Just posed the "cast Captain Blood" problem to the DH. His opinion? "There's no Olivia de Havilland, so I'm not going to see it." (pause) "Hugh Jackman. Or Viggo Mortensen. Someone who could play the intelligent and abused side of Peter Blood as well as the action."
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Viggo is (was?) going to be playing Capt. Alariste.
Is. .. or already did. (It's out on dvd.)
I seem to recall the Walter Matthau-starring movie, simply called, Pirates, was pretty good but I last saw it 20 years ago, so I could be wrong.
eta: directed by Polanski
I saw RoleModels the other day. Highly enjoyable. It does have a feel-good ending, but it was quirky enough to avoid mawkishness.
Emmett and I enjoyed Role Models too. Pretty formulaic but good hearted and funny.
I watched Charley Varrick today. I can't help but miss a world where you could make movies where gorgeous women would fall into bed with Walter Matthau.
But more than that, I miss a world where movies actually trusted you to figure things out and remember what happened an hour earlier.
Joe Don Baker is pretty awesome, too.
I would gladly watch a Walter Matthau marathon starting with Charley Varrick, A New Leaf and Bad News Bears.
huh. Two friends just met up with another after seeing Australia.
Friend 1- How was it?
Friend 2- Oh it was so awful.
Friend 3- Really bad.
I wish I could have stopped them and asked for specifics. I didn't know people were hating it. Maybe they were hoping for big musical numbers.
slate.com has a spoiler special podcast about "Australia." They too didn't like it.