There's good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

Barbossa is the most exasperated character in any scene he's in, unless he's winning. then he's the smuggest son of a bitch on screen (he literally returns from the dead smugly eating an apple). but majority of the time, he's 'why am I the only adult here'. man rolls his eyes so much I half-expected him to turn straight to the camera.

when Will asks Elizabeth to marry him while they are fighting Davy Jones' crew, stuck in a maelstrom, and trapped in the final battle, the first word out of her mouth is "Barbossa!". she then continues by asking Barbossa to marry them, but for a split second Will's face goes like 'Barbossa? Barbossa?? I didn't even know he was on the map of this convoluted love quadrangle!'

when they're in Singapore and Sao Feng threatens the spy he found and Will, Elizabeth, and Barbossa all look at each other to confirm that none of them have snuck in a spy they forgot to tell the others about, before shrugging and telling Sao Feng to go ahead and kill him.

Barbossa's eyes just getting wide and wider the more weapons Elizabeth pulls out of her clothes. c'mon man, let a woman have her toys!

rewatching really gives you the full picture of how many people are scheming at any given time and how each person's schemes intersect with the others, even if they're nominally on the same side. everyone also gets So Upset when their scheme is foiled, accidentally or intentionally, by someone else's scheme, as though they themselves aren't scheming at that very moment.

Barbossa's iron balls. I'm sorry, this is the funniest dick joke in the trilogy that defines how many dick jokes Disney can stick in a movie before it stops being PG-13. Jack's reaction really says it all.

"This knife is kinda cool in the design of it. It’s also the only thing Bootstrap really has to give him. We wanted a hilt that was actually… had this black white imagery. Dark on one side, light on the other. Just one of those little touches. It actually plays into the end scene to some extent."

"I think Will’s vow here is well done on the part of Orlando. It’s a bit of nobility, a bit of heroism in such an absurd circumstance. But it’s what, from this point forward, drives that character forward, all the way through to the end of this film and into the third film."

"What can I tell you? Here’s a kid who was abandoned, who finally found his father. His father says, “Look, I could lie to you and say I had to go do this, but the fact is I actually did want to do this. This was an actual choice I made.” And the son says, “Well, look, I’m not gonna abandon you. I’m not gonna do to you what you did to me.”

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST

Davy Jones' Organ

So how’d that pre-parlay meeting go

Ambush hunters

Part 3 of the comic

This wasn’t in the job description

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Crappy followup:

Me on the inside, watching:

Well that doesn’t justify you having the power to make the afterlife less cruel but CHOOSING NOT TO, instead being a big old ASSHAT to other people (INCLUDING YOUR CREW) who had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR BREAKUP which is not only an extremely private affair but also happened AGES AGO like take it up with your ex you dramatic petty ass bitch

here have some more of those silly goobers it's on the house

potc + textposts part 15/?

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

So the little crumbs of Jack's inner feelings during this inspection always get me. Just look at that moment when Norrington takes the pistol and inspects it, Jack's immediate reaction is to reach out but he stops midway. Of course he cant, thats a navy officer; but also, he fact that that pistol just has ONE bullet. And Jack absolutely does not want to loose that bullet because thats his 10-year revenge plot right there-> see how he closes his fists and sort of shakes it slightly like reassuring himself. Thats a self-soothing gesture like... alright fine, is still there, still there we haven't lost it.

And then the compass bit. He is pursing his mouth, looking downward. He KNOWS how his compass works, so why does he look subtly ashamed here? Its not only because hes being inspected and put down by Norrington, is it? This is a man used to being underestimated and mocked. But somehow it hurts now because he's literally just done a good deed -> saved Elizabeth from drowning. And it sort of points to him being ashamed of his own foolishness maybe? Along the likes of "great idea, save the girl, you dumbass! This is what being nice gets us".

And then when Norrington moves to openly mocking him with the "I half expected it to be made of wood", he glares at him for a microsecond before he dawns the mask back on and starts using humour as a self defense mechanism.