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[the_gneech]

So let me just toss in a final "Talk Like a Pirate Day" post!

Refuse that, and that's the last ye'll see of me but musket-balls!

-The Gneech ("Them that dies, will be the lucky ones!")

Comments

Pirate Movies..

[praeriedog.livejournal.com]

      Have you seen Geena Davis' "Cutthroat Island"? If not, you should. I think you'd like it.

Re: Pirate Movies..

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

I have seen it, and I didn't like it. In fact, I hated it ... the worst thing to happen to pirate movies since Roman Polanski. Ugh!

Thank the stars for Pirates of the Carribean!

-The Gneech

Re: Pirate Movies..

[praeriedog.livejournal.com]

      Really? I thought you'd like it. So, aside from Pirates of the Carribean, which I've yet to see, what pirate movies do you consider worth watching?

Re: Pirate Movies..

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

The best is the TNT production of Treasure Island, with Christian Bale as Jim Hawkins and Charlton Heston as Long John Silver. It didn't get a lot of attention, but it was really, really good.

Other good ones include Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk (both with Errol Flynn); there was also a Sinbad movie with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. that was not really a pirate movie but was pretty close, but I can't remember the name. Hook deserves an honorable mention, too, although it's not properly a pirate movie either. Later in life, Errol Flynn did another pirate movie called Against All Flags which has its moments, but doesn't really hold up compared to his earlier stuff.

-The Gneech