Kaya Scodelario Claims PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 5 Is "Much More Like The First Film"

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She is quite beautiful.

I am probably one of the few that enjoy the sequels.

Dead Man's Chest was very entertaining and had perfect set-pieces and action. And that ending!

At World's End went a bit on the "dark" route and had unnecessary betrayals and deals between the characters. The pacing was slow and at times was boring. Too much talking. They also wasted the Kraken big time in that one. The last battle was cool though. Also, the action (where there was) was awesome.

On Stranger Tides never happened in my eyes. A complete abomination and a cash grab.

Really hope that they don't go the same route for the 5th one and put at least some passion in it.

I haven't even seen it all the way through. The 4th one is just [frick]ing terrible

Glad it's mostly agreed that 1 is great, 2 is good, 3 is arg...and 4 is a god damn travesty. I loved the Will Turner arc in 3 however. I thought it was pretty shocking to see how that turned out. I'm optimistic about this.

I haven't seen any of these films.

"Much More Like The First Film"

I'll just re-watch that, then.

Kaya Scodelario is very beautiful. I wouldn't mind sailing the high seas with her.

The first film had a well-crafted story... The characters all had human motivations that were clear and understandable, which made their loyalties easy to follow as they were cleverly paired up in different ways throughout the film. There was only one mystical element, the cursed Aztec gold, and it had clearly defined effects and an easily understood backstory. You could take the magical element out of the plot and it would still work with minor tweaks (and no zombie pirate FX.) It was a very solid base on which outlandishly fun action sequences and set pieces were built.

The next two sequels, however, are a mess that crawled up their own asses in pursuit of nonsensical mythology at the expense of logic and character. Every other thing is magic, prompting vague motivations that drive the characters to do what the script tells them to do next with little justiification besides a shrug and "because: Magic!" as a reason. It culminated in a third film where you can not describe what anyone is doing at any time without sounding like a crazy person running the world's worst Dungeons and Dragons session. "The villain is hanging peasants so that they'll start singing a song... Once the song is sung, the Pirate Council will form! But the attendees all must have their Pieces of Eight, so the heroes have to sail off the edge of the world to get to the afterlife to get Jack Sparrow who is a pirate lord apparently, but he was eaten by a Kraken because he had the magic black spot curse of Davey Jones who had cut out his heart because he loved a sea goddess and was cursed himself, but now his magic heart was controlled by the villain who found it because of a magic compass and who wanted... Profitable trade routes, I guess?" It's like the whole thing was scripted with the logic of 80's era Sierra adventure games.

I had higher hopes for the next film since it was based on a pre-existing (and respected) adventure novel and so likely would make more sense, but for whatever reasons it just didn't gel. Jack Sparrow is best as a supporting character, and everything about it just came off rather flat. I only saw it once, and barely remember what it was about.

I'm honestly not against another film despite there being only one good one to this point. However, I'm skeptical that they've really worked out why the first film worked and the others didn't... I guess we'll wait and see,

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She's great! :)

I love the first POTC movie, but all the others are some kind of big wobbly mess in my head. I couldn't even tell if I've seen the last one. I think I did, but there's nothing that stuck.

I love all of them! Jack Sparrow FTW!

...I bet it's Pirates Of The Caribbean 8.

Gus, I just want to eat ice cream and wear sweatpants all day. Too depressed for anything else. That defense was pitiful.