User blog comment:TheGoatPresident/Why the PotC sequels went wrong/@comment-122.60.25.45-20180105104730/@comment-122.60.25.45-20180108061245

Yeah, the fifth was almost like a bootleg copy of Pirates of the Caribbean, ironically enough. To me, it didn't even feel like a Pirates movie at all, and seemed completely out of place in the series. The only scene I can honestly say I enjoyed was the bank robbery at the beginning. On the fourth film though, while it is my second favourite movie in the series, I agree that it doesn't hold up to the original trilogy, and worked better as a stand-alone sequel or an in-between sequel, which is after all what it was intended to be. It seemed that we would have a little 'holiday' as it were On Stranger Tides, but then afterwards, the next movies would return to more familiar waters, but with a slight difference since some characters' stories had finished. Unfortunately, what we got instead was the mess of Dead Men Tell No Tales. Because On Stranger Tides was a stand-alone movie, it was never going to be able to finish the series, and as it stands, it certainly can't, with too many threads left open (even though one of the biggest - Angelica - is abandoned in the next film). But with the new direction that the series seems to be going in with the fifth movie, the end might not be what it should be (and I'm not too hopeful), and so maybe it should have ended with At World's End instead, since that would have been a good place and good movie to end on. Even though On Stranger Tides was, in my opinion, a good movie, if they can't finish the series properly after it, they should've stopped after the third film. After all, most characters' plotlines are closed by the end, leaving only Jack, Barbossa, and Gibbs out of the main characters to return, and all the other characters were going to be new, like they were. Just maybe change the ending so instead of Barbossa stealing the Black Pearl again, Jack gets back to the ship with Scarlet and Giselle, Barbossa tells him that they've stayed celebrating in Tortuga for too long, and are going to head off to do some plundering, Jack yells at the wenches, they slap him, and then he and Gibbs get on board the ship. Jack and Barbossa begin to argue with one another over which direction they should go, while the Pearl sails into the horizon. Something that gives the series a bit more closure, since the ending was quite open. The trilogy worked quite well, and if something substantial can't come after it, it's better that that's all there is to the series, I think.