User blog comment:Uskok/Dead Men Tell No Tales Review/@comment-5439673-20170614102621

I feel sad. I've been a fan for a decade. So many people came together here and created a database of PotC universe. I feel like every line written on this wiki has a potential to be a story. I've seen fan made plots here that are more in the PotC style than the film itself.

It seems as if Jeff Nathanson, Jerry Bruckheimer and the directors have seen PotC once when it premiered and now decided it would be cool to do something in the genre.

How hard can it be to google PotC, find this wikia and read for a moment?

We've come to an era of abandoning the cannon and just producing 'epic scene compilations' to earn money. Films aren't films films anymore - it's like this movie saw a movie, wants to be a movie but isn't there yet.

To be honest, I enjoyed the fanboy in me waking up in the flashback scene, the return of the Dutchman, even the Fast and Furious bank robbery! But, this film feels so unfamiliar!

After watching I spent a day listening to the music (it was great, masterfully handled - my expectations were very low but I was really pleasently surprised) and thinking of a film this one could have been.

It felt like someone ripped off main ideas from PotC and made a film. I'm still really sad about it and I miss Pirates of the Caribbean. You have to know, I can recite lines from the original trilogy in sync with the film - that's the amount of my devotion and love for the films.

Alas, my children! That was the day we almost saw Pirates of the Caribbean!