Cutthroat Island, 1995

After watching Geena Davis in "The Long Kiss Goodnight"(1996), I was so impressed with her performance and charismatic personality, that I have begun to like her since then.

I was surprised however, to find out that the movie "Cutthroat Island", done prior to "The Long Kiss Goodnight" was considered as a "flop".

Of course, I had watched it before ("glimpsed through" perhaps was a better word!), to me, it was OK (you know the fancy stuff for kids: pirates finding treasures, pirates fighting with pirates, etc), but at the time, I had not noticed much about Geena Davis, and had considered that movie was for kids more than for adults.

Accidentally seeing the DVD of this movie a few days ago, with the name of Geena Davis very clearly on the cover, I happily grabbed it.

Watching it this time, I thought, "the movie was great, beautifully done, great cast too, but why didn't it become a success at the time?"

Maybe because the story line was so ordinary, which made viewers sort of "underestimated" the movie a bit?

Or was it because people tend not to notice this sort of movies, too fanciful? (where a beautiful and wild young girl replaced her father as captain of his pirate ship, aimed to search for treasures on his behalf, and at the same time, fighting back the bad, greedy and ruthless uncle who killed her father).

The locations where the filming was done, were so beautiful with lushful islands, rocky cliffs, vast oceans, wild waves/storms, mysterious caves, etc... The fights, the chases, etc, everything, showed that lots of efforts were put into making this movie.

Geena Davis was truly magnificent in this movie just as she did in "The Long Kiss Goodnight".