Time for a list of the greatest pirate movies! And they’re all rated ARRR!
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Avast ye Scurvy Dogs! Get this landlubber some o’ tha’ Errol Flynn. I hear his mast be ginormous, almost like a Kraken arm it be!
lol, god damn it again.
*sniff* Yellowbeard was Marty Feldman’s last film.
Wtf? no Peter Pan? or Hook?
Hook?! HOOK?! Are you serious? Bosun! Take this blackguard below and clap him in irons! I want him flogged ‘fore the sunset!
Aye Sir! My floggin’ arm be restless. ARRR… and so forth.
Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk…
Anyone ever see Roman Polanski’s Pirates? The one with Walter Matthau? I’ve had it on VHS for years but I’ve never actually watched it. Don’t even know how I got it. Any good?
I liked Hook….lol
Oh, sorry. Yaaaargh and stuff. Me mateys.
11 again…
“Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk…”
Congratulations, you looked up “Errol Flynn” on the IMDB and listed two movies you’ve never seen.
They weren’t that good.
Yellow beard? Isn’t that movie in which one of the actors died in heart attack and then the guys were like “bah we’ll just ‘ave him killed in the movie too!!!” 0_o
What about “Treasure Planet”? It has pirates………in space.
I laughed so hard I cried with all three of these. Your facial expressions are so great. They’re short, but that just makes the punch harder. A punch of hilarity. Nice work.
I have a pirate film in mind, I just can’t remember it… Gaah…. Uh….. THE MUPPET’S TREASURE ISLAND!!
Didn’t the Swiss Family Robinson have pirates?
The Pirates of the caribbean Movies (even the first) put me to sleep. Mostly because I saw the first in a really long bus trip.
the Goonies…. HEEEELLLLOOOO!?!??!?!
Whoa, ok Captain Blood is awesome.
I think you’ve all overlooked Pirates, the lesbian porno with a million dollar budget. Its kind of like that Phil Foglio experiment XXXenophile, except its a movie.
I’m not really a fan of pirate movies xD
So The Pirates of the Caribean are the only referenses I have…
But there was an animated series I liked to see when I was a kid the name was The Legends of Treasure Island ^^
maybe when they release the naimated Black freigner or however it is written animated shorts there would be another referent for good pirate movies
Cutthroat Island, bitches!
What no Treasure Island movies? None of them?
I will never understand how Yellowbeard got away with a PG rating, it had quite abit of nudity and cursing it.
No one else ever talks about that…
Bonny’s pubes! No lovin’ for ye Captain Blood!?!?!? For shame Jack. For shame…. That be a blasphemy so great you’ve gone and woke me from the locker! I was living in peaceful silence with me cult of possums perfecting da fine art of ye lemur lube. Twas a good life. The kind where one can rest their sword on the mantel in contentment. BUT NOOOOOOO! You had to go piss on me briches with forth-mentioned blasphemy! Don’t you understand matey? Captain Blood is a very foundation of Pirates of the Caribbean. All dat theys did was rub sum-o ye-old fashion Monkey Island on it! Captain Blood with a scurvy fool and zombies is all they did! Tis a classic! Wrote da very bible of modern cinematic pirac0y it did! (Modern cinematic piracy being… Pirates of the Caribbean) The swashbuckling, da facy wording, Tortuga! Bah! Tis like saying Duke Nukem 3D be the shit but Predator and Evil Dead 2 suck of ye bilge water. Why the plank is no good for ya! A floggin will not do. You should be tied to the mast and forced to watch Cabin Boy… TWICE! Only then will the punishment be payed in full for the great stain upon the honor of Captain Blood dat you hast cast. Yar.
Oy, umm, do movie i pirated count?
Yaarrr matey, ya be needing ta watch a few of the Errol Flynn movies, like the Sea Hawk and Captain Blood. Tis some of the great swashbucklin’ tales of all time!
And I suppose Mutiny on The Bounty with Charles Laughton be sorta piratical, the crew does mutiny after all.
And finally there be the Steven Spielberg movie Hook! It’s got Captain Hook and his crew, and they be Pirates as well.
It’s pushing it, but I’d say Carpenter’s The Fog sorta counts as a good pirate film.
Nice list, though I think there’s a few others, I definately think one of the best before the whole Caribbean series was the old movies named Nate & Hayes, It’s a bit of a deconstruction, being set in the late 1800’s as piracy was all but dead with the world powers gearing up their navies, so the titular pirates are real underdogs. Though it can be summed up in one scene, Capt’n Tommy Lee Jones with his Ship of the Land fights a Monitor class Ironclad, the only way a pirate can. It’s awesome!
Muppet Tr–Okay, no. Sorry.
Ice Pirates is FUCKING AWESOME!!
Yea, a great injustice hath been done. For, as I viewed the entries, did come across none but one reference to the great film of pirating, known to the land as Muppet Treasure Island. The want of this film by all but the goodly man that hath been called Hubilub. For that was a film for the ages, sending both children and their elders unto laughter and applause. Everything was in its holy possession. Contain, it did, rats of a vacationing form; musical numbers that, when viewed, brought peace even unto the heart of the Lord, for knowledge that though some of his flock had gone astray, some still sought only to bring amusement and joy unto the masses; and featured the man oft spoken in the holiest of film circles, Tim Curry, who single-handily made Clue a movie of a value moderately good, and whose appearance in the upcoming game of video Dragon Age: Origins had best mean that the game be madeth of awesomeness, lest Bioware incur the wrath of the Lord (who, to the surprise of many of his disciples, did find The Rocky Horror Picture Show to be a most fine movie). Woe unto those who forget this cinematic masterpiece; who did not take pleasure in the most excellent songs like “Shiver My Timbers” and “Cabin Fever,” all written by the most talented Hans Zimmer. May they be tormented by endless plagues of annoying rats singing bad show-tunes, and be accosted at every corner by sudden renditions of “Boom Shakalaka.” And, if they still repenteth not of their errors, may all their games be turned into Superman 64, or E.T. The Game, or Fusion Frenzy. May all their movies be turned into Catwoman and Battlefield: Earth and The Castle of Fu Manchu. May their books be replaced by owner manuals for cars made in 1900, and their comics by replaced by Sultry Teenage Super Foxes, Superman at Earth’s End, and Batman: Fortunate Son. And, if still not repentant, may they be locked in a small room and be forced to watch Planet of the Dinosaurs ten thousand times over, with a break of one hour of informercials most annoying between each showing. For the Lord beth a fan of great proportions of Muppet Treasure Island, and sensation of being snubbed provokes him unto a wrath like a million enraged fanboys! So, let him who snubs Muppet Treasure Island beware, lest the Lord be forced to go Old Testament on his ass.
Peace be upon you all.
P.S. I’m getting ready for Talk Like a Biblical Scholar Day. One day my petition will meet with success!
The Princess Bride is sorely missing from this list.
HOW DARE YOU NOT MENTION MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND. Spoony, I am disappoint.
Pirates of Silicon Valley
how bout the bob hope pirate comedy movie? muppet treasure island is another great one.
Scramlaz, ye ‘n me be walk’n the same plank, mate. But you be miss’n the best part ‘f that. There be a sequel to Pirates: Pirates 2. Be it a surprise that ’tis no longer a porno, but a movie? But, tis not the foulest part, matey…that be the fact that ye have ta have view’d the first Pirates to h’ve ye bearings ‘n the sequel. Yar ha-ha-ha-har ha~r! Now, I be hear’n a rumor that a lad’s grand ma’m did gift him with Pirates 1…she was s’pposedly think’n it be Pirates of the Caribbean.
Malignant Manor, The Princess Bride be a movie that has pirate elements within, but it be not a movie of pirates, savy?
I see that Muppet Treasure Island has been mentioned, so I won’t elaborate. But I think that some of these comments are streching the idea of a pirate movie. The Princess Bride and The Goonies are hardly swashbuckling adventures.
The Dread Pirate Roberts disagrees.
man, i remember Ice Pirates and i’m only 25
shit, that sounds kinda old
oh well
Muppet Treasure Island of course!
I gotta agree with the spattering of people: Captain Blood is a great movie. I’m kinda shocked to hear you didn’t think it was very good. For shame, Spoony, for shame.
In terms of others, I have no idea which one it is, or if it’s just childhood nostalgia speaking, but I’m fairly sure at least ONE of the Treasure Island versions was good.
Captain Blood’s not brilliant, but it sure as fuck is a better Pirate movie the Pirates of the Caribbean 3.
Hey you forgot about Pirates that had Jenaveve Jolie, Devon, Janine Lindemulder, Carmen Luvana, and Jesse Jane. That one should have counted.
I gotta say I was expecting a Treasure Island variation somewhere in there. The original Disney adaptation, the Muppets take Treasure Island, or Treasure Planet, where the Island is in space.
Yarr!
HypnoticGenes is right up at #14.
The Disney sci-fied version and the live-action faithful adaptions of Treasure Island I’ve seen have all been very good indeed.
my favorite pirate movie is Treasure Island.
there is a movie from 1966 a german / france production. it’s a 4 part movie and a great version of the book.
Curse of the Black Pearl was easily the only movie that should be counted as ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’. You speak the truth, Smilin’ Jack.
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