Movies & sleeping patterns, all upside-down

[dancing_moon]

So my sleep is just friggin messed up right now. I mean seriously. And I gotta try and fix it til Monday because I have to work tomorrow, so that is a bit tricky.

Anyway. On Friday, I had to drag myself out of the apartment to go to school anyway, so I agreed to watch Pirates of the Carribbean - On Stranger Tides with A-chan and A-kun, hoping that if I doped up on enough cough medication I wouldn't ruin the experience for everyone. And I don't think I did! I got one bad attack but it was during one of the (many) long, loud and messy fight scenes, and my inhalator calmed it down quickly ^^

I liked the movie pretty well, even if the plot wasn't all that interesting. But this piratey magical world they're creating, it appeals to me. And the movie felt a lot less convoluted and long than the previous two (although there were big chunks of movie III that I also liked, since I obviously have no taste)

I didn't realize how much I liked what Elizabeth Swann had become in the third movie until she wasn't there, and we had Angelica instead. Whose backstory I detested with a fiery passion. I mean - seriously? Seriously, we needed her to be a despoiled virgin? Who keeps getting fooled by the villain? Argh.

Barbossa keeps being really good in all his scenes, though he looked like he had a very nasty skin disease when he was powdered up in his early scenes. Maybe it was the point? Idk. Anyway, his actor and Jack's have really good chemistry. I like how I can imagine them perfectly as former friends turned enemies, but of course they share their one true love (The Black Pearl)

Since I have read Rumiko Takahashi's Mermaid Saga these mermaids seemed a little wussy to me. Although good on them for pulling down that ship, honestly - if humanity treats them like that, I can understand why they prefer to eat sailors.

One thing that I also couldn't quite figure out is how old Jack Sparrow is supposed to be. Barbossa and his crew sailed around cursed for at least a decade, didn't they? And they dropped Jack off at the island earlier, but he still looks much younger. Well, no wonder everyone thought he'd been to the fountain in that case...

Huh. Blackbeard, by the way, did not get any less creepy because I thought of his One Piece counterpart everytime they called him Teach. Just fyi

Lastly: Oh my, but the Spanish captain was hot in this movie! I love how he just stuck to his thing, everyone (well, my foreshadowing-blind self at least) thought he'd be the one they all had to race so he didn't steal the water and then - HAha! Suckers, I'm gonna blow this place up and because I am hot actually competent, I will succeed. I have also helped bring down the feared pirate Blackbeard and turned a privateer back into a regular pirate, so plz be handing out the medals now

And then I have watched Doctor Who. Blow my mind much? Yes.