Get It Off Your (Dead Man's) Chest: Pirates Movie Reviews

innerSpaceman · 07-14-2006, 06:57 PM

Sorry I only get to respond once a year. Shell guy and HammerheadMan were both way too distracting for my particular tastes.

Going back (sorry) to the Black Pearl curse, I must most forcefully disagree with Alex. The curse is explained by Barbossa as the moon showing how the crew really are. Am I to assume that the crew have no option but to dress in raggedy clothing? They have tons of pirate swag in their hold, but even Babossa cannot buy a new suit?

It's not a matter of what they demonstrated, or that they didn't stop to explain it. They did stop to explain it, but the explanation makes no frelling sense. Raggedy clothes is a cartoon concept we are asked to overlook, and to overlook despite the fact that a main character explained the curse otherwise.

As for the squid crew, the obvious cartoon element is that there's only one Hammerhead and one Seashell guy, etc. Are we to assume that the damnation functions in an elimination fashion? So that if a particular sea creature is already "taken," you are damned to choose someone else to either meld with over time or have on your dodgeball team?

Alex · 07-15-2006, 12:53 AM

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

It's not a matter of what they demonstrated, or that they didn't stop to explain it. They did stop to explain it, but the explanation makes no frelling sense.

I just don't see the problem here. I also don't see why you have no problem with Superman having infinite strength (which creates infinite tensile strength in the object lifted), and in fact dismiss such complaints as meaningless nitpicking but find this to be some major gaping flaw.

07-14-2006, 06:57 PM	#1
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Sorry I only get to respond once a year. Shell guy and HammerheadMan were both way too distracting for my particular tastes. Going back (sorry) to the Black Pearl curse, I must most forcefully disagree with Alex. The curse is explained by Barbossa as the moon showing how the crew really are. Am I to assume that the crew have no option but to dress in raggedy clothing? They have tons of pirate swag in their hold, but even Babossa cannot buy a new suit? It's not a matter of what they demonstrated, or that they didn't stop to explain it. They did stop to explain it, but the explanation makes no frelling sense. Raggedy clothes is a cartoon concept we are asked to overlook, and to overlook despite the fact that a main character explained the curse otherwise. As for the squid crew, the obvious cartoon element is that there's only one Hammerhead and one Seashell guy, etc. Are we to assume that the damnation functions in an elimination fashion? So that if a particular sea creature is already "taken," you are damned to choose someone else to either meld with over time or have on your dodgeball team?
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