Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Crap Film

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1. BenBurgis says:

   October 19, 2006

   Don’t forget Superman. Shawn and Maureen both liked that.

   Of course, practically everyone liked “Pirates of the Carribean.”

   But yeah, I’m also in the (distinct minority) camp of people who didn’t like it. Endless action scenes with preordained conclusions and that never achieved the tiniest suspension of disbelief to begin with are….

   ….well….

   …really, really boring.

   It was funny, because just before I watched it I watched “Scaramouche” again, a swashbuckler that I actually enjoyed. Since Scaramouche was made several decades earlier (1952) it was kind of interesting to look at the differences.

   In many ways, they’re going for similar things: lots of sword fights, lots of quipping, hero’s got some anti-hero qualities….but, among many other things, as silly as the whole form is to begin with, all the heroics look impressive, but like something human beings might actually be able to do. The hero is seeing having to do rigorous physical training to get to the point where he can do stuff like that.

   Whereas in “Pirates,” *everyone* fights like they’ve been training for twenty years, people do a lot of things I have a hard time believing evne if they *had* been training for twenty years, at least if they’re good guys. Even Keira Knightly can fight off two or three bad guys at once, quipping all the way, even though as far as I can tell, she’d never picked up a sword before that day.

   Least of the problems with it, mayhap, but it bothered the hell out of me the whole time I was watching it.

   Maybe some of this stuff is par for the course in current movie conventions, but it just came off as aggressively stupid to me in that movie for some reason.

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2. gordsellar says:

   October 19, 2006

   Oh, I shoudl note, it’s a different Shawn who said the Hulk was not bad than the Shawn you know, Ben.

   Word. To what you said. Haven’t seen Scaramouche, tho… sometime.

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