While I agree with you on the idea of More from St Croix, would it have fit in with the first film as well as it would have in this one. I think his time on screen was used perfectly. The fact that he is used sparingly makes it important when you see him in the film. With Janine I disagree compleatly, because if she did such a bad job why was she awarded the Best Actress Trophie at the 06 AVN Awards? Personaly I feel everybody did their best and put out a great film. You may be making to much out of small details.
Amnisiac said:
Stone is hilarious in his own right, but the original clown prince of porn St. Croix steals virtually every scene he's in as the feckless commitment-phobic Marco who still pines for Jules with every girlish shriek he emits in the middle of battle, and Stone's rubber-faced XXX Bruce Campbell act comes off as too straight; this is even more evident when Edwards meets up with the hilarious Takvor who is constantly trying to rebuild his image but can't escape his unshakable fear that things are more exciting when he's not around.
Bruce Camble? Where did you see anything Camble like in Stone's performence. If anything they were mocking Bill Shatners Captain Kirk. Sorry Amnisiac but you missed the boat on that one. I do agree that St Croix is funnier when he is on camera, but would he have seemed as funny had he been in the film more. Like I said before, wanting to see him more made his time on camera more valued.
Amnisiac said:
Katsuni and BellaDonna individually overshadow Jesse Jane, but together Jane may as well be invisible: the two exotic porn stars, decked out in the best costumes the production has to offer, reveal a remarkably adept acting ability...while Bella obviously stumbles with her dialogue inflection, the sinewy siren exhibits a surprisingly effective knack for very limber sword choreography. Katsuni manages a convincing old school Hollywood pantomime by playing and posing to the camera with the skill of a seasoned actor so that her lack of skill with English is a boon rather than a detriment. The sword work of both girls is admirable.
I didn't find anything wrong with Belledonna's performence, but at time's I could bearly make out what Kasuni was saying. Nobody over shadowed Jesse, I think you are letting your bias for darker haired women over shadow you judgemeant. One of the beast None Sex scenes in the film was when Jesse and Evan are riding on the ship to Zabulba Isalnd... you know the one I mean.
Amnisiac said:
Also in the supporting cast is Olivia's other sister Maria (Sasha Grey), a stone-faced killer and hardcase who is even more intent on saving Serena than Olivia. Unfortunately, Grey reads her dialogue without inflection, and the copious Behind-The-Scenes material reveals that Grey may actually be a more humorless personality in real life than her character. She doesn't factor much outside of her sex scenes.
At know time in the film is their stated any blood relation between Olivia and Maria... witch I am glad because they ended up in a 3some with Belladonna and Evan near the nd of the film. Are you sure you watched the entire movie or did you FF through most of it to the sex scenes. Personaly I didn't care for Grey, and in the bloopers she comes across as a stuck up bitch. I think she is a little high in herself because she has don't some mainstream work.
Amnisiac said:
Pirates II also slips away from it's original tone of Ray Harryhausen stop-motion pirate skeleton epics of the 1960s (Jason and the Argonauts) and instead adopts a more SFX-heavy fantasy adventure tone of Xena and Hercules, but surprisingly well. The film also refuses to play itself too straight, and mercilessly parodies itself and the movies it's stealing from with constant references to the constant re-emergence of pirate skeletons and ridiculous monster battles; "This is fucking ridiculous" is a constant phrase of Edwards in the face of one seemingly insurmountable challenge after another. Both scenes feature surprisingly seamless cheap CGI integration of a very limber BellaDonna swashbuckling her way into saving the day.
I watched it yesterday with a friend and th biggest laughs were when Marco was screaming like a girl, and when Edwin first see's the sea monster and grumbles "This is fucking rediculous.". Funniest moments in hero history lol.
Aminsiac said:
And as for the sex, it's fairly lifeless with the exception of Jane and BellaDonna, two voraciously aggressive performers who turn their scenes into WWE worthy battles for dominant sexual positions. Even this jaded viewer felt the energy when these two obviously gay-for-PLAY-not-pay girls tore themselves up, although it seems that the energy expended in tussling with each other blurs their ability to concentrate when fucking, but when they do manage to lock together right, it's a beautiful thing.
I though Bella and Grey's 3some with Stone was good, as well as Katsuni's and Jane's scene with Tommy Gun. The big orgy was fun to watch, but I didn't buy this film expecting drawn out sex scenes anyway. It's an epic of it's film type.
Amnisiac said:
The over-dependence on expensive-for-porn CGI and the convoluted plot (you'd think for this much money they could put SUBTITLES in their DVDs), as well as the tendency for the movie to overwhelm the sex keeps Pirates from being as enjoyable as it should be but for people who have this indelible image of porn being choppy papier-mache sets and bad acting will be surprised at how far the medium has come, and here's hoping with Pirates III that they'll show what more they can do.
Subtitles would have been good for Katsuni because I did have trouble with some of the stuff she said, espesialy when she has her battle with Belladonna. All and all I thought it was a very good production and I would be more then willing to drop another $80.00 for a third film. I just hope Joone is reading my mind, and calling Lexington Steele for some casting idea
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