Now, pirates are awesome, but pirate movies, in general, are not:
- Captain Blood, The Black Swan, The Sea Hawk: All those Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power swashbucklers are classics, but surprisingly inert and landbound. Need more ships.
- Likewise Charles Laughton's Captain Kidd. Fine movie, great acting, not much real pirating.
- The Pirate: Gene Kelly makes a great swashbuckler (he was D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers), but this isn't really a pirate movie. Likewise any version of the Pirates of Penzance, including The Pirate Movie.
- The Crimson Pirate, with Burt Lancaster, has a lot of fun acrobatic fights, but is really very silly.
- Speaking of silly, Yellowbeard at least has a good ship. I think the only bigger budget item for this movie was "white powder".
The best part is probably Johnny Dep as Capt. Jack Sparrow, a brilliant characterization. Kiera Knightley's Elizabeth also very nice. The weakest part: Orlando Bloom as Cary Elwes as Will Turner - very wet and boring. Fortunately, the series ends with him getting killed and Elizabeth running away with Capt. Sparrow.
Oh sorry, I should have posted a spoiler warning.
In conclusion: Did anyone walk the plank or get keelhauled? If not, there is still room for a better pirate movie.
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