I threw together some quick references for the different POTC movies while I was going through them earlier, maybe handy for someone else, the main elements of each...

Pirates Of The Caribbean 1 - The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Character introductions, the unlucky captain Jack, Bill the swordsmith and Elisabeth the lady. Barbosa, The Black Pearl, a cursed treasure and pirates versus cavalry. Also the most memorable escapes from the gallows and the underwater skeleton army scene.

Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 - Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Sparrow's debt to Davy Jones, The Flying Dutchman, Bill's father, a new villain of state, a strange fortune-teller lady and fate... ends with the Kraken.

Pirates Of The Caribbean 3 - At World's End (2007)
A journey to the end of the world in search for Jack, followed by a disappointing gathering and showdown between all pirate brethren and a great armada, and the goddess Calypso who contributes a decisive maelstrom. Stone crabs intro. Whatever happened to the Kraken?

Pirates Of The Caribbean 4 - On Stranger Tides (2011)
The fountain of youth. Sparrow, Blackbeard, Barbosa, England, Spain, mermaids, jungle scenes, the wheel duel, and an old female acquaintance who seems a little crazy. Very different from the previous three.

Pirates Of The Caribbean 5 - Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
Poseidon, captain Salazar, Barbosa's daughter, the compass, and an end of all curses. Bill and Elisabeth are back too, and their story concludes.

The first three could be seen as part of the same saga - where movies two and three are basically two parts of the same movie split up, the fourth a spin-off (few re-occurring characters), and the fifth one more of a return to both the cast and story of the original three, as well as a conclusion to all.

The first one's definitely the best one - only one that truly stands on its own.

A lot of nostalgia-inducing and potentially good titles coming out this year!

Source... not sure. Let me know if you know.

I threw together a quick reference over notable events throughout the different movies while I was going through them earlier. Maybe these are handy for someone else. The main elements of each, chronologically...

Harry Potter - The Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Introductions, the magic alley, Dudley and the snake, quidditch, the mirror of desires, killer chess and the teacher with two faces first introducing us to you-know-who.

Harry Potter 2 - The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
The flying car, dreamy views, Myrtle the bathroom ghost, mandragoras, the vane author, Hermione going through some things, and finally the Basilisk and Tom Riddle in the flesh.

Harry Potter 3 - The Prisoner Of Azkaban (2004)
New castle with more of an isolated hillside feel, Sirius Black, dementors, a cat, a rat, a werewolf, a time warp and a hippogriph. And Voldemort is BACK.

Harry Potter 4 - The Goblet Of Fire (2005)
The blow-up aunt, worldcup terrorism, the great ball, uncertain love, Harry and Ron on bad terms, gillyweed, dragons, the multischool challenge, Mad-Eye and the death of a new character that seems meant to have always been there.

Harry Potter 5 - The Order Of The Phoenix (2007)
Politics, a refusal to accept Voldemort's return, the order - the resistance, Dumbledore's army, Dolores the new headmaster, Luna, prophecy at the Ministry of Mysterious Affairs and Sirius death.

Harry Potter 6 - The Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Draco, Snape, school again albeit with a darker tone, Horcruxes, one last adventure, Dumbledore's death and love, getting gray and grimy.

Harry Potter 7 - The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
The world going dark, the chase, and wedding crash, infiltrating the ministry, Dumbledore's testament, wilderness, Hermione and Harry, hopelessness and the Horcrux that almost takes over.

Harry Potter 8 - The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Infiltrating Grimwalds, the final horcruxes - if you felt the count seemed wrong earlier it'll make sense now, Snape's true story, Nevil's heroic moment, wins, losses, Hogwarts great final defense and the deaths of the evil-doer's. An end; a new beginning.

Notice there's a new teacher of the dark arts with each and every one of these too! Some play central roles...

I've done run out of time this week! Seems I'll be missing the planned dosage of weekend reviews, but here's at least a trailer for one I'm very much looking forward to. Stumbled upon at random.

Who knew Foo Fighters were making a movie! Who knew Dave Grohl would come this far! Who knew the legacy of Nirvana would live on not only in itself and grunge forever, but too in this one awesome dude/band who just seems abrim both with benevolence and creativity!

And who seem to have an awesome sense of humor. The trailer has me thinking of Tucker and Dale vs Evil a bit, and if it's anywhere near as good as that...

Can't wait to see this. Be def (as in awesome); see y'all next weekend.

Truman Show + Groundhog Day + Ready Player One + GTA? Pretty much!

I can't wait to see it. Should've been out last December but: May 21 now.

That's the plan.

Free Man.

I'm almost a professional reviewer at this point, right? I feel that way sometimes.

I feel that in how sometimes I'm just so overly critical even of movies that I enjoy, like I have to give them a worse score just because they don't have the groundwork that movies with higher scores should require. The effects are bad. The acting sucks. I still love them but I'm a professional reviewer now so how can I not take those notable flaws into consideration, too?

Then again I'm probably rating movies with way more bias than the average critic is, and that's the one point I pride myself in with regard to all this reviewing stuff. That I'm not stooping to stereotypes and norms. That I don't care if a movie's on a budget or no, as long as it's enjoyable, and yet lately it seems more often than not I come across a movie with a HUGE budget, and I love it, and critics are cracking down on it HARD.

Has everyone become me? Is everyone opting for Indie movies, propagating what's artsy and abstract, rather than what's explosive and awesome - something that used to be a B-movie trait but now seems to be a blockbuster one?

How can you not appreciate that too?

My impressions compared to other people seem to keep clashing whether I want them to or not, but I used to feel good that they clashed when I was up-rating the underdogs. Now I'm defending the blockbusters instead. Not all but: Aquaman. Need I say more? How can people not like Aquaman?!

It's strange how social norms and movie expectations go in waves like this, where a decade ago people would've looked at Aquaman in awe, if for naught else but the technical prowess with which it was made. The whole thing acted out in harnesses, right? Pretty cool, right?

And no matter how things change I'll probably look back at my reviews a decade from now and not understand why I rated some things like I did. But maybe then I can read this and understand. That I was just being me. And that's what I felt at the time. And maybe the critics will love the movies I love in the future too. Maybe I'll hate the ones they hate. Maybe we'll have a human hive-mind in regard to movie favorisms... or maybe we'll hate everything because it all sucks, but we just don't know it yet. The movies of the future are finna blow our minds... or blow. Simply put.

Guess all I'm saying here is that times change, and we change with them, though considering I haven't mentioned more than one specific title in this post maybe at least this one might be timeless.