{"id":40,"date":"2003-07-26T16:21:57","date_gmt":"2003-07-26T16:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=40"},"modified":"2003-07-26T16:21:57","modified_gmt":"2003-07-26T16:21:57","slug":"go_see_the_pirates_of_the_carr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Go see the Pirates of the Carribean or walk the plank ye scurvey dog!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0325980\">Pirates of the Carribean<\/a> today and loved it!  It is certinaly the supprise hit of the summer and in my top 2 list for the year.  And it kept me entertained during its longer than usual length.  It certainly is a Disney movie, and I was pleasantly supprised that the Disney executives did not interfere or muck with the movie too much (there was little swearing but still a lot of violence).<br \/>\nSpoilers follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nJohnny Depp makes a good deposed pirate captain.  He acts very well at being crazy\/drunk\/quirky\/flamboyant and seems to enjoy dishing out his lines (although too much mascara).  Keira Knightley also does a good job and portrays a strong heroine (stronger than <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0160127\">Charlie&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0305357\">Angels<\/a>).  Orlando Bloom does an okay job (I certainly didn&#8217;t recognize him as Legolas).  And there is even not one, but two comedic side-kick pairs.<br \/>\nYou get to watch many pirate things in this movie:  pirate speech, walking the plank, ships firing broadsides, boarding ships, pirate&#8217;s plunder, and the Pirate&#8217;s Code.<br \/>\nThe movie also paid hommage to the Pirates of the Carribean ride in Disney World\/Land in a couple of scenes.<br \/>\nThe special effects were good and often subtle although there were some Hollywood-type explosions.  There is even one scene that makes an undead monkey look cute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw the Pirates of the Carribean today and loved it! It is certinaly the supprise hit of the summer and in my top 2 list for the year. And it kept me entertained during its longer than usual length. It certainly is a Disney movie, and I was pleasantly supprised that the Disney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}