Am I the only one who is disappointed that this isn’t a movie about REAL pirates? For whom Johnny Depp and Orland Bloom dressed like an NC Wyeth illustration do nothing?
And is this the very first time I was disappointed that a movie had zombies?
Johnny Depp can shiver me timbers any time he likes.
Yo-ho, Yo-ho a pirate’s life for me…
'Course not! I’ve got the entire thread as me crew, don’t I?!
Good title, that. I understand during test screenings, they tried out it under the name “Pirates of Lake Michigan”, but it didn’t get nearly the positive reaction.
Does he throw them out? Does he see how they roll?
OK, I’ll go away now.
I am bathing myself in all this pirate love. Yarr matey, where’s rubber duckie?
It opens in a week and I’m about to fall out of my chair with excitment. Johnny! Orlando! Keira! Zombie Pirates! Swash Buckling! Gold teeth! It’s like they’ve been reading my diary.
Looking forward to this, but I must ask, what is with Johnny and the eye-liner? I went through the gallery at the site, and it just got more and more ott. Is this a tale of cross-dressing curehead pirates? Or is Johnny just clinging desperatly to the his pretty-boy look?
giggle snort
It’s a little known fact that Johnny is attempting to recreate the life of a pirate known as Lackbeard. Inspired by his hero, Blackbeard, who was known to tie cannon fuses in to his beard and light them on fire to terrify his enemies, Lackbeard decided to do the same. Unfortunately, as his name makes clear, he wasn’t able to grow a beard to do so, and instead chose to tie the fuses to his long, girly eyelashes. Hence the black eyeliner, representing the burns of the fuses…
Okay, I have to ask. Are any STRAIGHT males planning to see this movie?
I’m straight as a plank, matey, and nothin’ could keep me from oogling Keira Knightly for a couple o’ hours…
Arrrrr!!!
Yes, but I am pretty much contractually obligated to as the head guy at MousePlanet.com.
This is a bit of a vanity link, but I thought we ran a couple interesting article this week highlighting the upstairs/downstairs nature of a movie premiere.
Straight as a cannon, Dropzone…
And I’ll not write the rest of what I was just thinkin!
Well, that’s good. I was afraid I’d be alone in the theater, surrounded by people swooning over the prettiest elf in a pirate shirt.
Hey–you’d know this: When is National Talk Like a Pirate Day?
Johnny Depp is dressed like that because he be playin’ the Dread Pirate Revlon, arr.
So it’s a pirate movie. With pirates that turn into rotting corpses by moonlight. WHAT"S NOT TO LIKE???
Last time I looked, I was straight—but it’s been a while (long story).
I’ll be going not for Depp or Bloom, but to see Geoffrey Rush as a pirate. There aren’t many actors who can take a character (caricature?) to the very limit without falling into the proverbial vat o’ cheese, and he’s one.
Granted. The day after I saw “From Dusk Till Dawn” I remarked to a friend how great it was.
“It’s about topless Mexican vampires. How could it be ‘great?’”
“It’s about topless Mexican vampires. How could it NOT be ‘great?’”
And believe it or not, based on the advance screenings, the movie’s actually supposed to be pretty good. Surprisingly so, even. Depp is reported to be fantastic.
Arrr!
(I played a pirate in J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. Covered my face in scars and went out into the audience and scared the piss out of the little kids. In a good way.)
We’ve gotten this far and still no one has mentioned Keira Knightly’s status as sexiest tomboy beanpole on the planet? Tsk-tsk! I thought that was required by law.
Might be because I’ve never heard of her. Might be because she’s too young for me. Might be because finding a tomboy attractive when she’s surrounded by flaming pirate types might confuse me.