User blog comment:J Fan/The Curse of the Black Pearl - 10 Year Anniversary/@comment-996391-20130625085349/@comment-1984959-20130628220827

Ye spin a lovely yarn, Uskok. You're truly a Pirates fan everyone should look up to - especially since how long you've had interest in the franchise, let alone piracy itself. And for that, I salute you. :)

There isn't much regarding my first POTC experience, at least in terms of the first movie. To illuminate... Before POTC came to my life, the only pirate movies I've seen were Muppets Treasure Island and other films related to Peter Pan, reasons being (without getting into details) I was quite young and had different interests at the time. Not sure how much pirates I saw on TV other than the standard jokey kind. In 2003, I wasn't a POTC fan having never seen any of the trailers and only seen this poster in a magazine...and yet it's now one of my favorite posters(I know, curious, isn't it?) So I had absolutely nothing to do with POTC until 2006, when DMC was promoted. I didn't see it in theaters, only saw TV commercials and behind the scenes stuff. It wasn't until later that year(sometime before December, when DMC was released on DVD), when I first saw CotBP on TV...and I was blown away on it's splendors. After that, I wanted DMC for Christmas, which I did and was blown away with that sequel too.

So yea, my first-hand POTC experience wasn't too grand in comparison to the sequels...particularly AWE and OST. But still, better to like something later in its hype than not liking it at all. Wish I could say the same about Star Wars(I only got into the series right when Revenge of the Sith was released :/ )