How cool is it that pirates still exist? Do they look like Johnny Depp? Do they really have eye-patches? And hooks for hands? How about maps? Do they have maps with a big "X" on them? And parrots. What about them? Is there a Captain Hook? Oh, so many questions.
This Tuesday, let's celebrate pirates. Give me your top 5 movies involving pirates of some kind. Here are mine in no particular order.
This Tuesday, let's celebrate pirates. Give me your top 5 movies involving pirates of some kind. Here are mine in no particular order.
1. Ice Pirates
2. Pirates of the Caribbean
3. Goonies
4. Yellowbeard
5. Cabin Boy
Although I don't think I can agree that it's cool that *real* pirates exist, I'm still happy to see them in the fictional world on the screen!
ReplyDeleteMy top three (couldn't think of five) are:
1. Pirates of the Caribbean
2. Cutthroat Island
3. The Pirate Movie - it's a musical! And from the 80's. What could be bad? Other than the hair...
Arrrgh matey!
(A.K.A. Bird Flu)
ReplyDelete1. The Princess Bride
2. Captain Ron
3. Nate and Hayes
4. The Island
5. Pirates of the Caribbean-Although the two sequels almost knock it off the list.
You get extra points from me today for including "Cabin Boy." I love that movie.
ReplyDeleteShannon,
ReplyDeleteI like the mythology of pirates. Not the real ones who capture captains and the like. I guess I never really thought they still existed, except for movies.
I remember The Pirate Movie fondly in a not so fondly way.
Bird Flu,
I remember The Island being kind of creepy.
And the first Pirates is good, but the other two were not.
Average Jane,
I like Chris Elliot a lot. Sorry he didn't take off more. But he's pretty priceless in Everybody Loves Raymond.
Well, as far as smugglers in one form or another go:
ReplyDelete1. Star Wars IV: A New Hope
2. Serenity
3. Sneakers (I couldn't think of another hacker movie that I like)
And my *real* movie pirate favs are (I would've included Princess Bride, Pirates of the Caribbean, and the Goonies):
4. Swiss Family Robinson
5. Treasure Island [1950] (Maybe it's the story+nostalgia, but I'm quite fond of Treasure Planet as well)
I guess I just like Disney Pirates.
Damn Marc,
ReplyDeleteSerenity is a good one. How did I miss that?
Serenity is a bit of a stretch, no? Space Western for sure but Pirates without water? Hmm.
ReplyDeleteHow I forgot to include Goonies is a complete mystery. Good call on that one!
I'm glad to see The Pirate Movie has already been mentioned. I must have seen that movie three times in the theater and I own it on VHS.
ReplyDeleteIn my defense, when it was in the theater I was like 4.
Extra points to you for listing "Ice Pirates" first and foremost! Arrrrgh.
ReplyDeleteI would add Disney's "Treasure Island" and "Blackbeard's Ghost." Both good, solid family fun.
Peter Pan
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