At World's End sucketh, 'tis true.

This is what I get for trusting the Mouse to make a *good* trilogy. Hah!

This update is so late because I'm still in denial. I want to believe AWE wasn't as bad as it actually was. I don't think I'm going to wake up and find the reverse.

Thank you, Disney, for flushing "Pirates of the Caribbean" down the toilet. I'll just pretend that AWE didn't happen...

Stranger than Fiction

It was absolutely fantastic, and that's all I can say at the moment.

emotion sickness

the cookie thief

"Dead Man's Chest" delivers!

As the tagling states, "Captain Jack is back!", and he is back with a vengence. Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" sailed into theatres across the country on July 7th to conquer and break box office records.

I waited in line for five hours to see the ultra-cool midnight screening -- in costume. I honestly never knew Salem was home to so many pirates, and not a single Naval officer in sight!

Unlike most sequels, Chest does not pick up right where Curse of the Black Pearl left off. Months, even a couple of years, have transpired and Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) are getting married, but Lord Beckett (Tom Hollander) of the East India Trading Company crashes the ceremony, jailing both bride and groom for freeing Captain Jack Sparrow.

Meanwhile, Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and his Pearl are searching for a key that can help him get out of an ironclad deal he made with the infamous Davy Jones (Bill Nighy). But a visit from 'Bootstrap' Bill Turner (Stellan Skaarsgard), on behalf of Jones, scares Jack off of the ocean and right into the hands of a cannibal village, where they make him their chief/god.

Can Will save Jack and co. from the hungry cannibals and convince Jack to help him and Elizabeth escape the hangman's noose? Has Elizabeth accidentily found herself hip deep in a love triangle? How does one pronounce 'krakken?' And most importantly of all, will you pick up on all the innuendo? As they say, all will be revealed...

The plot moves fast, as it has to tie up the loose ends of Curse and lay the groundwork for the final installment of the trilogy, tentatively titled At World's End [don't worry about the title, it'll make sense once you've seen the end of Chest. I promise!]. Ah, the joys of being the dreaded middle movie in a trilogy. I'm sure Dead Man's Chest can commiserate with The Two Towers if it needs to.

All of our favorite actors are back, lead by Johnny, Orlando and Keira, but let's not forget the overlooked actors that make our favorite trio shine: Jack Davenport as James Norrington (Vive Scruffington! Excuse my inner fangirl, she got out for a second), Kevin McNally as Gibbs, Tom Hollander as new corporate baddie Lord Cutler Beckett, Jonathan Pryce as Governor Swann, newcomer Naomi Harris as eerily lovable voodooer Tia Dalma, Stellan Skaarsgard as the tormented 'Bootstrap' Bill Turner, and probably my favorite actor of all-time - Bill Nighy as the octopus-faced Davy Jones (a completely CGI character a la prequel Yoda, but Nighy's performance shines through and brings Davy's pixels to life!).

Did I mention Jack Davenport? Oh, I did...well, it bears repeating! I seem to have lost my train of thought, all this thinking about Davenport as Norrington... very distracting!

Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow and Jack Davenport as Norrington.

ANWAY, Dead Man's Chest is an excellent sequel. You could say that Ted and Terry (who is on myspace, thereby substantiating my theory that everyone is on myspace) have done it again (FYI, they are the *writers* for those of you non-credit-readers).

Chest lives up to its hype and then some, but I'm not going to spoil it for you. ;)

This is one of those movies that begs to be seen multiple times to fully catch every little detail. I could list the ones I've caught so far after watching all two and half hours three times to date, but that would be like doing the homework for you.

Sadly, fans will have to wait a whole year for the release of the final installment, At World's End, which is due sometime either in May or July, 2007.

Until next time, this is Daphne saying "Who took my rum?"

the objective

After much goading by friends, I joined my school paper with an intense interest to write film reviews. However, the paper already had a film critic and said critic wasn't looking to share the spotlight, or movie passes, so I said "screw them" and left the paper to strike out on my own.

This is the twenty-first century with internet access in almost every home across this deceptively small world, I figure there should, in theory, be an audience just salivating to read what I have to say about movies, books, tv shows, et al.

Thus "one headlight" was born.

This blogity-blog, "one headlight" will be a place where people can find reviews of, hopefully, every type of movie: from hollywood blockbuster to gritty independant, cheesiest horror flop to most confusing foreign thriller, and everything in between.

I'll rave, I'll rant, I'll laugh and I may just cry my eyes out. I'll be there for the midnight screenings, 2AM trips to Blockbuster and standing in the rain waiting for that Netflix envelope.

So stick around and check back often, films are my drug of choice!

-Me