Was the biggest waste of $10 EVER. It says something that I liked frocking Spiderman more than I liked this movie and I generally loathe that whiny git. As I walked out of the theatre all I could think was about how I could have spent those three hours of my life downloading porn, jacking off and restructuring my mutual funds account. I resent any time spent away from masturbating and/or lying around like a beached sea elephant in my hovel reading New York Times Business and weeping tears about how I’m going to be frocking THIRTY when I go back to get my MBA (which will only happen if I get into a Harvard quality school, anyway).
I’m just going to pretend the sequels never happened. The original was cheeky escapist fare with Johnny Depp’s charming performance elevating it from B-movie status to genuine clarrrrr-sic. The sequels are a senseless pastiche of stunts strung together with the intent to capitalise on the original (with as much merchandising as humanly possible). It reminds me of how the first season of Nick and Jessica was downright hilarious because she was a totally unwitting idiot, but every season after that found her trying to ”force” the funny. Same deal as every subsequent season of The Osbournes.
Save your money. Go see Knocked Up instead. Even the crabby pinkos at NYT gave it several thumbs up.
June 4, 2007 at 1:12 pm
But wait. Wouldn’t Johnny Depp actually HELP with your masturbation dilemma??
I mean, come on – Tobey Maguire vs. Johnny Depp? No contest there!
June 4, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Knocked Up was GREAT. I’d highly recommend it.
About the sequels sucking, there are sequels made for the sake of sequels, and then there are DISNEY sequels. They just seem to go out of their way to make horrible sequels. Let’s see… (got this off a website, I’m not that much of a Disney crazy hoo-haa)
Lion King II
The Return of Jafar (Aladdin II)
Aladdin and the King of Thieves
Pocahantas II
Lion King II
Cinderella II
Little Mermaid II
Lady and the Tramp II
I haven’t seen ANY of these, but have read about a handful of them and they were disgusting. It never ends… Why should Pirates be any different?
PS – I haven’t mentioned any Pixar films cuz they aren’t Disney, they’re PIXAR!
June 4, 2007 at 2:32 pm
To be fair, the stuff Doodle lists is direct-to-video cheapo stuff made by Disney’s TV Animation department rather than the Feature Animation department, which is a VAST difference in terms of technical quality.
I guess I’m in the minority in liking the “Pirates” sequels. Yeah, they’re poorly written – but the first one wasn’t really Shakespeare, y’know? I don’t think there’s that much difference between the first one and the sequels – I think the original has an over-inflated reputation for greatness because it was so much better than anyone expected a movie based on a theme park ride to be.
June 4, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Ugh, I saw Pirates this weekend, too. I was inclined to skip it, but my husband wanted to “give it a chance.” It’s really sad when a movie with that much action manages to bore you half to death. I couldn’t have cared less about what happened to any of the characters.
On the other hand, I saw “Waitress” the previous evening and it was great. I’m looking forward to seeing “Knocked Up” as soon as possible.
June 4, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Hey, what’s wrong with being in school in the 30s????????
June 4, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Working, nothing
. But I guess I feel that I’ve already spent so much money on the law degree that the prospect of more school, especially now that I make decent wages and enjoy the benefits of such, makes me feel really guilty. Hence why I’ve put so many qualifications on going back…I need to get over a 700 on the GMATs and I’m only going to go to a Top 15, ultimately Top 10 quality school. I don’t know if I’m Top 10-15 quality but I came pretty damn close for law school so I’m going to try.
June 5, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Going back to school at 30? That’s not a good age to be doing that. I waited until I was 31.
June 5, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Considering the limits I have on it (GMAT score over 700, acceptance to Top 10 MBA program) the chances are that I won’t be going back at all. I already have a graduate degree and a career-I’ll only spend the money if it’s a “sure thing”, also known as, “I got into Harvard”.
June 6, 2007 at 1:54 am
I just wanted to say THANK JEEBUS you’re back blogging.
June 7, 2007 at 2:58 pm
I meant that as a joke, as in 30 is young. Go for it.