The best thing 2 and 3 had going for them was Bill Nighy and his cool tentacle face. The 3rd one was pretty much awful. It's been a while since I've seen any of them. The 4th one was probably a little better than 2 and 3, but I remember the final sequence feeling like an obvious indoor soundstage.
On Stranger Tides was terrible; everything about it was boring and stale. 2 and 3 at least was fun and entertaining, and we had Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner in it instead of irrelevant, blank-slate characters with no development.
It is movies like this that make me wish there was still a $1 theater in the area. You still get the fun of Going out to the Movies, but only cost a buck.
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Yeah, we have a $2.50 theater here. I love it. It used to be $1.00, but it's steadily gone up a little to help stay in business, which is fine by me because we had another $1.00 theater in town but I think it just closed down instead.
Yeah. I think there is still a "Dollar Theater" in the Big Shitty near by, it is kind of run down and ratty but depending on the type of movie that just adds to the charm of it.
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The film wrapped shooting almost two years ago. You only hold a movie back that long for three reasons: 1. It's owned by one person (George Lucas & Star Wars, George Miller & Mad Max: Fury Road, Francis Ford Coppola & Apocalypse Now) and they will release it when they think it's finished (or they are a serious auteur and won't be rushed - Stanley Kubrick, David Lean etc.); 2. The films requires a LONG time in CGI rendering (Avatar, John Carter); or 3. It's crap and they know it (George Lucas & Red Tails, Seventh Son and many other films.)
I'm going with...Option 3.
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