Delusional People

Rating: 3/10 (26 May 2009)

Fans of the last two Matrix movies and the last two POTC movies should organize a support group. Or you should get together and go to massive therapy sessions. The two film franchises are nearly identical:
1. Excellent first installments. 2. Sequels that were INCREDIBLY bad, yet super fan boys will not admit it for some reason because they loved the originals so much.
I wrote a similar comment/review on POTC 2. What is wrong with you people? This movie SUCKED. It was TERRIBLE. Why can't you just be honest with yourself? You think in 10 years you'll be watching this? Or recommending it to people? If you say yes you are a liar. You are lying to yourself.
What I don't get is that admitting this movie is bad does not in ANY way take away from the original POTC. It doesn't make it any less great of a movie (which it was - the first POTC was a very, very good movie).
Questions for some of you die-hards:
1. What was with the "sexual tension" between Knightley and Depp? The movie started to imply there was something there in numerous scenes, but never got any deeper into it or explained why there was tension at all in the first place. Perhaps just bad acting on Knightley's part? I checked into this and the script never intended there to be any.
2. What the hell was that flipping the boat over crap all about? (DON'T just recite the inane storyline to me, I understood it quite well at the time. It was just completely stupid.)
3. Could there have been possibly one more double-cross? Could the director have possibly squeezed in just ONE more? To make it, by my count, 18 double crosses?
4. The pirate meeting! THE PIRATE MEETING! Where they all get together and it looks like a Michael Jackson "We Are The World" pirate music video!
You guys need help. I love how over time the ranking for this movie has dropped, dropped dropped. Soon it will be below a "7" and you all will start to get it and admit to yourselves that these were mediocre-to-bad sequels.
UGH.