Screening Log

This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.


June 2007 activity

Total Log Entries: 45

Total Comments: 14


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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End / USA / 2007

The third (and hopefully final) installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, At World’s End is too long, too convoluted, and too empty—ninety minutes of clichéd dialogue and tiresome plot stretched into 168 repetitive minutes through unending alliances between the characters and unoriginal special effects. This is a cinematic migraine, cured only twice—once by Keith Richards as the all-feared keeper of the Pirate Code, and again through a blatant and inappropriate visual allusion to Barbossa’s massive cojones.

My sentiments are best represented by a young boy who, halfway through the film, shouted out, “Mommy, can we go home now?” His mother, busy on her cell-phone, didn’t respond.

P.S.: The “surprise” ending is given away in the first half-hour. Enjoy.

by Adam Balz | Source: Buena Vista 35MM Theatrical Print
02 Jun 2007 10:23 PM | Submit Comment


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