User blog comment:J Fan/Dead Men Tell No Tales - Details: Story, Characters and Setting/@comment-25426315-20150519163825/@comment-1984959-20150523042042

It's just that they want to get more money, but they've run out of ideas.
 * Despite the evidence, I cannot believe that anyone involved in the POTC franchise would be running out of ideas. True, they're reusing too much of the previous films, but one certainly can recall ghosts (not cursed pirates, just ghosts) and a mythical trident as being "new ideas". It's especially hard to swallow because of the confirmation of how they work by having "a whole board worth of ideas"...now if that session ceased or was a hoax, who can say for sure?

I'm still looking forward to watch the movie, but I hope it's not as dissapointing as P4.
 * Now, I'm probably going to defend this film as a Star Wars fan could defend The Phantom Menace (off-topic: no, I accept it as canon but it's not my favorite SW film lol). But the film did what Gore Verbinski envisioned:
 * If there ever were another Pirates of the Caribbean film, I would start fresh and focus on the further adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow.
 * And while mixed-to-negatively reviewed, OST did serve that purpose. Now I understand people's frustration toward this, but it makes total sense - have Jack's adventures be like the Indiana Jones trilogy (not counting Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, mind you). It's also very hard to be disappointed in a film that made $1 billion. But as someone said someplace online, the film was fine on paper (perfect for a fourth film), but the direction taken was the main issue. Despite all that, and several more issues, I enjoyed OST and hope P5 can achieve more praise than disapproval in comparison to its predecessors.