I was up 2 hrs after my bed time so... there are a lot of spelling things in here… sorry.
This is the week that I have been waiting for. It is the week of no mandatory over time. I have the time and the energy to write a good long xanga!
Time for quick update on what's been going on in my life….
Okay, one day after I wrote my last xanga, I hit dear and messed up my car.
I am now going to be looking for a new car. Oh well…
On the 21st my good friend Justin came out to see me for the weekend.
This weekend I made it back in to Wichita. I said goodbye to Matt and Kristina.
They are heading off to New Tribes.
At work things are going well for the most part. I found out that the job that I do is one of hardest ones out there at Cessna. So I don’t feel so bad that it takes a long time to learn what I need to be doing.
Ok now here you go…. I have been asked by a number of people about what I thought of Pirates of the Caribbean 2. So here is what I thought….
First off I most say I had very high expectations for this movie. I had faith in the writers and the director. We knew the characters of the movie well. That being said, I felt the movie did not compare to the first one in the quality of the story. But in special effects it far surpassed its predecessor. I would have to say over all my biggest regret about the movie was they didn't keep it family-friendly.
I originally didn't want you see the first pirates of the Caribbean, specifically because I thought it would have to do with witchcraft/supernatural forces, be kind of a goofy, and have an unrealistic storyline. I was very blown away when I watched the first one by how wrong I was.
Well back to the sequel. As I began to watch the movie, in the opening sequence I was filled with anticipation and wonder. What would it be like? Five minutes into the movie I got my answer. I realized the movie was going to be much, much darker than the first, and more graphic and violent, as when the ravens were eating the men's flesh in the cage and then completely pick out their eyes and fly away with them. That in it self was rather disturbing because that raven’s plucking scene was more graphic than the one from the passion of the Christ which was an R-rated movie.
At the end of the movie I could deftly say that Jerry Bruckheimer made excellent Jerry Bruckheimer movie. As for been sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean with the family-friendly series of humor and morals, I was rather disappointed.
Again the CG effects in the movie were unbelievable! The way they would seamlessly cut between the actors and the CG characters! Hans Zimmerman did an excellent scoring job again! I am huge fan of his! Some of the choreographed sword fight sequences were unbelievable. I would have to rate them as probably the hardest and well carried out sword fights I've ever seen on screen. I specially enjoyed the Wheel of Fortune sword fight scene and the two swords for three people.
Probably the most disappointing thing for me in the movie was the addition of witchcraft to the story. This might seem funny when the first movie had to do with curses, but in reality they did not go into that much witchcraft.
Also I'm not a fan of lover’s triangles. Don't even get me started on the suppose sea battle! Watching 5 five ships and their crews get knocked off by a big squid is not a sea battle!
Which brings me to the one area of the film with CG from failed. Every movie has it.
You have spent all these millions of dollars to perfect every CG scene, but they still mess up one scene. In X-3 it was the shot where Archangel saves his dad and flys away. In the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe it was the scene where Lucy and Susan are on as Aslan's back, and Pirates of the Caribbean 2 it was the moment when that creature came up behind Jack Sparrow while he was just getting the handcuffs off. Now granted it looked wonderful when he jumped in his mouth but it is a pet peeve of mine that they spend all that money and time and they screw up one scene.
Oh…Excuse me “Captain Jack Sparrow”
In conclusion the story was not at fault. I felt it was in the way the Director approached the film. He pulled away from the elements that made the first one so successful. If he would have taken the approach he did in the first film I believe that I would have enjoyed this movie much more than the first.
Here are the movies that I have seen this year in the theater. The favorite to lest favorite.
1. Hoodwink
2. Mission impossible three
3. X3
4. Pirates of the Caribbean 2
This list probably won’t be this way much longer, since “World Trade Center's” comes out on the 9th. The next being Fly Boys September 29th.
Well anyway…. about the math book being wrong!
If you don't know, when I was growing up I did Saxon math.
Saxon math books didn't always agree with the answer book. So every single time I got a math problem wrong I would immediately assume that the math book was wrong. It was kind of a joke growing up with our family that the math book was wrong.
Well to day at work I was reminded of that. I found a discrepancy between two blueprints, and talked to the M.E. about it, and got them to talk to the engineer, which in turn changed the blueprints. The book was wrong! I thought, I believed, it was proved.
Well here is your long xanga from Logan.
