Pirates of the Caribbean

[avram]

Saw Pirates of the Caribbean last night. Oh, this was good! If I’m eligible to vote in next year’s Hugos, this here is getting my Best Dramatic Presentation vote, unless something even better comes along. Not only does it have great special effects and brilliant fight scenes, but it’s got a complicated and internally-consistent magical maguffin. It’s also got Captain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp’s character, a charming rogue who totally walks away with the picture.

(Oh, and has everyone seen the Ergonomic Keyboard for Pirates?)

After, we walked across Central Park, to bigscary’s place, for odd drinks made with ice cream and alcohol. He lent me a wad of DVDs — Read or Die, the first disk of His and Her Circumstances, and all but the first disk of Cowboy Bebop. (LadyM’s parents got her a DVD player, which arrived earlier this week. It’s a Sampo, and yes, it’s little and black.)

Comments

[avram]

Oh, it was great! I already knew I liked it; that was one of the reasons I made a point of borrowing it. Like I said, I'm pretty sure I wrote to you about it two or three years ago.

For the folks who haven't seen it, His and Her Circumstances (aka Kare Kano) is about a pair of over-achieving high school students with imposter syndrome who start out as rivals, then wind up dating. The anime is notable for incorporating a lot of visual elements from the manga — not just rapid switches to super-deformed representation and back, but lots of asides and floating text labels.