Cruel Summer

I have now come to believe that the entire fate of the summer movie season will be resting on the shoulders of Harry Potter and The Order Of The Phoenix. Well, that one, a few indies and maybe Live Free or Die Hard...or whatever Die Hard 4 is called.

As you can tell by the picture, I went and saw Pirates 3. I could almost end the review right there to be truthful. Here's what I liked. The big battle sequence at the end was fairly impressive (although it was way too long). Seeing Chow Yun Fat in digital projection was pretty sweet.

That's about it.

Sorry gang. The movie is too damn long. The plot is weak. The best part of the flicks, Capt. Jack and his insane humor, seemed to be missing for a good portion of the movie. The balance between funny and serious falls too often on the serious side, but the plot strains under the attempt at creating an emotionally charged movie. The sequence involving Jack being trapped in the purgatory that is Davy Jones' locker could have been trimmed; it just got boring to be honest. The Keith Richards cameo was a lost opportunity.

I just didn't like it. I don't think I feel the amount of disappointment I felt about Spiderman 3, but the disappointment is still there. The movies are based off of a freakin' theme park ride for goodness sake! Mid-way through Pirates 2 we decided to shift to doing Das Boot and we seem to get stuck there.

I did, however, get to see a trailer for The Golden Compass and it looked amazing.

Just a quick FYI, I'm on vacation this week so the blogs may be a bit sparse unless I do something more exciting with my time than take down the curtains and wash them. I am planning on going to see Waitress. Hopefully it will save my faith in cinema.

WATCH IT:

Meatballs is coming to DVD on June 5th and I am completely freakin' excited. Bill Murray is a god. Revisit the days when the coming of age flick was still a bit innocent and pretty damn funny. Plus, there's a fun song to sing.

LISTEN TO IT:

Oasis--Don't Believe The Truth I've been listening to this as I've been typing tonight. I'm currently on the last song "Let There Be Love." I've always been a little perplexed by how much I love Oasis, yet I'm not that much of a Beatles fan. Weird.