113: Cutthroat Island (1995)

The Nextlander Watchcast

It'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.
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(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.