you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well

Damn you, Disney! Damn you for making me actually care about Pirates of the Caribbean again!

Oh why, oh why did they have to go and redeem themselves with At World's End? Now I'm all piratey again and wanting to watch PotC all day instead of going to work and wanting to write Will/Elizabeth fics and finish my epic adventure quest fic that completely disregards what happened in the last two movies because I started writing it before they came out...

I don't need another fandom, Jerry Bruckheimer! DAMN YOU.

I was so unprepared  that I didn't even snag an Pirates icon! God damn it. 



Although I'm pretty sure Geoffery Rush is the only reason this movie was so much more awesome than Dead Man's Chest, because the plot...heh. Yeah, nice one guys. Could you try and be even more convoluted and confusing next time, plzthx? Because after about the 50th betrayal sequence I was about ready to bash my head into the seat in front of me. 


Geoffery Rush = LOVE.

So yesterday I discovered that there's a new trailer circling the internet for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and it took me an entire hour to find a version that would work on my crappy upstairs computer. My basic thought through the entire trailer was:

OMFG why can't July be here RIGHT NOW?!!!

And:

WTF is up with the Jack/Elizabeth moment?!??! What about WILL, damn it??!!

And then I ran through the house screaming in excitement. It's a little sad that my family is no longer frightened when I do these sorts of things...

The teaser trailer made PoTC 2 look a little iffy. You know, the whole "it might be a good even though it kinda doesn't look that way, but I'll see it anyway because of Mr. Depp and Mr. Bloom" iffy-ness. But THIS trailer made it look AMAZING and I am soooo sorry I doubted the skills of the great Gore Verbinski and Jerry Bruckheimer.

Muwahaha. Pirates.

*giggle*



In other movie news, I went to go see Poseidon today because I'm a fan of the original and Josh Lucas is a complete hottie, even without his southern accent. I thought it was good but way intense. Basically, once the ship turned over the action boulder started rolling and it didn't stop for a rest until two minutes to the end of the movie. The effects were pretty good - I've read that ol' Wolfgang Peterson was trying to out-Titanic Titanic and he did a pretty good job if it, though Titanic was a little less firebally and explosive. I like how the ship was falling apart and exploded as the survivors fought through it - the old version just had those explosions that were hardly convincing.

It was just a slight improvement over The Poseidon Adventure though. Adventure drags a lot, even during action sequences, and Gene Hackman basically shouts through the entire effing movie. It's unrealistic too, but what can you expect from a movie made in the 70s? Adventure had better characters, however, and you kinda sorta cared when they died. In the new one, it was all, "Oh, so-and-so died. So sad. Not," because they didn't have as much character development at the beginning.

All-in-all, it was a good, at the edge of your seat, action movie and not much else. If you liked the original, you'll probably like this one. Final grade: B.



I'm currently surfing BabyNames.com to add to my name list. I'm looking for some character name ideas, in case you're wondering.

My father's probably going to have a heart attack when he sees it in the internet history. Knew I probably shouldn't be doing this on his laptop.