# Pirates
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/195767
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 17, 2003, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/195767 "2003-08-17T13:46:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@gawen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gawen)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2003, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/195767/1 "2003-08-17T13:46:00Z")
I just saw Pirates of the Caribean and agree with the general consensus here, this movie is one of the best i saw recently
but i want more, anyone with good pirates movies, books, or even song or website around?
myself i’d like to recomend to everyone “Long John Silver” by Bjorn Larsson, it’s about the famous pirate from “Treasure Island”, very well written
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### Author:  [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/195767/2 "2003-08-17T13:57:44Z")
Although I don’t know that I’d recommend it to anyone, I rather enjoyed _Treasure Planet_. I mean come on. Cyborg pirates in space!
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### Author:  [@FairyDust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyDust)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/195767/3 "2003-08-17T14:56:25Z")
[Blackbeard’s Ghost](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0062737) starring Peter Ustinov. I enjoyed it.
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### Author:  [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/195767/4 "2003-08-17T18:31:32Z")
Obligatory viewing for pirate movie freaks include:
_Captain Blood,_ starring Errol Flynn. Great popcorn muncher where Errol Flynn starts out as a doctor, works his way up to slave, and finally reaches his apex as pirate captain aboard a stolen Spanish ship.
_The Sea Hawk,_ also with Flynn, uses some of the same ship combat footage, and is also quite good, although it has somewhat more plot getting in the way of the story.
_The Crimson Pirate,_ with Burt Lancaster, is great, and if I’m not mistake, is where Johnny Depp got the idea of hiding under a boat, and then walking the boat into the water with an air pocket underneath…
The Disney version of _Treasure Island,_ with Robert Newton and Bobby Driscoll. Newton’s Long John Silver impression gave birth to half the pirate cliches in the book. The earlier version, with Wallace Beery as Silver, is also worth watching.
The book _Captain Blood,_ by Rafael Sabatini is excellent, better even than the movie. It had several sequels, also by Sabatini, all of which were quite good.
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### Author:  [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/195767/5 "2003-08-17T19:26:14Z")
If you want to see the exact opposite end of the spectrum from POTC, go rent (don’t buy) _Cutthroat Island_. Terrible, deplorable movie, well deserving of the title of “Biggest Box Office Bomb in History”. At one point in the movie, pirates use crude bazookas in a tavern the size of Yankee stadium. The only thing good about it is the really cool ship-to-ship battle at the end… and that’s why God invented the fast-forward button.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/195767/6 "2003-08-17T19:38:28Z")
If you want the ultimate in loving parody of the Pirate genre, I cannot over-recommend George MacDonald Frasier’s _The Pyrates_. One of the funniest books I’ve ever read.
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### Author:  [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/195767/7 "2003-08-19T05:21:42Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Miller \*
> \*\*If you want the ultimate in loving parody of the Pirate genre, I cannot over-recommend George MacDonald Frasier’s _The Pyrates_. One of the funniest books I’ve ever read. \*\*
Seconding this nomination. I laughed out loud more during this single book than during the whole of MacDonald’s _Flashman_ series, which I also loved.
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### Author:  [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/195767/8 "2003-08-19T05:25:42Z")
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> \*Originally posted by rackensack \*
> \*\*Seconding this nomination. I laughed out loud more during this single book than during the whole of MacDonald’s _Flashman_ series, which I also loved. \*\*
First freakin’ post in months and I fumble it. That should have been “ **Fraser’s** _Flashman_ series”, of course.
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### Author:  [@Somnambulist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Somnambulist)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates/195767/9 "2003-08-19T13:36:28Z")
‘Yellowbeard’ - finest pirate movie of all time…