Pirates of the Caribbean

CAUTION- SPOILER ALERT IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE PIRATES MOVIES!

Ok, I know I said I was going to bed, but I've been thinking about Pirates of the Caribbean a lot since I got here. My cousin asked me which one of the Pirates movies was my favorite and I had to think for a minute to decide. I really liked all of them. I don't think I really enjoyed one more than the other- there were just things in each one that I liked for different reasons. The first one was a classic and it was the one that inspired me to learn about Johnny Depp and to basically change my attitude about my life. That is why I am so passionate about these movies. They aren't just movies to me. They are a reminder to me and a part of why I am the happy and giggly person you all know today. The second one was the one I most anticipated. I didn't really pay attention to the advertising of the first one, but it took about 3 years after the first one came out to make the second one. I was SO incredibly excited for Pirates 2. I went to the midnight showing and I watched it about four times in the theaters before it came out on DVD and then I went and bought it the morning it was released both when the 2nd and 3rd one came out (I didn't have to worry about the 1st one- my dad bought that one for me himself). And just a little side note about when I got the first movie- I had my dad for Journalism my senior year and he knew how much I absolutely loved Pirates, so like I said, he bought the 1st DVD for me on the morning it came out before he came to school. But relating to my Journalism class, he surprised me by telling us that we were ahead of our deadline and so he allowed us to take a free day and watch the Pirates of the Caribbean DVD he gave me!!! Obviously we couldn't watch the entire thing, but still! Could I have a cooler dad?! I've been eternally grateful of him ever since. Anywho, back to Pirates 2. I know there are a lot of plot holes in the movie and that its a bit random, but I was anticipating the movie so much that I really didn't find all that much wrong with the movie. I had the BIGGEST grin on my face when Jack made his entrance into the 2nd film because I'd been waiting for 3 years to see my favorite pirate and the man who inspired my positive change of attitude. Once again, it was a symbol of my happiness and how it came to be what it is. Now, I didn't anticipate the 3rd one as much because they'd filmed some of it when they'd been working on Pirates 2 and there was only 11 months between the release dates of 2 and 3, so I didn't get as worked up about 3 as I did about 2. I was very satisfied with the ending of 3, though. The story went full circle. Barbossa got the Black Pearl back and went on sailing the seas without being undead. Will and Elizabeth got married and even had a child, and Jack went back to sailing the seas by himself on his little dingy. Now, I know there was the whole twist in the story with Will getting stabbed and then having his heart put in the chest, causing him to become the captain of the Flying Dutchman, but I really liked that ending. He officially became a pirate, and a captain nonetheless! I know many people didn't like the 2nd and 3rd Pirates movies, but I did. It was more than just the storylines of the movies and the characters in them. Every time I watched the next movie, I had a rebirth of my attitude adjustment and I was satisfied and even filled with pure joy after watching them. Granted, I was a little shocked about the ending of Pirates 2. I refuse to believe that Jack actually died at the end of the movie when he entered the Kracken, even though he said himself in the 3rd one that he'd died. Jack had simply been temporarily detained in the Kracken. That's my story and I'm stickin to it! But anyway, my point is that many people just look at the Pirates movies as a fun and adventure-filled story about pirates. I look at them as movies with characters/actors that sparked my interest enough to learn about their past and the movies the actors did and then, after learning that you don't have to follow what everyone else does or even care what anyone else thinks about you, change the way I'd been living my life so that I was no longer miserable. Pirates of the Caribbean, Jack Sparrow, and most of all, Johnny Depp changed my life for the better and that is why they are some of my favorite movies. I really don't want to go into detail about why I was so miserable before seeing Pirates right now, but if anyone is ever really that curious about what exactly happened to me before and after seeing Pirates, feel free to ask me.