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**Rocketeer** · 07-08-2009, 15:26

Here's a 'classic' for all you eye-patch wearing geeks.. " Cutthroat Island"
star vehicle for Geena Davis!! directed by her then-squeeze, Renny Harlin, [ think it was after she did Earth Girls Are Easy with then-hubby Jeff Goldblum ] and filmed off Malta and Thailand..

One of Hollywood's great flops went way over budget and bankrupted Carolco Films [ of Total Recall and Basic Instinct fame ]

Someone should have suspected there might have been a problem when they couldn't cast the male lead: Tom Cruise, Liam Neeson, Michael Douglas and even Keanu Reeves, FFS, turned it down..fell to Matthew Modine and we all know where his career is... bloated Canuck second banana, Maury Chaykin stepped in to fill Oliver Reed's seven league boots when the great Oliver turned up drunk for filming [ what else was new? ]..

still, I enjoyed it.. Go figure...

**Rocketeer** · 07-08-2009, 15:32

Originally Posted by OldSnowy

A special one for Actin PM, Lord Fondlebum of Boys

you must be a closet fan of S. Clay Wilson of the old Zap Comix:
Captain Pissgums and His Pervert Pirates

ticked every box on the offensive chart with barely a panel that could be reproduced in a family book... [ oh those crazy '60's.. ]

**Alec_Lomas** · 07-08-2009, 15:44

This far..... and not a mention of 'Captain Pugwash'. I'm ashamed to be British, Geena fcuking Davis my ass

**Alec_Lomas** · 07-08-2009, 15:49

Naval - 'John Paul Jones' (1959) with Robert Stack and directed by Mia Farrow's dad, John

**maguire** · 07-08-2009, 16:29

are they going to make another master and commander film or what? I didnt think it was going to be my cup of tea initially, but I thought it was superb - seeing it on the big screen was amazing, I thought it really captured the atmosphere of what it must have been like on those ships. the blu ray is worth a look too.