This is awful
John Malkowitch has just delivered turky style acting!
Is that supposed to be an English accent?
Wow is my face red...
Who cares what color your face is? This show is a hoot, and I hope it's a hit.
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OP..your face should be red with embarrassment because you don't know anything.This show is NOT awful and J.M is really good in it.
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Actually, the show really is awful and that accent is definitely BAD!
i felt embarrassed for Malkovich while watching this. what a horrible show, though i'm sure he got a huge paycheck. his terrible English accent makes it sound like he gargling cocks in his mouth while speaking.
also, poor Julian Sands. he needs to make some more Warlock sequels.
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Blackbeard (Edward Teach) was from Bristol...most people commenting on his accent probably haven't heard a Bristolian accent. Of course, John Malkovich sounds nothing like a Bristolian, but I'm just saying. The worst crime is that 'Blackbeard' in this show has a tiny white goatie. Blackbeard had a massive black beard...it's where his name came from. He also had long hair, and died at the age of 38. This show is tripe.
shareThis is explained in the first few minutes of the show. Julian Sands' character explains that he thought he had killed Blackbeard but has learned that he is still alive, and sends Lowe to find him and kill him. That's why he's older, and has no black beard nor black hair. This story begins later, after Blackbeard's real life story.
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This show is a blast, I hope it lasts 10 more seasons.
shareShow is bad Fangurl detected.
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Have you ever heard of opinions? If you enjoyed this show good for you, I didn't like it but I'm not going to tell you you're wrong.
shareMalkovitch is so painfully bad in this role. I could barely understand him or hear him half the time, too.
shareCould not agree more. Terrible acting, plot and production, can't see it lasting more than one short season, at best.
shareYes cancellation is on the way for sure.
shareYep. Mindbogglingly awful. I was sitting there wondering if he actually read the script -- or maybe the script was butchered? There must be a logical explanation other than *he wanted to play a pirate* or *he needed the money*. Makes me kind of mad considering all the awesome pirate ideas that must be floating around out there. Mustn't there be?
shareI was disappointed... The writers owe us an apology.
shareI couldn't get past all the gore of the first few minutes. Shouldn't Blackbeard have a black beard? I guess he's old so it's gone gray, but I never would have pegged him as Blackbeard. The ships looked a bit too shiny and new...in other words, they looked fake. I don't know if I will try to watch the rest of the episode or not. Maybe it gets better...
shareBlackbeard died at age 38.
shareSo he shouldn't look this old, then. Premature gray? :-) They have an actor that's over 60 playing him? No wonder this show seems fake.
shareI just saw the post where it was said that he wasn't really dead and someone was looking for him when he got older. I didn't watch that far.
shareI just saw the post where it was said that he wasn't really dead and someone was looking for him when he got older.
I just saw the post where it was said that he wasn't really dead and someone was looking for him when he got older, too.
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I quit watching too. It was not explained early on enough that this series actually starts years and years after Blackbeard's reported death at 38..... I now am told the series is a 'what if' he had not really died and surfaced much later and this other faction wanted him 'really dead'..... So they send a hit man... If this premise had been more apparent the script would undoubtedly made much more sense and I might not have dropped out. I have no problem with the accents since as someone mentioned...... who knows what other accents or island dialects might have influenced him after all those years.
share..And the fact that he was obviously in his sixties and hiding on an island didn't clue you in to anything?
shareI actually missed the opening so I had no idea what transpired earlier.
I actually wasn't familiar enough with the historical record of Blackbeard's life to balk at the age discrepancy but I went into it with the assumption that it wasn't meant to be historically accurate which is always a safe assumption with any historical fiction. Obviously though, I recognized that the Blackbeard depicted here didn't fit the description of the title and I assumed that his age, and the fact that he was hiding out on a secret island, somehow accounted for the discrepancy. I had to read the comments on IMDB to discover that the real Blackbeard died much younger. There were several problems with the storyline but accents and historical accuracy in a historical fiction are not what I generally require to enjoy a good piece of entertainment. You can hardly expect historical accuracy when you watch the Discovery channel, the History channel or read a book, I just don't get why people expect it in an obvious piece of fiction. I thought the characters and the acting was pretty entertaining which is what I generally expect out of a piece of fiction.
shareMinor point, the ships should look in reasonably decent condition.
Keeping it tip-top was important for a few reasons, namely that it gave the crew something to keep them busy and it kept the ship in good working order, or ship-shape.
Yes, first episode was very bad.
shareBy your standards, but 8 other billion people on the planet might disagree with you, or not. I thought the show is a hoot, what the other chap said. The writing is better then most other TV show's made today, J.M is a lovable eccentric character. What's not to like, I think the show will progress far.
shareThis was like his Eragon performance, I think he's just bad a sitting on throne like chairs!
This show is sadly hilarious it's so bad, I've just played assassins creed black flag so I could not wait for this show to be aired, I can't tell you how disappointed I was. Desperate for a master and commander like tv show, could be so dark and beautiful, unlike this drivel.
Exactly. I was hoping for at least a pastiche of history. This was a pastiche of bad tv shows. I was half expecting something between Hornblower and Treasure island. Instead got somewhere between Xena warrior princess, and a hard place. At least the characters in Xena enjoyed the cheesy fondue plots. In this you can almost hear their souls leaving their bodies as they struggle to push out those inhumanly long expositional sentences. I actually heard them on the edge of breathlessness at certain points.
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