The problem with a movie about "real pirtes" is that it's not much fun watching men actually rape, pillage, die of scurvy, etc. So inserting curses, skeletons and sea creature hybrids as foes the pirates must battle against is preferable to watching them rape and pillage for 2.5 hours, at least for me.
Plus, I love fantasy. So I'm happy that's the route these films have taken.
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