a "which thread does this go in" moment:

This is as good a place as any I guess, considering there is still no actual network attached for broadcast, and it started as a movie.

Check. It. [link]

(Video link)