{"id":354,"date":"2003-07-13T12:50:01","date_gmt":"2003-07-13T17:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amynews.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2015-10-08T17:44:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T21:44:52","slug":"movie-review-pirates-of-the-carribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/2003\/07\/movie-review-pirates-of-the-carribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review – Pirates of The Carribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"

So … it’s been mentioned before that I have “special” tastes in movies … and in the first review ever of my web site (which I think is sooo kewl \ud83d\ude42 ) … Sianna<\/a> referred to AmyNews.com<\/a> as “Scathing Essays. Saber sharp wit. Poignant passages, Friday Fives and bad movie reviews<\/u><\/i>” … huh, bad movie reviews<\/i>? …. okay, so I’m slow, but I’m beginning to realize you’re trying to tell me something … like maybe, a movie shouldn’t be judged solely on whether or not you can get one really kewl quote from it … so I did what every red-blooded, American girl would do … I ran to daddy.<\/p>\n

Well, I don’t call him daddy just yet, that’d understandably overphreak him \ud83d\ude42 … hehe … but I say to him …<\/p>\n

“Dad, some of my friends say I have weird tastes in movies and that I give bad movie reviews, do you think they are right?<\/i>”<\/p>\n

His reply?<\/p>\n

“You made us go see Joe Versus The Volcano<\/a>… your friends may have a point.<\/i>”<\/p>\n

Hmmm … something for me to think about. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Anyways … on with the show !
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\nSo I went to see Pirates of the Carribbean<\/a> yesterday at the mid-afternoon viewing. I went with my brother’s family, and had assigned seating with a nephew on each side of me … once again I went with the Frozen Pepsi, but I think that’ll be the end of that for a while, I’ll go back to Frozen Mountain Dews … my sister-in-law was there, and she prefers the air-popped popcorn instead of traditional … which means everyone gets air-popped … it wasn’t as bad I as expected it to be … but I still prefer traditonal with boatloads of hot butter-like product … we had primo seats in the big theatre, it was a full crowd, but not packed … so viewing and listening experience couldn’t get any better.<\/p>\n

I knew very little about the premise of the movie except that it was about pirates and Johnny Depp<\/a> and Orlando Bloom<\/a> were in it. I consider it more of a fantasy-adventure flick and historically have a problem with movies that try to make skeletons look real … as if they are real moving bodies and people. The only movie in my mind that in the past made it look kewl was Army of Darkness<\/a> (one of my all-time top ten favorite movies … Shop Smart, Shop S-Mart), because in Army of Darkness, they totally mocked any such attempt and just obviously dressed people up in fake skeleton costumes … hilarious !!<\/p>\n

Opps …. back to the movie at hand … anyways, the special effects in Pirates … excellent !! … Well done, really cool, didn’t take away from the story by being bad, didn’t overwhelm scenes\/action\/storyline by being too amazing, they were just right.<\/p>\n

Costumes … Whoa. I liked. I liked a lot !! Someone should get an award.<\/p>\n

Lighting … Often an overlooked element of a movie. Again … well done. A lot of the movie was set at night … and you knew it was at night, but you could still see all you wanted to see … not like some flicks where the lighting is so pathetic and dark you can’t tell a thing of what’s happening<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Story … Nice pirate plot, plenty of good quotes, humor, and sa-wheet actiooon.<\/p>\n

Acting … I like Johnny Depp<\/a>, but he sorta had to play this slightly mad, slightly drunk captain who had an odd type of slur when he spoke, softened for the Disney audience … I didn’t care for it … but he played the part assigned well … looked maybe a little young for the role of Captain Jack Sparrow, and I hated how they ruined his scrumptious looks with black, rotten and gold capped teeth, but overall … a fine piece of …… acting. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Orlando Bloom<\/a>. One of the lead characters, sooooo yummy to view, almost makes me forget Heath<\/a> … did a good job. But acting-wise, presence-wise … he’s not up to Johnny Depp level.<\/p>\n

Keira Knightley<\/a>. Female lead … well done. It’s nice having a female character who’s got some ‘tude, will take some action, remains feminine and still looks bootylicious. I’m going to get a corset.<\/p>\n

I didn’t look at my watch once. The movie was the perfect length. Lots of fun to watch … followed the story nicely, kept my interest, humor, action, and had some Disney-type sexual tension. I thoroughly enjoyed the viewing. If you’re the least bit interested … go see it in the theater … you really should see it on the big screen and with a nice sound system. Full price or matinee … I think you can’t go wrong either way.<\/p>\n

Final rating … a light 8. If I had to choose between T-3 or Pirates, I’d go with T-3, though that’s only because personally I prefer seeing things blowing up in a more modern way. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

On a side note … Nephew 1 gave it a 10, Nephew 2 gave it a 10, Sister-in-Law gave it a 9 and Bro gave it a 7.5 (he’s an engineer so he understands how decimals work and can actually use them \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n

Oh, and in keeping with the theme … I went to Long John Silver’s<\/a> afterwards for a pirate to-go meal. Arr Arr Arrrrrrrrr Maties ! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So … it’s been mentioned before that I have “special” tastes in movies … and in the first review ever of my web site (which I think is sooo kewl \ud83d\ude42 ) … Sianna referred to AmyNews.com as “Scathing Essays. Saber sharp wit. Poignant passages, Friday Fives and bad movie reviews” … huh, bad movie…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":141,"label":"Movie Reviews"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Amy","author_link":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/author\/amy\/"},"comment_info":5,"category_info":[{"term_id":141,"name":"Movie Reviews","slug":"movie-reviews","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":145,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":10,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":141,"category_count":10,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Movie Reviews","category_nicename":"movie-reviews","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}