tonight we virtually rewatched potc: the curse of the black pearl nearly two decades after seeing it in theaters as obsessive middle schoolers, and our rewatch yielded the following thoughts:
- the sequels never understood that what made this film great was the dynamic and arc between jack and will, a character who is 100% overly earnest naïveté and a character who is 100% irony, sarcasm, and self interest learning to care about each other
- elizabeth and will = peak magnetic YEARNING
- the comedic timing in this film is unmatched all around
- jack and will sword fight scene is matched only by its predecessor, the princess bride sword fight, which makes sense because they had the same fight choreographer
- this soundtrack still slaps, like the pirate music is so good that you can overlook the bad CGI
- as eleven year olds we did not understand how fucking good geoffrey rush is as barbossa?? he makes you intensely feel the villain death scene
- we stand by all of the iconic lines that were absorbed into our vocabulary for years
- future shows and films that made orlando bloom dark and brooding and gritty (cough cough carnival row) did not understand that we turn to orli for doe-eyed earnestness that gradually BECOMES brooding
- this movie holds up 100% (as a movie in its own world, removing the future weirdness surrounding johnny depp and the jack sparrow character), we have some intense nostalgia for #2, and #3 is where the franchise started truly going off the rails, thank you for coming to our ted talk
