Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley

My initial thought about this movie was “First they turn video games into movies and now they turn Disneyland rides into movies??” I must admit that I didn’t have very high hopes for this one. In fact, I didn’t even see it when it came out in the theaters. Just something about a ride turned into a movie that I couldn’t get into.

However, I was pleasantly surprised. It turned out to be pretty good. I even like how they mixed in little subtleties from the ride (like the dog in the prison that won’t move). It had a good blend of comedy and action. And Johnny Depp was the absolute perfect choice for the role of Jack Sparrow. I can’t imagine too many more actors being able to replace him and do as good a job.

Just as I was getting into the movie, the disc freezes. So I rewind a bit, thinking that maybe it was a one time glitch.

Nope. Freezes again.

So now I’m pissed. Because the disc froze right at a tense, climactic-type moment. Netflix screwed me out of a decent movie experience.

After I was finally able to get it working again (a lot of playing around with FF and REW), it moved along pretty well for about 20 minutes. And then it froze again.

So my POTC experience was diminished a bit due to the fact that Netflix sent me a crappy disc. (I will say that it wasn’t near as bad as when I rented The Exorcist from Blockbuster and it skipped an froze at the end of the movie, when the priest is finally drawing the demon out of Linda Blair)

The rest of the movie was pretty good, but I wasn’t really into it since I was pissed at Netflix. I did manage to notice, however, that Orlando Bloom was able to save the girl by the end of the movie.

And dress like a Three Musketeer.

What was that about??