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X-E’s Disney World Adventure – Part 3!

Happy 4th of July, all. I've barely heard any fireworks today. Guess everyone blew their stock over the course of the weekend. Krauts. I'm down to a smoke bomb and a sparkler, and I just totally remembered right now that this is one of those rare days of the year where several channels run marathons of shows that are only good in marathon form. I'll make this quick.

A month, nine pages and 56,000 words bring X-E's Disney World Adventure to its conclusion. Part 3 has been posted, covering luaus, blinking drinks, roller coasters and giant bees. Hope you've enjoyed the series; I'm definitely ready to get back to doing some more "normal" X-E articles, starting next weekend.

Posted by Matt on 07/04/2006. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 168 comments

The Batsuit has nipples.

Chestnuts roasted by Ragnarok @ 07/08/2006 1:45 AM

IHAQ – did I catch that correctly? Your brother is going to the mall carrying a real sword?

To everyone else: Have you noticed the Jerry Bruckhiemer logo on all the Pirates of the Carribean advertisements? If you missed it, that’s alright, because they flash his name all around the screen and read it for you. Anyway, that’s the advertisers’ way of telling you that a movie or show will be a horrid, mind-numbing travesty. Seriously, I can’t believe I sat through the first one. Will someone please tell me how ANYONE could screw up a movie that features both pirates and the living dead? It’s incomprehensible.

All my ranting has left me with an extra thought: If the Haunted Mansion movie from just a few years back had been as successful as the Pirates franchise, would Disney have desecrated their ride with Eddie Murphy updates?

Chestnuts roasted by Tougi @ 07/08/2006 3:26 AM

Tougi: So fast.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 07/08/2006 7:37 AM

Tougi

What are you talking about? The first Pirates movie was amazing. Sure, it had a few pacing problems, but it was still a kick-ass awesome movie..

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 07/08/2006 11:23 AM

Yeah, it was excellent. I plan on seeing it again; mainly because I was feeling a bit blue while seeing it (very long story), and it did move kinda fast, so I’d like to go over some of the parts I missed.

If there any Lovecraft (or Futurama) fans hereabouts who haven’t yet seen it, you may recognize a certain face onscreen. (Those who have seen the movie probably know what I’m talking about.) ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 07/08/2006 11:54 AM

I am a total playa hata when it comes to the Bruckmeister; I wouldn’t sit through the likes of Top Gun or CSI without the promise of financial renumeration. Pirates is one of the exceptions to the Bruckheimer banality. You can pick it apart and hate on it, but I think you’ll find most people are willing to embrace the silliness and fun.
I thought they were giving away the milk with how much they show Davy Jones in the promos (I saw him on a puzzle/poster many weeks ago), but once I saw what they had up their sleeves with the crew/Kracken it made sense.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 07/08/2006 12:42 PM

Tougi: Yeah my Brother in law is crazy about battles and wars, he even works at a Fort, so he has lots of things like swords, muskets, and he even has odd clothes like a pith helmet. He’s an odd fellow, but at least I know I’ll always have someone willing to dress up and look a little different with me!

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 07/08/2006 1:21 PM

Jessica Marie- I am really jealous of that event you got to go to! Man, I wish I lived near a larger city so I could go to comic book conventions, and other equally cool things.

Man, I have been hearing nothing but BAD reviews for Pirates 2…even my crappy local paper trashed it this morning as I was drinking my coffee, and since it’s the ONLY movie playing in town, that really bummed me out. Still, I cannot believe they could screw it up so badly….pirates, Johnny Depp, cool CGI, HOW can this be bad? Although, the review DID say that it was insanely long…

Was Jerry Bruckhiemer responsible for "Armageddon"? If so, the man is evil. That movie was a piece of shit.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 07/08/2006 1:37 PM

Ol’ Brucky my be a lot of things, but at least he’s no SCHUMACHER! (thunderclap, horse whinnies)

As per the Elder God, look back a few months to my link to the Cthulhu/Chick Tract page. It was during our discussion about outlawing Hallowe’en.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 07/08/2006 3:50 PM

Not sure why everything I type is underlined, but whatever. Matt – I know you can’t possibly read all these, but can we get an article of a tour of your apartment and all its cool crap? That would rule. Your pal, Terror Claws Cole.

Chestnuts roasted by TerrorClawsCole @ 07/08/2006 4:16 PM

Pirates 2 was awesome. End of discussion. I don’t know how anyone can not enjoy that movie. It has everything anyone could want from a film. Except maybe explosions and car chases, but it does have explosions and pirate ship chases, so there. Also, the movie is worth seeing for the coolest bad guys I have seen in a movie in a long long time.

In closing, it made me feel like a little kid again. And (SPOILER, MAYBE)………………………………………………………………….. yes, I’ll say it, reminded me a little of the Empire Strikes Back, at the end anyway.

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 07/08/2006 4:50 PM

One thing I realli disliked about PotC 2 was the voice for Davy Jones…it was just far from what I was expecting.

Chestnuts roasted by Ragnarok @ 07/08/2006 6:08 PM

I haven’t seen the movie yet, of course, but isn’t the voice of Davy Jones also the actor playing him, Bill Nighy? Bill Nighy is extra-awesome.

And I was disappointed that the reviewer in Entertainment Weekly said she HATED Pirates 2, but then she mentioned that she also hated the original. So I feel free ignoring all that, because that bitch must be cray-zay.

Chestnuts roasted by Welsh Rabbit @ 07/08/2006 10:15 PM

Cameron T.: No, it wasn’t. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say that your opinion is wrong. That’s right, people who disagree with me! You can end all this pointless arguing now, because I am the only one with a valid opinion and the rest of you are wrong.

Muppet Baby: Bruckhiemer was the producer on Armageddon. I won’t speak out against this movie too much, because I haven’t seen it. Still, I can’t think of any reason to see it, because it was not only produced by Jer-Jer B, but directed by Michael Bay. They’ve worked together quite a few times, judging by the generally reliable IMDB, but never managed to make anything good, which is particularly upsetting because Jerry has co-production duty on an upcoming Prince of Persia movie. (Not that video game movies have the highest expectations anyway. It’s too bad, because I thought the Super Mario Bros. movie was one of the most bizarre and entertaining pieces in cinematic history. Which, I’m sure destroys plenty of my credibility as a critic.) Even worse, Bay is directing the new Transformers. At the same time, Spielberg is executive producer. That will have some wild results.

Now for me to mock myself: I accidentally refered to Disney as they. Disney is a collective noun. Disney is it. I triedto point this out yesterday, but the X-E comment system said I’d posted something too recently and said I might be a spammer.

I’ve taken up more space on the board than I deserve. Sorry ’bout that. I’m done until the next topic. See you kids when Matt finishes the next article.

Chestnuts roasted by Tougi @ 07/09/2006 3:58 AM

If you were able to stand the gut-wrenchingly annoying Stacy, then you really missed out by not getting to see the previous host, Crissa. She was MUCH more entertaining, much LESS punch-in-the-faceable, and much MORE attractive. Exhibit A.

Chestnuts roasted by Robb @ 07/09/2006 3:25 PM

Squee: That’s why I didn’t even watch the TV promos whenever they came on; I would just look away. I did once catch the part with Jack on the cannibals’ spit.

The one thing I wish was that Keith Richards had been able to play Will’s dad in this movie (really; look it up!) I hadn’t done any pre-research on this movie before I saw it (except to find showtimes online), so yeah, I enjoyed it all without already knowing what to expect.

Movie records seem to be broken a lot more easily these days; Pirates 2 beat Revenge of the Sith to the most successful opening day release!

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 07/09/2006 7:41 PM

Great! Hot Disney #46….Jellyrolls!

Chestnuts roasted by twotoohappy @ 07/09/2006 8:37 PM

good article buddy!

Chestnuts roasted by crusty @ 07/09/2006 11:09 PM

As a fellow Jersey Boy… I tell you that you must go the Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios…. The Spiderman ride at Islands blows the 3d stuff away on the Donald Duck ride….

How could you not write about the Haunted Mansion… or the lame Huckleberry Finn thingy???

Great stuff though!!!

Chestnuts roasted by BLOOD @ 07/11/2006 7:38 PM

We were just at the Disney Parks the week after you, it’s scary how we made almost the very same observations you did. From the *mandatory* close captioned TV in the Lodge (which I finally outwitted by actually selecting cc) to the dining reservations in advance cramping our schedule.

Expedition Everest did rock, it was down the first day we tried to get on, but going in early on a Magic Hour day we managed several rides on it while the lines were short.

Reading your articles was like a travelogue written by me, only better!

Chestnuts roasted by Mike D. @ 07/14/2006 5:53 PM

I just wanted to thank you for one of the best Disney vacation reads I have ever had…and I read A LOT of them. Thank you Thank you Thank you

Chestnuts roasted by Shawn @ 07/15/2006 12:22 PM

Dear god, Matt!?? What the hell is that post-card potato thing?!!!

Chestnuts roasted by RedLightBulbs @ 07/16/2006 3:49 AM

Did you know that the gertie the dinosaur ice crean place was based on the 1916 cartoon the was called that same thing.

Chestnuts roasted by FLIPPY FAN @ 07/17/2006 2:00 PM

I don’t remember guards being posted by the disney characters back in the 80′s. What’s up with it now?!

Chestnuts roasted by Alyssa @ 07/19/2006 3:12 PM

Great article

Chestnuts roasted by joe @ 07/22/2006 2:35 PM

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