I second this course of action. Though keep in mind that #2 has an Empire Strikes Back ending, so by watching it you're also signing up for #3.

The first for sure.

Come on, man, a 42-page fictional textbook demands at least three trilogies to be adapted properly.

Which only came about because she happened to be standing next to one of the Pirate Lords when he died, and because Jack needed a Pirate King to invoke parley and get him aboard the Dutchman. So he rigged the vote* to get her elected.

Jones is fantastic, especially from an effects standpoint. Those movies are 11 and 10 years old, respectively, and yet there's only one shot in either one of them where he actually looks fake.

I was surprised to discover that when you take out all the set pieces, the plot of At World's End is essentially: "Bring Jack back from the dead, sail to a place, get followed to that place by the bad guy, and fight the bad guy."

Number four scales things back down somewhat, which makes it my second favorite, but it's still not nearly on the level of the original.

I'm writing a blogpost on At World's End as we speak, and I can confirm that aside from one big character moment in the second one she's pretty much just along for the ride in the sequels.

(they both involve father issues, the thematic focus of this very special episode of Pirates Of The Caribbean)

Given that Superman was, by all accounts, the first superhero ever, I personally think it was a huge risk to decide that every character created afterward - with maybe a single-digit number of exceptions - would be categorically weaker than him. Where's the drama in that?

The thing about that, though, is that now it makes Kara the dumb one.

Well, obviously not perfectly uniform, but it depends on how you're doing your math. Like, is the boost from the Yellow Sun additive or multiplicative relative to their strength on Krypton?

Especially when that person is married to Han Frigging Solo.

"Superman is physically stronger, faster, has more powerful heat vision, and is more durable. Because he's been using those abilities for a far longer time."

That's why you have to make your own, like me.

In my mind, they're pretty much equal in terms of power levels (like, would using heat vision over and over make your heat vision… hotter? I'd think not), so it came down to whoever 'wanted it more.' And this time it was Kara.

I mean, I guess, but in all senses except the literal one, she was real.

I will point you to the 1920s-50s, when studios looking to cast certain actors in a film would actually have to purchase that actor from the studio that currently owned them (or trade them one of their own actors for a one-picture deal).

Honestly, I kinda see it.

If you think that's the most nerdy looking kid ever, you must have grown up in… I dunno, Australia? Manlyville?