People like to complain that there no longer are dark fantasy films aimed at a young audience like some 80s cult films such as Return to Oz and the Dark Crystal, but i think the Pirates of the Caribbean and Harry Potter films filled that void nicely.
Uhhh, what version did you see? I thought he was fun as Blackbeard. Coming off of a shoehorned, lazy, "sit-on-ass-doing-nothing" villain like Beckett, he at least was proactive and didn't let everyone else do everything for him while he literally sits back and does nothing but DRINK ****ING TEA AND EXPOSIT!
Sits backs and makes plans to take over the ocean that actualy work...Him and Mercer accomplished quite a lot.
I actualy enjoyed Beckett a lot, not as much as Davy Jones, but in least i found his scenes memorable overall, and he brought something else to the franchise as a villain. Blackbeard is just a one-dimensional version of the classic pirate villain stereotype. A similar role Barbossa had in the first film, but the difference is that Barbossa had charisma and a much more interesting motivation.
Yeah, of the villains in this series, I think Beckett was easily the weakest. He was like every generic colonial English 'gentleman' villain ever. Those guys are a dime a dozen. Put on any show or film about the American Revolution and you'll see as many of them as you will bayonets.
Blackbeard was better than that in his introductory scene alone.
I've seen more villains like Blackbeard to be honest, he's just the heartless "strong dragon". He was even upstaged by mermaids in his oun film.
Also, you want to talk about introductions? Look at Beckett's build-up in the beginning of Dead Man's Chest:
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Wonderfuly directed with a great score and good imagery. A shame that Gore Verbinski's career has been plagued by flawed scripts, since he keeps directing great scenes like this one.
Taking what was shown of Beckett & Mercer and Blackbeard int he films, i wouldn't stand another film centering around Blackbeard. With Becket & Mercer on the hand, the situation is different, i found their relationship, goals and presented threat much stronger.
