randomness: PotC & Heroes

[xparrot]

As the entire flist is going on about Pirates 3, I gotta throw my two cents in. Saw it yesterday and loved it. I'd have to see it again to be sure but I think it was my favorite of the trilogy. Truth be told, I was the only fangirl on the planet who didn't care for the first movie...I dunno, it just didn't grab me. But Dead Man's Chest was a blast and At World's End manages to surpass it by going over the top in every single conceivable direction, action, f/x, maelstroms, backstabbing, music, melodrama...like Jack Sparrow, it's loud, ridiculously nonsensical, a drama queen and and more than a little silly, but so darn charming you can't help but succumb.

-- The constant betrayals were hysterical, every one.

-- Poor Norrington! But he redeemed himself. Yays!

-- 9 pieces of eight! Heh, that just cracked me up all the way through. And then the actual pieces in question...

-- Rather quite loved the end. I never cared much about Will/Elizabeth one way or another but they were wicked cute when they finally decided to hell with it, they were going to be tragic lovers no matter what. The marriage ceremony was almost as good as that at the end of The PeaceKeeper Wars. And then! Tragedy! Jack doing the right thing! Triumph! Tragedy anyway! Then sex! Aww.

-- Speaking of the wedding, Barbossa is teh awesome. Well, he is all the way through. But especially there. "Dearly beloved, we are gathered here..."

-- Out of curiosity, is Elizabeth still Kaizoku-Oh Pirate King? When did she find the One Piece, anyway?

-- Will is going to be so much a better Dutchman Captain than Davy Jones was, or Jack would've been. (I heard a rumor that there was a cut scene explaining that the curse could be broken if the captain found true love? So it might be broken at the movie's end? Which would be nice for them, but I like it either way.)

-- Besides, would you really mind dying at sea if he were the one coming to get you?

-- Because yeah, I don't have much in the way of respect for Orrie's 'acting' talents, but the silver & scar suit his scrawny ass like a crazy hot thing. MMMM.

-- Am I the only one who was totally awwing at Davy Jones & Calypso? So tragic. And they love each other anyway, even with the betrayals and hatred. Awww.

-- All of the above is thinking way too much about a movie that really doesn't need to be thought about; the important thing is SWASHBUCKLING ON SHIP MASTS! WHILE SWINGING ON ROPES! WHILE GOING DOWN A GIANT WHIRLPOOL! Now that is action.



We also watched the final four eps of Heroes. Don't have much to say, but...

Sylar! Wins! In future evil bad-ass-ery and in present angst!

Yay for heroes (Hiros) who go darkside over friends dying. Awws!

So in the future Peter Petrelli is destined to become Neo? Huh, now. Wake me when Agent Smith shows up.

Matt is really very likable for no particular reason, which makes me like him even more.

Mr. Bennet - Noah! He has a first name! - continues to be my favorite character by so very much.

Especially if they just killed Nathan. No! Why'd you have to pick now to go be a good guy, Nathan? Even if you did go out being as incesty as it is possible to be with your brother. Umm. They were kissing when Peter exploded. You cannot convince me otherwise.

Comments

[nekokoban]

♥♥ The third movie was my favorite, too -- followed by the first (because it was a fun standalone), and then the second. But man, the third movie hit so many buttons I have for fictional things -- gigantic epic-scale story! mortal/immortal dynamics! gods among men! underground governments! honor and lack thereof amongst thieves! I might've had too much fun with it♥

And honestly, I never cared much for Will/Elizabeth beyond a sort of "eh, they're cute and they're the movie's OTP, at least" -- but the third movie made me honestly root for them♥ But I did love the story between Calypso and Davey Jones -- I had friends mutter a bit about their ending, but I found it signifigant that the storm dies pretty much as soon as he falls into the water. :B

Though, for the most part, I kept looking at Will at this movie and thinking the DREAD PIRATE ROBERTSON. Which, you know, wasn't such a bad thing. XD

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I'm sort of embarrassed to like it as much as I did, because - there's really nothing there, I mean, it's Mulligan stew, throw absolutely everything into the pot without a recipe, no rhyme or reason...but then, all the ingredients are so tasty, how can you not enjoy it?

Will/Elizabeth managed to hit my magic Miaka/Tamahome-Scott/Jean OTP button. It happens sometimes that there'll be a couple chars I don't care about one way or another, but when they decide that they are going to be in love no matter what they somehow trigger this response in me that I end up OTPing them, and in AWE they hit it.

And yeah, the storm dying was meaningful to me, though I would've liked a bit more. But still, the sea takes Davey Jones, and that's where he wants to be, and she wants him, so...

"AS YOOOOOU WIIIIISH!"

[morganlilah.livejournal.com]

Will/Elizabeth managed to hit my magic Miaka/Tamahome-Scott/Jean OTP button.

So does this make Jack Hotohori? *weg*

I still like POTC 1 best but I do believe AWE was an improvement over Dead Man's Chest.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

LOLOL Jack would make a fine emperor! For about 5 seconds!

[nekokoban]

I am completely unrepentant about it -- if everyone else had quibbles or problems with it, well, that's their own problem. XD *I* had fun, so I'm definitely buying it as soon as it comes out. :D (Also, the fact that Elizabeth became the Pirate King -- and I'm sure she's still pirating and such after the end of the movie -- makes me incredibly pleased.)

It just made me happy, the whole thing. :D :D :D

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Yeah, now I wanna own the trilogy! Will probably be able to get a nice boxed set...I'm thinking I might want to blow the money to see it again on the big screen even, because yeah, f/x like that deserve all the size and volume they can get!

It was very happy-making, in a totally shameless way. ^__^