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Last Thursday night, I stupidly risked exhaustion and relapse by going went with esrblog to see "Pirates of the Caribbean 3--At World's End.

I rather enjoyed it. The plot neatly tied up the threads woven by POTC 2, and had amazing mythic resonance for a story loosely stitched together from stray mythological bits. Keith Richards does indeed show up for a cameo, though his performance is so low key it almost went by without my noticing.

POTC 3 doesn't have the silly fun of POTC 2, or even as much active swashbuckling, but I thought it was a satisfying third chapter to the story. To explain further will involve substantial spoilers, so I will put the rest of this under an lj-cut.

( Sail on from here )

Yes, tonight I finally had a chance to see the must-see movie of the summer: Pirates of the Caribbean 2--Dead Man's Chest.

I was pleasantly surprised. Though the action dragged in a couple of spots, the plot hung together much better than had the lashed-up script of the original Pirates movie.
Orlando Bloom got plenty of opportunities to swash some buckle instead of having to be virtuous 100% of the time, and Keira Knightly actually got to do some swashing as well.

Although most of the rest of what I have to say has extremely limited spoiler capacity, I will put the rest of my remarks under an lj-cut. However, if you haven't seen the movie but plan to, I do have one suggestion. Sit through all of the credits; there's a short scene that follows them that you shouldn't miss.

( Spoiler bait here. )