Pirates 3

[swirly]

I can't shake the feeling that this could have been a much better movie, had the authors not gotten lost in their script along the way.

I felt the same way about the second movie. I recall watching the special features and they just kept saying over and over how they weren't sure things were going to get done, that this went wrong and that went wrong, that everything was being rushed to meet the deadline. The feeling I left the special features with was that they were so occupied trying to get things done that they didn't have a chance to actually polish things. Considering that the second and third movie were done back to back, I'm thinking that the third is probably the same. (I've not seen the third so can't comment directly on it)

This brings me to a side topic, movies done back to back. I think this is a bad thing that has started happening in recent years. They do it to save money, but to me it feels like they end up with movies that aren't as well done. They get so tied up in getting everything coordinated and done that neither movie ends up getting the time and attention it might have gotten otherwise. Which is pretty much my exact feeling for the second pirate movie and I'm assuming will be for the third. They just weren't able to put the effort into getting things right.