/MORE/ Sequels?

[[Lord] Cutler Beckett]

You want MORE sequels?

Discuss the concept of there being a Pirates 5 (or, heaven forbid, even 6). Rumors are floating around about it; some say it's true, and some say it's not.

Of course, I groaned when there was a fourth movie announced before I had even watched the first three, which said something. Even though my full judgement on OST will have to wait until I've actually watched it through with good quality (and not a crappy version I found online...), I'll have to say that unless the writers put a little more thought into the story and characters, not to mention plot advancement, the Pirates series is going to get redundant after a while. In a way, it's like the Warriors series speaking of which, I'm still not sure how fanfiction managed to cross them over... - when you thought the first series was done, another series started, and when you thought THAT one was done, yet another series started and when THAT one was done, there's a series of graphic novels now, and it went on until you eventually stopped reading them out of boredom. It's the same with Pirates, only they're a bit more tolerable since there's a few years in between movies. It's gotten to the point where I'm kind of tired of Jack Sparrow (and that's not just because I play Beckett!) just because... well, if the rumors are true and there are going to be a bazillion more Pirates sequels, then I am eventually going to facepalm every time Jack Sparrow appears on the screen. You can always have too much of a good thing.

Unless, of course, they bring Beckett back as a zombie or a merman. Then I'm satisfied.

Since OST came out, I think it's inevitable that there is going to be another trilogy, although I still personally think they wrapped things up nicely in AWE. I can't help but to compare my general reaction to the concept (had to throw that in, since I didn't *fully* see the movie) of OST to the possibility of a Toy Story 4. Why should there be one when the third movie was technically *the end*? Of course, there's the concept of making more money and rubbing it in the Haunted Mansion's face that Pirates was more successful than Eddie Murphy could ever have dreamed of but in a few years, Del Toro is going to kick their asses, but that's a completely different story in itself that I shall write an essay about much later.

Hnurr, this is enough of an essay, but I just wanted to state my opinion on the possibility of new Pirates sequels. Long story short, I'm a bit cautious about them, especially with how the fourth one turned out, but it would honestly depend on what they did with it.

Y tú?

[Rebecca Langley]

First of all, and this is highly ironic...

Pirate.

OST is supposedly based on a book that had nothing to do with the Pirates franchise. Disney just bought the rights because, apparently, their writers were either in love with the idea or simply couldn't come up with a storyline they believed was its equal.

I may be one of the few people who actually liked OST... but there weren't supposed to be any sequels in the first place. I'm glad it turned into a trilogy, despite thinking that AWE had some serious flaws and was at least half an hour too long. Beckett is a cool villain, and I was happy to see the Flying Dutchman get a mention, even though I didn't think that part of the story was handled as well as it could have been.

However, I agree that any series that goes on and on eventually gets boring, unless it changes pretty drastically. That won't happen here, because it would mean replacing some of the elements that made the movies so popular in the first place.

There's never going to be a movie about a heroic officer in the Royal Navy who pretends to have gone rogue and become a pirate, so as to gain access to the pirate fortress and take down its defenses, charming a beautiful young pirate lass in the process...

Oh, wait. www.imdb.com/title/tt0044333/

Yes, the East India Company makes an appearance, too.

Right now, I'd rather watch this again than see Pirates 5. I'll even take Cutthroat Island, for that matter, which PotC seems to have borrowed things from.

But that will all change if I find out the writers have come up with something that sounds like a particularly interesting story.

So, basically, I think I feel about the same way you do. I'd rather not have any more sequels unless they are great movies.