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So I promise one day I'll try to post about something else again, but in the meantime ( I saw 'On Stranger Tides' again today ... )

Brief but spoilery first thoughts on On Stranger Tides below the cut!

( A mermaid, Jack. )

Those of you who have seen it, what did you think?? :)

All apologies, guys, but it looks like the next installment in my series of awesome Pirates entries won't be up until after I return on Thursday. But to tide you over till then, here is the almost-4,000-word essay I wrote about Will's Hero's Journey for the film class I was taking the summer that At World's End was released. I'm not going to claim that this is a fantastic essay, I mean I think you can tell that I wrote it very quickly (and didn't even cite my sources, for shame!!). But I think I did a decent job at pinpointing the different stages of Will's Journey and hopefully it's a somewhat interesting read. I think it'd be fun to map out the Journeys of all the main characters in the trilogy, just to see them all show up as different things in each other's paths. xD

( 'There is a Cost Must Be Paid in the End': The Hero's Journey in the Pirates of the Caribbean Sequels )

In other news, I have acquired an On Stranger Tides poster from my work!! It's totally supposed to go up in the lobby but we already have two standees and a banner promoting this movie, plus a Cars 2 poster and set of window stickers, so my managers have decided the lobby is Disney enough as it is. haha!

Today there was also some talk of me being Cast Member of the Month again, because I worked like three weeks' worth of shifts where I was supposed to have a co-worker to help me and did not ... but as I've already been Cast Member of the Month I can't decide whether my managers are joking about this or not. :X

ON THAT NOTE! See you guys Thursday! :D <3

So as I'm leaving for Disneyland this weekend I've been reading Disneyland forums a lot, and as a result of the On Stranger Tides promotion that the park is doing there are several Pirates of the Caribbean-related threads that were recently started. I was fairly excited to read these threads until I remembered the crucial point that everyone hates these movies but me. Not Curse of the Black Pearl, most people seem to be okay with that one, but anytime anyone mentions Dead Man's Chest or At World's End it's open season. And I am getting really quite annoyed at all these people posting things like "The only reason people watch the sequels is for Johnny Depp" or "The only thing good about the sequels was the special effects." So, with the hopes of injecting some Pirates positivity into the Internets, here is PART ONE (because it is four a.m. whoops) of ( FIFTEEN REASONS WHY I THINK THE PIRATES SEQUELS ARE AWESOME. )

~*~TO BE CONTINUED!~*~

So through watching the Spanish dub of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (yes I am finally watching the DVDs I bought in Peru and they are AWEsome!), I just learned I've been mishearing a piece of dialogue for three whole years.

What I heard:

Will: "How long do we continue not talking?"
Elizabeth: "Once we rescue Jack, everything will be fine."
Will: "'When we rescue Jack'?"
*awkward silence ensues*

What it apparently (oh god I just spelled that "happarently," my mind really is going) actually is:

Will: "How long do we continue not talking?"
Elizabeth: "Once we rescue Jack, everything will be fine."
Will: "Then we rescue Jack."
*awkward silence ensues*

MY VERSION IS SO MUCH BETTER RIGHT???

Well to be honest, I think the actual dialogue is more in-character ... but I like my version and I think the awkward silence works better with it.

It's also only through watching these dubs that I've managed to completely understand the Liar's Dice game for the first time ... oh my life. x)

Thank you to everyone who indulged my request to hear your list of favourite Disney songs!! :D Now of course I am wondering how many of you are hardcore enough to make a list, however long or short you'd like, of your favourite Disney background music! >xD

ARE YOU UP TO THE CHALLENGE???

( MINE! )

So when New Moon broke Dark Knight's opening day box office gross, I was more amused than anything. But I have just now seen this:

If that number holds up (and it should), the film will replace Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End for third place on the list of all-time best opening weekends (domestic)

SLOW DOWN TITO

THIS IS NO LONGER FUNNY

Man, my best guest of last night was the guy who came up and asked me which of the Pirates movies is my favourite, and then told me that his favourite is the second one because it has such an epic ending, and sometimes he goes on YouTube just to watch that ending over and over and over again. UM PRETTY SURE WE TWO WERE MEANT TO BE!!

I've been going to the movies so much lately. What's up with that?!

48. A Christmas Carol, 2009
The sets in this movie are amazing; the character animation is not. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come was really cool, but unfortunately it was one of the very few original things the movie did, and what the heck was up with that totally random chase sequence? In the end I think this is a completely unnecessary remake, but I feel bad saying that because my mom rather liked it. :P

49. Pirate Radio, 2009
I went to see this during a very spontaneous evening I spent with my co-workers. It's definitely not my kind of movie but I liked it better than I thought I would. Amusingly enough, this movie has "pirate" in its title and stars Bill Nighy and Jack Davenport! lol, I can think of two movies that I like rather better that also fit that criteria. xD

50. New Moon, 2009
Holy crow, I didn't realize this would be number fifty, how exciting! Anyway: not enough lulz as the first one but with just as much awkwardness. Definitely my favourite part of this movie is the brilliance that is Face Punch.

BRB NANOING. I am not completely panicked yet, but I have definitely reached the stage where every spoken line comes complete with a dialogue tag, horribly awkward or not!

So tonight I discovered Cleverbot and found it way too amusing. ( Read more... )

In other news, today I played the new Kingdom Hearts game for two hours and then had to stop because my hand was cramping up. I don't understand how you are supposed to hold the DS in order to allow this to be a comfortable experience! Have I been spoiled by playing so many games that only require the use of the stylus? :(

I had a dream last night that I got my hands on a DVD of PotC4, and I didn't get very far into it because it was one of those dreams where you keep getting interrupted, but Will was in it and Tia Dalma was in it and it was AWEsome!!!!!! and needless to say now I am awake and really disappointed. :(

Man some days I really wish I could erase my memory just so I could watch all the PotC movies again for the first time. xD