{"id":468,"date":"2006-07-12T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/churchofthemasses\/2006\/07\/pirates-dead-mans-mess\/"},"modified":"2006-07-12T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T16:24:00","slug":"pirates-dead-mans-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/churchofthemasses\/2006\/07\/pirates-dead-mans-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates: Dead Man&#8217;s Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Circuit City has been installing a new stereo system in my car for two days and over 16 hours now.  Last night, they managed to still not get the steering wheel controls reconnected, and raised that by disconnecting my directional signals.  There is a cineplex across the street, so I have gotten three movies in while waiting.  Last night, I saw \u201cthe biggest movie in America!\u201d with the \u201chugest opening in box-office history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.  I don\u2019t want to spend too much time here.  My best advice is not to waste your money if you haven\u2019t already wasted it on this.  This film has twice the production value of the original but offers less than half the charm and entertainment.  It is a heartless sequence of sight gags interspersed with tedious dialogue sequences\u2026  I found some of the dialogue scenes really, really tedious because the actors accents or costuming made their speech unintelligible.  There were some spiffy effects, but that\u2019s all really.  Two hours into the movie, it was clear to me that the whole thing was basically a set-up for the next film.  <\/p>\n<p>Parents should be warned that some stuff in the movie \u2013 notable the dead pirates who are half men-half demonic barnacles \u2013 might be distubing for children.  <\/p>\n<p>Using all the narrative consistency present in <em>Pirates: Chest<\/em>, the moral of the review is, don\u2019t buy car stereo systems from Circuit City.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever. Circuit City has been installing a new stereo system in my car for two days and over 16 hours now. Last night, they managed to still not get the steering wheel controls reconnected, and raised that by disconnecting my directional signals. 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