Arrrr, it be a pirate poll

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1797778]

Comments

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

Everyone should watch The Princess Bride!

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Sir yes sir!

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

They even bothered to make the cover look like a movie that you wouldn't be particularly embarrassed to walk out of the store with.

[andrewducker]

Much appreciated!

[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]"

[usmu.livejournal.com]

For some reason I've always assumed the movie to be a drama featuring Barbara Streisand and Jeff Bridges as some crummy psychiatrist. I don't even know if there's actually a movie who would fit that description, but there you go.

Nice icon btw. I really should reread Strangers in Paradise one of these days.

[erindubitably.livejournal.com]

Are you perhaps thinking of The Prince of Tides with Babs as a psychiatrist and Nick Nolte?

[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...

[usmu.livejournal.com]

Now you mentioned it: yes indeed. I have no clue why I would mix up those two. They don't even have a word in the title in common. Which is the one excuse have for this bizarre little tidbit: For a long time I thought people were talking about Little Shop of Horrors when mentioning The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I just couldn't understand why people were so into that movie. After having seen it I still don't really get it, but that's a different story.

[andrewducker]

Surely you're mixing them up because they sound almost identical?

And I actually prefer Little Shop of Horrors. But I'm not big on either.

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to think of a description that could be further from the truth and failing!

I'm a certified fangirl, I have the omnibus on the book shelf in front of me :)

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

Little Shop of Horrors is great fun to do as a school musical. The film not so much. I enjoyed RHPS but not enough to understand quite why some people are so obsessed with it. I've only seen the film though, puritians tell me you really need to go to the stage show to appreciate it.

[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.

[alextfish.livejournal.com]

I always got those two mixed up as well. They're pretty similar in genre, certainly, but I don't know why I'd actually think one was the other.

[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.

[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)...

[andrewducker]

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

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Say 'em out loud. Homonymic uncertainty FTW.

[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?

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Now you're just being silly.

[usmu.livejournal.com]

That might make a difference, though audiance participation is not really my thing.