Further Non-Spoilerish Thoughts on PoTC^3
May. 27th, 2007 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilot1) The Trailers: Harry Potter 5, National Treasure 2, Transformers, Underdog, and Ratatouille. Underdog was the biggest surprise...a somewhat interesting departure from the original premise of the concept.
2) The effects. I'm sure audiences are getting used to all the CGI stuff, but I come from the generation in which it used to be if you wanted to sink a ship on screen you pretty much had to sink one--or at least a miniature of one. Nowadays, you don't need models, sets, or even actual film cameras. Someday you won't need actors, because the computers will be able to generate convincing voices on their own.
What Hollywood needs is good ideas. How many movies have appeared in the theaters lately that were just plain dumb? Too many, IMHO.
3) The start of the movie gave my brother bad memories of our attempt to see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom back when it was in theaters. (It was also a Memorial Day movie. Because until the late '80s, the Indy 500 was tape-delayed rather than live, it was better to spend that Sunday afternoon in a movie theater avoiding the sports news than it was to have the winner spoiled for you. Thus we made a habit of Mem.Day movies.) You see, just as the fight was starting in the Shanghai nightclub--first reel of the movie!--the power cut out and we were forced to take a raincheck. Poor Dana didn't get to see it again till either it was on home video or on TV. So he was afraid that as the Singapore sequence was getting going, the same thing was about to happen.
2) The effects. I'm sure audiences are getting used to all the CGI stuff, but I come from the generation in which it used to be if you wanted to sink a ship on screen you pretty much had to sink one--or at least a miniature of one. Nowadays, you don't need models, sets, or even actual film cameras. Someday you won't need actors, because the computers will be able to generate convincing voices on their own.
What Hollywood needs is good ideas. How many movies have appeared in the theaters lately that were just plain dumb? Too many, IMHO.
3) The start of the movie gave my brother bad memories of our attempt to see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom back when it was in theaters. (It was also a Memorial Day movie. Because until the late '80s, the Indy 500 was tape-delayed rather than live, it was better to spend that Sunday afternoon in a movie theater avoiding the sports news than it was to have the winner spoiled for you. Thus we made a habit of Mem.Day movies.) You see, just as the fight was starting in the Shanghai nightclub--first reel of the movie!--the power cut out and we were forced to take a raincheck. Poor Dana didn't get to see it again till either it was on home video or on TV. So he was afraid that as the Singapore sequence was getting going, the same thing was about to happen.
