The Pirates of the Carribbean

[WarLocke]

I personally like it too. Some people might not like the pacing, but I think it fits the theme of the story. And it has a quirky charm.

Agreed. I think the pacing is the charm, actually. Whitaker (dang, can't remember the character's name now) wasn't 'a black guy who thought he was a samurai', he was a samurai, with all the duties and obligations that mindset carries. The pacing was perfect for conveying that, IMO.

It's sort of like 28 Days Later, which I just saw recently. The commercials had seemed to make it out as a 'horror-zombie' flick a la Resident Evil, but when I actually sat down to watch it the pacing almost immediately seemed... off. It took me 20 or 30 minutes to figure out that it was supposed to be that way, that was what the director was trying for. And dangit, did it work. 28 Days Later may not be the scariest movie out there, but it was pretty darn creepy.

And as for whoever mentioned the Breakfast Club, I thought all the Brat Pack movies were a given. Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Dutch, Uncle Buck (heck, anything with John Candy), Adventures in Babysitting - They just don't make movies like them anymore. :(