YO HO YO HO A PIRATE'S LIFE FER MEEEEE....

[verbminx]

Hee! Soo, I have returned home from seeing the film.

Hee hee hee.

I can't say it was the best movie I've ever seen, or even close, but it makes up for it in terms of tickling me pink.

The only complaints I had:
- the whole corset plot thread (which was dumb - women had stays that they were used to wearing, and i believe they didn't really tightlace much in this period, and HELLO, the gown that she was tightlaced for was ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE the gown she wore in the beginning as a child, except for having a split overskirt),
- and the general costuming madness. Exactly what year was this thing meant to be set in? There were about 75 years worth of clothes in that movie. That's roughly like having people in full "Titanic" gear in a movie about Carnaby Street c. 1968. Probably for most people it just "fit the mood", but for anyone who has even a little bit of fashion history under their belts, it's a little bit twitchmaking.

I threatened to go in costume, so I might as well tally that up now. I pinned my big stripey "KISS ME, I'M A PIRATE!" patch to a 3/4 sleeve hoodie that I wore as a shirt. Then I wore jeans, but folded them up a bit, so that I had cuffs and so that you could see my red-and-white striped knee socks and the mary jane style mules I was wearing. Then I wore my metallic red vinyl wristband with the skull-and-crossbone studs, and Chanel "Metal Garnet" lipstick to match. So there you go - a bit themey for everyday wear, but not so costumey that I felt like a complete loser. (the patch was only PINNED to my shirt, of course, because I wanted to be able to take it off & roll down my pantlegs if the movie sucked. so as to enable me to skulk away quietly.)

Umm, like, arrrgggggh, and stuff.

Comments

[winoforever.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it fun? I was worried that I had too high expectations of it.. but I thought it was perfect. The greatest summer movie! Just enough plot but not too much, but overall, just loads of fun!

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[verbminx.livejournal.com]

it was great! i mean, you can sit there and dissect the things that were wrong with it, and the reviews i've read pretty much had the right idea - there's a period in the middle where the action becomes hard to follow (the battle bet. the Black Pearl and the Interceptor, where Will gets trapped in the hold - you know the part I mean). but it's so, so much fun, and so clever and silly, that really, who cares about the minor flaws. it's the ultimate pomo ironic pirate movie. :)

[julieinthehouse.livejournal.com]

omg... you're the cutest!... will you marry me or something?

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[verbminx.livejournal.com]

be ye a pirate?
i'm saving meself for a salty dogge.

a hot, salty dogge.
*swoon*

[mizzytizzy.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen it yet, but Iwas thinking the costume thing already, and I saw a corset line on a preview, and it bugged me. I'll be twitching at that too, I think. But I wanna go see it soooon.

xoxo

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[verbminx.livejournal.com]

just wait until you see how cunningly they combine clothes from the late 1600s with clothes from the mid-1700s. my teeth were on edge. but i loved the other aspects of the movie so much that i have to let go the fact that elizabeth's father spends the movie basically in low-key late Restoration clothing and all the navy guys are totally done up in clothes at least 50 years later.

have you ever been on the ride? there are so many great references to the ride. the ride is the bestest thing EVER. i think i've been on it like 3 times, and the movie captures its mood well.