Noticed this movie was on tv tonight and so thought I'd post a trailer. (If you don't get British tv you can watch it in parts here) I actually liked this film and I didn't like the Pirates of the Caribbean movies so what do I know? Known as one of the biggest movie flops of all time Cutthroat Island is a movie of excess but in a reasonably historically accurate (its set in 1668) sort of way. It's more like the old Hollywood pirate films and didn't really deserve to sink as badly as it did.Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Cutthroat Island (1995)
Noticed this movie was on tv tonight and so thought I'd post a trailer. (If you don't get British tv you can watch it in parts here) I actually liked this film and I didn't like the Pirates of the Caribbean movies so what do I know? Known as one of the biggest movie flops of all time Cutthroat Island is a movie of excess but in a reasonably historically accurate (its set in 1668) sort of way. It's more like the old Hollywood pirate films and didn't really deserve to sink as badly as it did.
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Glad that someone (a blogger I respect too!) has pointed out that this movie is relatively historically accurate for a Hollywood movie. As well as a decent attempt at the Restoration era English soldiers, the whole setting has nice touches, such as the Spanish flavour of much of Jamaica in the movie and the Catholic procession... the island had only been conquered by the English in 1655 and the movie is set in 1668. You had Spanish derived communities at the time.
And I think the island would only be officially recognised as English by the Spanish in 1670 with the Treaty of Madrid.
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