Yes, I’m sure everyone is just dying to hear my opinion about a movie (everyone is a movie critic, it would seem).
I certainly enjoyed the movie immensly, I have some minor quibbles / areas of discussion:
1. The End:
I was disappointed by the clean, neat ending. I found the governor’s sudden change of approval to go beyond by suspension of disbelief. A far better ending would have involved Captain Sparrow helping Mr. Bloom run away for adventure, and of coure Elizabeth would have to abscond to chase after him. Much better.
2. Will’s Father:
So far I have been the only one to notice that by dropping the bloody gold in the chest and disenchanting the curse, Will also sealed his father to a grisly fate of drowning at the bottom of the ocean. I wonder why this was not addressed at least in passing? Too depressing?
In other news, having major thoughts about my future and my career (being very dissatisfied with the direction, while still used to the income. I really need to see what I do not like and work to change that. Would another company be better for me [as I abhor my current one to the point of contempt], or is the industry all the same? Am I tired of concentrating on Microsoft Technologies, or am I a tech burn-out altogether? I remember liking a mix of platforms better – I miss my unix skills. (though being MS-friendly, I certainly do not miss the Loonix loosers and Maclot iTards. note: these are subsets of idior fanatics, not general proponent of said platforms).
Pretty much I guess I am depressed by my career and do not know what to do about it.
Here is a thought though
I think the fact that I am so happy and pleased and satisfied with my relationship with
Ah well, quite a long ramble.
1) They foreshadowed that her dad wasn’t a Cardboard Rat Bastard Father when he was trying to talk to her through the door, questioning her decision to marry Norrington. I was actually pleased they subverted his CRBF character and didn’t do the ending I was expecting (the same as you).
2) Clint noticed that too, althoug he said it’s probably an improvement because the guy is probably insane by now. However, I thought that his father was blown to bits by the cannon (bits that then went down to Davy Jones’ locker). Don’t know about that one. (Must re-watch! =D)
I have exactly the same problem.
I hate it here, it is sucking the soul out of me one joyous moment at a time. I clearly do not belong here, I stick out like gaudily-dressed sore thumb.
We cannot however live without the money I bring in – what to do?
I have currently resigned myself to working on what I want to work on for the moments that I have them and tell myself that the situation will change eventually if I chip away at it a little at a time.
Of course I reserve the right to change my mind if these folks start chapping my ass and blow this popsicle stand at a moments notice.
I have to agree about the ending. Despite some well thought out foreshadowing, the 180 reversal of attitude toward a match-up with a commoner went quite beyond my ability to suspend my disbelief.
On the matter of Will’s father I thought about it immediately. There are two possibilites that I saw:
A. He is finally granted the peace of a watery grave. Clearly there is no way to retrieve him from the bottom of the ocean.
B. Since he’s undead and has nothing but time, he may well have freed himself and be running around having a good, old time as a scary-monster pirate and now he’s mortal again and can go back to raping with his pillaging.
I like this idea the best! Plus, it really leaves the whole sequel thing nice and open–it turns out that Will’s father had freed himself and was trying to make his way back to Will when he got turned non-zombie. I hope he’s hot.
If I know Disney (and I do) they have all the good stars locked into slavery contracts for at least a sequel. Which I think is pretty likely, given the cash it has brought in so far. {Heather does the Happy Pirate Movie Dance]
This is such a hard issue, you and I have discussed it a lot. I do think our contentment with each other and our home life leads to a certain amount of apathy about career changes. Because you have to be really uncomfortable to make a change–remember how much I was starting to hate it at AVE, enough that I was willing to give up a lot of tech to work here?
I think for both of us we really need to see the jobs as a way to pay for us to do what we “really” want (whatever that is, we both have ideas) and not as an end in itself. And then put actually time and energy into achieving our other goals, which will make us rich and then we can quit. Or something.
Oh, and you need a new job, one where you can respect where you work and not hate each day. That’s a spirit killer.
I figured that Will’s father did not take the gold out of the chest himself, and hence was not touched by the curse. The talk about him having a clouded conscience over the mutiny, and the pirates killing him could corroborate that. What I do not quite understand is the blood sacrifice – where did that come in? Why and how? None of them bleed, so that also implies will father could still bleed and was hence the only one who could save them…
Oh! And if you need a homewrecker that badly, I could volunteer, I guess >:-)
Problem solved!
And again!
Heather Headhuntress 🙂
That Pixar one is below my salary reqs, I’m sure, but the other one is definitely interesting.
I have worked with an ADIC scalar 1000 before, too!
Dammit, that’s right!
I mean, I think I’d rather be working hard on a farm or something low-tech if I could do it closer to home or at home building a relationship with my town/community.
and how many times have I told you? Kibbutz, kibbutz, kibbutz! Really though, just prep that resume and show yourself to anyone who’ll look at it. It’s fun, and relatively simple. Not that I know much in the finding a new job field 🙂
-B
oh, and why was WIll’s father the keystone in the whole curse caper anyway? I seem to have missed it.
nanne
2003-07-15 11:46 (link)
I figured that Will’s father did not take the gold out of the chest himself, and hence was not touched by the curse. The talk about him having a clouded conscience over the mutiny, and the pirates killing him could corroborate that. What I do not quite understand is the blood sacrifice – where did that come in? Why and how? None of them bleed, so that also implies will father could still bleed and was hence the only one who could save them…
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Undead insane zombie pirates. I could like that. I’m sure I would have noticed it if I had a chance to see it a second time before chatting with you this morning. Stupid busy weekend.
But I join in the Happy Pirate Movie Dance! Wheeeee!
Because he had sent his one piece of gold off to his son and so the curse couldn’t be lifted without his blood. (The blood thing is because the gold was blood money from the Aztecs to Cortes, which didn’t quite make sense to me, since Cortes butchered the Aztecs…)
Hmmm. I guess I like my job cause I had it long before I had a happy relationship. But it is possible to have both. Although you’d have to find something new to bitch about.
I had the same thought when Jack cuts his own hand before tossing the coin he took back to Will. Jack had already been zombified, he couldn’t bleed on the coin!
Re: Will’s father…isn’tt it likely that all of the zombie pirates had ‘died’ at least once or twice in all the years they were zombies…yet when the curse reversed, those that weren’t *currently* more or less dead, stayed alive and surrendered. We also saw bits and pieces animate apart from the main body, and also regroup, as it were, and zombies walking across the ocean floor. So, I’m going with Will’s father regrouped and walked out of the ocean. Obviously, he didn’t go home to England, so maybe he’s got his own little island somewhere…
I want to know what happened to the pirates after they surrendered. Did they get hung? Did Jack take them on to his crew? Did they just drop them off somewhere??? And what about the rest of the treasure that wasn’t cursed mayan gold…hellovalotta stuff in that thar cave…
Inquiring minds want to know…
A happy home life makes work seem less central, so you’re less inclined to work at changing jobs, moving up, etc. And that emphasises all the things that your job fails to provide (whether it’s interpersonal connection, or intellectual stimulation, or whatever).
And the more of your time the work takes up, the more frustrating it is that something so peripheral and unsatisfying is edging out all the interesting things…
Or I may be projecting, of course. But I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I plan to hop between IT jobs for another 2 years, then bail out for something lower paid but more worthwhile…