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My impressions of Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Saw Pirates of The Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl tonight. Okay, actually it was last night, as it was the 10:05pm show and it is after midnight as I write this.

Good movie. Some very fun moments. A little long and slow, though. I think it needed a different editor. A lot of the action scenes suffer from too many cuts, closeups, and shaky handheld camera work that I’m sure the filmmakers thought would make them more exciting, but in the end just make a lot of it fairly generic and hard to follow.

In his movies, Fred Astaire insisted that dance numbers be filmed with full body shots and few cuts, so you can see the dancers doing what they do best. Action movies should follow suit and show the action so you can see it. Good action speaks for itself.

Posted: Sat - October 4, 2003 at 01:30 AM          

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