User blog comment:J Fan/Pirates reboot?/@comment-3106883-20141218051254

I think this idea of a soft reboot is utterly ridiculous. I think it is a reaction to the postmodern critics who hate sequels. These are the people that stopped watching the franchise, or at least liking it, after Dead Man's Chest. The studio isn't trying to make a movie that will appeal to current fans, but to recapture the ones that left. That and evidently they want an American audience, rather than the international one that gave them 75% of their earnings for On Stranger Tides.

And this attempt to recapture the spirit of Curse of the Black Pearl won't appease those people anyway. They don't want to watch a film like Curse, they want to experience watching it fresh for the first time -- again. I've seen them pretty explicitly say that. It's impossible of course, which is what you would expect of postmodernists: they demand the impossible and declare you are not an artist if you cannot do it. And if you did, they'd just hate it anyway.

I hope this is all some pipedream of Bloom's, either a story he is trying to convince them to do, or at least that he is exaggerating the claim that Will Turner would be the main character again.

A couple of months ago this would have really disappointed me, as I didn't have alternative movies to follow. Thor 3 is on the same month. There's this new Terminator trilogy that has some really interesting time travel aspects and I'm hoping will be good, which has a movie set for 2017 and probably July. The new Star Wars trilogy just might be worth watching. I've seen all four Pirates movies in theatre and then gotten the DVDs as soon as possible, which I have done for no other franchise. Prior to this news Pirates 5 would have been my choice to see even if Thor 3 was on the same day. Now it's back in the general pool to convince me it's worth spending money on. NOT what I wanted after what will be a six year wait for the final Pirates movie, at final for me.