THE PIRATE MOVIE - Director Ken Annakin Wants Another Shot If It Ever Comes Out (1 Viewer)

[James David Walley]

In honor of International Talk Like A Pirate Day:

A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel in his pants.

"Mr. Pirate," the bartender asks, "do you know you've got a steering wheel in your pants?"

"Arrr!," replies the pirate, "and it's drivin' me nuts!"

Possible on-topic connection: I first heard that joke a year ago, delivered by an actress on the set of my first feature film...soon to be released!

 

[Peter McM]

I wonder if Annikin wants his new edit to be "Arrr"-rated.

(Well--somebody had to say it...) :rolleyes

 

[Bob Graham]

ANd I wonder if they'll be doin' a promotional tie-in with the Pirate's favorite fast food restaurant- Arrr-by's

 

[Peter McM]

Or Long John Silver's, perhaps?

 

[Dave Poehlman]

I think this movie single handedly ruined the pirate genre and is the reason it took 20 years before someone thought to make Pirates of the Caribbean.

I remember it on 80's cable a lot also.

 

[Ernest Rister]

Roman Polanski's Pirates did the genre no favors. However, I thought Nate and Hayes with Tommy Lee Jones was a great "pirate" movie of a sort. To each their own.

I just have a hard time believing the same man responsible for the exceptional Third Man on the Mountain had anything to do with this early 80's crapfest. Ken -- what were you thinking...or drinking?

 

[Jesse Skeen]

The tie-in when this came out was with Baskin-Robbins ice cream- their flavor of the month was Pirate's Gold, and you can see a product placement in the movie with a guy selling ice cream from a cart.
This was after a previous tie-in with Baskin-Robbins for the Village People epic Can't Stop The Music, the flavor of that month was Can't Stop The Nuts.

 

[Greg_S_H]

I didn't know that was a tie-in, but I loved that flavor.

 

[Philip Verdieck]

Not so. There was also Cutthroat Island with Mathew Modine and Geena Davis

 

[Mark Zimmer]

Which killed it again.

 

[Tory]

I recently imported the UK fullscreen version. I guess I need to make comparisons for editing.

 

[Chuck Mayer]

I just watched the end of this on some satellite channel this afternoon. How ironic

And promptly told my wife I would purchase any DVD, sight unseen. It's terrible, but in a cheesy way.

Bought
Chuck

 

[Keith Paynter]

Nate And Hayes!!?? Holy crap, I forgot about that one! Give us Yellowbeard, too! (Hey MGM - or Sony, or whoever...)

 

[Scott Weinberg]

Hey cool! I remember seeing this theatrically. My sister and I were laughing AT it...and we were clueless little kids!

And yes, I'll be buying this DVD. Absolutely.

 

[BrianS]

Cool, I was just about to copy my full-frame vhs tape to dvd b/c I had given up hope on this one being released. I am also a fan of this film from HBO's numerous showings of this as a kid in the early 80's. (Count Robin Williams' Popeye in there as well.)

Beleive it or not...I even have the 2 LP soundtrack to this flick. Yes, you heard right....they did a 2 record set for this stinker. But I love every minute of it.

 

[Peter McM]

2 LP? Doesn't surprise me. The chorus of "Happy Ending" seems to go on forever.

Caught this on FMC this week; by the time the credits were only half rolled, my wife says, "Just give me an ending, already!"

 

[Thomas D]

Oh yeah, I've got the dual LP at home, too. Now if I only had a turntable...

 

[Dave Poehlman]

Touche'!

 

[Peter McM]

Update: The Digital Bits reports The Pirate Movie on the way "in mid-2005".

 

[Haden]

Yeah, Anchor Bay has it listed for Summer 2005 on their site.