"Everything we've ever done has led to this."

[rubykatewriting]

Saw POTC3 Saturday. People are catching onto the whole $5 movie before noon. The theater (and concession stand and parking lot) was packed for just shy of 11am. I am not happy about this.

Anyway, I loved the movie. Mom, too. It was a vast improvement over the second, but the second was a lot of set-up for the awesome payoff in the third. Most on my flist have mentioned everything else I loved (and my few quibbles), but I’ve seen a lack of talk with regards to the ending (this includes the scene following the credits). There’s a loophole in the whole heart-in-box, captain of The Flying Dutchman, thing. It was alluded to (vague as all fuck) in the scene between Tia Dalma (aka Calypso) and Davy Jones. The reason for his bitterness wasn’t so much that she wasn’t there, it was that if she had been there as promised, he would have been freed from captaining The Flying Dutchman. So Will and Elizabeth do end up with their happy ending after all, only delayed a decade. (This has been explained by the writers.)

This makes me happy. I actually called Mom as soon as I read that, and she was like, "YAY!" Yes, we’re Will/Elizabeth = OTP fangirls. We ended up watching the first two on Sunday, and I could actually make it through the scenes on The Flying Dutchman without gagging. (I have a THING about things growing out of people’s skin and that shit growing out of Boostrap’s face – I’M GETTING CHILLS JUST THINKING ABOUT IT – was too much on the big screen. I spent most of the second film more than a little nauseated.) *shudder* *twitch* *scratch*

And don't hate me, but I REALLY want to see Transformers. Sadly, it only has a tiny bit to do with the fact that Shia stars.

It rained all day yesterday. Like, when Mom flipped over to the Weather Channel at one point, our area was under the orange part of the storm. ALL DAY. RAIN. We didn’t get to have our Pho Bowls at Hot Wok. Max and Boo were in a mood, constantly whining to go out back, and when we’d open the door for them, rain splattering on the linoleum, they’d give us the eyes, as if we had any control over the weather. All in all a sucky-ass, if wonderfully lazy (didn’t get out of my jammies at all) day.

Comments

[popculturespong.livejournal.com]

I had fun while watching POTC3 but I didn't think it was very good. Of course you go for the pirate jokes and the fight scenes and stunts, but I thought the plot was pretty awful. I hated that #2 left you hanging, but at least there was a real plot. In this one, the plot changed several times. I couldn't figure out everyone's motives, or what they were actually doing.

Of course, if they made a fourth one, I'd go see it.... lol.

[popculturespong.livejournal.com]

Have you seen this essay?

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was excellent! Thank you!

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

Heh. I think that's why I enjoyed the third film more so than the second, perhaps? Too much shit going on in the second. I was expecting fun and happy times, like the first, but then they had to go and get all plotty on me.

Of course, the second one plays a little better now that I've seen the third. Little details make sense, throwaway comments, all that.

And hells yes, I'd see the fourth. I'm so their bitch.

[allthingsholy.livejournal.com]

I saw the movie tonight, but didn't stick around for a post-credits scene--what was it?

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

It's very simple. First: TEN YEARS LATER, and then a little boy runs up to a oceanside cliff, staring off into the horizon. Trailing behind him is Elizabeth, and the two stand watch as the sun sets. A bright, brief flash of green, and the little boy looks up at Elizabeth with this look. It's like, finally he really, really believes her. Then it's a close-up on Will, this small smile on his face as he spots them, spots his son for the first time. Annnnd...fade to black.

Yeah it wasn't much, but Mom and I were terribly disappointed by the conclusion to Will and Elizabeth's storyline (as it was when the credits rolled).