{"id":3844,"date":"2006-07-08T11:01:02","date_gmt":"2006-07-08T18:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/07\/08\/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-mans-chest\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T10:32:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:32:47","slug":"pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-mans-chest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/07\/08\/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-mans-chest\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prairie and I went out to see the new Pirates of the Caribbean<\/a> movie last night — one of the few movies coming out this summer that we were both<\/em> excited about enough to head out on opening night. The reviews<\/a> (which I avoided looking at until this morning) aren’t being terribly kind, but we had a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

I’ll agree that it’s longer than it really needed to be (though Prairie doesn’t seem to think so), and there were a few moments when I found myself wishing that things would just slow down a little bit (particularly during the peak moments of the Kraken’s attacks). However, those small fumbles aside, the movie’s a perfect bit of popcorn summer fun: raucous, silly, over-the-top swashbuckling entertainment.<\/p>\n

And I love, love, love<\/em> Davy Jones and his crew! The effects work was incredible; even more so when, rather than pulling the standard effects-heavy movie trick of leaving the most complicated bad guy effects half-obscured in rain and night shots, they actually let Davy Jones and his crew go cavorting about in the light of day. What a treat — rainy nights are such an easy way to (attempt to) hide shoddy effects (Godzilla<\/a>, anyone?), that it’s fun to see a movie with enough confidence in its work to let it be seen in all its glory.<\/p>\n

So, iffy reviews aside, it was a winner in our book, and we’re looking forward to the next one.<\/p>\n

\"iTunes\"<\/a>\"\" “ToriMix v2<\/a>” by Amos, Tori<\/a> from the album Difficult Listening Hour<\/a> <\/em> (2001, 46:37).

Prairie and I went out to see the new [Pirates of the Caribbean][1] movie last night. The reviews aren’t being terribly kind, but we had a lot of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[3273,23,2285],"class_list":["post-3844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-dead-mans-chest","tag-film","tag-pirates-of-the-caribbean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}