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this is a pirate movie, a swashbuckler. it proudly succeeds as one of the b movies genre it is susposed to be.
it would be a more fair comparison to say it is not as good as the movies that came before in its own genre, namely the sea hawk and captain blood.
if you are one of those people that subscribes to the fact that hollywood makes stupid films with no plot, remember it is a business and every time a dumb special effects movie breaks box office records it sends the wrong signal to hollywood, that there is an audience for these entertainments. if people were not goint to see them or buying tickets then they might change the way they make movies.
author peter biskind who wrote a book called easy riders, raging bulls. credits lucas sucess with star wars in 1977 the bad turnaround for hollywood making sharp character driven movies of adult themes, to what biskind labels as twerp cinema.
he even blames spielberg for twerp cinema.
“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.