All about Norrington

Ok. Hopefully I'll go get to see the new Pirates film tomorrow or on Sunday (work on Saturday- if some fool with a camera jumps you at Dodger Stadium, interrupting your cheering for the Cubs, and asks to takes your picture, that might be me). The LA Times review suggests that it will be like the last movie- long n boring CGI sequences with way too many plots, the most boring of which will involve Will Turner. So why am I going to go see this film? Not Johnny Depp-- funny as Capn Jack Sparrow is, the novelty is wearing off. Certainly not Orlando Bloom aka Orlando Boring. Not Keira Knightley, who, because she is a decent actress and nothing more, is only as good as the role is (her role has been improving, and was at times quite amusing in the last film). Nooo sir- it's all for Norrington! Yes! The British baddie who turned up suddenly in the second film all grubby and dirty and angry and badass and got to be the other interesting part in the crazy and fun swordfight at the end. Ooh. Which reminds me- I think he's in this one. . .

Uh, so the point of that was, found a link for the score for the new film, by Hans Zimmer, so-- yeah, it probably sounds just like Pirates 1 and 2 and anything else that Klaus Badelt has ever done, which means it sounds like Gladiator (don't get me wrong, I adore the Gladiator soundtrack, Holst rip-off and all), which means it sounds like every other score the talented Mr Zimmer has made , except for, perhaps, this one (actually, I have no idea about that one. Never saw it.)

So, grab the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End OST!

And I hafta say, I went to Disneyland last summer and went on the ride, and saw that they had indeed stuck scary Johnny Depp animatronic thingies throughout the ride. Appalling. I grew up in SoCal, so I grew up on free trips to Disneyland first with my violin group and then with my school orchestra, so I am absolutely sick of the place, but this is just like when they turned the Swiss Family Robinson Tree House into the Tarzan Jungle of Fun or whatever it's called. A dumb move.