Pirate night out
May. 26th, 2007 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skull_bearerIt's always fun when you go all out on something. When my friends and I decided to go and watch Pirates of the Carribean3, we decided to go all out, we would dress up as pirates, we would shout pirate things, and we would smuggle run into the cinema. The result? One of the best nights out I've had in a while (even though I got to bed at 8am and woke at 4, still with a hangover). On Wednesday we went pirate shopping at Camden to buy appropriate pirate gear. I ended up wearing a three-corner hat with a sash wrapped around it, a shawl with skeletons on them over a white shirt, black pants made of various types of material, pirate boots, and a whole bunch of belts and sashes. Oh yes, and serious jewellery. Oh yes, and a toy sword and a waterskin (rumskin more like ;) I was Captain (my real name is Morgane so it couldn't be otherwise).
waset was cabin boy. Joey was first mate, and his boyfriend Ben was our figurehead (he'd bought a plastic deer-head and was wearing it over his own for reasons incomprehesible, he was the freakiest of all of us).Before going out we'd bought a bottle of rum from the best shop ever. We call it the 'Kingdom of Drink' and it has every kind of alcohol imaginable. We went in, and asked for some 'proper pirate rum', the guy barely had to think, and gave us some Carribean spiced rum (dark, of course). Some of the nicest rum we ever drank. Everyone had flasks and waterskins to smuggle the stuff into the cinema, and we sat happily in the third row, getting completely plastered and waving our various swords and pistols at the screen (it was a midnight showing and there weren't many people to get annoyed at our antics)
The film was.... well, bear in mind that I see the last two 'Pirates' films as fanfiction of the original, so whatever they do to the characters or plot doesn't really impact on my version of canon. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I'd heard the ending wouldn't be typical Hollywood, and my reaction was to sigh and think 'they're going to have the pirates lose, aren't they?' I was very glad to be wrong, and even happier that not only did my two favourite characters (Jack Sparrow and Barbossa) survive more or less unscathed, but one of the two characters I hate (Will Turner and Elizabeth) died. HAH! Take that soppy Hollywood crap! I also liked the film because there was actually quite a bit less of the 'soppy Hollywood crap' this time around. Although the marriage scene did make me want to shoot the entire cast and especially the scriptwriters and most of all Kiera Nightly and Orlando Bloom. ACT! You are actors! Act! But apparently they can't. Grrr... I hate them sooo much. And one of them dies. Huzzah.
Oh yeah, Norrington. Totally didn't deserved to die like that. Didn't deserve to die at all, actually. He was cool.
The plot... by what I can remember of it (which isn't much, the rum was pretty strong and we were taking it straight) it didn't make much sense and there were plot points popping out everywhere. But it did tie into some kind of ending and it was a great ride, so if you hang your disbelief at the door, it's a lot of fun. The end fight was so goddam cool (except for the marriage scene of which the less said the better).
Elizabeth Swann... Biggest Mary-Sue ever. So. Much. Hate. Die. Just die horribly and made the floor slick with blood. Die. Somebody please kill her?
Will Turner... You would be more bearable if your actor could, you know, act. And if the script writers could decided what your character actually was, because you know, you were acting crazier than Jack Sparrow.
And on that topic: Jack Sparrow... You were stark raving mad, but I found you character far truer to the first film than the second, where you were basically butchered, and not in a nice way. Thank you for not dying and making the film worth watching.
Barbossa: Your name is Hector *squees* I never realised how much I'd missed not having you in the second film until you turned up at the end. You were so kick-arse I really don't know where to start. I love you.
So yeah, I throughly enjoyed it, but it was the rum that made the film (and had us happily quoting 'why's the run gone?' by the end, seeing as we had drunk it all by then). I was also finding it hard to walk.
Fucking brilliant evening.
Oh yeah, Norrington. Totally didn't deserved to die like that. Didn't deserve to die at all, actually. He was cool.
The plot... by what I can remember of it (which isn't much, the rum was pretty strong and we were taking it straight) it didn't make much sense and there were plot points popping out everywhere. But it did tie into some kind of ending and it was a great ride, so if you hang your disbelief at the door, it's a lot of fun. The end fight was so goddam cool (except for the marriage scene of which the less said the better).
Elizabeth Swann... Biggest Mary-Sue ever. So. Much. Hate. Die. Just die horribly and made the floor slick with blood. Die. Somebody please kill her?
Will Turner... You would be more bearable if your actor could, you know, act. And if the script writers could decided what your character actually was, because you know, you were acting crazier than Jack Sparrow.
And on that topic: Jack Sparrow... You were stark raving mad, but I found you character far truer to the first film than the second, where you were basically butchered, and not in a nice way. Thank you for not dying and making the film worth watching.
Barbossa: Your name is Hector *squees* I never realised how much I'd missed not having you in the second film until you turned up at the end. You were so kick-arse I really don't know where to start. I love you.
So yeah, I throughly enjoyed it, but it was the rum that made the film (and had us happily quoting 'why's the run gone?' by the end, seeing as we had drunk it all by then). I was also finding it hard to walk.
Fucking brilliant evening.