Yarr!! Always room for a new Pirate! * I like yer style, Monstre. Tho, I be mightily disturbed by yer spellin’, don’t ye know…
*also contains links to the original PotC review thread
Well, remember, this was a curse set down by heathen gods. Heathen gods tend to have a fetish for “first-born children”.
I actually got quite annoyed in a Livejournal community after the fifteenth or twentieth person asked why Jack didn’t go all skeletonized in the beginning of the movie but he did at the end. I posted in bold, all-caps, the internet equivalent (for me) of speaking very loud and very slowly. I really don’t see how people could have missed Jack taking the coin from the chest, considering there was a very close-up-on-his-hands, slightly-slow-motion shot of him tossing some of the coins back into the chest but carefully pocketing one of them. Maybe everybody got up and went to the bathroom during that scene.
I have given up on being annoyed over other peoples’ lack of attention; my dedication to this movie is pathetic and unusual, so I can’t expect everyone to know every detail of it.
Racinchikki: For those who didn’t get the plot of the movie as (ahem) we did, well, let’s just recommend they go see it again. Cause I don’t mind this particular blockbuster making lots of money. It was so darn enjoyable.
PS to all - the question of what did indeed happen to Bootstrap would be addressed in a sequel, I suppose. As much as I love POTC, I really don’t believe in sequels. The magic is almost never recaptured.
One prevailing theory is that Bootstrap is still alive and wandering around the Caribbean, and that he’ll be back in the sequel. If this happens to be the case, then I’m very worried… that could easily turn out to be very, very lame. At least, it was lame in all the POTC fanfics that have been written so far (god, I detest fanfics).
I doubt it’ll be as good, but then, Lethal Weapon 2 was better than the first…
And yet you keep reading them! God, I love you and your bullheadedness! 
I’d say we can count on Bootstrap showing up in a sequel. (But who the hell looks enough like Orlando Bloom to play his dad?) I call the odds on irredemable suckage at 3:1, maybe, though that would swing wildly depending on casting. And, of course on other plot devices. For instance, if they pull out an old saw like “It’s several years along the line and Will and Elizabeth have a mischevious kid,” (otherwise known as the Short Round Event Horizon) the suck vs. no-suck deal moves up to even money, Johnny Depp notwithstanding.
Junie,
writing fic that doesn’t suck. Of course, it doesn’t have Bootstrap, though. He’s like the Red Badge of Suckitude.
Well, alot of cultures thought that you had the same blood as your parents. Think of the term “blood relative.”
Because two hours worth of “pirate skeletons walking underwater to find Bootstrap Bill” footage would have been both boring and confusing.
This was way more fun to watch!
I was able to figure it out; however, I missed Barbosa’s explanation of the whole Aztec gold thing because a little kid behind me was literally yelling “The food is poisoned! Poison mommy! Poison.”
Maybe those people were in the theater with me. :smack:
We can only hope he was talking about his popcorn…