July 9th, 2003, 10:38 AM
Here is a teaser from Dean's review (posted on Xenite.Org -- see link below):
Shiver me, timbers! The pirate movie is back!
Throughout recent history of the silver screen, putting a pirate in a major blockbuster almost meant certain doom at the box office. Hollywood has tried desperately to reinvent or resurrect the genre that made Douglas Fairbanks and Burt Lancaster household names way back when. With so many huge pirate flops like Roman Polanski's 'Pirates', Renny Harlin's 'Cutthroat Island' and even last year's 'Treasure Planet' that the genre itself seems to have a curse.
Read the full review here:
http://www.xenite.org/essays/articles_0000/42.html
Shiver me, timbers! The pirate movie is back!
Throughout recent history of the silver screen, putting a pirate in a major blockbuster almost meant certain doom at the box office. Hollywood has tried desperately to reinvent or resurrect the genre that made Douglas Fairbanks and Burt Lancaster household names way back when. With so many huge pirate flops like Roman Polanski's 'Pirates', Renny Harlin's 'Cutthroat Island' and even last year's 'Treasure Planet' that the genre itself seems to have a curse.
Read the full review here:
http://www.xenite.org/essays/articles_0000/42.html
