Quote: "Not to be mean, but can someone explain the appeal of a "fantasy" pirate movie? If you can just write magic into a movie, what is entertaining about it? I guess I just don't "get it", and would much rather watch a historical movie about Viking"
Not Pathfinder, obviously.
For a 'good' Pirate film, I always thought Hook to be great, at least it's one of my favourite films from my childhood. If not, then of course to each his own.
For the 'appeal' of magic in a film, is perhaps similar to magic in a book, it's an escapism into some kind of fantasy world, I mean 'magic' probably applies to the imagination, whilst not obeying too many physical laws or our understanding of the world. For stuff like Hook and Peter Pan, there's the appeal for entering another world through a sense of adventure. Some of it can be wishful thinking, like "wouldn't it be cool if you could fly?" Stuff like the Kraken come from mythology, so obviously there's appeal in the magic of old stories and tall tales of greater and scarier things, perhaps we find the same appeal as the audience of those listening to old storytellers, whose stories were developed into literature by those like Homer and Ovid and inspired other stories that we continually see today. Magic can also be metaphorical too or represent some other meaning or work to convey a plot device. At least that's my short analysis of it. As for the pirates, I don't really know, people like to act crazy? Perhaps its the adventurous rouge image of pirating? We dressed as pirates and Vikings to see a Viking metal band supported by a Pirate metal band, so there's something theatrical about them.
Also, I did like the Pirates of the Carribean movies, (if that makes Omega feel better about his thread) but I'm not excited about a 4th, because I think it would be milking the idea too much, or at least in my opinion.
