User blog comment:Sparrow95/Best of the Series?/@comment-4898132-20110602054048

''Now, everyone says that Dead Man's Chest was horrible, could't compare to the 3rd, etc. I tend to disagree, but I'd like thoughts! Was DMC as bad as everyone says?''
 * Really? I did not know that people had more problems with DMC than with AWE. Very interesting...though they were shot back-to-back. But let me just say that I don't believe that DMC was that bad of an installment. It was a brilliant lead-up to AWE. ;)

Did OST live up to your expectations?
 * Yes and no. Yes, because it was everything I hoped for in a POTC film. No, because I read... the original OST script . I was hoping some of what I've seen was able to make it onscreen. But sadly, I was wrong...a LOT of great quotes and brief moments were taken out(including the IMO hilarious "mermaid slapping Jack " part). Overall, I did love OST.

Now here's my favorites. It was a difficult choice, as I don't particularly pick favorites, but here you go(I tried to make my reasonings as brief as possible):
 * 1) On Stranger Tides - As I said, it had everything I would want in a POTC film; action, comedy, romance, and a great story to go with an quest for the Fountain of Youth(with elements from a great book by Tim Powers). I honestly didn't expect this one to be my #1 favorite, as I only wanted to know what happens with Jack and the Fountain...but I stand corrected. Now I know that this film is, as Geoffrey Rush said before filming, the "film beyond the trilogy". ;)
 * 2) At World's End - A great of what was the last POTC film(but I'm glad it's not, lol). But a great end of the first trilogy...which gave endings to almost all of our beloved characters, including Will and Elizabeth. It was the "Return of the King"-type of POTC movie, but it was a great action-flick.
 * 3) The Curse of the Black Pearl - A great beginning of an awesome franchise. It has great characters, and memorable scenes and elements what made the POTC universe fun and enjoyable. And it has done a great job being the only POTC film that has taken the most from the original ride.
 * 4) Dead Man's Chest - I don't know why this was put as my least favorite POTC film, but I could care less...because it's not a bad film. It is a good story-telling of what happened after CotBP, which had seemed to be over once Jack said "Bring me that horizon". DMC was a great journey that had us in shock and laughs: a cannibal island, the location of Davy Jones' chest, and a great cliffhanger involving the seemingly death of Captain Jack.

Well, those are my picks...I'm sorry if this took a lot of space, but it needed be said. But if anyone wants my view on how films should be judged, I say it shouldn't. IMO films are not good or bad...it depends on one's tastes.