http://ambival.net/movies/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-mans-chest Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:25:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://ambival.net/movies/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-mans-chest/comment-page-1#comment-10506 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » Spider-Man 3 Wed, 16 May 2007 01:32:30 +0000 http://ambival.net/movies/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-mans-chest#comment-10506 [...] Now it seems people are defending it the same way people defended Dead Man’s Chest last year – “It’s pure entertainment, don’t take it so seriously, you don’t get it!” etc. – and I’m not gonna waste too much time arguing with that only to say, it’s the 21st century, and pure entertainment is free everywhere you look, on the TV, on your phone, online: a 2 hours plus, quarter billion dollar movie has no excuse for being so vapid, especially when its forerunners were both practically impeccable and rich in their emotional content. [...] [...] Now it seems people are defending it the same way people defended Dead Man’s Chest last year – “It’s pure entertainment, don’t take it so seriously, you don’t get it!” etc. – and I’m not gonna waste too much time arguing with that only to say, it’s the 21st century, and pure entertainment is free everywhere you look, on the TV, on your phone, online: a 2 hours plus, quarter billion dollar movie has no excuse for being so vapid, especially when its forerunners were both practically impeccable and rich in their emotional content. [...]

]]> http://ambival.net/movies/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-mans-chest/comment-page-1#comment-3528 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » 2006 Movies Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:02:38 +0000 http://ambival.net/movies/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-mans-chest#comment-3528 [...] Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest Gore Verbinski [...] [...] Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest Gore Verbinski [...]

]]> http://ambival.net/movies/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-mans-chest/comment-page-1#comment-1517 Ambival.net » Movies » 2007 Oscar Predictions Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:50:20 +0000 http://ambival.net/movies/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-mans-chest#comment-1517 [...] Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest [...] [...] Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest [...]

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