{"id":2935,"date":"2011-07-01T11:31:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T17:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2011-07-01T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T17:31:12","slug":"pirates-of-the-caribbean-on-stranger-tides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=2935","title":{"rendered":"Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides"},"content":{"rendered":"

I glanced at my reviews of the last couple Pirates movies, and they are a lot more positive than I remember the movies in my head. I wonder which of us is right! My point being, who can say how well you and \/ or future me can trust this forthcoming review of the fourth poncy Johnny Depp vehicle<\/a>? Oh well, we’re both here, may as well read it anyway.<\/p>\n

So, I have a few disconnected thoughts, and they are presented here in no particular order. On Stranger Tides demonstrates\u00a0better\u00a0than I remember the other movies having done that pirates, by and large, are bad people. Not so bad that I wish I hadn’t watched the movie, but I felt slimier than I really wanted to, once or twice. That said, the action set-pieces did a good job of distracting me from that sporadic feeling, much as they distracted me from what were at the time glaring plot holes, most of which I’ve forgotten since, which just goes to show you quite how<\/em> successful said set-pieces were. The action wasn’t the best in the series or anything, because they’ve always been amazing. But it was absolutely at the same level of quality, minimum.<\/p>\n

Two events stood out from the rest, though, and neither are spoilers, so I will tell you them! 1) Impressive use of the\u00a0Greek\u00a0literary technique, deus ex mickina. 2) Disturbingly spot-on interpretation of the Japanese dolphin capture \/ killing bays. (There’s a documentary in the last year or two, if you\u00a0have\u00a0no idea what I’m talking about. The\u00a0descriptions\u00a0have convinced me I would hate watching it, though.) But anyway, yeah, this was pretty good. Oh, right, some people want an inkling as to the plot, I forget that sometimes. What is is, is they’re looking for the\u00a0Fountain\u00a0of Youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I glanced at my reviews of the last couple Pirates movies, and they are a lot more positive than I remember the movies in my head. I wonder which of us is right! My point being, who can say how well you and \/ or future me can trust this forthcoming review of the fourth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[169,436,106],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-3d","tag-adventure","tag-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}