Pirates' movies

[CapitainDams]

aye, that's strange.

 

[Captain_Python]

You mean the Queen Ann's Revenge? That hit a sand bar or reef and had to abandon ship. They depict that in the movie.

 

[morgan terror]

no they don't. i think that they cut it out so it would be shorter so it would fit within an hour. in fact, his sloop didn't sink at the end of the movie either. it was supposed to be blown up so the enemy wouldn't get it, but the guy that was supposed to lite the powder room was stopped by two of the crewmembers.

 

[ChumScrubber]

What do you all think the most realistic pirate movie is? Is there a Das Boot for pirates? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />

 

[CapitainDams]

Well, hard question.
I think the more realistic of life on board is Master and Comander.
The more realistic of pirates' life ... I don't know. A misc of some movies...

 

[Old Salt]

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Well, hard question.
I think the more realistic of life on board is Master and Comander.
The more realistic of pirates' life ... I don't know. A misc of some movies...
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Definitely I would agree that Master and Commander has to be the most realistic depiction of life aboard an early 18th century warship, and it would be pretty cool if they make another movie on the career of Jack Aubrey. It is tough to think of what would be a realistic depiction of a pirate's life as pretty much all the pirate movies I can think of were done tongue in cheek.
Maybe a realistic pirate movie can be found in this list.

<a href="http://www.geocities.com/captcutlass/Film.html" target="_blank">http://www.geocities.com/captcutlass/Film.html</a>

 

[CapitainDams]

Great list!

 

[Old Salt]

I haven't seen this movie mentioned but, while not being a pirate movie, it does have pirate elements to it. <b><i><!--coloro:#FF0000--><span style="color:#FF0000"><!--/coloro-->Seven Days, Seven Nights<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--></i></b> with Harrison Ford and Ann Heche. That movie had some current day pirates who wind up chasing Ford and Heche while they are trapped on an island in the Pacific after their plane went down there. They have a couple of run-ins with those pirates during the coarse of the movie and finally escape at the end when the pirates wind up blowing up their own ship. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/boom.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":boom" border="0" alt="boom.gif" />

 

[CapitainDams]

Added!
Actually it's "Six Days, Seven Nights".

 

[Old Salt]

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Actually it's "Six Days, Seven Nights".<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Yes it is. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_eek.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="icon_eek.gif" /> Thanks for the correction. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/me.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="me.gif" />

 

[0wl]

Anyone mention <a href="http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/channel/blackbeard/interactive.html" target="_blank">this one</a> yet?!
I think it is an exellent movie/dramatized documentary as it were...

 

[CapitainDams]

Aye, I see this one but forgot to post it here.

Added!

 

[Old Salt]

I count 76 movies so far on the first page of this thread in your list. Great job so far. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/me.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="me.gif" />

 

[CapitainDams]

Thanks!

 

[Brenda]

Well, since we are now including movies with pirates in them, how about <i>Captain Ron</i> with Kurt Russell and Martin Short? It has Carribean locations with modern day pirates, a questionable captain with an eye patch and a rather cool sailboat!

 

[Old Salt]

I believe that one is already on the list on the first page of this thread. Good choice though, I forgot all about that one. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/me.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="me.gif" />

 

[CapitainDams]

Aye it's already in the list, and it's a great movie.

 

[Old Salt]

How about this one: <b>The Princess and the Pirate</b> (1944)

<b>Plot summary -</b> Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, her ship is attacked by pirates who know her identity and plan to kidnap her and hold her for a king's ransom. Little do the cutthroats know that she will be rescued by that unlikeliest of knights errant, Sylvester the Great, who will lead them on a merry, and madcap, chase.

 

[CapitainDams]

I believed it was in the list but it wasn't so : added!!

It's a good movie with Bob Hope, it's a comedy.

 

[Old Salt]

<i>I think this one also may belong on the list.</i>

<b>Hell Harbor - 1930, Lupe Velez, Jean Hersholt. Pirate romance.</b>