pirates

Pirates of the Caribbean (the trilogy): the FBI couldn't have produced a better way of saying piracy is wrong. They couldnt have, even if they wanted to or had a chance to have been involved in the fabrication of the tale. Lets review the lessons: 1. Piracy will lead you, at best, to where you started. 2. Piracy destroys those around you, not that you should care since piracy is a glorification of self and nothing more. 3. Piracy isn't profitable, since those who associate with the requisite ideals will dump you out just to expedite their own selves.

However, why did these other lessons get included in the instructional materials: 1. being loyal to love will get you 1 day of fling for 10 years of toil. [seriously, there are things worse than that, but loyalty pays better dividends usually, c'mon] 2. living selflessly and spending your life to help others, including those you /should/ care about (like family) will end you up enslaved to a similar duty for eternity. [There may be truth to spending eternity how you live your life, but is this a gratifying resolution to the question of eternal reward, or slavery. what are we here for anyway? And if the end is dark, it should include Death. Death is granted that we not slave ourselves to our own devices, or those of men more or less evil than ourselves] 3. Deity is indifferent to the struggles of men, even when they have performed some service. [maybe your god is that way... humanist futility is an exemplary alternative? Maybe they should have sacrificed the monkey...] 4. Arming ones self leads to shame and nakedness. [who's stupid? maybe the writers were trying to be funny, but if i am a walking storage of armament, you gonna face Death in his uGly face before you strip me of my dignity. There are things worth saving, and prices too high for peaceful trifling. Soooooo... that may be more than needs said.]

So what redeems this tale? I don't know. Jack the monkey maybe, but wasn't he un-dead in the last episode? did that change or is it Jack the Zombie Monkey forever? If he's still un-dead why didn't someone shoot him. Thats not really funny, but it felt like a gratifying theme of the second installment. I miss it. Ok, thats morbid. Time to correct my viewpoint. Although i guess that being shot from a cannon with your tail on fire is almost close. Creepy Zombie Monkey. Oughta have 'is own movie, but i wouldn't watch it. Maybe they made it already.

So Pirates of the Caribbean isn't on my list of favorites. It seems wrong in message on far too many levels.