Why people bash On Stranger Tides so much?

you have odd taste. it's just your opinion so you aren't necessarily "wrong" but there's a reason why the 4th film is generally regarded as, by a wide margin, the worst of the bunch.

sure, there were great parts in it. blackbeard was solid (lol at calling him the coolest villain come on). the ship was nice. plenty of things were fine about it but by the time OST came out there was such a standard set by the first 3 films. OST did not meet that standard at all.

i felt like they lost much of the serious, darker tone of the early films. this came off as "another jack sparrow adventure" especially with the silliness around his girl penelope cruz.

It relied too much on Jack's goofy-ness. It was too colorful and just happy, rather than what we got used to in the first three movies. On Stranger Tides felt very much like a parody rather than a sequel. With that said, I do have to admit that I enjoyed it the first time I saw it, but I wouldn't want to watch it over and over like the other ones.

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The story itself isn't bad but the side characters aren't memorable and the third act is a mess. Plus the 3D and CGI effects were terrible despite it being the most expensive movie ever made apparently. I liked it and gave it 6/10.

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Just saw it last night, I liked it well enough. Not bad but probably the weakest in the series. I sometimes wonder if Cutthroat Island made me more forgiving of pirate movies.

I think that in Stranger Tides Geoffrey Rush and Mcshane were phoning it in a bit. That being said those 2 are such frikkin champions even their phoning it in is pretty damn good. McShane might have been doing a subtle thing, a sort of casual evil. I think the character might have been a bit better as a little more psychopath vs sociopath, though that might have derailed his daughters motivation to redeem him if he was completely *beep*

Rush's Barbosa is my favorite pirate portrayal ever. I understood why everyone was clamoring about Depp when the first one came out but I was much more impressed with Barbosa. There are moments when he is just so goddam into it, I gotta love him. Less so in this one but I think the the best-friendemy scenes with Depp were strong, as they were in the previous films.

I did a voiceover gig with a guy who played one of his crew in the first movie, told me a story about Rush. Said there was this long line Rush wasn't keen on and he asked if he could do it differently. Director said sure and the line was replaced with just a facial expression and it was total gold. Geoffrey Rush is so good he can replace whole swaths of dialog with his face. There were a couple lines that coulda used that in this, maybe the director should have unleashed him more.

The idea of a sword that controls the ship was great. I thought it got lost in the mix with the voodoo doll, bottle ships and zombie guys. None of those panned out. The only indication those guys were zombos was the 1 time dude gets stabbed. I thought the doll would be Capn' Beard's control mechanism to keep Jack in line then they chucked it into a river right when that could have been most useful and the ships coulda been maybe used in some creative way with that sword...instant fleet with 1 guy controlling the lot.

The next one looks interesting. Javier Bardem coming to get Depp, no doubt for having a romantic scenes with his real life wife in this movie. That guy is a champ too. Also, G G G G Ghost Pirates.... Jinkies!

I feel like there was very little effort put into it. They knew they had a success on their hands as soon as the camera started rolling, so why try to make it special. Jack was a total characature of himself. Instead of being cool, surprising, and unpredictable like he was in the trilogy, they seemed to sit down and think of the sparrowest things they could think of to put in the script even if it didn't add to the story. Blackbeard was lame. Angelica was obviously pregnant through the filming, and the new William turner was kind of forced into the story to replace William. Overall the movie was just way too silly. The palm tree escape was dumber than something in the three stooges

OP...you had me until you said the Star Wars prequels were as good(or better) than the original trilogy.

Seriously, dude. Way to undermine your credibility.

I believe it's because they didn't try as hard. Stranger Tides doesn't feel as grand or emotional as the first 3. I mean the last 20 minutes of At Worlds End are phenomenal. OTS is still a fun movie though. Just not as good as the others and the trailer for Dead Men Tell No Tales kinda reminded me just how large of a scale these movies were 10 years ago.

I don't hate the movie, but it's the worst for me.

I liked the overall story, but for some reason, the movie had a cheap look and some set pieces just screamed set for me. Lot of things didn't look real.

Blackbeard was a kinda lame villain, especially after all the hype build around him. His best scene was his introduction but he was a severy disappointment afer Davy Jones. He didn't feel threatening. They should've made him more mythical, scary and menacing. He came across like some old men, who fears death.

The pirate, all pirates fear! Why? Didn't see a reason for that, maybe they fear, that they'll have to pay his pension soon.

The preacher was uncecessary, as was his love story with the mermaid.
The spaniards were unecessary.
The new character didn't work very well.
Barbossa wasn't really used well.
Lack of really funny characters (like Pintel/Ragetti)

Overall: okay movie, but far from a great one.