I was in line at the video store yesterday and overheard this conversation:
“Let’s rent Pirates of the Caribbean!”
“Oh, no. I heard good things about it but I won’t watch it with that ugly man in there.”
WTF??? Ugly man??? I assumed she was talking about Barbossa (who is NOT ugly, rather yummy actually.) But even if she rated movies this way, surely the loveliness that is Johnny and Orlando would cancel him out. How are cursed zombie pirates supposed to look anyway? Nice and pretty? Eeeesh.
Ah. Here I was all set to explain how the genetic engineering and careful manipulation done during embryonic development rendered the Jango Fett copies capable of perfect assimilation of nutrients with no waste products whatsoever.
Which is the reason you won’t see poop of the clones.
Here I was expecting someone who was mystified by the position that a film based on a ride at Disneyland is, on principle, a bad idea. I really should have known better.
I do have high hopes for next summer’s It’s a Small World, though.
I thought Orlando Bloom was actually very blah looking in this movie. Nothing great. The Gareth guy from “The Office” is even more repellent in this, but his part is pretty small, I don’t know if she was talking about him. The most attractive one was the, uh, Military Jerk Guy, you know, Steve from “Coupling”.