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redfiona99Before I start, I would like to say 2 things in mitigation for the film's failings:
1 - I was watching this as the only sober(ish) person in a house full of people trying and succeeding in getting blotto.
2 - Everyone else was drunkenly talking over the film, so I could have missed something that could make the film palatable.
Unfortunately, unless I really did miss something spectacular due to the drinking and the talking, this film is a messy failure. It didn't seem to know what it wanted to be. I mean, when Hector Barbossa is your most compelling character (much though I love him, the man is an anti-hero at best) there's something hinky.
You know the infamous soulless Hollywood blockbuster. I think this may be an example of it. Even the swordfights weren't interesting, and other parts seemed to be a weary re-tread of bits from the other films. I'm thinking of the mermaid and the preacher in particular. It takes a particularly peculiar mind to go "you know what people really loved about the Will/Elizabeth ship? Exactly how doormat-like they both were." Because neither of them were, not even the eunuch, were anything like as wet as the drippy priest and the mermaid. And they seem to have wandered in from a different movie. One might almost suspect that this wasn't originally supposed to be a POTC film at all (which is born out by the trivia section on IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1298650/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv Also, it turns out, I have been aboard Barbossa's ship before he had it ;) ).
1 - I was watching this as the only sober(ish) person in a house full of people trying and succeeding in getting blotto.
2 - Everyone else was drunkenly talking over the film, so I could have missed something that could make the film palatable.
Unfortunately, unless I really did miss something spectacular due to the drinking and the talking, this film is a messy failure. It didn't seem to know what it wanted to be. I mean, when Hector Barbossa is your most compelling character (much though I love him, the man is an anti-hero at best) there's something hinky.
You know the infamous soulless Hollywood blockbuster. I think this may be an example of it. Even the swordfights weren't interesting, and other parts seemed to be a weary re-tread of bits from the other films. I'm thinking of the mermaid and the preacher in particular. It takes a particularly peculiar mind to go "you know what people really loved about the Will/Elizabeth ship? Exactly how doormat-like they both were." Because neither of them were, not even the eunuch, were anything like as wet as the drippy priest and the mermaid. And they seem to have wandered in from a different movie. One might almost suspect that this wasn't originally supposed to be a POTC film at all (which is born out by the trivia section on IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1298650/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv Also, it turns out, I have been aboard Barbossa's ship before he had it ;) ).
