editing pair-up of the day

someone finally did a bit of editing that i'd always been curious to see.

putting the 'enchantment under the sea' scenes from "back to the future" and "back to the future II" side by side.
google video link here

saw the pirate movie

for the most part, it was silly fun. kiera knightly is tasty as a pirate. the plot was a bit ... scattered, but fun. i expected a bit more resolution - i hadn't realized it was dropping the plotlines so fast to pick them up in a third movie. (i knew there was a third movie planned, but i didn't realize it was so tightly coupled.)

a few moments of compositing looked a bit odd, but the fabulousness of davey jones' little waving tentacles made me happy they spent the rendering money where they did.

my biggest peeve, however, wasn't with the plot per se, or with the acting. it felt a bit like i was watching a much older movie in terms of its treatment of people of color. boy howdy, the brother always gets it. let's look at our good guys: a bunch of white guys, a white chick, and one black person -- a voodoo priestess/witch. awesome. and it's just coincidence that all the white heroes were in one hampster ball while all the non-white guys were in another - the one where that sneaky trecherous guy of color screwed up and managed to get noticed by the tribesman. (unless, as a friend pointed out, they were separating the white meat from the dark meat... i think maybe they were going to marinate them differently.)

i don't normally go around analyzing the racist undertones in popular media, but this struck me as pretty egregious.