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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Curse of the Black Pearl, and it's not particularly close.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

It's a movie that I saw, enjoyed, and mostly wrote off when it came out. But here we are 20+ years later and I'm still rewatching it every few years. It is still just over-the-top over-acted ridiculous silly fun.

Very well-paced and quotable. Main characters (Knightley and Bloom) were unremarkable, but the side characters (Depp and especially Rush) put in excellent performances into very silly roles.

It's not The Godfather, but it's not trying to be. It is pretty perfect at everything it did try to be.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like the second and third movies are underrated. Perhaps not as tightly scripted as the first, but if you watch them back to back it's a fun ride.

And Keith Richards plays Jack Sparrow's dad in the third film.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed. I don't really like the second, but the third is a very good ending for a trilogy that had no right to be as good as it is. I especially love how all the characters have these different changing motivations and how that shapes the plot.

The first is just perfect, though, not even close

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm with you, too. It was super good in theaters (get off my lawn).

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

First I thought of

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Muppet Treasure Island

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Meh, great movie, and yes there's pirates, but I wouldn't consider it pirate-themed personally

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, the main character, Westley, is literally The Dread Pirate Roberts. And there's swashbuckling, sailing, and a ragtag group of outlaws who come together despite all odds to fight the crown and take it's treasure (Buttercup).

That's a pirate movie.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I'm not taking away from your very valid points, but I feel like a pirate adventure has to spend a majority of its time ~~at sea~~ on ships and The Princess Bride does not.

It does, however, make an excellent Land Pirate movie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I suppose it's not the most heavily themed pirate movie

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know if it's the greatest, but Ice Pirates is too often overlooked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This fucking movie has stuck with me for decades. It is so stupid and hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This flag means death is killing it for a show

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge is unironically a really fun watch. Evan Stone is hilarious in it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They made an R-rated cut with the sex scenes edited out and it's surprisingly watchable (in a low budget campy way)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Cuthroat Island

It's an underrated movie, Gena Davis knocks it out of the park!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Disney's 1950 Treasure Island - yes Depp's Jack Sparrow is great, but the pirate performance par excellence is Robert Newton's Long John Silver, imo

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

[off topic?]

TV show 'Black Sails' has it all. It starts with a great pirate raid and has everything you want. Buried treasure, hidden islands, scheming ladies, backstabbing, and more. Great writing and superb acting with incredible action sequences.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Butt Pirates of the Caribbean

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yellowbeard a close second!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

More than a decade ago, this was the canonical pirate video for the English speaking Internet:

Lazy Town | You Are A Pirate Music Video

Enjoy 🙂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Against all flags. Pirates of the Caribbeans is more accesable to the modern viewer, but against all flags stood the test of time for 70 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pirates! Is so good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know I'm late, but no one has said Pirates! Band of Misfits and it is hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Planet of the Apes