Pirates 3: At World's End

blueerica · 05-19-2007, 07:39 PM

A good friend of mine will be at the premiere.... nowish.

Haha.

Tref · 05-19-2007, 11:45 PM

I can't wait to miss it!

Oh wait, I promised my friends I'd go with them to see Pirates. Damn.

Parts I & II reminded me a bit of every uber budget comedy from Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines to Spielberg's 1941. In other words, enjoyable in a sort of Dialing-For-Dollars-Sunday-afternoon UHF-tv movie way. I fear the third will be no different.

Babette · 05-19-2007, 11:51 PM

NM and I accidentially ended up there. We had three hours to kill near Anaheim this afternoon. Arrived at the resort around 3:00, saw the signs that DL closed at 5pm and simultaneously said "Oh ****!" as we both realized the madness we were going to encounter. We got in no problem, but many passholders were turned away for not having a handstamp. Apparently this was the only day in history you need a renentry handstamp even though you carry a pass with your photo printed on it. Some very unhappy APers.

We got up Main Street without any problem. Due to my quick (30 second) sidetrack near the hub, we arrived at the Adventureland entrance a moment after it closed. We went into Fantasyland, checked out Nemo, rode Matterhorn, Pan, Buzz, and Space with no wait. They took us off the track at the end of Matterhorn with a promise of a second ride. Then the CM got into panic mode screaming at guests to unbuckle and get off. They took a few other bobsleds off as the ride was shut down. We did not get our second ride, and could see a big bobsled backup. It seems they put too many onto the tracks and they were afraid of them bumping at the end.

Nemo had a few people in the queue and hoods up on the subs. We speculated it was a test run with DL bigwigs and families, or maybe they were going to let celebs ride after the movie.

Well, we decided to leave and avoid the red carpet, but of course we got sucked in. We saw castmembers freaking out over dummy heads standing on fences, weird people who camped out for 10 hours frustrated that we walked up and had the same view as them, 6 foot 5 men holding their children on the shoulders, girls going ga-ga, piles of unattended purses, bags and backpacks, and a million cameras in the air hoping to get a good shot of the "who is that" walking by. The funny thing is we didn't have a camera or camera phone with us. No photos.

(BTW - When I say "saw" I mean glimpse, top of head, back of head, far away, through armpits, behind trees, under bright lights in eyes.) We saw that Hanging with Mr. Cooper guy Mark something, Chad Michael Murry, Apollo Ono, Joey Fatone, Cuba Gooding Jr, Kobe, Carlos from Desperate Housewives and some other cute guys and gals the rest of the crowd seemed to recognize. Our best and closest views were of Geoffrey Rush with the Monkey and Gore Verbinski. A few times we were walking out to leave and found another decent spot to watch, so we "saw" a few more celebs. Finally as we were near the front of Main Street, we saw Orlando and Johnny. At that point we were able to leave satisfied, and avoided the mass exidous.

We left as soon as we glimpsed Johnny (yes, he looked cute) and made it back to our other engagement only 2 hours late. They still served us dinner as we listened to Dave Foley emcee a hilarious auction. We had a good day. Now I am going to bed.

05-19-2007, 07:39 PM	#1
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Tref Not Tref Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,188	I can't wait to miss it! Oh wait, I promised my friends I'd go with them to see Pirates. Damn. Parts I & II reminded me a bit of every uber budget comedy from Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines to Spielberg's 1941. In other words, enjoyable in a sort of Dialing-For-Dollars-Sunday-afternoon UHF-tv movie way. I fear the third will be no different. __________________ Tref3.0 Listen in aural 3-D to Pop's muzak! (New songs added semi-bi-daily) j & j Did you know that Emas eht yltcaxe is exactly the same spelled backwards?!
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05-19-2007, 11:51 PM	#3
Babette Snubbed Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: cupcake heaven Posts: 433	NM and I accidentially ended up there. We had three hours to kill near Anaheim this afternoon. Arrived at the resort around 3:00, saw the signs that DL closed at 5pm and simultaneously said "Oh ***!" as we both realized the madness we were going to encounter. We got in no problem, but many passholders were turned away for not having a handstamp. Apparently this was the only day in history you need a renentry handstamp even though you carry a pass with your photo printed on it. Some very unhappy APers. We got up Main Street without any problem. Due to my quick (30 second) sidetrack near the hub, we arrived at the Adventureland entrance a moment after it closed. We went into Fantasyland, checked out Nemo, rode Matterhorn, Pan, Buzz, and Space with no wait. They took us off the track at the end of Matterhorn with a promise of a second ride. Then the CM got into panic mode screaming at guests to unbuckle and get off. They took a few other bobsleds off as the ride was shut down. We did not get our second ride, and could see a big bobsled backup. It seems they put too many onto the tracks and they were afraid of them bumping at the end. Nemo had a few people in the queue and hoods up on the subs. We speculated it was a test run with DL bigwigs and families, or maybe they were going to let celebs ride after the movie. Well, we decided to leave and avoid the red carpet, but of course we got sucked in. We saw castmembers freaking out over dummy heads standing on fences, weird people who camped out for 10 hours frustrated that we walked up and had the same view as them, 6 foot 5 men holding their children on the shoulders, girls going ga-ga, piles of unattended purses, bags and backpacks, and a million cameras in the air hoping to get a good shot of the "who is that" walking by. The funny thing is we didn't have a camera or camera phone with us. No photos. (BTW - When I say "saw" I mean glimpse, top of head, back of head, far away, through armpits, behind trees, under bright lights in eyes.) We saw that Hanging with Mr. Cooper* guy Mark something, Chad Michael Murry, Apollo Ono, Joey Fatone, Cuba Gooding Jr, Kobe, Carlos from Desperate Housewives and some other cute guys and gals the rest of the crowd seemed to recognize. Our best and closest views were of Geoffrey Rush with the Monkey and Gore Verbinski. A few times we were walking out to leave and found another decent spot to watch, so we "saw" a few more celebs. Finally as we were near the front of Main Street, we saw Orlando and Johnny. At that point we were able to leave satisfied, and avoided the mass exidous. We left as soon as we glimpsed Johnny (yes, he looked cute) and made it back to our other engagement only 2 hours late. They still served us dinner as we listened to Dave Foley emcee a hilarious auction. We had a good day. Now I am going to bed.
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