Pirates of the Carribean -At Worlds End

I was waiting for this one ever since the second part was released last year. I loved the second part, it was witty, crisp exciting film which moved the story forward and left it at an interesting situation.

Going in here's what i was expecting in this one

• Cracken.... more of it and jack's battle with davey jones
• Explanation of barbosa's past and his return
• Will and boostrap's reunion and eventual rescue
• Chow yun fat and his story
• Good old fashioned sword fights

What i got to see was

• No cracken at all. No explanation of how jack was where he was in the film.
• Loads of new characters with little or no use. Chow yun fat's role was lesser than expected both in screen time and substance.
• No explanation of barbosa's past or how he returned
• Less than expected emphasis on davey jones story
• Miss swan gets kissed by 3 different men
• Norrington dies :)
• The apparent villian changes....
• You have pirate lords and a pirate king...
• Black pearl has a new captain :)
• Loads of emotional crap... with even davey jones getting senti
• U see davey's real face and his love interest
• Less witty than the previous installments
• Something we didn't know abt daveys heart
• Keith richards in a 2 min appearance... well worth it

Well i found the movie to be too long with some parts of the story not explained fully. The thing that disappointed me the most was that instead of focusing on davey jone being the main villian he becomes secondary to beckett.

Lastly, someone dies, someone is born, flying dutchman must have a captain and at the end jack is in the same position as he was at the start of the first movie. Happy watching... :)

Almost forgot...

Almost forgot i had this blog... Well last week was sort of easy. Spent most of it in training.... where i could sleep sitting at the last bench. Yeah... and also i have started running again... You have dedicated jogging tracks here and almost everyone around here has a sense of physical fitnesss in them. You can see small kids to grandmothers engaged in some sort of physical activity on the grounds. So, after weeks of delibration i decided to join then and went on my first jog last sunday. Lets see how far i can continue with it.

Saw Metro last week. It's a nice movie with good music. Really enjoyed it. Another one that i saw was 28 weeks later. Zoombie movie, but again really well made, the pace is fast and you never get bored.

Gods own country

Phew... after a hectic week i was finally off to Kerala for my cousins marriage. Had nice start to the journey when i checked in for my flight to Cochin by silk air. I was pretty excited since i was travelling business class for the first time. Man.... i was not disappointed. I had forgotten that you get to use the premier lounge with you ticket. The lady at the check in counter gave me the card and i coudn't stop smiling, premier lounge... here i come. Well the funny part was i coudn't find the lounge, even after looking throughout the airport. Fuck... with just abt 1 hr to the flight i realised my mistake... here instead of ground floor you have 1st floor. So, while the card said 3rd floor i kept going to the 4th and found nothing. Well, i managed to locate the lounge, was pleasently surprised to find free dinner there, munched a little and then went to board my flight

Landed safely and after a 2hr drive reached Mangalam, which is abt 45min from pallakad. Had a blast the 5 days i was there, met up with all the cousins after a long time. Attended my cousin Kamalesh's marriage on 6th. The thing that surprised me was that u have may of these retired uncles and aunties comming to such marriages just so that they can spot a eligible boy/girl and start fixing there matches with girls/boys they know of. I was very surprised with the kind of networks these guys have, one aunty seemed to know the entire history of almost all the girls there.

The day after marriage we had reception at my uncles house. The dj guy played some really nice tamil songs which i liked. Found a new love for tamil music, so much that i have started listing to them more than any other music now a days... he he he.

After 5 days of masti, i came back on 10th, missing kerala a lot.