3. Captain Jack Sparrow's Vendetta With Barbosa - Pirates Of The Caribbean
The Plot: Sword-crafting nobody Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) ventures out to sea to try and rescue the love of his life, governor's daughter Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), taking recently-captured, anti-hero pirate Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) to help him. The film centres on both Will's and Elizabeth's journeys as they fall in love, leaving Jack as a secondary character, with questionable motives. Some films are lucky enough to cast a lead with mercurial qualities, whilst others rely on the supporting characters for the much-needed charisma. Pirates of the Caribbean is one film that we can surely all agree falls into the latter. The Subplot: Captain Jack Sparrow, who knows about Will's father, sees this as an opportunity to get straight with the captain who marooned him on a desert island. By turning the plot around just slightly, Gore Verbinski could've given Sparrow a clear opportunity to commandeer his own vessel by himself, to search for Barbosa without Bloom or Knightley cramping his style. The next two films of the franchise lived in the couple's shadow, and by the time Jack was the lead, in the fourth film, it was too late; the excitement had been sucked from the films. The Pirates series had its chance, and it blew it, in favour of a terribly wooden Orlando Bloom performance.
