14 Dumbest Things In The Worst Summer Movie Season Ever

7. Carina Is Barbossa's Daughter - Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Pirates Of The Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales Kaya Scodelario Brenton Thwaites
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In the movie's second half, Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) finds out that the feisty new female lead Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario) is his daughter...for some reason.

Why It's Dumb: For one, it's totally unnecessary, because what seems more desperate in a movie franchise than randomly throwing in a familial link for some cheap drama and emotion?

Inevitably, Barbossa dies at the end and Carina takes on the Barbossa name, but it just feels hilariously forced because the flat attempt at emotion wasn't remotely earned, and so it came off as awfully insincere.

Considering that Carina is an intriguing new lead in her own right, it was incredibly short-sighted to saddle her with this needless baggage.

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