Thread:Rodangizzardcrusher3/@comment-26687285-20160822213306/@comment-25692211-20170428071607

I've always loved the Pirates movies, but I always rank them in this order.

1. Curse Of The Black Pearl - Easily the film with the most heart, humor and charm, and probably some of the scariest visuals I'd seen at the time.

2. On Stranger Tides - Much like Cars 2, this is probably one of the most hated in the series, and I have no idea why. Jack, Gibbs and Barbossa steal the show as usual, Ian McShane and Penelope Cruz are both fantastic as the villain roles, and the landscapes they take place in are probably some of the best.

3. At World's End - While the film's far too long and has far too many subplots for it's own right (there's at least five "characters double-crossing each other" parts) the film has some great action and mythology and does a decent job at wrapping up several plot lines.

4 Dead Man's Chest - While it has some of the best scenes in the series (the wheel chase, the cannibal island, the Kraken) and easily one of my favorite ending scenes I've ever seen, the film is much like Amazing Spider-Man 2 or Age Of Ultron where, rather than tell it's own story, it just spends a ton of time setting up things in the third film that didn't really need to be set up (especially since several plot points in the third one were just pulled out the writer's asses without being mentioned in the second one e.g. Pieces of 8 and the Brethren Court). Personally, I would have preferred if the island scene was just the main plot. It would be kind of like Star Trek Beyond where they spend the whole film trying to escape.

Unfortunately, I had the ending of Dead Men Tell No Tales spoiled for me by the novelisation. The good thing however, is that it's story and humor easily makes it the best one since Curse. It was funny, heartwarming, and at times, it was even really upsetting (not so much Logan upsetting, but still quite tearjerking). But I won't go into detail until the film comes out proper.