 Welcome back to Spoonsville. Hello. Hello. We're coming today, Pirates of the Caribbean, Curse of the Black Pearl. Yeah, first of the series. Yeah. Yeah. First time watching it. Yeah, millionth time watching it. So it's interesting. It's always interesting when you have that, you know. I've been watching it a couple times a year ever since. Now, of course, for me, so it's a big part of my childhood, you know, it's one of those where can't help but feel nostalgic and warm feelings, you know. So, you know, we got the two perspectives. You just saw it now, so maybe it's a little different. Yeah. Obviously, I am aware that nostalgia can paint a different thing. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, I don't know, what would you, overall, how'd you feel? I did not want to review this because I felt like not a lot of... I can take it. No, no, no. It's not that it wasn't great. It's just that it's, it's just a fun movie, you know. It's a simple plot line. It's a simple plot, and I think the movie is really just as an adventure type of movie, and all it is is just pure and simple fun. That's it. And so that, I feel like stuff, movies like that are harder to analyze. Yeah, because then you have to, well, I mean, you can talk, again, it's one of those where you look at it as if that's what it was meant for, then you can, how well did it achieve that, I suppose, right? I guess I'll speak to, the plot was pretty clear cut, I guess, but at the same time, it wasn't that there were plot twists that made it interesting, for example. So, when I, after watching the whole movie, I'm like, okay, fine, the plot was easy, was simple. You have this guy, William Turner, trying to save Elizabeth, the love of his life, and then enlist the help of Jack Sparrow, and kind of, he thinks he's twisting Jack Sparrow's arm, but later you find out that actually Jack really also had ulterior motives. He wants to get back his shit, the black pearl, right? And so little things like that, the plots, little plot twists, which I think were really nice, nothing too insane, but also kind of to keep you, oh, what's going on, to keep you in the loop, or focused and drawn in. I think they do a good job at sprinkling in information and backstory throughout, where you find out the world's father later on and how that connects to all the other characters. Yeah, that was also really nicely done too, how they did that. But you know, I remember thinking about it at one point, because actually, as much as I actually don't, I don't think, I don't like the second and third movies as much, although I still enjoy them, but I actually found a lot of cool metaphors in them, and then I was like, you know, the first one, as much as I think I like it more, it doesn't really have that. But then when I thought about it, I'm like, oh, there's actually a pretty obvious metaphor in terms of, you know, like the constant consumption of trying to accumulate more and more wealth, and it never actually satisfies. Oh yeah. You know? Like, it's a great metaphor for that. It's like, yeah, you can keep stealing, gathering and trying to amass more stuff, but really, you know, you'll find yourself empty. I think the acting, okay, I can talk about the acting. The acting was great. I liked the plot twists. I liked the acting. Everybody was fantastic. The score? The music? Oh yeah, the music. On Zimmer, Clowns Bedalt, no one ever gives Bedalt the credit. I always remember Zimmer. No one remembers Clowns. You're just much more intense with movies, which I love. I love that. Of course, Johnny Depp, I feel like I'm gonna say a lot of this, the movie, honestly, he he just kind of steals the show. He steals the show, for sure. And because here at Nightly, she's always great in period dramas all the time, honestly. But yeah, it's serious. It's a serious role. And I'll say the other guys, the love interest, Orlando Bloom. He doesn't really have a lot going on in that movie. Just the straight guy, the love interest. Yeah, simple. Yeah, like, that's about it, really. But yeah, it works. They needed to be there and that's about it. They carry the serious parts of the movie, I would say. But then the other actors, the smaller characters, I thought were also really good. Like we were talking about, what's his name? Pintel? Yeah, was it Rigetti? Rigetti. The guy with the eyeball. Yeah, they were little things like that. And Jeffrey Rush. Jeffrey Rush was so great in this. Oh my God. Well, it's good. It's probably to say that because yeah, that's always been one of my favorite parts. Even before I knew who Jeffrey Rush is. In some ways, I almost liked him, not more than Jack Sparrow's character, but there was something about Barbosa that he's got so much personality. And I also really liked, I like villains that you end up feeling kind of bad for them at the end when they get taken down or killed or whatever. Because at the end of the day, he realized, oh, like, I did all this stuff. I'd betrayed, you know, my captain. I went through all this stuff. We had to spend years and years, you know, getting back all the stuff that we spent for nothing really. And at the end, you just wanted to enjoy the taste of apples again. You know, and I like it. I can write to that. I don't hate him because he's, I just was so endeared to him. He was so cute. Yeah, he's cute. He's witty. He's witty. Yeah, he's interesting. And I felt like, man, you know, I wish that he hadn't died. Maybe if he'd just kind of, okay, I'm sorry. I know I messed up. But it was, I loved watching him. He was so great in this movie. Yeah. Well, that's the thing with it, which I think they got right is a lot of times when they try and, for instance, make like a game or a theme park or a theme ride into a movie, they don't put enough effort, but this one, they went all out and I think really trying to be as accurate to the time as possible with the details and everything. And they really try to, obviously, it's a supernatural elements with curses and things, but they were like, no, but let's take this serious. Obviously, the goofy movie is a lot of silly stuff that happens, but overall, the story is very immersive. It's realistic and having the costumes. It was the first time of the 150th time I've seen this movie that I actually put the subtitles on. And there's so many words I didn't even catch. When I'm a kid, you only catch half the dialogue and you don't care. You're like, let's just see Jack chase the monkey again. But there's so many great period accurate terms that they use that also just always went over my head. Probably that's a testament to how good this movie is in fulfilling what it was trying to do, which is fun adventure movie, is that you don't really notice things like that. Like the whole movie, you're just having a whole lot of fun and you don't notice how well they capture the times. Little things like that. Well, and what I like about that too, again, I don't find it, it doesn't condescend like some just big blockbuster movies do, because they'll use terms like grab now. You know, you assume, okay, it's a grappling hook, but like that kind of thing. But it's like terms that are never used anymore. And they'll put them in there because it's important for the immersion. But a lot of movies that will kind of just try to catch as wide in that as possible, they will modernize the language so that more people will feel understood and they won't be confused or feel dumb because they don't know what the character is saying with this movie. They're like, no, we're going to talk with all these kinds of parlays, savvy, and those are probably even more understandable terms. There's stuff they're using like nautical terms and techniques for sailing that you're just like, I don't know what this means, but you know, and I like that because then it shows that they're, I think they're relying on, let's just make this a quality thing and still have a fun time with it. And you'll get the people that will just be along for the ride. You know, I know that I'm someone who likes code and code deep movies, whatever that is. But yeah, I very much, I'm less likely to watch a fun adventure movie. I did watch this because he wanted to watch it. So, you know, but yeah, I think they still throw in some there's there's some underlying class things going on as well with him just being a blacksmith. So of course, Elizabeth being an upper class that his father, her father does not really approve of just thinking you should just marry the Commodore kind of regardless of whether you have much chemistry, because that would just be a smart match and it would look good on our family, things like that, you know. And so you get that underlying the common Norrington just doesn't really respect Willie kind of just simply because he was like, you just like, who are you? You're a nobody. Why do I even paying attention to you know, that kind of thing. But again, as much as they have all of those little things, the movie isn't doesn't take itself that seriously. And you are just, you know, moving seamlessly through it and just enjoying it with all of these serious things happening around it, which I like. Because then it's a movie for everyone. If we wanted to, we could actually have a very serious discussion about Pirates of the Caribbean and talk about things like that, right? Class systems and all these things can do that with the movie. Yeah, can also just talk about the great, great special effects, especially for 2003. I love seeing when they're cursed and they go through the light and then they come back out. So there's a brief bit where they're skeletons and they move back to there. You know, there's a lot of cool special effects like that. Yeah, I definitely would have loved to watch this, like in a cinema. Yeah, that would have been great. I think. Oh, yeah. Overall, I think it was a great movie, honestly. And I'm not even say overall, like I had any issues with it. I did not have any issues with it. The only issue I have with it is because it's a fun adventure movie, which is not a movie that I would actually gravitate towards. But otherwise, I think it's a fantastic movie. I love Johnny Depp. Oh my God, he is so good. I feel like when you play, I cannot imagine how hard it is or how hard it would be to play a pirate, right? First of all, but then a pirate that's goofy. I feel like it would be easier to play a pirate that's kind of like super serious. I kill people before I'm living. But if you're a super fun, charming, quirky pirate, how the heck do you pull that off to get Johnny Depp? That's what you do. Honestly, he was like, I don't know, like a washed out rock star who's like clinging to like the vestiges of fame, you know, like that he has. It's funny you say that because he based his character a lot on Keith Richards, the main guitarist for the Rolling Stones, the biggest all this rock band. Well, fantastic. Yeah, that's what he's like. He's like a rock star who was once famous and just doesn't want to let go. And there's that theme too of there's everyone's feeling kind of very restricted, whether it's from like the clothing of the time you have to wear corsets, you have to wear these wigs, there's a lot of formality and pomp and ceremony. And then the pirates kind of represent that last bit of freedom and treading your own course and that kind of thing. And once you get a taste of it, it's hard to then kind of assimilate back into maybe just getting, you know, a normal job or whatever, or you know, you can do that, but you can look at it, but you also can really just sit back and there's just a lot of great creative action and yeah, yeah, even when I thought I couldn't notice anything else new after seeing it. At the end, when they're surrounded again, you know, and wills decided to help him get out of the gallows. He's got a big feather on the back of his hat and Jack's kind of, it's in his face. He's kind of like trying to blush. I'm like, I've never even noticed that before. Like there's just like every little, there's, yeah, there's so many great details in it. Yeah. That's about it. That's about it. Yeah. It's a great movie. Yeah. And I'm giving it a 10 out of 10. Yeah, I am. 100% 10 out of 10. Fun, adventure, comedy. I used to listen to the soundtrack on my MP3 player as I was waiting after Taekwondo class. So I would just, everyone else would be talking and I'm like, I don't know, I'm struggling to kind of really, but, you know, I got parts of the Caribbean on my MP3, so I'm good. Yeah. Yeah. That's about it. Yeah. All right, folks. Goodbye. Cheers.