Monday, June 25, 2012

NOKW - Pirates of the Caribbean

Here comes the next chapter in our "I'm Okay With, I'm Not Okay With" series (if you don't know what this is, click here for all of the past posts):

Movie:  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Basic Plot:  The first installment of the adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow and his crew of misfits in the Caribbean.  There are good pirates, bad pirates, cursed pirates, and the super hot Kiera Knightly.

I'm Okay With:  The fact that Kiera Knightly's character is so good at sword fighting despite never having taken a lesson in her pampered life.  The fact that the cursed pirates were worried about Kiera Knightly dropping their medallion into the water at the beginning of the movie even though we later see them walking on the bottom of the sea floor, meaning they could have easily retrieved it if she dropped it.  The fact that Captain Jack is not killed on numerous occasions despite being shot at constantly.  The fact that the curse that is laid upon the cursed pirates applies to a monkey.  The fact that pirates follow a "code", when being a pirate means there are no rules.

I'm Not Okay With:  The fact that in the scene where the good guys have just been captured by the cursed pirates after blowing up the good guy's ship, nobody noticed Will Turner swimming from the wreckage of recently blown up Interceptor.  Turner had been trapped inside the Interceptor when it exploded while the rest of the crew was tied up on the deck of the Black Pearl surrounded by the cursed pirates, yet no one saw Turner swim over to the Pearl.  How could no one see him despite it being broad daylight and there was at least two football fields worth of water between the Black Pearl and the Interceptor?  Someone should have easily seen him coming, but instead he magically snuck up on them and then exchanged himself for the release of Kiera Knightly and Captain Jack.  If anything, a cursed pirate should have been waiting on him when he crawled up onto the Pearl, but no, those incompetent pirates missed him splashing through the water.  If they had seen him, they could have made achieving their goal way easier (even when being immortal pirates seems like a pretty good deal regardless if it was due to a curse, so why change that?).  I am not okay with that.

"I have a thing for hot British chicks."

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