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rowanberries) wrote2007-06-03 03:18 pm
rowanberries) wrote2007-06-03 03:18 pm
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I'm hooooome.
Also clean, and caffeinated. I feel these things are important. The weekend was awesome, from going up on the swelteringly hot Underground to the pub (hurrah) to the flashmob which was basically a huge play fight (hurrah!) and back to the pub again. (HURRAH!) The only real problem was the heat, which I had been informed was to be lacking, and was... not. Ow. Black leather waistcoats, while awesome, are really hot when running about in the sun. The the next day (rather hungover. Ahem.) There was lunch with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
innerbrat and requiem2adream and chatting and plotting about Runaways pups. Ehehehe. And in the evening, Pirates of the Carribean, where we were joined by some people I have met before but whose journal names I am unsure of, avariel_wings, matgb and malachan, who came out of hiding for the first time in ages!
Oh, wow. Well, we found out where the Wank song came from.
It was a very effective motif, I admit, both for watching, and as a plot device for announcing the pirate meeting. (Which was awesome. I know a lot of people don't like Elizabeth, and I was kind of distracted by how very blonde she had become, but King of the Pirates! That's awesome! And not just because now Will is her Queen.)
And. And Will. I was fairly sure one of them was going to die, but it was really on (ahaha) a knife-edge. And it was the look on Jack's face that did it for me. That one look in that one moment basically confirmed his entire character as a good man. He planned it all the way in his own crazed, spontaneous way, but that was the one thing he didn't see coming. And he wanted to become the ferryman, and immortal himself, but he saved Will instead.
Will, by the way, is apparently well-suited to immortality. Orlando Bloom isn't supposed to be sexy! Good lord. Oh, and Elizabeth finally got married. <3 I'm glad for her. I do, however, bloody hope she'd still the Pirate King as well as mother to Will's apparently very tenacious child. No disrespect to Will's sperms! It's more Elizabeth's physical state I'm thinking of - she's had a hell of a what? Few weeks? - and owie. Pregnant after all that? Oh, well. Disney logic. Because clearly that's what always happens after you get married.
Um. Oh! Tia Dalma/Calypso. I liked that arc, although either my ears were going funny from all the crashing on the soundtrack, or she'd changed her accent from the last movie, but meh. She'sthe 50-foot woman a sea-nymph, she can talk how she wants. What I do wish is that they'd used her for something more than creating a whirlpool. Not in a Deus Ex Machina type way, t swing the ending one way or another, but seen to be doing something. Like the Armada! The main characters? Pfft, Narrative Causality was going to see them through whatever, but the guys who controlled Davy Jones, and tried to (inadvertently) stop the ritual that freed her, and were taming the ocean and, um, stuff? Instead of having them just turn around, she could have seen them off quite handily, after the flagship was gone. Oh well. I'm sure she and Davy had a beautifully tempestuous and fucked up relationship after he... um. Fell into her whirlpool, okay I'm not going any further with that.
Random other things we noticed: The abundance of slashiness. Yeah. Nothing overt, but between one thing and another that managed to be a very slashy film. Last one was for the het shippers, this one (apart from Will/Elizabeth) this one for the slashers.
Norrington. He didn't have as much as before, regrettably, but when lumped in with all the other army-types, there wasn't much of a way to have him do much, and he didn't the right thing in the end. His death caused much clinging, but he died honourably and bravely, which is fitting, I think. *Sniff*
In conclusion! I liked it. The ending hurt, and there was much clinging in the cinema, but it fit, and it wasn't the end for anyone. The Barbossa/Pearl/Jack threesome o'snark and betrayal continues gleefully onward, and does frankly my favourite pairing, Jack the Monkey/Cotton's Parrot.
And I want in on the Bar-plot. Hey, Debi hasn't killed anyone I'm playing in far too long.
Also clean, and caffeinated. I feel these things are important. The weekend was awesome, from going up on the swelteringly hot Underground to the pub (hurrah) to the flashmob which was basically a huge play fight (hurrah!) and back to the pub again. (HURRAH!) The only real problem was the heat, which I had been informed was to be lacking, and was... not. Ow. Black leather waistcoats, while awesome, are really hot when running about in the sun. The the next day (rather hungover. Ahem.) There was lunch with
innerbrat and requiem2adream and chatting and plotting about Runaways pups. Ehehehe. And in the evening, Pirates of the Carribean, where we were joined by some people I have met before but whose journal names I am unsure of, avariel_wings, matgb and malachan, who came out of hiding for the first time in ages!Oh, wow. Well, we found out where the Wank song came from.
It was a very effective motif, I admit, both for watching, and as a plot device for announcing the pirate meeting. (Which was awesome. I know a lot of people don't like Elizabeth, and I was kind of distracted by how very blonde she had become, but King of the Pirates! That's awesome! And not just because now Will is her Queen.)
And. And Will. I was fairly sure one of them was going to die, but it was really on (ahaha) a knife-edge. And it was the look on Jack's face that did it for me. That one look in that one moment basically confirmed his entire character as a good man. He planned it all the way in his own crazed, spontaneous way, but that was the one thing he didn't see coming. And he wanted to become the ferryman, and immortal himself, but he saved Will instead.
Will, by the way, is apparently well-suited to immortality. Orlando Bloom isn't supposed to be sexy! Good lord. Oh, and Elizabeth finally got married. <3 I'm glad for her. I do, however, bloody hope she'd still the Pirate King as well as mother to Will's apparently very tenacious child. No disrespect to Will's sperms! It's more Elizabeth's physical state I'm thinking of - she's had a hell of a what? Few weeks? - and owie. Pregnant after all that? Oh, well. Disney logic. Because clearly that's what always happens after you get married.
Um. Oh! Tia Dalma/Calypso. I liked that arc, although either my ears were going funny from all the crashing on the soundtrack, or she'd changed her accent from the last movie, but meh. She's
Random other things we noticed: The abundance of slashiness. Yeah. Nothing overt, but between one thing and another that managed to be a very slashy film. Last one was for the het shippers, this one (apart from Will/Elizabeth) this one for the slashers.
Norrington. He didn't have as much as before, regrettably, but when lumped in with all the other army-types, there wasn't much of a way to have him do much, and he didn't the right thing in the end. His death caused much clinging, but he died honourably and bravely, which is fitting, I think. *Sniff*
In conclusion! I liked it. The ending hurt, and there was much clinging in the cinema, but it fit, and it wasn't the end for anyone. The Barbossa/Pearl/Jack threesome o'snark and betrayal continues gleefully onward, and does frankly my favourite pairing, Jack the Monkey/Cotton's Parrot.
And I want in on the Bar-plot. Hey, Debi hasn't killed anyone I'm playing in far too long.