{"id":3854,"date":"2006-07-14T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T22:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2006\/07\/14\/potcdmc-random-observations\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T12:37:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T17:37:51","slug":"potcdmc-random-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2006\/07\/14\/potcdmc-random-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates of the Caribbean: DMC &#8211; Random Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s really no point in my writing a full-fledged review of the most successful opening-weekend movie in history. It&#8217;s been reviewed to death, and there&#8217;s nothing I can add that would be edifying in that regard. But I do have a few opinions and observations (don&#8217;t worry, there are no spoilers) that should be worth the price of admission (to this blog, not to the movie), so here goes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Once again, make sure you sit through all the credits and wait for the last scene, which will neatly address a lingering question we had after the movie proper ended. We and one other couple were the only ones to stay and see it.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">In some ways, I preferred the first POTC to this one, as it was less frenetic and, frankly, less silly. What character development occurred in <acronym title=\"Dead Man's Chest\">DMC<\/acronym> served, on the whole, to lessen my affection for the characters.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">The sequel does join the original as a shoo-in for the Most Unappealing Dental Characteristics for its year of release. We noticed in the credits that there was a single individual cited as being in charge of &#8220;dental prosthetics,&#8221; and he was no doubt one of the busiest of the crew members.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">However, the presence of some disturbing scenery in the mouthal area didn&#8217;t stop the Hottie of the Movie nod from going to Tia Dalma, the voodoo lady character played by <a title=\"IMDB.com\" href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0365140\/\">Naomi Harris<\/a>. She&#8217;ll be in POTC 3 next year, and, frankly, you can have Keira.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">Anyone else old enough to still get a bit of chill when the Disney theme music plays at the beginning of a movie? The first movie I can remember seeing was <em>Snow White<\/em>, and that music evokes an older and, in some ways, better time, at least as far as films are concerned.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">Oh, did we like it? Yeah, we <em>really<\/em> liked it&#8230;but, even so, it could have been 30 minutes shorter and thus 50% better. I blame Jerry Bruckheimer, who apparently needed to justify the five (5!) assistants he had for this movie. (Well, what can I say; when you sit through the credits, you might as well read them!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to hear your reactions to the movie. Please put a spoiler label at the front, though, if you give away anything related to the plot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Dead Man&#8217;s Chest&#8221; would have benefitted from some additional editing, but it deserves the huge box office it&#8217;s getting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14300,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854\/revisions\/14300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}