Chris didn’t come along to see At World’s End last week, because he actually hadn’t seen Dead Man’s Chest yet. So we watched that last night to get him caught up. Seeing it for the second time, it seems like there are some obvious ways the film could have been made better. For example, they could have cut out the entire cannibal island scene altogether - it does nothing to further the plot and now we know it had nothing to do with the third movie. And it’s what, a good half hour? It has some fun moments, to be sure, but snipping it out altogether would fix some of the pacing issues in the film and lessen the sense that it’s too long and too sprawling. Similarly, most of the fight scene on Isla Cruces doesn’t need to happen - particularly the bit with the goddamn wheel. Cutting it down to half or a third of its current length would have been great, I think. But despite my complaints, overall I liked Dead Man’s Chest better the second time around and it left me looking forward to seeing At World’s End again on the big screen.

In other news, Memorial Day weekend was pretty good. My parents were in town, which was nice as I hadn’t seen them since Christmas. And I ended up at the Google building in Chelsea for a while on Saturday, where I spent most of my time wandering around in open-mouthed awe and hating the Googlers just a little bit. They are very nice people, to be sure, but why don’t I get a Lego room adjoining my free cafeteria?