Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean sequels made a billion dollars each, but have been basically forgotten over the past 15 years, derided as overlong, overplotted, and entirely incomprehensible. What this video essay dares to say is: what if these movies are good, actually?

The Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy stands up as some of the most audaciously extravagant blockbuster filmmaking in contemporary Hollywood, and signaled the beginning of the end of an entire genre of visionary excess and grandiosity I like to call Luxury Cinema.

Enjoy this critical reappraisal of one of the wildest gambles Disney ever took on a filmmaker, and think about why we haven't seen Keira Knightley in anything major in the last decade...

#PiratesoftheCaribbean

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