Dead Man’s Chest - I Watched it Again
November 5th, 2007 by Bill
Yes, I watched Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest again last night. It was the second time I’ve watched it. It didn’t come across quite so well seeing it this second time. (Actually, it didn’t come across that well the first time either.)
The movie is certainly fun to watch. But it’s really just a collection of set pieces: elaborate action scenes or elaborate designs. But not much of the film was story or, at least, coherent story. It seemed.
It wasn’t until the end of the movie that I realized why this was. The reason was simple: The movie Dead Man’s Chest is all exposition. The entire movie is the setup for the movie that follows it. The End of the World. Or whatever the hell that next movie is called. (I just checked: it’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, due out on DVD December 4th. Hey, I was close. In the ballpark, at least.)
So while the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is certainly interesting visually, if a bit long, overall it’s a rather tedious and, um, loud.
I’ll say this though: The movie is directed by Gore Verbinski, who is one of my favorite directors. One of the reasons I like him as a director so much is because even when he is making a boring movie he manages to make it interesting. Yes, that is a contradictory statement. But it seems to be a true one.
No, I don’t understand it. But that’s the movies.
(btw … It appears I loved the first movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.)
One last note:
The entire post reads somewhat awkwardly. This may be because I tried dictating the entire thing. I’ve added Dragon Naturally Speaking, speech recognition software, to one of my laptops and decided to give it a spin. So I didn’t write this post, I spoke it. These are the early stages so the jury is still out on what I think of it. The software, that is.
