POTC

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Pirates Of The Carribean: Dead Man's Chest. I guess the big worry was that this would go the same way as the Matrix series - a good film followed by two feeble sequels. To my mind they've avoided it, although on a first viewing I think I'd still rate the first film as comfortably the better.

Orlando Bloom was definitely reminding me of Wesley from The Princess Bride at points. Keira Knightley's character took a while to get going, spending the first half of the film trying to catch up with the plot rather than advancing it; but makes up for it by the end of the film.

The film has the Hyperion nature - although the end is a stopping point, it's only half way through the story. People who've been paying attention possibly knew this already.

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[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I guess the big worry was that this would go the same way as the Matrix series

I understand, though it didn't feel like that to me, but I'm not sure why. Perhaps because the makers were quite good at thinking up pirate curses, but Matrix I was just fortunate that the cartesian paradox was so appropriate, they flubbed trying to make predestination interestingly illustrated in the next films? I really don't know.