Most of my friends have seen it three times already.
Reactions to and impressions on Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Part One (because there may be more later if I have to add something I’ve forgotten):
The ending was made of suck and fail. Elizabeth was the fucking pirate king, she wasn’t going to sit around on an island with a kid for ten years waiting for her adventuring husband to return. Just…no. Ugh.
Murtogg and Mulroy! The gay lobsters! I missed them. They were like– ya’ll know how One Piece has Inseparable Duos, like Chaka and Pell and Kiwi and Mozu? Well, so does PotC. Pintel and Ragetti were the pirate Inseparable Duo, like Johnny and Yosaku. Murtogg and Mulroy were the Marine Inseparable Duo, like Jango and Fullbody. …Oh god, I smell a Crossover Saturday post for capslock_op coming on.
Also, yes, Pintel and Ragetti. MY HEROES. I love those guys. They are the charmingly nasty, hilarious and philosophical yet inescapably skeevy dorks. Made of awesome, in other words. Also, Ragetti being a total mack daddy? Oddly sweet. (Seriously, how do I even know their names and which one is which? I’m a loser.) And! He was rocking that eye patch for the three scenes he had it.
Barbossa rocked my socks, once again. He has the best world-weary, exasperated eyeroll of anyone ever– well, aside from that guy in the Geico caveman commercials– and he is just made of so much win, and the sarcasm and the hat and the use of common sense and logic and so you see why I would have a massive crush on him if he weren’t very old and male? And! HECTOR. Bahahaha. He and Jack bickering like an old married couple and PERISCOPE ENVY and all that glorious stuff, it was grand.
Jack was out of his fucking mind. Just…completely and totally nuts. It almost scared me. I almost felt bad. But then I was too entertained to care. I will be going “My peanut!” at people for the next three days– it’s the new “I gotta jar of dirt”, I swear. And the whole thing in Davy Jones’ locker with the numerous Jack’s with different tattoos and personalities and stuff? Win.
Gibbs was pretty cool. I’ve always liked Gibbs. Glad he got some cool moments. I wish he’d had a cooler ending, though. Well, hookers and rum, good enough for him, I suppose.
NORRINGTON argh. I am going to be whining piteously about the stupidity of his death for the next week and a half. Jaaaaaaaames. ;-;
Was ANYONE in that movie not intent upon macking on/kidnapping/raping/marrying/stealing/o
Jack’s face when Will was stabbed. UTTER DEVASTATION. And that whole scene! The beauty of it! The emotion! The cohesiveness and the chemistry of the three original cast members, the sheer power…and then the monkey. Why, Disney? Why the fucking monkey?
Running jokes, I love me some of them. Parlay and sea turtles and thank-you, Jack, the three Deus ex Machina silly plot devices of PotC, and I still love them, even though they don’t deserve it. <3
Terrible waste of a perfectly good Chow Yun Fat. He deserved better.
I CALLED the Kalypso thing. They were like “Oh yes, Kalypso, the sea goddess, she is in human form,” and I was like “TIA DALMA” and my mom was like “Whut?” but the point is that I got it whether she did or not.
Also I had to transcribe all of Tia Dalma’s lines for my mother. “She said that it’s a place of eternal suffering, that Jack is there, that that’s what awaits a person in Davy Jones’ locker, and now you’ve made me miss the next part, just shut up until *Emo Boy comes back on screen and I’ll tell you then.”
*Will, of course. The boy leaks emo from his pores like a leaky emo thing. And he’s boring. Except in certain parts. Anyway.
Elizabeth kicking ass without pants is the hottest thing EVER. She was so much awesome until the end. I wanted to bitchslap Disney for doing that to her.
Anyway, yes. That’s all for now. Oh wait, other than the fact that it’s going to take some doing to get around the fact that this movie fucked over my OT3, but I think I can handle it. So…thoughts?
ETA: Best quote? "NOBODY MOVE! I've dropped me brain." And also Jack licked a lot of stuff, did anyone notice that? And WHY was I the only one in the damn theater who knew what Davy Jones and Tia Dalma were saying?
ETA: Best quote? "NOBODY MOVE! I've dropped me brain." And also Jack licked a lot of stuff, did anyone notice that? And WHY was I the only one in the damn theater who knew what Davy Jones and Tia Dalma were saying?