Duchess of Evil

I have read no one else's responses as yet, but plan to after I finish this post.

Without any spoilers, let me just say this:

OMFG *is dead* <-- my initial response after seeing it.  It was the best of the three movies.  I can't think of a single scene that I didn't love.  It resolved the things from the previous two movies, yet brought up new twists for future films (which, according to interviews, Johnny Depp has the costume in his closet, ready to go at any time.  Hee!) 

And for the Will/Elizabeth/Jack triangle lovers, they resolved it (sort of) while yet leaving it open for new developments, rather like the rest of the plot. :D

Now for the nitty gritty:

Editing has eaten my brain. I mean, it's great that we get to send The North Wind off to a couple of editors and an agent, but OMG, the editing! The fifteen million Japanese words that must be italicized (or, for the purpose of proper submission formatting, underlined), the fifteen billion little skipped words, typos, occassional comma errors, etc, etc. Which doesn't include any of the "Hmm..I don't like this sentence/paragraph/scene - I think I'll just rewrite it!" moments.

Last night, I had this dream where we were forced to live in a hotel room without internet access until we finished editing the thing. Gee, think my subconscious is trying to tell me something? In the same dream, there were other people in our 'group' at this hotel, some of them writers, some of them other artists - and two different small groups of these very specific people in my head got together and acted out the first chapter of the book for us, with both presentations ending up entirely different from one another. It was very, very strange! Although when I woke up, I felt some mild disappointment that it was only a dream because both of the skits were pretty damn cool.

Saw Pirates yesterday. I promise a longer, more spoilery post later, but for now ( the quickshot review )

ETA: Spoilers about the after-credits-scene in the comments.