I was a huge fan of the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I thought it was a ton of fun and I watched it several times. Movie two was a little weirder, but I still enjoyed it. Movie three confused me more than anything, and I thought it was too long. Movie four… well… let me preface this by saying that we started watching it Friday night on DVD, but my husband fell asleep in the middle, so I woke him up, stopped the movie, and we finished watching it on Saturday afternoon. This may have affected how I felt about it.
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[Very mild spoilers] This movie picks up at the exact moment when the last movie left off. I think I’d have been wiser to watch Part 1 immediately before going to see Part 2, in fact, because they give you no flashes to the past, no backstory, nothing. Not that this is a complaint, it’s simply a fact…
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[Warning: contains spoilers!] I didn’t know much about this movie when I walked into the theater. I knew it was supposed to be groundbreaking in filmography, and that it was getting a lot of press. I knew that it was in fancy-pants 3D and was…
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[Warning: contains spoilers!] It must be said that it was a lot of book to try to pack into one movie (which is why, while it means an annoying wait, I’m glad they have decided to do the last book as two movies). Even at nearly three hours it was still going to be missing a lot of things no matter what they did. However, there were so many elements removed (and characters—no Dursleys at all, for example) that most fans of the books…
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I wanted this to be better than it was. I love the Terry Pratchett Discworld novels and was really excited when my TiVo picked this up shortly before Christmas…
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First off, before I say anything else, I need to acknowledge the fact that I had read the book before I saw the movie. I think that I would have enjoyed the movie less—or at least not understood it as well—if I hadn’t. That said…
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