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Apr 9, 2024 · ‘Cutthroat Island,’ One Of The Biggest Flops Ever, Deserves To Be Rediscovered 25 Years Later - Daily Mail Online. April 9, 2024. 01/96. MATHEW MODINE AND GEENA DAVIS STAR IN THE NEW MGM RELEASE “CUTTHROAT ISLAND.”
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Geena Davis has been a reliably superb screen presence throughout her storied career, and the later Renny Harlin collaboration The Long Kiss Goodnight proved that the actor had serious chops as an action movie leading lady (in fact, Davis’ tough-as-nails performance was one of few bright spots singled out by critics in that later dud, alongside Sha...
While Pirates of the Caribbean wasn’t an out-and-out horror movie, every installment in the series knew that pirate movies needed a little help from other genres to be engaging. Much like fellow famous "pirate" movie, The Princess Bride mixed fantasy, fairy tale, and romance tropes to make its satirical story more involving, The Curse of the Black ...
Of course, no discussion of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise can take place without considering the secret weapon of the series. Despite the initial objections of Disney executives, who fretted over the actor’s decision to play the character as a camp charlatan, Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow has come to define the Pirates of the Caribbean franch...
As flawed as Cutthroat Island is, and as solid as The Curse of the Black Pearl is, part of the difference between the two movies simply comes down to timing. Cutthroat Island was released shortly after The Three Musketeers had pushed audience interest in pseudo-historical action blockbusters to its limit, whereas the lack of pirate movies in the wa...
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Apr 7, 2011 · The box office failure of Cutthroat Island put Hollywood off pirate-based movies for years. Here’s Ti’s look back at an oft-maligned film…. In a few months, Disney will release the fourth ...
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May 5, 2020 · Twenty-five years on, why was Cutthroat Island such an epic disaster? Alexander Larman 5 May 2020 • 11:19am. Geena Davis and Matthew Modine in Cutthroat Island Credit: Getty. In the...
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Cutthroat Island is a 1995 adventure swashbuckler film directed by Renny Harlin and written by Robert King and Marc Norman from a story by Michael Frost Beckner, James Gorman, Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon. It stars Geena Davis, Matthew Modine and Frank Langella. [5] It is a co-production among the United States, France, Germany and Italy.
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Nov 23, 2023 · Cutthroat Island was a flop. There's just no getting around it. But is it time to reappraise it? What was the story behind its creation and eventual failure? Should we care? Well, thankfully, this release attempts to answer those questions with a 4K restoration of the film and a raft of new and archival extras.
After the epic battle between Pops and Anti-Pops, Mordecai, Rigby, and the rest of the park continued to live their lives. Now, 25 years later, Mordecai and Rigby have a lot to learn about how things never stay the same...
