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Saint Cy of JFC said:
I think movies like Get Out really suffer from overexposure and people knowing too much going in. I had a pretty good idea what the movie was about just from the trailers. Think movies like that would probably have more impact going in blind.
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I'd agree with you here. We went into it blind. The wife and I ended up with an extra couple of hours kid-less the other day and went to the theatre and it was there in a second run. We knew nothing about it, other than people loved it and it involved a black guy in a weird, rich white world.

Loved that movie. It was fantastic. After Black Mirror and Get Out, Daniel Kaluuya is one of my favorite actors out there.
 
green said:
I'd agree with you here. We went into it blind. The wife and I ended up with an extra couple of hours kid-less the other day and went to the theatre and it was there in a second run. We knew nothing about it, other than people loved it and it involved a black guy in a weird, rich white world.

Loved that movie. It was fantastic. After Black Mirror and Get Out, Daniel Kaluuya is one of my favorite actors out there.
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It was good, but did you think it was GREAT?


I'm a big Black Mirror fan, and Get Out feels a bit too much like an elongated version of a Black Mirror episode, especially with the same main actor.
 
Shad said:
Saw the new pirates. Was probably 100x better than the last joke of one.
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ONE LOVE said:
Did you need to see the previous one for this one to make sense? I haven't seen the previous one but I'm thinking about seeing this one.
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JazzGal said:
I've been wondering the same thing.

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So the new Pirates movie was way better than 3 or 4. It was on par with #1, which I felt was actually a really good movie. It was better than 2, but I liked 2 for the characters and the milieu. 3 just got stupid and overblown and 4 was a bad remake of 2 basically.

To answer the questions, unfortunately it is not a stand-alone movie. There are hints and outright plot points tied directly to all of the other movies. It felt like a wrap-up of the whole franchise really. There is an event at the end that kind of precludes any further "magical" adventures. However, the after credits scene hints at more to come that might be ok or might be really stupid.

I think they can really do good things within this franchise, and frankly it is the only thing I can watch Jonny Depp in anymore. He has become such a caricature of himself it is kind of pathetic, but he is in his element in the Pirates movies. And he does a decent job in this one.

Another decent twist in the Dead Men Tell No Tales was that they made a good guy into the villain, and my family and I are not sure how we feel about that. It made for all sorts of interesting conversation as we talked about the absolutes of good vs evil. More thought provoking than I think the movie-makers intended as they did not play up that aspect very much, but the undertones are there.

All in all I would give it a solid B or even B+. Fun movie, more depth both in character and story, than you might expect and a wholly satisfying ending. Will watch again.
 
ONE LOVE said:
Did you need to see the previous one for this one to make sense? I haven't seen the previous one but I'm thinking about seeing this one.
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No, you did NOT need to see pirates 4 at all to get the gist of the movie. [MENTION=62]JazzGal[/MENTION] [MENTION=631]ONE LOVE[/MENTION]

There ARE some returning characters from 1-3 though but really wouldn't mean too much if you haven't seen any.

If you see this movie, stay for the ENTIRE credits after. There IS an additional clip. It wouldn't mean anything to you at all though if you haven't seen 2 or 3 however.
 
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LogGrad98 said:
Another decent twist in the Dead Men Tell No Tales was that they made a good guy into the villain, and my family and I are not sure how we feel about that. It made for all sorts of interesting conversation as we talked about the absolutes of good vs evil. More thought provoking than I think the movie-makers intended as they did not play up that aspect very much, but the undertones are there.
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You know what's funny is I thought the same exact thing and talked about it with my family.


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I thought to myself, here we are enjoying these pirates who steal, murder, and are 'pretty loose' with woman. While the "bad guy" in this movie was all in all a good guy in reality. He and his crew fought to get rid of all the stealing, killing, and so forth and unfortunately was tricked by the younger Jack and cursed. I was kind of rooting for him tbh
 
Shad said:
You know what's funny is I thought the same exact thing and talked about it with my family.


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I liked that twist. I thought it added depth to the movie, which was lacking in most of the other movies.
 
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