I was gonna include the two Matrix sequels, but frankly I don't need that kind of flame war today.

Well, Dune is just a bad movie. Not even David Lynch likes that movie, and he likes some pretty crappy movies he's made.

The rest appear to be perfectly good movies that plenty of people like.

• Cloverfield - dislike
• Titanic - like
• Avatar - like
• Dune - dislike slightly
• Gladiator - love
• AI - love
• Alien 3 - like-ish
• Dead Man's Chest and At World's End - like/like

I'm amazed by all you guys who have such different opinions of the two "Pirates" sequels. I have a hard time telling them apart, frankly. Like if I remember scene X, I'm not necessarily going to know which movie it came from.

Oh come on. Differences aside, y'all gotta admit the sequence in Davy Jones' locker was cool, yeah? (That was from the third one, wasn't it?)

<very small voice>Well, I liked it.</very small voice>

Tease.

One of the things I've heard repeatedly is that the plot of the two sequels put together is so convoluted as to be nigh-unfollowable. Truth be told … I kinda liked that about the movies. So often movies, particularly big-budget action/adventure movies, have very simple plots. Character A wants B, is opposed by character C. Not that there's anything wrong with that; a movie where character A wants B and, through hardship and interesting sequences of events, finally gets it can be entirely satisfying. But I kinda dug, just for the change of pace, the way everybody in those movies wanted something different, and was willing to throw their ostensible allies under the bus to get it. It amused me for it to be so.