Sick

I hate being sick.

Admittedly, it's only a cold and there is others far-worse off than I am (not to mention that no one likes being sick). Not to mention it's kind of my fault - it's what you get when you spend 5 days just going from uni to work to sleep and then the cycle starts again. Naturally it had to be the week before exams as well.

Moving on to better things - I saw Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End last night and was rather pleasantly surprised. I didn't particulary like the second one, I felt that the sword-fighting scenes, especially at the end between Norrington and Will and Jack, were too long, and the jokes felt a little mouldy. Oh ,and how one of Will's lines changed between the trailer and the film.(However I did like the scenes with the cannibals and the bone cage). My feelings going into the 3rd then intensified with the trailer (Jack was in 95% of it, and the 2nd one had left off with the impression the film was going to be about finding Jack, what with the 'At World's End' subtitle and all) and then again with the reviews coming in (and Richard Wilkins actually saying why he didn't like a film) and then again with not hearing anyone say they liked it until Saturday - the day before I actually saw it!

So, as you see, I went in with absolutely no expectations, and this was probably for the better, as I did truly enjoy it. It certainly has it faults, but is just a good, fun movie. It has a fantastic score, there was a bit more in the way of character development, some clever visual effects and managed to evoke emotions in a way that neither of the first 2 did (although that could be because I was sick as well), not to mention filming something with the same angles and camera movements that I imagined something in HP. Most people's complaints was with the length as 3 hours is very very long, but I actually didn't notice time zooming past like I did with the second. However, how I will feel about that on a second watching, especially on DVD, may be a different story.

Like I said, it has it's faults. Plotlines do get a little messy in the middle, with some unnecessary ones. There are a couple of bits and pieces that I think could have been hinted at a little more in the second. Some of the stuff with Jack, although a cool visual effect, was unnecessary in my opinion, and added unnecessarily to the length. I missed the more natural looking cinematography of the 1st and 2nd, especially at the end fight. Again they don't age the characters when there's a time difference. Also I felt there was a few explanations missing. But the good makes up for the bad. (As a side note, I'd read on the Internet that they were supposed to be showing The Golden Compass trailer with it, but they didn't. At least they had the Phoenix one. And the cinema was full of Phoenix stuff.)

In some ways you almost feel that the second was unnecessary, and didn't contribute much to the storyline at all. But how I would have edited it down to just one and not have it 4 hours long I have no idea, so I won't complain. Much.

And the ending is one I didn't expect at all. Especially the scene after the credits. There's rumours going around about a fourth. Although I hope they don't, it could be quite interesting to see how the story goes.