Silver Screen Musings: Treasure chest of films

Hollywood has long held audiences captive with pirate movies By Adrian A Febles • afebles@news-press.com • October 8, 2008 'Tis pirate movies, we be talking about you scurvy scallywags. Aargh! Avast, ye Freebusters, yer old captain will regale ye with a picaroon or two. Sorry, I got carried away. I will dispense with the ubiquitous pirate jargon and cliches. This weekend, the Fort Myers Beach Chamber of Commerce presents its annual Pirate Festival. In order to get you in a pirate mood, let's look at the best - and worst - pirate movies to come out of mainstream Hollywood. We will not look at the many Italian, French, Mexican and Portuguese pirate movies of 50 years ago. If we did, this column would be 10 pages long. First of all, what constitutes a pirate movie? Does it have to be set in the past? Must it have dirty,... [read full story]