User blog comment:J Fan/The Curse of the Black Pearl - 10 Year Anniversary/@comment-996391-20130625085349

Has it really been ten years already? Ten years since we were introduced to the best pirate film series in the history of film? It seems it is.

Well, ten years ago I watched Pirates of the Caribbean for the first time. It was just a normal day, with nothing interesting on the horizon. I remember it like it was yesterday. My late father and I were just walking through the town when I suddenly saw this poster on the wall of the cinema. I must admit, I've never heard about Johnny Depp before that day, even though I watched Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow before. Geoffrey, Orlando, and Keira were also completely unknown to me. But since I was a big fan of pirate movies, we decided to go to the cinema the same day.

Anyway, we came that night, bought the two tickets, and went inside. For the next 135 minutes I remained silent, but when the movie was over, I just said:"When this movie comes to tv, we have to record it on the vcr." (Yes, the videocassettes were still used at that time.)

Now, the movie was a complete surprise to me. I was used to pirate movies, to horror movies, to supernatural-themed movies, but The Curse of the Black Pearl looked like the combination of all three genres to me. Ok, not so much horror, but Barbossa's cursed crew really reminded me of living skeletons from Army of Darkness. Johnny Depp as Captain Jack was fantastic, and I had no idea that Will Turner is supposed to be the main character. Governor Swann was funny, and James Norrington was a standard naval officer bound by the law. Barbossa was probably the best "evil pirate" I've ever seen.

Anyway, that combination of adventure, humor, and horror, was so exciting, that I can't really describe how I really felt. The next day I started writing the entire plot of the movie, every scene, every dialogue that I could remember, because I didn't want to forget anything. I think I don't have to say that I also became obsess with the Black Pearl, of which I made numerous drawings (though many of them had not the slightest resemblance to Jack's ship). But, this "pirate disease" caught me ten years ago, and it's still holding. It's incurable. Well, who would want to cure it anyway?