Nathanial: Tell me about the sea. What does it mean to you?
Captain Graybar: Basically, money. I come from six generations of seamen all with the same goal in life: catch fish, sell 'em, get drunk, and get laid.
Nathanial: I don't think Aristotle could have said it better.
I suspect there are two types of people in this world. Ones who recognize Cabin Boy as a terrible movie with no redeeming qualities and those who hear quotes like the above and thus find the movie great. I admit I laughed my ass off when I heard that line and I laugh my ass off every time I watch this movie. Sure the plots nonsensical and the actings dreadful but the one liners make me laugh and smile.
I'm now apparently going to attempt to convey the plot. Nathanial (Chris Eliot) plays a stuck up rich kid who upon graduating from boarding school is off to his life of being pampered, only to get on the wrong boat. The boat filled with wacky misfits soon finds itself sailing into Hell's Bucket the most crazy and dangerous part of the sea. Yeah it barely makes sense to me and I actually enjoy the movie.
Perhaps the greatest testament to this film (or perhaps the saddest) is that the one time I successfully committed a screenplay idea to paper (with the aid of my friend Daryl) I had in mind Cabin Boy every time I was writing. Which probably explains why that script is pretty nonsensical.
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This is a stupid movie in the most brilliant way. Most comedic filmmakers make stupid movies by mistake, and it's a rare treat to find a film that is stupid by design. What is so brilliant about this movie is that it's not low-brow or crude, just completely off-the-wall and inane. Cabin Boy is like the live-action version of an animated Adult Swim show.
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