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(I am resisting the urge to say it, I swear to Dog ... but the power of teh CUTE compels me ...)
( SWEET BABY KITTIES TALKING TO EACH OTHER! )
( SWEET BABY KITTIES TALKING TO EACH OTHER! )
Nov. 25th, 2007
I found a guy on the baby animals community I frequent who was apparently an extra in AWE (he has a macaw - I don't want to link directly to his journal, but he's not hard to find) and I followed a couple of public links to read his review. I agree with him on several counts (except that "Spider-Man 3" didn't suck - it did, IMO; and on a couple of the deaths he lists in AWE). I even sort of agree with his assessment of Will's death (except for the "good riddance" part, obviously), though that might just be because I knew it was going to happen and that he wasn't really gone.
On a side note to the above, as for his point about the other ships of the EITC turning tail after the Endeavor was destroyed (that they shouldn't have, since they still outnumbered the pirates)? I liked the version in the "leaked script" that was circulating before the movie came out, where the Dutchman destroys all or most of the remaining ships. I guess maybe the filmmakers didn't want to sully Will by having him commit homicide on that level? But it would've been understandable, again, IMO. (Plus, really really cool. Yeah, I like to watch shit blow up.)
But what really struck me was his comment about how it was too much a soap opera and not enough pirates being pirates. On the one hand, I disagree because I think the reason the first was so successful is because you care about the characters - and I know some guys call any sort of nod toward relationships as "soap opera" even if it's not. A bunch of pirates just clanging around with no plot or unique character development is the reason the pirate movie had languished as a genre at the box office for so long, I think. On the other hand ... I have to say I agree that in the case of AWE (and DMC, even though he doesn't say it), there really *is* too much "soap opera," though it had much less than I honestly expected. A little more fighting and blowing shit up would not have gone amiss with me. But I've been told I'm a weird girl. ;-)
(Why so much POTC posting this weekend, you ask? I'm finishing up a couple of articles for work, have been reading news online, and have been trying to catch up on my holiday gift-getting. I need frivolity.)
On a side note to the above, as for his point about the other ships of the EITC turning tail after the Endeavor was destroyed (that they shouldn't have, since they still outnumbered the pirates)? I liked the version in the "leaked script" that was circulating before the movie came out, where the Dutchman destroys all or most of the remaining ships. I guess maybe the filmmakers didn't want to sully Will by having him commit homicide on that level? But it would've been understandable, again, IMO. (Plus, really really cool. Yeah, I like to watch shit blow up.)
But what really struck me was his comment about how it was too much a soap opera and not enough pirates being pirates. On the one hand, I disagree because I think the reason the first was so successful is because you care about the characters - and I know some guys call any sort of nod toward relationships as "soap opera" even if it's not. A bunch of pirates just clanging around with no plot or unique character development is the reason the pirate movie had languished as a genre at the box office for so long, I think. On the other hand ... I have to say I agree that in the case of AWE (and DMC, even though he doesn't say it), there really *is* too much "soap opera," though it had much less than I honestly expected. A little more fighting and blowing shit up would not have gone amiss with me. But I've been told I'm a weird girl. ;-)
(Why so much POTC posting this weekend, you ask? I'm finishing up a couple of articles for work, have been reading news online, and have been trying to catch up on my holiday gift-getting. I need frivolity.)