The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 113: Cutthroat Island (1995)
Added 2024-11-04 23:00:28 +0000 UTCIt's time again for our now-annual Turkey Month, and we're kicking off a November's worth of big budget turkeys with Cutthroat Island, the pirate movie that plundered Carolco of their last remaining doubloons, and sent Geena Davis' career as a swashbuckler off the side of a boat.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 113: Cutthroat Island (1995)
(00:00:18) - Intro.
(00:02:08) - Our first turkey for November: Cutthroat Island!
(00:07:37) - The Renny Harlin factor, and the initial (fairly different) pitch for this movie.
(00:12:06) - THEY KILLED CAROLCO!
(00:18:15) - The cast we got, and the cast we could have had.
(00:23:30) - Listing off some of the myriad curses that befell this production (and some debate about Davis' stunts).
(00:32:16) - Despite all the troubles, they pulled this one off at the box office, right?!? (No.)
(00:38:49) - Addressing any lingering questions before we get into the movie proper.
(00:43:58) - Break!
(00:44:24) - We're back, and here's what the hell is happening in this movie.
(00:54:21) - The introduction of William Shaw.
(00:59:28) - I saved a guy who speaks Latin, what did you ever do?
(01:02:26) - One of the few bright spots: the carriage chase.
(01:04:41) - These puzzles suck.
(01:06:11) - Time to dig up another uncle.
(01:12:43) - Gunshot wound? No problem!
(01:17:45) - An interminable mutiny before we finally get to Cutthroat Island.
(01:25:31) - Oh look, treasure.
(01:29:49) - Let's blow some stuff up for like 30 minutes.
(01:37:11) - We saved the treasure! (...and Shaw!)
(01:40:32) - Final thoughts.
(01:46:04) - Some talk about our film for next week: Waterworld!
(01:51:28) - Outro.
Comments
The thing to me that puts Geena Davis' and Mathew Modine miscast into such sharp scrutiny is how comparatively mindboggling great Keira Knightly and Johhny Depp's casting was in Pirates of the Caribbean.
Zeemod
2024-11-06 03:35:29 +0000 UTCOn a side note, Michael Douglas did Romancing the Store and Jewel of the Nile where he was very much cast as the action hero. I'm not saying they were particularly good movies either. But better than Cutthroat Island!
Stephen Beattie
2024-11-05 07:52:36 +0000 UTCThe score by John Debney is the best pirate score!
Jon Adams
2024-11-04 23:57:31 +0000 UTCI loved this movie so much when it came out, but I was like 8. I watched the shit outta that tape. Maybe I won't revisit. Haha
David (Lumpy Larper) G
2024-11-04 23:07:21 +0000 UTC
