Pirate movies by chrisisall

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Pirate movies

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 6:38 AM

I think it can be said that the crew of Serenity can be viewed as pirates by some folk, so I don't imagine pirate movies in general have completely escaped the interest or attention of the Browncoat community.

Which is your favourite, and why?

Mine is Pirates of the Carribean, reason: Depp.
( Cutthroat Island close second, reason: Davis + Arnold's perfect musical score)

ARRRMEBUCKO Chrisisall

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 6:52 AM

CHRISTHECYNIC

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Mine is Pirates of the Carribean, reason: Depp.

Same movie, different reasons.

I have to say though, in that movie there was a great little thing where Jack (Depp) talks about what a ship is, short version: Freedom.

The same goes for Serenity.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 6:55 AM

MANWITHPEZ

Important people don't do field work.

Does anybody here remember seeing "Amazon Women On The Moon"? There's a great little segment in there about video pirates. The funniest thing I've seen in a pirate guise.

The FBI warning comes on, and the pirate captain says (sarcastically) "Oh...I'm so scared..."

I laughed until I fell, but then again, I was drunk. Seems to happen to me a lot.

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 7:06 AM

EST120

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
I think it can be said that the crew of Serenity can be viewed as pirates by some folk, so I don't imagine pirate movies in general have completely escaped the interest or attention of the Browncoat community.

Which is your favourite, and why?

Mine is Pirates of the Carribean, reason: Depp.
( Cutthroat Island close second, reason: Davis + Arnold's perfect musical score)

ARRRMEBUCKO Chrisisall

i liked pirates of the carribean. the sequel will be interesting. not sure if i like the idea of another yet. the title has been changing a lot. the most recent news i heard from "dead man's chest" in reference to davy jone's locker. i agree. depp was fantastic in the first movie.

has anyone ever seen a pirate movie? low budget 80s parody/comedy. funny stuff!

the scene involving the guy lifting weights and hitting the keystone cop on the head is hilarious for no other reason than it is just plain silly.

if you like pirate movies, you should play the monkey island computer games. i thought they were so much fun! mostly low action, high comedy puzzle type games. they are so funny. i own them all and they were worth every penny!

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 7:36 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
I think it can be said that the crew of Serenity can be viewed as pirates by some folk, so I don't imagine pirate movies in general have completely escaped the interest or attention of the Browncoat community.

Which is your favourite, and why?

Mine is Pirates of the Carribean, reason: Depp.
( Cutthroat Island close second, reason: Davis + Arnold's perfect musical score)

ARRRMEBUCKO Chrisisall

I'm a big Pirate fan. *Holds up hand*

My favourite would be The Crimson Pirate with Burt Lancaster. It's a wonderful swashbuckler with the then acrobatic Burt Lancaster peforming many of his own twirls, flips, summersaults and stunts etc. Really a cracking yarn! Oh and even Christopher Lee makes an appearance. ....And may I say what a fathful nod Pirates of the Caribbean makes towards The Crimson Pirate. Y'know the scene where Will and captain Sparrow tip the boat over and walk into the sea and along the seabed to pass under the ships above... Well that's directly out of the Crimson Pirate.

Also Captain Blood with the great Errol Flynn is a great deal of fun. There's even the Scarlet Buccaneer with Robert Shaw He from Jaws which is pretty full of hi-jincks and sword play and has a slimline James Earl Jones laughing it up all the way through. Firefly and indeed even Star Wars has slight tilts towards the Pirate theme...

Lately though it's proved a tricky genre to pull off. Pirates of the Caribbean being a rare exception and success in the last twenty - thirty years. I've not seen Cutthroat Island.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:36 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Captain Blood is probably my favorite pirate movie, but I really like Pirates of the Caribbean as well. I am looking forward to the sequel.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:39 AM

BEATLE

Yellowbeard. Just Hi-larious.
Also, a not so well remembered movie called 'Nate and Hayes'.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:48 AM

PIZMOBEACH

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Quote:
Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:

My favourite would be The Crimson Pirate with Burt Lancaster.

Right there with you - The Sea Hawk is very similar - has that jaunty, "even death is fun!" Errol Flynn tone.

Honorable mention in the "Not Pirate Movies But They Take Place on a Boat in the Ocean at the Same Time" category:
1. Mutiny on the Bounty - all 3 versions, Brando's being my favorite
2. The Hornblower series - sometimes uneven, always fun.
3. Master and Commander - "eh" on the casting of the movie, but the books are seriously addictive - great reads.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:51 AM

MONTANAGIRL

Jumping on the Pirates of the Caribbean bandwagon here. I saw it the first time because Orlando Bloom was in it; I saw it the next seven times for Johnny Depp having more fun than anyone should be allowed to have doing their job.

It's been a while since I've seen Captain Blood, but I remember that I liked it.

Oh, and I also liked Muppet Treasure Island!

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:21 AM

LEELU777

theres a movie with anthony hopkins and mel gibson that I loved but I cant remember the name of it all I know is that it was made in the 80's

men are in lust women are in passion

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:27 AM

BEATLE

Quote:
Originally posted by leelu777:
theres a movie with anthony hopkins and mel gibson that I loved but I cant remember the name of it all I know is that it was made in the 80's

It's called 'The Bounty'

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:29 AM

CHRISISALL

I just knew that nobody but me saw Cutthroat Island! It was a total bomb at the boxoffice because the title makes it sound like a kiddie movie, but it's too violent for them.
Frank Langella plays the bad guy, that alone should sell the flick!
The dvd is a pretty ordinary transfer, but the movie is fun, I promise you.
And if you like David Arnold's music in Independance Day or the recent Bond movies, you'll love his work here.

Silly fun and adventure, with the hero of the film being a woman, and the male lead is a sidekick!!

Uh-oh, Kierra Knightly, gotta go!

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:36 AM

RAE

Love P.O.C., and Cutthroat Island. Both are great. But, there was a Tommy Lee Jones pirate movie a few years ago, called "Nate and Hayes" It is great! If you can find it, check it out. Also, "Yellowbeard," "Ice Pirates," and Polanski's "Pirates" were also all great fun.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:41 AM

XENOCIDE

Ice Pirates...cause it has robots and a talking head!

-Eli

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:43 AM

CHRISISALL

You've SEEN Cutthroat Island!! Now two people on this world have actually seen it!!

I am alone no more.

Not the Omega Man Chrisisall

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:58 AM

MANWITHPEZ

Important people don't do field work.

I've seen Cutthroat Island, and I loved it! What great music and stunts...and Frank Langella is awesome as Dog!

When he's exclaiming "I love this...I LOVE IT!" you really feel it!

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:07 AM

CHRISISALL

I love when he says, "Love. Who can explain it?"
Langella was great.

It's up to 3 now!

Bad Dog Chrisisall

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:16 AM

CHRISTHECYNIC

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
You've SEEN Cutthroat Island!! Now two people on this world have actually seen it!!

I am alone no more.

Well my mom has, I was in the next room at the time. That would make three, and I think someone has sense said so so that's four, your numbers are growing, but world domination is still beyond your grasp.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:28 AM

CHRISISALL

Curse your sudden but inevitable unveiling of my ultimate aim with this thread!

Blofeld fan Chrisisall

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:39 AM

STILLSHINY

What about Captain Blood? Errol Flynn
That was a classic pirate movie.

That and Peter Bechley's "The Island"

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:48 AM

FREMDFIRMA

A supreme nod to ole Errol, who was definately classic as a pirate, and a sideways trivia note.

The guy who choreographed his swordwork, is the same guy who did so for LoTR, just so ya know.

But I really do have to hand it to Pirates of the Carribean.

My fav scene and quote is odd (you'd have to know me and the wife to know how bloody true it is...)

It's that scene where she burns the rum, leaving him totally outraged, then chumps him with the 'signal' bonfire statement...

And then he sees the ship.

"There'll be no living with her after this..."

I know *JUST* how he feels.

-F

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:54 AM

STILLSHINY

of a truth i do believe, he was the same sword coreographer for Pirates of the Carribean.

Bob Anderson - Quite an impressive list of film projects to his name.

http://www.nerf-herders-anonymous.net/BobAnderson.html

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 12:05 PM

BIKISDAD

Weird coincidence? Captain Blood was just released on dvd today. I don't have mine yet, but I'm definitely looking forward to getting it. One of the great movies - pirate or not - of all time.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 12:09 PM

CHRISISALL

Didn't Captain Blood start that whole knife in the sail descent to the deck thing that's in EVERY other pirate movie?

Pegleg trivia Chrisisall

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 1:53 PM

THATWEIRDGIRL

oooohhhh

Just readiing the title of the thread, the following three movies popped into my head: Yellowbeard, Ice Pirates, and Captain Blood.

Now after reading the thread, I'd like to add to my list.
1. Captain Blood
2. Ice Pirates
3. Yellowbeard
4. Crimson Pirate
5. Princess Bride (I think that counts even though very little happens on the water)

With an honorable mention to The Pirates of Penzance.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 2:31 PM

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 3:32 PM

MANWITHPEZ

Important people don't do field work.

No one's mentioned Hook...I'm kinda surprised, or does being a pirate in a Peter Pan movie discount your claim to piracy?

I know its too long, and the editting is horrible, but I have a soft spot in my heart for the music. John Williams is great!

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 4:33 PM

VETERAN

Don't squat with your spurs on.

Pirates of the Carribbean was great. But my favorite pirate movie is Captain Blood. If you like Bob Hope you should watch The Princess and the Pirate. Now you have to excuse me while I jot down some of the titles posted above, looks like a lot of good stuff.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 5:17 PM

CHRISISALL

Manwithpez is right, Hook is cool. Put your thinkin' back to when you were about twelve, and it might even be great.

Tick, tock, tick, tock Chrisisall

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 5:25 PM

IMEARLY

Quote:

Put your thinkin' back to when you were about twelve, and it might even be great.

Not everyone here is as young as you are. Well I guess I am, as Hook premiered in 1991. I myself was eleven.

Dustin Hoffman was a great Captain Hook.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 5:29 PM

REGINAROADIE

I havn't seen many what you would consider pirate movies. But I actually like CUTTHROAT ISLAND better than PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN. I know CUTTHROAT ISLAND has this reputation of being one of the biggest bombs in film history and that it's a black spot on the resumes of everyone associated with it.

But I saw that movie when I was 10. I didn't know anything about the movie when I went to it at the Gravelbourg theatre (it was a movie theatre at one of the other towns near where I lived) and I loved every minute of it. It's one of those movies that you see as a kid and you fall in love with the medium. You see Geena David pull back the canvas off a cannon, say to the villain "Bad Dawg" and then blow him away, there's no turning back. You wanna make movies. And my enthusiasm for it is still unabated. I rented it a few years later to see if had aged terribly, but it still gave me that sense of awe and excitement. To me, the David Arnold score is the icing on the cake.

So while PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN might have Depp, millions of dollars and worldwide acclaim, CUTTHROAT ISLAND will still have a place in my heart.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 4:01 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by ImEarly:
Quote:
Not everyone here is as young as you are. Well I guess I am, as Hook premiered in 1991. I myself was eleven.

Young as I am?
When Hook opened I was at the tender age of 31.

That would make me, oh, lets do the math,...

Just twelve in my mind Chrisisall

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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 4:09 AM

CHRISISALL

There are times when I'm watching Cutthroat Island and I feel this adreneline rush the likes of which POTC just don't produce, and I think 'This is so much FUN!'
POTC is cool, it just doesn't get me to jumpin' up and dowm like CI does.

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World domination is just a parsec away Chrisisall

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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 4:20 AM

STILLSHINY

Gotta mention it. One of the biggest spoofs ever.
The Pirate Movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084504/

check out the trailer

http://a.videodetective.com/?PublishedID=501050

very 80's

and one of my favorites, Jonah - by Veggie Tales

The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 4:53 AM

IMEARLY

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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 4:56 AM

KNIBBLET

OHHHHHHH gotta get it.

On a personal note, I once dated an Air Force dentist name of Jim Blood. Yep, he was a Captain at the time. tee hee.

Quote:
Originally posted by bikisdad:
Weird coincidence? Captain Blood was just released on dvd today.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 5:36 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by ImEarly:
Hook premiered in 1991. I myself was eleven.

When I was eleven Beneath the Planet of the Apes and Diamonds Are Forever were what I was in that dark, sticky-floored popcorn smellin' sanctuary for...

Ah, the memories of our youth.

I reveal my inmost self Chrisisall

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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 5:51 AM

GREENFAERIE

Hey, I love all the pirate movies mentioned so far! But has anyone thought of Treasure Planet? It was better than the box office gave it credit for, IMHO. Great pirates in that one. Course, most of 'em were aliens too...

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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 6:04 AM

CHRISISALL

I see Treasure Planet at least once a month due to my six year old, he likes it a lot. I don't even think of it as a movie, in my house it's a fixture.

Livin' with Jim Chrisisall

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