5. Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
The Film: When it became apparent The Lone Ranger wouldn't have the opportunity to get a sequel, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski made the decision to return their mega-hit Pirates Of The Caribbean. After a fun first film the series became increasingly overblown; the bumbling Jack Sparrow turned into a genuine action protagonist and an attempt to right the ship (ha!) with a less convoluted entry only making things worse. Dead Men Tell No Tales sees the return of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann to events because Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley's careers aren't as booming as predicted. The Title: The first Pirates was rather forward thinking, using a colon and subtitle to distinguish itself before that was cool, but rather than allowing a series of adventure names (compare it to Indiana Jones, which boasts titles that work for the movie at hand) they're getting increasingly wishy-washy. On Stranger Tides was the first mark of this, far from encapsulating the plot like, say, Dead Man's Chest did, and the fifth only seems set to go further. Hate to state the obvious, but of course dead men tell no tales - they're dead. Unless the film has zombies as its central plot drive it's the equivalent of calling it Pirates Of The Caribbean: Ooh Aren't We Old Timey And Mystical.
