Arrrr, it be a pirate poll

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1797778]

Comments

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

PotC:DMC was mostly awful, but the swordfight inside the waterwheel was brilliant.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes it was.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

that waterwheel was by far my least favourite scene, and the main reason it took so long to watch the 3rd.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I don't know why anyone would pick anything other than "Pirates."

Like, you really think John Depp can do better than Belladonna and Jesse Jane tripping the clit fantastic?

[andrewducker]

I was actually thinking of the 1986 Polanski movie. But I shall see how the voting goes!

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I've seen woefully few of those films, but I do adore the 1st POTC. The 2nd and 3rd ones were entertaining enough tat but 'actually good' is pushing it a bit far. There were moments of goodness but they could really have done with a better script and much tighter plotting. Much as I love watching Johnny Depp, he's made lots of better films than those. I will probably watch the 4th one when it's on telly and no-one expects me to pay to see it though :)

[andrewducker]

Same here, on all counts!

[fearmeforiampink]

Whereas my SEIWEIC is At Worlds End; sure it had some weaknesses, but all the backstabbing, all the different, contradictory aims the 'heroes' were trying to achive, and a few of its awesome scenes ("Do you think he plans it all out, or just makes it up as he goes along?"), means it comes top for me.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

I caught the 4th in 3d. Couldn't see a bloody thing - the film was super-mirky and I missed at least half the action scenes.

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

You've not included 'The Crimson Pirate' in your list, and it is the best pirate movie.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

Yes! This! I just watched it at the weekend.. I love Burt Lancaster.

[cobrabay.livejournal.com]

My favourite pirate movie is The Crimson Pirate http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044517/ with Burt Lancaster, the title of which I assume was the inspiration for The Crimson Permanent Assurance.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

I picked the Crimson Permanent Assurance because a) it has the best song ever about being an accountant and b) it is a salutory reminder that there is a very thin line between Mafia Don and CEO and that some of the same people who used to become pirates now become executives*

Not all executives are pirate fodder.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

"I picked the Crimson Permanent Assurance because a) it has the best song ever about being an accountant..."

Yup, that's why I picked it too.


Sailing on the wide accountancy...

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Really the first PotC is the only one I'd describe as good, but I enjoyed the others as well so I give them points anyway.

Have you heard about the new Treasure Island with Eddie Izzard as LJS?

[usmu.livejournal.com]

Came here with another write in vote for The Crimson Pirate. I've seen it when I was like 12 (35 now) and couldn't for the life of me remember the title. Until a friend of mine confirmed that the movie did exist and was called the Crimson Pirate. I don't remember much from way back, but this movie I do.

In other news, PotC 1 was ok, but not good or a piece of shit, and I haven't seen any of the others so I can't vote on question 2. And, probably more shockingly, I haven't seen The Princess Bride either, so no opinion on that one either.

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

Everyone should watch The Princess Bride!

[zz]

i'm not sure i can tell any of the PotC films apart. I just know each had both fun and boring bits, but I don't remember regretting watching them or any shouting at the screen.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Your list of pirate movies is inadequate; at an exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands on Captain Kidd, they were showing a ten minute film of clips from pirate films. At a rough estimate, they had clips of about four times as many films as you have listed here. Wikipedia's list is scary.

For the record, I like The Sea Hawk.

[andrewducker]

It was based on recommendations on Facebook last night. Sadly there are faaaaar too many Pirate movies to fit them all into one poll.

And also I suspect most of them are awful.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I've only seen the first PotC film and it was literally one of the worst films that I've ever seen, so didn't watch the rest.

If your friends aren't a bunch of children of the 80s types, you might well get more people among your social group having seen the XXX Pirates film rather than the Princess bloody Bride.

That said, the book On Stranger Tides is pretty good.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Also, everyone forgot Cutthroat Island, having looked at the wikipedia list.

And with good reason.

"The abject disaster of Cutthroat Island is also credited with significantly reducing the bankability and Hollywood production of pirate-themed films, which only recovered with the production of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl in 2003.[8]"

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I am now seized by a desire to pop in my ol' VHS copy of Captain Blood, one of the better swashbuckler flicks ever made. This desire is inconvenient given that I'm at work and a minimum of a half-hour's travel away even if I was willing to risk getting fired for indulging it.

-- Steve was surprised to find it rather smarter than a lot of the pirate films that came after it.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

That's because it was based on plotting by Rafael Sabatini.

See icon. :-)

[alextfish.livejournal.com]

[x] I'm well aware there are many such pedants of such titanic proportions, particularly on areas of the internet such as your friendslist, but I find myself (somewhat to my surprise) not among their number on this occasion.

[andrewducker]

Which handily places you as a mid-level pedant :->

[i_kender]

What, no Pirates of Penzance?

I mean, I hate it now but I loved it as a kid!

[i_kender]

Also, Hook. I unironically love Hook.

And I suppose that means you can include Peter Pan too (whichever version)...

[pigwotflies.livejournal.com]

SE: All pirate movies are good!

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Princess Bride isn't a pirate movie.

The Goonies is though.

[andrewducker]

How about Dodgeball?