Your response to the movie is far better thought out than mine. If I'd written one. I think the gist of my post was squeee!
I am totally with you on the Norrington love. And I am willing to see where he goes in the third movie. I liked that he was so bitter and ruined. Takes the polish off him, and isn't that just what we Jack/Norrington shippers want to see? See him pay a little for his ambitious stick-up-the-butt attitude in the first movie? And when I say "we" I mean me, hah, and when I say "pay" I mean "take it from Jack." I hope Norrington doesn't remain all bad because he *did* accept his loss of Elizabeth, but I don't want him to be all good, either. Because it's still up to him to catch pirates.
I'm sooo with you on the three-barrel cannons, too. Too cheesy even for this movie (and that's saying something).
As for the stereotypes, the frenetic action, and even the microwaved leftover banter, none of that put me off. I sort of expect it; it's like meta commentary on a lot of things, in a way. Disney, for one. *snerk* But the movie is all about "over the top," and boy, did it deliver.
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Date: 2006-07-09 01:43 am (UTC)I am totally with you on the Norrington love. And I am willing to see where he goes in the third movie. I liked that he was so bitter and ruined. Takes the polish off him, and isn't that just what we
Jack/Norrington shipperswant to see? See him pay a little for his ambitious stick-up-the-butt attitude in the first movie? And when I say "we" I mean me, hah, and when I say "pay" I mean "take it from Jack." I hope Norrington doesn't remain all bad because he *did* accept his loss of Elizabeth, but I don't want him to be all good, either. Because it's still up to him to catch pirates.I'm sooo with you on the three-barrel cannons, too. Too cheesy even for this movie (and that's saying something).
As for the stereotypes, the frenetic action, and even the microwaved leftover banter, none of that put me off. I sort of expect it; it's like meta commentary on a lot of things, in a way. Disney, for one. *snerk* But the movie is all about "over the top," and boy, did it deliver.