Unpopular opinions

[Albertosaurus Rex]

Yeah, but it can be pretty annoying to have everyone go wild over soccer while I just can't bring myself to care. Or people gushing about Johnny Depp's performance as Jack Sparrow which I didn't find all that interesting. Speaking of which...

While it is true that PotC was originally intended as a standalone, I don't think that excuses the pirate council coming out of nowhere. The reason: the second and third films were always conceived of as one story. Part of At World's End was even filmed simultaneously with Dead Man's Chest. They could have put some foreshadowing in the second film, like having some characters converse legends about a pirate council or something like that.

[spoiler=Instead, we get something really, really obtuse...]Remember the scene at the beginning of Dead Man's Chest where a tribe of cannibals believe Jack Sparrow is a deity trapped in human form? Apparently, that was supposed to foreshadow the fact that Tia Dalma would turn out to be Calypso imprisoned in human form.[/spoiler]


Congratulations to anyone who caught on to that one.

So yeah, movie sequels are difficult. However, they can be done right. The Back to the Future sequels are pretty good.