Black Sails!

[kimmy]

Arrr! Avast, me hearties! It be International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

And we be celebrating with this trailer for an upcoming TV series, called Black Sails. It be something of a prequel to Treasure Island, as one of the characters be a young John Silver.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VPrWOHX9kQ

Arrr, it be from England, but we won't hold that against 'em, will we, lads? There be swashbuckling afoot, and booty enough for all!

-kaptain kimmy

{and gimme yer doubloons, before me cutlass-arm gets twitchy, matey!}

[August1991]

I didn't see Marlon Brando.

[kimmy]

You can't have a pirate movie without a deceased, morbidly obese Italian guy?

-k

[bleeding heart]

I'm hesitant to ask....but what am I missing here, August?

[cybercoma]

August has officially gone off the deep end.

[kimmy]

I assume it's a reference to the Brando movie "Mutiny on the Bounty"? I assume it was intended in jest.

Pirates of the Caribbean in 3 short paragraphs.

Who is Johnny Depp, and what does he know of piracy? He is a wealthy Hollywood liberal who has never had to plunder or pillage to make ends meet. He has never walked a plank, and his rum comes in expensive bottles, not oak casks looted from burning tall ships. Give me Brando any day!

This film lacks authenticity. The paucity of peg legs and parrots makes it difficult to believe these are real pirates; not a single hook-hand in sight. The ghost pirates are CGI creations; back in the days of Errol Flynn they used real dead men. Obviously Disney has trumped up a bunch of CGI ghosts in an effort to appeal to 14 year old boys in Hong Kong. Rather than a parrot, Captain Barbossa has a monkey in a shirt; what better symbol of Hollywood elitism?

And one notes that there are no Muslim pirates on the Black Pearl. Here, Disney gets it right. Pirates are entrepreneurs, individualists. Where in the Muslim world could one look to find men with the entrepreneurial spirit and individual initiative we see in these pirates?

-k

[bleeding heart]

That's just...too good.

[sharkman]

I didn't see Marlon Brando.

I didn't see Robert Newton either, but I think Johnny Depp kind of crafted a new benchmark in pirate characters. He also did an amazing job with Tonto in The Lone Ranger, but it fell victim to becoming the sacrificial summer flop.

Edited September 22, 2013 by sharkman

[August1991]

IMHO, Johnny Depp is a bad imitation of Marlon Brando. I think Depp admitted as much in an interview as part of a PR thingie for a movie they made together.

[DogOnPorch]

Looks good. There hasn't been a good one since this one....

[cybercoma]

IMHO, Johnny Depp is a bad imitation of Marlon Brando. I think Depp admitted as much in an interview as part of a PR thingie for a movie they made together.

Your posts in movie-related threads are like surrealist paintings.