I am not a big movie watcher, but I really liked Curse of the Black Pearl, which took an amusement park ride and turned it into a fun, funny movie. The movie's success caused them to run out and shoot two sequels, the first of which came out in record time. It also sucked. The first Pirates movie had a really tight script, while Dead Man's Chest relied on CGI and action sequences to meet the rush deadline.
I have been holding out hope that the extra year they had to put together Pirates III would allow them to refind the wit. But now the trailer and a clip are out, and it doesn't look good. Monster fish men, titanic sea battles, a literal edge of the world complete with waterfall, and a "woo woooo" spooky sensibility. Oh, and Orlando fucking Bloom trying much too hard to be butch Errol Flynn. Ugh. I think what's gone wrong is that they didn't expect the first flick to do much, so they left the director alone, but since people are stupid and Dead Man's Chest with $1 billion was the third highest-grossing movie of all time, they're smelling blockbuster, and you know what that means. That means frenetic, pointless, effects-laden action! Awfulsome. Whatever the opposite of awesome is.
Orlando Bloom can never be the opposite of awesome. Mmmm.
Posted by: Aquagirl | March 22, 2007 at 08:36 PM