Few blogs incite me, annoy me, or make me want to egg a guy's typewriter. After all, everyone is entitled to an opinion, even a shallow or ignorant one. This post, however, flaps a red cape and frustrates the flaming snot out of me as it squares off at Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio by suggesting that they had no business writing POTC2 and POTC3. Oh please. That's like saying Benjamin Franklin shouldn't have flown a kite.
Whether a critic, writer, or blogger likes a film or hates it, he ought to be able recognize the no-brainer contributions of these two writers to filmmaking and screenwriting, let alone the Pirates of the Caribbean phenomenon. There's a huge difference between an opinion -- "I didn't like the film" or "I had a hard time following that film" -- and the twaddletype passed off as an opinion -- "the narrative mess that was Dead Man’s Chest should have been enough for Bruckheimer to have these two walk the plank before At World’s End went before the lens". Oh, and Gore Verbinski "lacks vision". Yeah. On planet Moron. You want vision? Watch the Kraken in POTC2 or mailstrom in POTC3. You want films that dumb down for viewers? Go rent Baby Geniuses.
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Wow! If you were offended by that, you should see what Mark Kermode on the BBC said about the films. You'll either want to kill him, Gore Verbinski, or yourself.
Films aren't one size fits all. I have no problem with disses and bad reviews. So what. That's the way it is. What I don't like is an attack on a writer (any writer but especially these two). This person's post more or less says the POTC films would have been more successful with different writers. I think the second one broke domestic and overseas records - made hisotry even so 1) the argument doesn't hold but 2) the blame being placed squarely at the feet of the writers only works if the credit is also put there.
And suicide is never an answer...
Maryan,
Your crusading colors are beginning to show again. Don't freakout, a lot of people say things just for shock affect. Everyone knows all the "Pirates of Carribean" were great. Those who offer OTHER opinions are just trying to get your goat.
- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA
Close, E.C. No goats. Sheep, maybe. Never goats. Of course, goats would explain the mysterious animals eating my tomato plants.
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