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Pirates of the Caribbean

I hesitate to call it bad. It's Pirates of the Caribbean after all. The most epic and beloved Pirate franchise in years, maybe ever.
But I wouldn't exactly call it good either.

They have lost Elisabeth and Will and the gays, and the movies are better for it. They all outstayed their welcome by at least one movie.
The new female lead, 'cos you know, pirate movies has to have cleavage, is played by Penélope Cruz, and they could have spared themselves that. She is not a good actress. And I wonder: She is supposed to play a Spanish lady, but how come, the angrier she gets, the clearer and better her English becomes?
The only characters that are left from the previous movies are the Captain himself, Barbossa and Gibbs. Which in my opinion was an excellent casting decision. In my opinion they were the only truly enjoyable characters from the previous movies. Except, of course, Tia Dalma, who was a positively fascinating character. (Who the screwed up royally. She was way more fun when she wasn't a crab goddess.)
The new characters, like Blackbeard, was kinda bland mostly. Except from Angelica, who I really didn't believe for a second, and was just bad. Philip was weird, Syrena was odd, the Spaniards didn't not become an exciting twist. They were just really... I don't know. Not interesting at all.
Scrum was really cool, and the kid was cool, but to have a movie rest on the secondary supporting cast is really disappointing.
The character development fell into: sloppy and lazy, non-existing, or WTF? I am seriously supposed to believe that?
Barbossa was awesome though, and I really believed his motivations when he told them to us, and all the out of character stuff he had been doing up until that point suddenly became in character after all.
The Captain thou, I didn't believe his motivations even a little, and his actions in the end made me believe them even less. Even if he had an extreme Jack Sparrow moment at the end of the climax, he disappointed me royally in the one.
Oh, and Keith Richards has a cameo. Which was fun.^^,

The camerawork was awful. Dreadful. No doubt the cover the fact that the stuntmen weren't any good at sword fighting.
Do not watch it in 3D. Small details were cool in 3D, like ashes and other things flying on the wind, but the way the camera seem to be thrown from one cameraman to the next during action scenes made my dizzy. In a lot of places the 3D adaptation split, especially on scenes where things were going on at the edges of the screen.

The plot was really bad. It was an excuse for milking more money out of the PotC cow.
To give an example. Blackbeard is recruiting sailors by having his daughter, a former corruptee of Jack, play drag in Jack Sparrows clothes, making everyone believe they are signing up to be on his ship.
Why?
The motivation for doing it this way is never explained.
Maybe it is because they needed Jack to get to their destination (the Fountain of Youth), 'cos they don't know the way. Ehm... Wot?
He is abducted several times to make him tell people where it is.
But, twist of twists: There is a ritual. Which Sparrow didn't even know about?!
And then, when the ritual involves murder, then he don't want to? Ehm...? Again: what? He is a bad man. I am pretty sure he has killed in the past. More than once.

The writing was poor. Nothing more to say.

Well, it was entertaining anyway. And I have long since stopped expecting any much in the way of quality from Disney live action. The first one, as is often the case with firsts, was amazing, and nothing since as even come close. But that is the way it is. You don't go to see Johnny Depp movies to see high drama or Oscar performances, you go to have fun. It's not that he can't, I need only mention Chocolate or Edward Scissorhands. The thing about Depp is that he thoroughly enjoys playing quirky and completely mad, and he is really really good at it, and that is one of the reasons we love him so much. He is downright fun. Pure unadulterated glee permeates every single performance, and that's what makes him wonderful.
So what if female counterparts are poor actresses, and not even that pretty? We aren't there to see them.
Or if the writing is shotty, and the plot has holes you can sail a cruise ship through? We are there to be entertained, and as long as you don't think to hard about stuff, that is easily achieved.
So yah, while I hesitate to call it bad, and it certainly wasn't good, it kept me from being bored for 2 hours and about 16 minutes, and that was the whole point of it, wasn't it?



One more annoying thing thou:
I realize Marvel want to connect their movies into a universe, but Captain America was made in 1941, 12 years before Iron Mans first appearance in 1963. Stark enterprises could not have made Captain America!!!!
Bah!

Those days are past

Last year I was an angry angry little girl. I used to write angry angry poetry. Angry graphic poetry. The anger and the hurt isn't so much fun to look back at, but sometimes I go back and read the poetry that arose from that anger and hurt. It's kind of therapeutic. The past can't be changed, but I can learn, or the future will be just as bad.
While rereading poems about Innocence and Little Dahling and umbrellas I found a little gem that I wanted to share with you. It's about six months old and one of the last things I wrote. You see I just woke up one morning and didn't need to write anymore.

So for your enjoyment:

Phoenix

she spun too slowly
to see the debris
raining off her wings
clinging to close
to the past
she had left behind
the buried won't rise
to see new days
life was best forgotten
in the days that passed
she learned to smile anew
shedding glitter
from her fingertips
she was blinding
when she wiped the war paint off
who knew
there was porcelain
hidden beneath the covers
of a murky past

casting off the world
the old grime crumbling off
rising
shining
with a fire from within

she flew into new tomorrows
glittering from the dust
of new days
screaming terror
from the lost days
as she shed no tears

tomorrow
is always to come
yesterday will never return

shining brightly
up towards you
don't tread to close
you will be burnt

Stupid WordPress

So stupid WordPress won't work on my stupid WebHotell. 'Cos stupid WordPress wants to use stupid too new PHP. Bah!

So the fantastic new website will be further delayed. BahXP

Nerdygirls are hotter

It's infinitely satisfying to run across something as obscure as a Turing test and actually know what it is.
I felt a moment of almost overwhelming nerdiness at that moment, and that was immensely gratifying.=D
(Yeah, I am still reading Mogworld^^,)

Packing up

Update on the blog-move. Prolly gonna write mostly about that 'till it's upXP

So I am still waiting to be able to upload to the webhotel that's gonna host me.
I am gonna make the background and colours all nice and pretty. Gotta have banners, so I am gonna start making them soon too.
It's exam season, so that's gonna slow me down.
I am in the process of writing some nice posts to go on the new blog, practising the whole translating deal, how to do it fast and good.
I am brushing up on the German, hoping to get steady enough to have that as a launch language too.

If I get things all nice and set up in time, I am hoping to have it all up in a months time.
Wish me luck dollies^^,

Just a heads up

I will move this blog soon.
You see, I have a dream (corny as it soundsXP).
And my dream is to offer my blog in all the languages I know, thereby making my blog a tool for others when they learn other languages, reading the blog in their goal-language and then re-reading in a language in that they already know when to see how well they picked it up.
My biggest passion of all is languages and the learning of languages. And I want to teach and help others learn.

So I went and took the big leap and ordered myself the new domain. I will post a link when it's open.
Rest assured the blog will stay essentially the same, with what I consider a few improvements:

I will have actual sections for stuff, one for books and cartoons and manga, one for games, one for movies, one for... girly stuff, like soaps and makeup and stuff, a general area for my random stuff like my life and travels and stuff.
The goal will be a minimum of 3 posts a week, which will all go in the "new posts" area. But we all know how it is with these good intentions XP it's a good goal anyway^^,

The starter languages will be English and Norwegian, and hopefully German, if I can brush up again fast enough.

Maybe I will fall flat on my face, but I wholeheartedly believe dreams are important, and this is mine. And I aint givin'n up 'fore I get started=D