Talkie Tuesday: Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides

 

"It's not the destination so much as the journey, they say." 

Hello everyone!

And, for the last time, welcome to the Caribbean!

Considering this has taken me absolutely forever, one would think that the fact I'm FINALLY done with this series comes as a sort of relief.

And it does.

It also, conveniently, makes me want to just watch them all again one after another, because truth be told these are some of the best movies that have ever been made, in my personal opinion.

Yours may differ, naturally, but let's be real.

Who of us hasn't wanted to see the next adventure of one Captain Jack Sparrow?!

Hopefully - fingers crossed - we might even get more of them in the future, because that would be awesome. But until then, we only have the old faithfuls to lean back on.

So sails up and oars in, mateys; we're sailing On Stranger Tides tonight.

Talkie Tuesday: Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl

 

"Begun by blood - by blood undone."

 

Hello everyone!

 

So a while ago - and this was REALLY a while ago lol - I kind of started my reviews into this particular franchise but never got round to finishing the entire thing.

 

Why?

 

No one knows. It's a mystery!

 

Anyway, this year during vacation I decided I was going to have a little watch party and refresh my memory about all this stuff, and while I didn't get to finish with the last movie quite yet (because I ran out of time and real life is unfortunately a thing) I DO plan on going through number five again as soon as humanly possible.

 

Until then, however, I can probably work on my collection right here on this blog.

 

Because not only do I NOT have the entire thing, I only have numbers three and five and the others are nowhere to be seen.

 

So without further ado, let's start at the very beginning which, as the song goes, is a very good place to start. Rum, ahoy! The Curse of the Black Pearl needs explaining.

 

Talkie Tuesday: Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End

"Hoist the colours!"

Hello everyone!

Or should I say arrrrr? 

These past two weekends, AXN decided to premiere Pirates of the Caribbean, introducing the first four movies into its regular program, which delighted me to no end because, one, these movies are amazing, and two, you can never, and I mean never, have enough of Captain Jack Sparrow.

Now to be frank, me and Johnny don't really go well together. I admire him for certain of his roles - but definitely not all - and I will admit I can see the appeal he has for women.

Sadly, not for me.

That being said, however, I thoroughly enjoy his portrayal of Jack, and without the iconic character these movies would certainly not be as successful as they are today. And while it's been on choppy seas since the first trilogy, Jack saved the day and prevented the subsequent movie from being a complete disaster, despite the fact that there were very few original characters who returned for the telling.

And as I'm definitely in the pirate vein just before Easter, and also because this year marks its tenth anniversary, I figured to myself: whyever not? Why shouldn't I do a blog post about the third (and at the time final) Pirates movie, At World's End?