Pirates Sail to Top Spot Again - Jun 05, 2007 - 07:54pm
Alright, well I'm not necessarily bitching about any of you guys. Clearly this is all (?) in good fun. But there are a lot of folks out there on the ol' interwebs that seem to think BO equals good or bad movie. Just venting... carry on. ;)

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Pirates Sail to Top Spot Again - Jun 04, 2007 - 10:19pm
It makes me sick that we live in a world where all the fans seem to care about is the earth-shattering (or not) box office take of these movies. Really? Do we all care that much? Personally I love (or not) a movie based on the movie, not the bragging rights I get out of whether it breaks all box office records in human history in it's first fifteen minutes. (And for the record, LOVE 'At World's End' and LOVE 'Knocked Up'. 'Spidey 3'... slightly less so. I couldn't give a crap how much money any of 'em make.)

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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END - May 25, 2007 - 03:04am
Loved it! Unquestioningly, unambiguously loved everything about it! To put things in perspective I suppose I should admit to having loved BOTH previous films (yes, even the second one), so take that for what it's worth. Critics are going to eviscerate this movie, though. For one thing it's longer than the average moviegoer attention span of 20 minutes. Also, it doesn't come with a score card with the popcorn so people can keep track of the story points and characters. And there's no voice over to explain the more "complicated" bits of plot. Thus, Joe Sixpack and his highly paid monkeys (e.g. professional critics) will tear this film a new bunghole. But for my money (and this film will be getting more of it when I go see it a second [at least] time tomorrow) this is an amazing film. I particularly love how each and every character gets a satisfying denouement. Not an easy thing to pull off when you've got fifteen or twenty main characters.

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