In connection with our “Pirates of the Carribean” threads…
When was the last time that they made a good pirate movie?
Note: Anyone who says anything along the lines of “They just did!” shall be shanhaiged, and forced to swab the First Mate during the Red Fox’s San Francisco-Chicago raiding expidition.
The Crimson Permanent Assurance, the spoof supporting feature about an insurance office that turns into a pirate ship at the start of Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, although it’s not a full-length movie.
Does Goonies count?
As a pirate movie? Maybe. As a good movie? No.
My vote: The Princess Bride & Castle in the Sky
I personally enjoyed Swashbuckler (1976) but I realize I’m in the minority here. Other failed pirate movies include Pirates (1985) with Walter Matthau and Cutthtroat Island (1996) with Geena Davis. It appears no decade is complete with a bad pirate movie to call its own.
“Nate and Hayes”, but I think I’m the only person who ever saw it!
Linkage: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085994
MtM
The Burt Lancaster The Crimson Pirate was great fun.
I regard Dead Calm as a pirate movie of sorts. Zane is close enough to a pirate as one gets, IMO.
The original Treasure Island
I’m a big fan of the forgotten (and, I’m afraid, not-very-highly regarded) Light at the Edge of the World (1971) starring Kirk Douglas and Yul Brynner.
I think its got a lot going for it. It’s more about intrigue – mindgames and such between the two main characters – than swashbuckling action.
But the most innovative aspect of the film is the overt (but unspoken) homoerotic behavior of the pirate captain (Brynner) and his crew. That twist, I have learned, is credibly supported by the historical record.
Anybody else like this flick? Or how about, anybody ever see it?
Nate and Hayes was fantastic!
You diss The Goonies and then offer up The Princess Bride?!?
The Goonies
Set nearly entirely in a pirate’s hidden treasure/trap
Main plot involves a pirate’s treasure
Climactic ending on a pirate ship
Comes complete with pirate skeletons, pirate curse, pirate traps, pirate ship, pirate treasure
The Princess Bride
Has a pirate
Captain Blood – Erroll Flynn
I concede that Goonies has more pirate-related elements. Doesn’t make it a good movie, though. (and I’m speaking as a friend of Chunk’s
Since someone mentioned bad pirate movies - anyone remember “The Pirate Movie” with Kristy McNicholl ?
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Marc
The OP is misleading, in as much as it suggest that there is such a thing as a “bad” pirate movie.
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Actually, it’s misleading, in the sense that I accidentially typed “what” when I meant “when”.
Muppet Treasure Island.