Pirates of the Caribbean, Curse of the Black PearlGore Verbinski, director
The first the Pirates of the Caribbean films, this unorthodox pirate romp is visually stunning and great fun.
There is a nice plot to it all, and Johnny Depp (of course) steals the show as a foppish, pragmatically indifferent pirate captain.
While it contains many of the essential elements of a pirate movie – parrots, peg-legs, swordplay, “arrgh!!” speak and so on – it’s almost a genre unto itself, one that just happens to be about pirates.
I resisted, for whatever reason, seeing this for too long (released in Dec. 2003), but now I want to see part two next weekend!
Highly recommended.
We’ve had a pretty easy winter, overall, here in the Chicago area.
Unfortunately, the bulk of the winter weather we have gotten in the 2006-2007 winter has happened in the last six week, just about the time most folks are getting sick of the short days and cold weather.
And then winter really kicks in, with snow, winds and cold. Lot of icy storms the last few weeks.
Bleh.
Sunny today, but about freezing, and that appears to be the forecast for the rest of the week, as well. With the chance of some snow, of course…
Why do I live here, anyway??