I have part of the 03 series. Got it at a thrift store. Can’t remember which part. It was the battle of Coruscant
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Though I’m not a fan of what Disney has done with Star Wars, I gotta say that I don’t absolutely hate Resistance. Like, I don’t think it’s anything special, but it’s not terrible, and I get that it’s a show aimed at a far younger demographic than Clone Wars or even Rebels were.
That, and I have never seen a Shrek movie.
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You should watch at least the first one.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead men tell no tales was pretty good, despite it’s low Rotten Tomatoes score. Even if you didn’t like it, at least was better then On Stranger Tides.
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that’s not saying much
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HA.
Haha.
Hahahahahaha.
No.
DMTNT was enjoyable, but that doesn’t make it good. On Stranger Tides is leagues (ha) better.
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I disagree. I haven’t even finished Stranger Tides, but from what I’ve seen, it’s not very good, in my opinion.
Pirates may never go back to the cinematic masterpiece of Dead Man’s Chest, but at least Dead Men Tell No Tales cared about the previous films, enough to get a cameo from Swan and Turner. And skeleton sharks beat zombie pirates any day.
In other words, I liked Dead Men Tell No Tales more because of things that don’t really matter.
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On Stranger Tides is terrible in my opinion. In fact, it’s probably one of the worst movies I ever saw. If I were to go back in time and skip over this movie when I was watching the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, I would. Check out my post on the “Least Favourite Movies” topic if you want to see why I dislike this movie so much.
And Mermaids too 
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I liked On Stranger Tides.
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Ok, maybe some of you liked that movie, but is this really any good? Like, let’s be honest here:
Seriously?! I don’t want to offense anybody, but this is the one of the most garbage love stories I have ever seen in a movie!
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Oh, yes, possibly my strongest unpopular opinion: I hate Arwen in LOTR. I’ve convinced some of my friends to hate her, and others don’t understand me. I can’t stand the character.
Also, PoTC mermaids are actually kind of cool. Can we remake the Little Mermaid with cannibals instead?
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I agree 100% with you. While I don’t hate Arwen as much a Syrena, it was completely unnecessary, out of place, and it was probably the biggest change the movie took from the book. In the book, Arwen is barely mentioned in the book, and the movie gives her such an important role. To be honest, I enjoyed The Hobbit more then LoTR because of the lack of Arwen (since Tauriel wasn’t nearly as trash as Arwen). This is what made the movie so long and boring at some points. But, at least, it wasn’t bad enough to ruin the movie to me, like in the case of Stranger Tides.
As much as I love mermaids, and Ariel probably being my favourite Disney princess, the way mermaids are portrayed in Pirates of the Caribbean is just awful in my opinion. I am literally looking at a naked actress with a mermaid tail. This is also one of the reasons I hate this movie so much. Good thing they didn’t carry that into the LEGO minifig…
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Guess someone isn’t a fan of the original legends then…
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I am a fan of legends, but too realistic legends don’t always work for me.
It’s not only this the reason I hate this movie, but Black Beard is the weakest Pirates of the Caribbean villain, the movie has unnecessary dark and sex references, important characters are missing, and it’s just a bad movie overall. This is one of Penelope Penelope Cruz’s worst movies…
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I think you just have a problem with more mature tones. Like the mermauds: how could a bunch of cannibals that live on the bottom of the ocean have cloths? Why would they have them? How would they know how to use them? It makes sense for them to be naked.
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I agree that it’s more realistic, but nudity and the like still makes me a bit uncomfortable.
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It makes me too but as long as they are not showing… Anything… I don’t really have a problem with it.
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Same with me. I don’t really have a problem with that, but it definitely make me feel uncomfortable.
And the fact that they were supposed to be sea cannibals disguised in beautiful girls wasn’t the way to go for me. Mermaids are supposed to be friendly beautiful creatures not demonic beings disguised in beautiful creatures…
But again, that isn’t the main reason I hate this movie. It’s just bad coverall, and that is that.
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At least PotC tried more harder than X-Men…
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Complaining about unnecessarily dark subject matter and suggestive scenes/references is valid, but all the POTC movies have those. You can’t dislike a movie for having those things in there, but be fine with the other four movies in the series have those same elements to them. It’s completely hypocritical.
Blackbeard doesn’t hold a candle to Davy Jones or Barbossa, but he’s a fine one and done villain. He certainly has more development than Salazar. They literally explained his backstory in a trailer. There probably should’ve been more to it than that. The dichotomy between being a brutal privateer and straight up murderer is never really explored like it could have. You get the one scene during the flashback and that’s it. With Blackbeard, you feel a sense of desperation in his quest because of the supposed fortune telling of his own doom. He has a drive, and they explore the idea of him as a compassionate father vs. blood thirsty pirate more than Salazar potential struggle.
DMTNT (man I wish they’d gone with a different title, and not the dumb Revenge title used oversees…) also messes up a bunch of lore established in previous films. While At World’s End makes the true length of Will’s stay on the Dutchman confusing, where did this supposed new crew come from? Will very clearly let everyone go that wanted to go at the end of the film. Only his father chose to stay. So why at the beginning of the film does he try and get Henry off the ship before the crew sees him? Why does it matter if the supposed crew sees him? Will is the captain, they have to do what he says. Why did the Dutchman even come up at that point, and how did Henry even figure out how to track it down? It had to have been somewhere nearby so he could row out to it without getting smashed by the sea and be back in time before Elizabeth flipped out. And when Henry “lifts the curse”, who is in charge of ferrying the dead to the afterlife now? It seems like they’re just left to drift like we saw in At World’s End. By lifting that curse, Henry has ruined the afterlife for everyone who dies at sea for eternity! The writing team didn’t put in enough thought to how lifting Will’s curse would mess up continuity.
A lot of the film is like this. The characterization of certain returning characters is way off too. Gibbs being ok with abandoning Jack because they’re out of cash? Nope. Never. Marty, sure. Scrum, sure. The other random guys? Sure. Gibbs? Never. They might decide to go their separate ways for awhile, but he would never outright abandon Jack. Even in Movie 1, he “kept to the code” but came back anyway with the others to save Jack at Port Royal.
If we had seen their relationship deteriorate over the course of the five films, then I’d buy it, but there is no way the same man who toasted to the voyage to Isla da Muerta in COTBP with Jack would ever leave him and only come back when there was the promise of more money.
Also, where’d Cotton’s parrot go? We saw it with Jack the Monkey in the bottle in On Stranger Tides, and then was nowhere to be seen afterword.
It’s a bunch of little things like this that bring the movie down. It might have brought Will and Elizabeth back, but their story was wrapped up in 3. We didn’t need a continuation of their story. They’re arguably the worst things about 2 & 3 anyway since it’s because of Elizabeth that the infernal love triangle… well I guess Norrington counts as one vying for her affections as well, so… love square or pyramid or whatever is a thing in those two. That on top of poor characterization and inconsistencies in the canon really hurts the movie. Not really a surprise either, since it was the first Pirates movie not written by one of the original two writers.
Say what you will about Movie 4, but it was a more back to basics straight forward adventure like Curse of the Black Pearl that understood it’s characters, while Movie 5 took some of the worst aspects of previous films such as confusing storytelling and churned out a jumbled, if not enjoyable, mess.
Also in terms of the mermaids, all the actresses wore skin-tight body suits from head to neck. There was never actual any nudity in the entire film, or while shooting.
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I never knew this… I am sure nobody actually knew it from here… It is good to know.
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