Slowing I think my brain is returning from the convention. I got the pictures of the Fluzzies up on my website homepage.mac.com\/kathodavid then click on the Fluzzies button or go look at my previous post where I have a hot link for it. Now I have to reclaim the living room from the convention chaos and possibly put together a couple more Fluzzies while I am at it. Then you are going to be hearing a lot of Dr. Who puppet talk as I work my way through the 10.<\/p>\n
But first Pirates! Peter and I saw PftC: Dead Man’s Chest yesterday. Whoa! What a ride! The time just flew past and the story engaged me from beginning to end. I like how I was dropped in the middle of the story and the director assumed I would catch-up and figure out what was going on. By the end of the film I knew everything I needed to know that happened between the two films. It was well cast and well acted. Peter figured out the tag before the credits started to roll. I came out of the theater feeling how I felt when I saw the first one which was “I want to see that again!” This is a must see in the theater. The scale is used to the films advantage.<\/p>\n
Behind the cut there are spoilers and Pirates and the comments are designated a spoiler zone for all and any who wish to make their mark. Arrrrrr.<\/p>\n
I am grateful that Peter and I took the time to see Pirates yesterday.<\/p>\n
\nAbout the Monsters. Interesting idea and lovely execution but I like the skeletons better. But the dude who was holding on to the lamp and had been there too long so he WAS the ship was really neat. I also did like that Boot-Strap keep “evolving” as the story went along. They kind of grew on me after a while.<\/p>\n
Norington. Wow they gave the actor a meaty role to play with and I think he did a great job with it. I could tell from the first film that Jack Davenport was a good actor but he surpassed my expectations in this one. Bill Nighty was wonderful as Dave Jones but I knew he would be from the movies I have seen him previously in. I am glad that also gave Kevin McNally (Gibbs) more to do. Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd has been in a number of things I have seen over the years mostly in the background. It was nice to see him in the foreground of the picture. The rest of the cast is wonderful of course. I will see Jonathan Pryce read the phone book, He has been a favorite of mine since Brazil and Something Wicked this way Comes which came out the same year. Johnny, Orlanda and Kira were wonderful of course.<\/p>\n
The plot was convoluted but by the end you had all the pieces of the puzzle to put together and set you up for the next film. I figured out where Barbossa was before Peter did and when he would appear. And wasn’t that just a brilliant reveal? I loved the apple drool down his chin. I give the screenwriters credit for how to use the bloody undead monkey with great effect. I so want to see the next film now! Which is probably what the producers want. I think they can ride the wave until next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Slowing I think my brain is returning from the convention. I got the pictures of the Fluzzies up on my website homepage.mac.com\/kathodavid then click on the Fluzzies button or go look at my previous post where I have a hot link for it. Now I have to reclaim the living room from the convention chaos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}