I know I'm years late, but I freaking LOVE Cutthroat Island! It's ridiculous but so much fun. You just have to accept that it's a very tall tale. Like if a kid wrote it hahaha - it's just fun. And dumb. Some dumb fun 😜
I actually found this movie entertaining and not as bad as people make it out to be. I think most come in to watching this movie with the bias of it being one of the biggest box office bombs, nitpick the shit out of it and just jump on the hate bandwagon. Far from a perfect film, it is still a good pirate action flick. I found the cinematography, shots, film type, and location were almost flawless. Not so much for the casting choices though. I thought Mathew Modine was ok, but Geena Davis was not. It's not the most engaging or amazing screenplay, but it works for what it is. Just a dueling pirates treasure hunt action story. I give it a 6 out of 10, maybe even a 7 for a good music score and again, for the the great attention to detail that went into set/costume designs, and use of wide angle to take in the beautiful locations. I will actually have to knock it back down to a 6.5 due to the unrealistic "michael bayesque" explosions riddled throughout the film. :D
MAV - IMG Give Geena a break - She apparently found her husband, the director, in bed with another woman during the filming. She was probably using all her acting talents trying to be professional and not dump him into the fake ocean set.
Entertaining doesn't mean good in any corcumstances. I find Nazis at the center of the earth, Sharknado, ZaAt and The dragon lives again as entertaining movies but this movies are definitely not good in any department. On the other hand I find Boyhood, Shape of the water and Avengers as uninteresting boreathons, but that doesn't mean they are not well done movies. Subjective and objective points of view not necesarily coincide.
Yeah, it's a mostly fun, goofy pirate movie, and I thought Geena Davis was really good in it, actually. It's too bad they didn't get Michael Douglas. Or even better, from the names mentioned, Leem Neesons!
I’m probably the only person who actually enjoyed this film. Swashbuckling, explosions, pirates and corny dialogue. It was fun if you didn’t over think it. As for Frank Langella, his over the top villain was the best thing about it.
The movie does have a fanbase. There's no denying that there's some issues with the film, but it is not nearly as terrible as history makes it out to be. Considering how many terrible things happened behind the scenes it's a miracle that the film is at least enjoyable to watch. I'd go as far to say that it's better than all of the Pirates of the Carribean Sequels.
@@tastyloaf5487 Really? Because I'm from England, specifically the generically 'pirate' part of it and that impression is way more Australian than anything I've ever heard from a lifetime of living here!
Davis' character is named "Captain Morgan"... yeah, even the script is foreshadowing that heavy amounts of drinking will be needed to go through this one.
Truly, the story of the making of "Cutthroat Island" is far more entertaining than anything that actually showed up on screen. There were something like half a dozen or more screenwriters brought in to try and make the script workable and none of them could make it work.
@@Talisguy Drugs and bankruptcy. The studio knew if they piled a ton of money into it and it bombed the insurance would leave more money in their pockets once proceedings were over.
Meh, to be fair... No. I can't be fair to this one, either. It sucks balls, but I do think there could have been a good story/movie here. I still like watching it now and then, but yeah, it kinda sucks.
My UK VHS copy of Cutthroat Island was so much better than the DVD I later purchased. The improved picture quality in the DVD ironically showed up a lot of the flaws and fake-looking sets. There were many cuts and editing in the UK version too. According to IMDb, 72 seconds were removed from the UK theatrical running time and another 4 shaved off for the VHS. By cutting some of the violence it actually made the fight scenes faster and more intense. And that line "I took your balls" was changed too, so it took me totally by surprise when I first heard it in this very well-made review. Thank you.
This movie was such a huge flop that movies about pirates weren't successful on the silver screen until Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl broke that trend eight years later.
And now they're wanting to make a POTC without Depp. I suspect pirate movies are still dead, people just want Captain Jack Sparrow. We'll see if I'm right or wrong.
@@sydneyslaughter7163 Except the "pirate" accent was created by the very British Robert Newton for 1950's "Treasure Island". We have him to thank for pirates going "Arrrrr matey" and speaking oddly.
My brother and I actually liked this movie when we first saw it... mostly because we loved everything pirate at the time and this had pirates. Looking back at it, I can honestly say that I still like it. I don't love it but I feel it's a decent pirate movie. It's a guilty pleasure to say the least.
For some reason, the accent you put on for this review sounds a lot like Hugh Jackman's normal voice, or at least before you get "Drunk". The Drunk accent slowly becomes Captain Jack Sparrow.
That was funny when you said it failed to make Geena Davis an action star because she did later star in A Long Kiss Goodnight where she was able to PROVE that she can be an action star.
Like Masters of the Universe, Frank Langella is the only thing worth watching in this movie And I have to commend you. In about 20 seconds of the intro you went around practically every regional accent of the British Isles in one sentence ;)Then I see you settled in Australia. G'day mate
Langella... and the soundtracks. Seriously, soundtracks of both these films, by John Debney and Bill Conti respectively, are darn good. My advice? Just buy the albums, close your eyes, and imagine a better movie.
Cinematic Excrement i'm with you on this film. i cant believe the late great roger ebert actually liked this movie ( i think he liked the movie because of the action scenes ). i think gene siskel did the right thing calling him out for liking this movie better than the long kiss goodnight
Holy shit I watched this movie yesterday and loved every single second of it. I don’t understand how they used the worst possible take for every single line in the movie
This movie is very underrated. It has high production value, awesome sets and costuming, great cinematography, and an awesome heroine with flaws unlike certain Mary Sue characters out now. The acting isn’t great, there is suspension of disbelieve with some of the stunts , and certain lines are cringeworthy. Yet the stunts aren’t nearly as cheesy as they are today (cough cough Pirates of the Caribbean) , and the score is ineffably amazing. The score is what made this a truly epic movie. The main theme blasts during the opening credits with the cartography montage. It sets the scene by sending you back in time. Plus the horse racing against the rising tide on the sandbar during sunset is visually stunning and musically bombastic. The film really is an homage to Captain Blood, in many ways. I was 11 when Cutthroat Island came out, and I was very disappointed that it was out of the theaters in a blink of an eye. The timing was off, it was released during Christmas time when it should have been released in the summer (being a pirate movie after-all). It would have likely done better. Muppet Treasure island came out around the same time period, and is an awesome film. The director said he made the movie for 12 year olds, and as a twelve year old (when I eventually saw it on vhs) I loved it.
The kid on the right at about 8:05 is Christopher Masterson. He played the eldest brother on Malcolm in the Middle, and he played a role as the kid Lucy Butler kidnaps in Millenium (A Room With No View, Season 2). I saw the face and recognized it from Millennium. Did some searching, thought I'd share.
There was a 1 minute ad in front of this video, I let it play in entirety for the sake of this accent. It doesn't exist anywhere on earth (though at times it stops for a break in the Australian outback) and that is endlessly more amusing than the film was.
In the chariot chase scene there's a Finnish flag on the background because the director Renny Harlin likes to put references of his home country Finland to his movies. In reality in the year 1668 there was no Finnish flag because Finland got its independence 1917 and the current Finnish flag was adopted 1918.
15:55 actually marooning and killing by gunshot are pretty much the same except if anything marooning is by far the more unpleasant with just being shot the death is pretty much instant whereas for marooning the prisoner is abandoned on a deserted and barren island away from trade routes so no chance of rescue, no water source for drinking, no fruit to eat or animals to kill for food and if possible no trees for shelter or firewood, in other words absolutely no chance of long term survival, all you are given is a couple of bottles of rum and a pistol with a single round of ammunition the choice is to either die slowly of hunger, thirst and exposure while falsely hoping for rescue or to end it quickly with the pistol
29:05 I like how the 2 ships have been firing at each other non stop for several minutes and yet there is not even a scratch on their hull. They are probably made of bullshit.
I know this movie isn't particularly fantastic, but to this day I'm baffled at how much hatred it gets. Many other films at the time, including the later Pirates of the Carribean films, are guilty of the exact same issues people cite with this movie (Underacting, Overacting, weird physics, etc.) I guess Johnny Depp's wacky performance just charmed everyone that much and this film was missing an equivalent? Honestly considering how many insane behind the scenes problems and drama happened in making this movie, it's a miracle that it it's so watchable and has impressive special effects that rival films made 30 years later.
I was 24 yrs old when I saw this at theatres and actually liked it. I was less cynical and was really into fictional pirates growing up. Id say the best pirate movie is Disney's 1950 Treasure Island starring Robert Newton as Long John Silver.
For what it's worth, the American accent didn't come along after the founding of the US. It was the normal accent of English colonists in the 17th-18th centuries, and the standard English accent evolved to its present form afterward. People wrongly assume that what we call an English accent today must have been "original" because…accents only evolve in the colonies? That said, if you can afford $100 million to spend on a movie, you can afford some accent coaching to make sure characters speak consistently.
You drank enough to have killed all but Andre The Giant. Hilarious! Your best work yet in my opinion. Would love to have seen Mensa member Genna having a serious discussion about this movie on say The Actors Studio or Regis and Kathy Lee. There indeed were SO MANY ridiculous death defying moments but, i must agree with you on the "Bad Dog" cannon ball shot. I was waiting for you to fall down at the end and you delivered. Now I wish you would do a second version where you actually begin to REALLY drink straight rum. I predict you would last perhaps twenty minutes before passing out. It would be beyond hilarious.
So much nonsense. Pirate movies were not popular in the 90s, period which was a major reason for the commercial failure. Pirates of the Caribbeans release and its wide acceptance popularized pirate movies. The real irony was, Pirates of the Caribbean, despite its remarkable box office success, was not as epic, exciting or adventurous as Cutthroat Island. I remember watching Pirates of the Caribbean and Cutthroat Island back to back with several friend and we all agreed there was no comparison. Cutthroat Island was way better. The notion that a lack of commercial success is a reflection on the quality of a movie is preposterous and narrow-minded. Furthermore, the Cutthroat Island soundtrack went on to be acknowledged as the finest pirate movie soundtrack ever composed. Some of its tracks can still be found on RU-vid.
It is in Cinematic Excrement moments like this, that I am concerned for smeghead that critic business watching all the bad vapid nonsense will take a toll on your health - physically as mentally.
I love this movie, not despite but because it's totally silly. Everything you point is correct ! And thank you for this vidéo that made me laugh so hard!
I know it’s considered bad internet etiquette to leave comments on old videos, but I had to let you know I was very happy when 35 minutes in, you acknowledged he really is just Discount Cary Elwes. ❤️😂🤣😂❤️
