User blog comment:J Fan/The Curse of the Black Pearl - 10 Year Anniversary/@comment-996391-20130625085349/@comment-1742432-20130706061054

My earliest memories of the first movie were from when I was really small. I just remember some of the last battle with the skeleton fights and all. I didn't at that time get the concept of the good guy becoming a skeleton ("bad"), and I wasn't so interested in the film - partly it either scared me or I was just bored and gave the excuse to my father that I found it scary. (it was on Tv)

The next time I saw the series was DMC in 2006, on DvD. It was late in the night and while being interesting, it was too long for me for that night. And I didn't know half the characters since I didn't remember much of CotBP.

I was in Malaysia when AWE was releasing in 2007, and the trailers really caught my attention since the cliffhanger at the end of DMC was still in memory. So I saw the film with my father when I came back to India. the first half was quite interesting (though sorta convoluted), and it was really epic uptil the Parlay and the spectacular beginning of the Maelstrom. I'd seen LotR and Revenge of the Sith before this, so this was close to that level of epicness. While Beckett's dead on one hand was a visual spectacle, unfortunately, I'd left the theater disappointed since the Maelstrom scene was too long for me as I was waiting for most of it for a confrontation between the two fleets, which never happened.

I came across the series once again when I became engrossed in Pirates Online. That sorta revamped my interest in the series, and I truly loved AWE after seeing it the third time. Ironically, I'd only properly seen CotBP after AWE/DMC, and that to me was a well-balanced film.

I'd joined this wiki around the time of the announcement of OST, and I was really excited for that film. However to me, that film paled in comparisson to the original trilogy. Which is why I cannot wait long enough for July 9th to come (exactly ONE day after my birthday) so that a proper official announcement on #5 is released.

