Caitie ([info]caitiedidit) wrote,
@ 2008-04-02 16:44:00
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  • DOLLY PARTON FOR THE WIN, YOU GUYS. I have already said my piece in other people's journals, but basically: a.) Michael Johns came out of nowhere and was awesome, b.) Jason Castro did an awesome job with "Traveling Thru", c.) Brooke's version of "Jolene" was completely disappointing, and d.) who pissed in Simon's Coca-Cola?

  • So three weeks ago, I get this message on my machine from an obviously frustrated woman who says she has tried to deliver my girl scout cookies (a billion years late, might I add) but cannot find my address. She reads my address VERBATIM and says that it does not exist and that "basically, the problem we're having is that we can't read your handwriting." She says this all very pissily. I return her message, and leave a message on HER machine to tell her I did give her the right address and gave her more directions as well as an idea of when she might deliver them successfully.

    STILL NO COOKIES. So I guess that means I am not getting them. It's kind of ridiculous that I held out hope this long, isn't it? Sigh.

  • I finally rewatched At World's End, which I disliked about as much as I disliked it in the theater. And watching it again, the idea that Will is freed after 10 years of service is just not supported by the movie, even with the generous amount of fanwanking I am willing to do. But since those scenes were allegedly accidentally cut (HOW could you cut such important information accidentally? I do not believe it, I am sorry. Verbinski and the producers must have done it on purpose.), I figured they'd be on the DVD. I don't have the special edition version, but I looked up the deleted scenes on YouTube, and -- SURPRISE! -- I can't find the missing footage that would confirm the writers' story. But I could only find two scenes, SO: people with the special edition, is there really deleted footage that supports the idea that Will isn't bound to the Dutchman forever? Pleeeease look and tell me, because I am still two parts angry and one part curious about this frakkery!

  • Did anybody else watch The Cutting Edge III? Did you also think the ending was incredibly weird?

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    [info]flanneryflyer
    2008-04-02 09:21 pm UTC (link)
    I had never heard "Jolene" to begin with, so I kinda liked Brooke's song. But it PALED in comparison to the Australian glory that was Michael Johns!

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    [info]caitiedidit
    2008-04-02 09:36 pm UTC (link)
    I loveloveloooooove "Jolene". And, really, I was just so disappointed with the arrangement. She could have done a pretty, slow version on the piano, and countrifying it was so unnecessary.

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    [info]boosette
    2008-04-02 09:46 pm UTC (link)
    Jolene/Narratrix OTP?

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    [info]caitiedidit
    2008-04-02 09:55 pm UTC (link)
    Narratrix? I have never heard that before! Does it just mean female narrator? If so, agreed. The narrator of "Jolene" takes a very unusual approach to a typical situation.

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    [info]boosette
    2008-04-02 09:58 pm UTC (link)
    As far as my sketchy grasp of Latin grammar goes, -or nouns get an -ix ending when they're feminine (or something.), so yep. Sort of like how a female editor, when you don't want to call her a female editor and the fact that her womanhood is important, is an editrix. Same with author/-ix, dominator/trix, etc.

    But yeah. Jolene has to be my favorite song ever, or at least consistently in the top ten.

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    [info]caitiedidit
    2008-04-02 10:03 pm UTC (link)
    It is awesome! I love it! I am stealing your cool word and adding it to my repertoire.

    Also, do you have the White Stripes cover of "Jolene"? I love that too. And I also have an extremely slow and probably too mellow version by Susanna and The Magical Orchestra.

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    [info]sainfoin_fields
    2008-04-03 06:55 am UTC (link)
    Ooh! Could I trouble you for that second cover? For some reason I have two versions of the White Stripes doing it and not even the original, but I have a big love for it anyway.

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    [info]caitiedidit
    2008-04-02 10:17 pm UTC (link)
    P.S. Don't look now, but there is currently nobody at LJ named narratrix. It is one of the best ideas I have ever heard of for a username.

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    [info]boosette
    2008-04-02 10:18 pm UTC (link)
    Dude, awesome. XP

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    [info]thermopylae_h
    2008-04-02 09:48 pm UTC (link)
    No cookies!?! Terrible. My mother made me bring an extra bag from home back to Chicago expressly to carry Girl Scout Cookies in. If they wouldn't grow stale in transit, I'd totally send you some :(

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    [info]caitiedidit
    2008-04-02 09:56 pm UTC (link)
    Your icon is SO appropriate. And, aw, thanks. But it's okay. I really do not need any cookies full of delicious transfats anyway, what with summer right around the corner.

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    [info]them0rgue
    2008-04-02 10:00 pm UTC (link)
    UM. Do you mean Saturday night's Cutting Edge marathon that I definitely did not in any way, shape, or form skip out on a night of bar hopping for?

    Girl Scout cookies are a trap, dude. Do not drink the Kool-Aid!!

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    [info]caitiedidit
    2008-04-02 10:13 pm UTC (link)
    WHY, YES, THAT WOULD BE THE ONE. I watched them all on Sunday. I thought the third one was slightly better than the second, but I was really confused by the ending. I was tremendously surprised when the main character asked Alex From The Block to skate with him... forever. His poor, perfectly nice partner got dropped, injured, cheated on and dumped! Did they establish that they wouldn't be skating together anymore, and I just missed it? I do not think I did, because she looked so sad and resigned on the sidelines at the end. I just expected some sort of resolution for her, and it was like BOOM! Fade to black. I thought it was extremely weird. Like they were punishing her for... something I am not entirely clear about.

    Okay, and how sacriligeous was the recasting of Moseley and Dorsey in the second one? Pretty damn, as far as I am concerned!

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    [info]carrielh
    2008-04-02 10:14 pm UTC (link)
    The Cutting Edge 3 ending was incredibly weird, yes. It felt like they were trying to recreate the end of the first (with the pamchenko move and everything) and it just didn't work. Basically, both of the Cutting Edge sequels pretty much sucked.

    Oh, the POTC writers are frustrating me! The only thing I had ever heard as far as deleted scenes that would support the "Will is free after 10 years" theory was that there was a cut scene with Davy Jones and Tia Dalma where it was made clear that her unfaithfulness meant he was bound to the Dutchman forever. The implication being, I guess, that since Elizabeth stayed faithful to Will, he wouldn't share the same fate. Which is what the writers said online after the movie came out! But now apparently there's a booklet in the DVD with an FAQ or something, and it completely contradicts that by saying that Will has to captain the Dutchman forever. So, basically, I'm no help.

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    [info]caitiedidit
    2008-04-02 11:16 pm UTC (link)
    It felt like they were trying to recreate the end of the first (with the pamchenko move and everything) and it just didn't work.

    Yeah, that must have been what happened. It worked in the original because all the conflict was resolved, whether they won or not. But in this one, they never dealt with his old partner, and it just felt unfinished and abrupt.

    URGH. I just do not know what to do with the ending of Pirates now. I have heard the the ten year rule is written into one of the novelizations, but the movies themselves just do not in any way seem to support that interpretation. I am so conflicted about this! On the one hand, it's a pretty poetic coda for Will. But where Elizabeth is concerned, I have a lot of scorn. I mean, I have a lot of scorn either way, but I would obviously have less if it was clear that Will would be free after ten years.

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    [info]reenalaughalotz
    2008-04-02 10:22 pm UTC (link)
    I always buy cookies from the kids outside the market. That way you get them fast and easy!

    I never saw POTC 2 or 3 but the whole thing sounds like a gigantic headache.

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    [info]caitiedidit
    2008-04-02 10:46 pm UTC (link)
    But I like to support the local troop! Still, if I'd known I would never get my cookies, I'd have bought from the girl scouts outside of the supermarket or Target or something.

    And, yeah, the POTC debacle is the most annoying fannish situation I have ever been in. Who knows what to think-- there is so much conflicting evidence, I guess you can believe whatever you want.

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    [info]keenai
    2008-04-02 11:46 pm UTC (link)
    Dolly Parton is so awesome. Yes.

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    [info]very_vogue
    2008-04-03 03:15 am UTC (link)
    I actually couldn't get to the end of The Cutting Edge III as my brain had broken from stupid. What happened? Did they really do the Pamchenko like I suspect? Also, wasn't it weird that Ren Stevens was talking about being divorced and a coach and whatever when she was clearly these people's contemporary?

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    [info]q_sama
    2008-04-03 01:00 pm UTC (link)
    I heard that the scenes were cut from the original script, not the actual film. An LJ-friend posted the original script parts when it came out, so it must be somewhere on the web. (she followed the script-writers' interviews and such, so she's someone I'd generally trust in this case.)

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    [info]caitiedidit
    2008-04-09 07:27 pm UTC (link)
    I assume you're talking about [info]angua9? I've followed the debacle pretty closely as well, and my understanding is that the relevant scenes were cut out of the script in the second movie and edited out in the third. Days before the third release, the writers clarified on a screenwriter website that the ten-year rule had originally been "designed to be made more strongly in DMC" and that "hopefully that rule will be made more clear in the third film." Maybe they never did film those scenes, but if that's the case, the writers certainly weren't aware of it.

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    [info]lexy_
    2008-04-06 06:17 am UTC (link)
    You don't have to pay until you get your cookies right? But still, I always tried to deliver my cookies. There was only once where I didn't, but i have no idea where those people went. Are the girls that are by the banks and grocery stores already gone?

    I actually liked At World's End more than Dead Man's Chest. I hated the ending too though, but doesn't the scene after the credits kind of say he's able to be on land? I don't think I've seen it, but that's what I've heard.

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    [info]caitiedidit
    2008-04-09 07:30 pm UTC (link)
    The scene itself doesn't. It just indicates that Elizabeth waited for him for 10 years, that they had a son, and that Will would get his day-on-land. There's nothing in the scene to indicate that he's back for good.

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