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Warner's Answer to PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN?? CAPTAIN BLOOD...In Space...Really!!
Merrick here...
Michael and Peter Spieri, directors of the promising looking DAYBREAKERS (trailer HERE), are next looking to revisit CAPTAIN BLOOD...with a tweak or two.
Warner Bros. has set Michael and Peter Spierig to direct and John Brownlow to write a new version of “Captain Blood,” the 1935 swashbuckler pirate classic that starred Errol Flynn as a wrongly imprisoned British doctor who escapes to become a pirate in the Caribbean.
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They will set “Captain Blood” in space.
...says Variety HERE. The article goes on to indicate The Powers That Be intend to stay fairly close to the original film's storyline, despite this change in setting.
I remember TREASURE PLANET. Do you?
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They will set “Captain Blood” in space.
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But that also was the first thing I though of.
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Ok, I can see you saying 'It is like Captain Blood, but set in space" but to actually set Captain Blood in space is as dumb as you can fucking get.
Its like saying "instead of having the movie be like Dracula but set in space what if we set Dracul in space?"
Fucking Hollywood, you are dead to me. -
I drink it up
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Why not just do that? There's plenty of sci-fi and anime space pirates out there to adapt. Why try a bastardized Errol Flynn remake?
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...and nor shall I.
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It truly didn't recieve the credit it deserves. True it was geared towards the older crowd versus the prototypical family friendly Diz flicks, but it's cyber punk take on the classic Treasure Island was innovative, entertaining with some of the best hand drawn animation to date.
This movie could only hope to be as good as Treasure Planet was. -
Jul 30, 2009 4:30:05 PM CDT
There will be a time portal caused by a singularity bomb
by anything but tangerines
And Errol Flynn himself will have a scene where he counsels his replacement
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i hope Captain Blood doesn't get "space herpes!"
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Somebody was naughty and recorded the Comic con Avatar footage. http://tinyurl.com/n2x2yp http://tinyurl.com/l5o5ge
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And that is two sea pirates (goes double if they are Somalian).Space pirates on the other hand you usually better... the only ones I can think of are from FireFly... or Han Solo.
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Captain Zep, Ooo-eee-ooo,
Super space detective...
Anyone?
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Disney got beaten to the punch!
It happened to Jason, it happened to Leprechaun, it was going to happen to PIRATES at some point. They were going to end up in space. Their thunder has now been stolen. -
were did you get your name from? It sounds familiar.
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"Its like Moby Dick, but, you know...in space."
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Regardless of Treasure Planet
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like space cowboys or butt pirates, or whatever....I digress...
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I get the Pope thing, but is he fighting Farmers who farm vampires or is it Vampires with green thumbs?
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But, he'll probably turn it into shit.
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This guy needs to be a movie star in cool shit
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Other than that annoying robot character I really enjoyed it.
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Hollywood just keeps shitting them out. So tragic it's funny.
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Pirates in space is not that cool a concept. And it won't be cool when they do Captain Blood in space. Sorry.
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WIN!
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Pirates come across a wrecked space ship, and plunder the 7 seas with the help of this advanced alien technology. That is, until the aliens friends, looking for their own "treasure" from the wrecked spaceship, arrive.
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Never got to finish that , used to hang and crash a lot. But it was in space.
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And feature numerous talking animals.
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I've been waiting on that for years! It must be Mel Brooks' Chinese Democracy or something.
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And the twist? This time, the pirates are singing hamsters!
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I used to love playing that back in the late 80s.
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You mean, other than Spaceballs? No offense to Mel Brooks, but I'd prefer his movies if they were made by a 30 year younger version of himself. Robin Hood: Men In Tights was hugely lame in comparison to Young Frankenstein ("Franken-steen!") . . . or History of the World or Blazing Saddles . . .
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fuck the sci-fi. We need more pirate films too! And speaking of pirate films. What happened to that "Blackbeard" R-rated film Greengrass was supposed to make?
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Jul 30, 2009 5:12:04 PM CDT
kevinwillis... J.I.S. was a trailer in History of the World
by robertbaron
iirc
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But not in space. A Blade Runner version of Captain Blood I could dig. A futuristic dystopian version of Captain Blood, sure. But just "Captain Blood . . . in Space!" Jeeze. Just makes me queezy.
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I love that talkbackers remember that 8 bit game. It was the first thing I thought about when I saw this. Landing was such a bitch, but almost worth it for the purple woman with her tits out.
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Unless they'll make it a space where people long for the past, I don't think it'll be anything like the ones mentioned.
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Twenty-five years ago. But I wouldn't want him to make it now. Sorry.
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Of Jews In Space. Like Rodriguez and Tarantino are doing with Machete from Grindhouse. If he had made it twenty-five years ago. Now . . .
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Except for AVP films. Keep those set on present day earth. That so fucking rocks!!
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Blake's 7 was basically the same storyline, except Blake wasn't a doctor. Still, if done right it could be entertaining at least. At least this isn't more fucking 'news' about Twilight.
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Any relation to the "Spiering" Brothers, directors of Undead?
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It's not like we have enough movies about space pirates, anyway. And remaking movies and putting the story in a different context has occasionally worked well before (Magnificent Seven, etc.). So who knows.
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Jul 30, 2009 5:24:44 PM CDT
Seriously??? Another movie where all the bad guys are white?
by ravenloff
Maybe I'm wrong about this because it does look like a good story. But motherfucker...if we get another subtext bullshit them like Matrix gave us...
The bullshit racial theme might go even further here simply due to the nature of the vampires...sucking the world dry of resources, etc, etc. It's obviously a resource-based story. That in and of itself doesn't make it leftist storytelling, but watching the trailer back through (and I may have missed one) but I sure as hell didn't see any vampires that weren't white. I did, however, see a bit of a rainbow in the human underground.
I hope I'm wrong, because, like I said, this looks like a good piece of sci-fi. PLEASE keep fucking politics out of it. -
Why is AICN so bad at reporting comic con coverage?
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... will make it a better film. Hollywood genius!
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Not perfect, probably thanks to studio interference, but very undeserving of its bad rep. It wasn't just "TREASURE ISLAND In Space" either; it wasn't technically science-fiction, or if anything, then science-fiction by way of the 19th century, with "ether" between the planets instead of actual space and vacuum. If Warner went a route like this, with actual flying ships, and maybe some steampunk, this project would be awesome. I always felt TREASURE PLANET deserved a television series... a movie franchise with a similar feel would be an ok consolation.
If they try to (hard) sci-fi it up, they might, of course, end up with ICE PIRATES (which I saw a year or so ago... mildly entertaining, but more for the trash factor than any actual quality). -
and see it on a good home theater. Prepare to be amazed by what intelligent camera angles and creative (read Abstract Expressionist) lighting can do. The swashbuckling answer to 'Metropolis'. And remember, Errol Flynn was a real swordsman, who didn't need a stunt double.
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Why didn't they just make Treasure Island? Why did half of the aliens have to be furries?
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heh same here.
blood2 had music by jean michell jars ,and it was very surreal but sucked as a game. -
Because it is a forgotten and unpopular box office disaster. Seems right. I'm not sure if most of the posters on this site are trolls or not sometimes.
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"A WHAT?!?!?"
"A Space Herpe!!" -
Check out Burt Lancaster in this outstanding gloriously technicolored pirate adventure...non-stop stunts, acrobatics, fights, tongue-in-cheek gags...young captain-of-the-guards played by Sir Christoper Lee! If WB is hot to put pirates in space, THIS is the source film they ought to draw on.
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Arrrrrgh!
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But I am an avid fan of the works of Michael and Peter "Spieri".
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A captain/pirate in space... so naturally everyone thinks it's gonna be just like "Treasure Planet". Fucking unimaginative wankers, doesn't mean it's going to be ANYTHING like "Treasure Planet", save for setting.
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...up late to see the end and everything...four years old. Very big deal in this four year old's little brain.
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Actually, yeah, I can see this working. Never saw Treasure Planet myself...
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Jul 30, 2009 6:03:26 PM CDT
DKT i was just going to say that. WE NEED BUTT PIRATES.
by mysterious_volvo
i meant to say space pirates of course. of course i did, i meant to say space pirates. space pirates. anyway it will be cool.
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in the 90s. I had it on my Atari 520ST.
So this is another videogame movie. -
However, I agree, that Treasure Planet is vastly underrated. The 2D animation in it is incredible. Besides, most people hate it because it's Disney recycling an old story. You want bad space animation? What was that Titan A.E. movie? *cough* Star Wars ripoff *cough*. I think in the trailer they even used, "I've got a bad feeling about this."
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On an Aircraft Carrier!
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And now they're turning The Ice Pirates into Captain Blood. Jesus, what the hell is wrong with Hollywood?
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on Mars!
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with flying monkeys instead of Aliens!
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how about...Spelljammer? Now that would be cool.
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I would love to see pirates walk the plank in space. Will there be space sharks?
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I can't watch it if it doesn't have Depp.
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Gives a whole new meaning to "swab the poopdeck", eh?
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Good to know I wasn't the only one who enjoyed "Treasure Planet." I thought it was a fun little movie. I don't see why so many people here are balking at the idea of space pirates. I mean, what do you think a movie about Han Solo would be like? A guy running around the galactic underworld with a bunch of cool ships and monsters and hopefully a really good villain. What's not to like?
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$$$$$$$$$$.
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WHALERS ON THE MOON!
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and shouldn't have been, after all those decades in development, but Titan A.E. was just awful, despite being written by Joss Whedon. That it was animated by Don Bluth didn't help.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ONfFBMtYuQ
I also played this game on my Atari 1040ST computer. It's a "WTF" moment if someone wants to make THIS into a movie. -
I admit, this does have the potential to suck greatly, but it could also be f-ing awesome. I'll be in line opening night!
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It'll die in development hell somewhere.
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I get that it was a joke. I was just saying. Okee-dokee, then.
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I DRINK YOUR TANG!!!
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as long as its violent,not no fuckin Pirates of the Bore-a-bean. i'd love to see a space pirate adventure. count me in as long as the script is good and get a visual director a la Jeanout (spelling sorry)or Gilliam. could be fun :)
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Oh my....
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I'd like to see what the Spierig brothers would do with a story like this. They're creative dudes with twisted senses of fantasy, which could work really well in a bigger budget science fiction film.
Personally I think they should keep the name "Captain Blood," but ditch most of the pirate-y trappings. Less pirate stuff, more kickass science fiction.
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Hells yes.
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Disney's Treasure Planet was brilliant in many ways -- and sadly totally missed an audience when it came out. But you know those critics that hated a studio doing a new twist on Stevenson's Pirate opus probably would hate a version of Robin Hood or Hamlet told entirely with animals like foxes or lions. Oh Right, Disney did that too!
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As for an updated (r.e. re-imagining) of the classic Flynn film Capt. Blood -- if they use the basic storyline, of a doctor in a new colony who ends up taking on the mantle of pirate to battle oppression of a regional Govenor with a sci-fi twist . . . it might be fun, but don't call it Capt. Blood.
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Admit it, you'd put down your $10 to see it.
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Rocket Robin Hood. And Hollywood better not make a movie of that crap (though we know they will...)
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Kung Fu Pope = Father McGruber. Rememebr when Peter Jackson did kick ass films?
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Jul 30, 2009 9:35:41 PM CDT
Niggers in Space, shit already done. Homeboys, shit again.
by evilwizardglick
Both are fucking out there.
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Steele said swords would be safer. No explosive decompression like with bullets or beams.
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Fuck just Homeboys in space was done.
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"The plot centered around a Stepin Fechit, and Mantan Moreland like space astronauts, Tyberius "Ty" Walker (Flex) and Morris Clay (Bell), who flew around the universe in a winged car in the 23rd century. The duo's car, which was a cross between a lowrider and an 18 wheeler, was piloted by a talking female computer named Loquatia. The show was intended as a parody of science fiction shows such as Star Trek as well as Red Dwarf."
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I hate space nazis!
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with may too many possibilities for failure.
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I think the directors have some love for "genre" pictures and pirates in space sounds cool. Im down.
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It's 1,000,000,000,006 miles to Earth, we got a half-pack of cigarrettes, there's no light in space and we're wearing sunglasses.
Hit the hyper-drive! -
...that came up with this one?
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AAAARRRRRMAGEDDON!!!!!!
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Wasn't it going to star Brad Pitt? And wasn't there a big name director too? I remember it being announced like a year ago. Did I dream this?
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Jul 30, 2009 11:29:40 PM CDT
comingsoon.net reports ridley scott to direct alien prequel
by stonedwriter88
aint it cool is behind the news i think sometimes they should report this like comingsoon.net ridley scott will direct an alien prequel crazy huh
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this could be very cool as long as the spaceship look like starwars I mean using the dirty gost gray colour. Lots of speed barrel rolls All the cool stuff lucas forgot to put in the new starwars.
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I liked Treasure Planet. There. I said it. It wasn't great, but I'll take it over the Shrek sequels any day.
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Or maybe they're still pretending that JarJar's SpaceTrek is catching a wave.
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No?
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ban that idiot EvilWizardGlick?
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I'm a big fan of Stevenson's novel, but it's not like there aren't plenty of straight adaptations out there to choose from. I really liked the imaginative take on the setting, but general audiences absolutely hate when people mix genres like that.
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First, you have a golden pirate property like Blood, and pirates are riding at the peak of their popularity, so why fuck this up by setting it in space? Two, one of the greatest elements of Captain Blood was the historical context in which it was masterfully set. Again, why change that? Pirates in space is cool, but Sabatini's novels (Blood and others) were so rooted in history they WERE REAL. Setting Blood in space would be like setting Lord of the Rings in space. Do what Lucas did: Take the idea (LOTR, plus Arthur, Camelot, etc.) and make it into Star Wars, not actually LOTR or Camelot. Take the basic idea of Captain Blood (a wronged man who is a reluctant genius and forced to turn pirate and then turn the tables on the government because he's so damn good at it) and set that in space, but not the actual novel itself. Stupid. Just stupid.
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"Yo ho hyperdrive!"
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...Whilt you are wiping your asses with Treasure Planet DVD inserts, remember that the talentless hacks that created Treasure Planet were the key parties responsible for Eisner's ousting of Katzenberg.
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*FBI warning appears on screen*
OOOOOOOOOO I'M SOOOOOO SCARED!!!!!! -
Jul 31, 2009 3:13:11 AM CDT
Treasure Planet was actually quite good
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
That is all.
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Sounds like a piece of really blunt satire; the fact that it is actually a press release is pretty indicative of the state the film industry is in at the moment."Hmm, we still have the rights to this swashbuckling film from the 30's. Let's reimagine it...IN SPACE.Fuck Sake.
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But still...
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How about we talk about this actual movie. The Spierig brothers based on Undead, and from the daybreakers trailer seem to thrive in these 'cool' worlds. Vampires, Zombies and well, now with Pirates IN SPACE I think they can really make this interesting. Sure these aren't the newest genre's and these worlds/scenarios have been done to death (Zombies, Vampires & Pirates etc) but if they can make a character as cool as Morgan in Undead, they can get Sam Neill in a vampire movie like Daybreakers then I totally trust them with a pirate in space. The Spierig Bros seem to know what is cool and how to give us what we want to see...
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Captain Blood which focuses on space pirates is cool.
If there's gonna be swashbuckling fights, it better not be corny...who would seriously think that futuristic weapons gotta be swords anyway? Unless it's gonna be a Star Wars spin-off starring Han Solo, at least light sabers would make sense.
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add it to your NetFlix queue, you won't be dissappointed
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That's all I got...
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I mean, how can they remake Captain Blood??? The one starring Myra Dinglebat and Peter Beardsley was definitive!
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Cody Starbuck. Lotsa action with hooters o'plenty for good measure.
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No one's been able to make a Robin Hood movie that tops Flynn's THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD and this flick sure sounds like it won't hold a candle to Flynn's CAPTAIN BLOOD. I'd love to be proven wrong, but I honestly doubt that I will be.
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Isn't this just a remake of "Flash Fearless VS the Zorg Women"???
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What fucking moron came up with that shit? One of the worse Black comedies since Moeisha. Dumb ass UPN which should have stood for:U Pick a N***er. How racist. Flex might as well been doin a breakdance number with some one eye alien puppeteers (courtesy of Sid and Marty's defunct sets.)
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Make it so.
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However space movies with pirates in them sometimes do work. AND TREASURE PALNET IS NOT GOOD, DON"T WASTE YOURE TIME WITH IT.
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It's about Three Musketeers and they're in space.
And they're TEENs.
I may have to revise this pitch. -
in space.
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Titan A.E. wasn't THAT bad.
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Good Lord were those PIRATES films godawful boring. I'd rather do time than see anyone of those again.
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Now that's a movie!
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captain blood.
that was set in space as well, it was cool -
Jul 31, 2009 3:10:15 PM CDT
Yeah, because Treasure Planet made SO much money...
by nasty in the pasty
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Will it be as good as G.I.Joe: The Rise of Cobra?
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Bwah, ha ha.
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Was from memory, about a guy who had his memories erased who just just travelled in space trying to find different parts of himself. You had to land on planets and speak to aliens and translate code. It was quite intense, but had some arty graphics. I didnt love it, but spent a few hours trying to make sense of it.
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yeah, i loved trying to understand it more than i loved the game itself i think. it was the first game where i saw the capability of games that lead to things like Spore. good times...
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Is the BOSS. Concurred.
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