Pie Rats of the Carob Bean Tree: Hat Woilds End

[ellyssian]

We went to see a certain piratey type movie today. And then we played Cartagena (review : game) and Pirate's Cove (review : game), and then we watched Dead Man's Chest (review : DVD).

Justin won Cartagena for the first time, and I utterly lost it - the only one who didn't get all six of my pirates onto the boat - for the first time. Along with Justin, both Rachel and Josh (a first time player) out-strategized me. They may have had me down and out, leaving me alone in prison, but when we next spent a year of sailing out of Pirate's Cove I never returned to the cove once, although I sent people back a time or two. In the end, I sailed to Treasure Island to take on Blackbeard, and, along with Justin, we brought him low and took the spoils. My planing was wise, and despite losing nearly everything - one more hit on my cannon and it would have been all over after a very close battle with Josh - I gathered more fame and fortune than all the other captains combined.

And, in PotCII: Dead Man's Chest we noticed certain things a lot more than we had the first time.



I've heard a few people mention they didn't understand some of what went on - that the story just didn't make sense. Both Josh and Justin were a bit confuzzled on a few points, but I was fairly confident I knew what was going on. After watching the second film again, however, there were a number of things no one paid any mind to - the heart jewelry Tia had out when Jack swiped the ring from her; the comments about the sea and the woman Tia made - and many other bits and pieces that were just taken superficially or not at all when watching the second film by itself suddenly become a-ha! moments. They give you certain glimpses into what's going to happen. Hey, wow, that heart looks awfully like Mr. Jones music box... Hey, everything she commented about Ol' Cephalopod-Face's long lost love was true: the sea, the woman, and all that. Imagine that. She wasn't speaking poetically, she was just saying exactly what was what.

I'll do an actual review once it's out on DVD. Until that time, go see it - preferably before you read the previous paragraph. Either immediately before or after seeing #3, watch #2 carefully.

Comments

[patrixa.livejournal.com]

Well, I may eventually see #3, but when I watched #2 , I could tell by the music that Tia would at some point be important. In fact at the end of #2, I wondered why so many unfulfilled portents, because what Tia said and did seemed to need explanations or else was a waste of time.