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Reprinted from July '06
You’ll no doubt remember all the controversy and skepticism that surrounded the production of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0325980/)… Oh wait, maybe you wouldn’t remember it – because it existed only in the deepest realms of mega-movie-geekery. Much of the skepticism and dismissive chit-chat came from the fact that the movie was based on an amusement park ride … but the astute movie nuts knew what the problem was:
There hadn’t been a good pirate movie in about three decades, and we had no reason to think that trend was about to be bucked. I know what I’m talking about, because I was one of the hand-wringers, one of the oh-so-brilliant movie nerds who knew that any sort of pirate movie was doomed from the word go. (Needless to say, in the case of The Black Pearl, I was dead wrong, and I was extremely thrilled to admit how wrong I was.)
So with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0383574/) only a few days away (and AWESOME!), I thought it might be fun to dredge back over the past few decades and dig up some of the gold-plated mega-turkeys that managed to keep the pirate genre buried at sea.
Continue reading Cinematical Rewind: Ye WORST Pirate Movies Ever Made! (Arrr…)