tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post115498606677465543..comments2024-03-17T11:05:22.464+00:00Comments on The Life And Opinions of Andrew Rilstone: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's ChestUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9987513.post-1155086140028706762006-08-09T02:15:00.000+01:002006-08-09T02:15:00.000+01:00(Making the plot turn on such a complex game as Li...<I>(Making the plot turn on such a complex game as Liar's Dice was a very courageous decision, I felt.)</I><BR/><BR/>As long as one has the faintest glimmer of an idea of what the hell was going on in that game, which I didn't; I had to treat it like technobabble--<I>well, as long as the characters understand what's happening, I don't have to</I>--in order to get past what was literally happening and follow the character development. It hadn't actually occurred to me that we <I>were</I> expected to understand it.<BR/><BR/>And as much as I enjoyed the movie, I was disappointed by how much of it depended on virtually every one of the major characters making several needlessly stupid decisions, as if it were a romantic comedy or something. (Or a Disney movie, I suppose. I was spoiled by the first one, in which the plot pretty much made sense, as I recall. . .)Sylvia Drakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16021429676492233058noreply@blogger.com