In my opinion a perfect movie. I watched it as a young adult, watched it with my kids, watched it with my kids and their kids. My wife and I frequently use quotes from it.
Just the other day at the office an attorney said something & it made me think of the inconceivable guy saying "so I clearly can't drink from the cup in front of ME!" I quoted that line & another guy walking by started cracking up. Which speaks VOLUMES of how inconceivably popular this awesome movie is!
It's still my favorite movie of all time! My daughter and I still di scenes from it. I wore out the VHS tape. Now my grandkids do lines from it. Absolutely priceless!🥰🥰🥰
In my work place, we had contractors creating software for us and the draft user manual t contained references to and quotes from The Princess Bride. No one in my group realised. I marked up the draft user manual with quotes in response to the contractor's quotes. The contractors loved it. I was the first person who got the references - apparently they did this with every company they worked for and no one else noticed.
Everyone brought their A game to this movie! Inigo will always be my fave though. " Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!"
Hardcore King. He has had a monster voice on Broadway. I read that in one of his shows, a critic said that he sang, "with a fierce energy", which is a nice contrast to his low-key dramatic personae. I wonder how he would be as a charasmatic villain, e.g., in dramatic comedies. such as, Migolito Lovelace in the original production or the recent movie, "The Wild Wild West," or fantasies such as, "Jonah Hex," or "Star Wars." I don't know how casting him as the psychologist (the Bruce Willis role) in, "The Sixth Sense," would change the character, but we would see two masterful interpretations of the role. He did another lead character in very nice TV show, centered around a girl who died suddenly, and became a Grim Reaper; that may have been its title. Maybe he resigns whenever the new challenge wears off. I surely do wish he would stop doing that. By the time I hear that he is doing something new, I've missed it. Maybe I could write his agent. Or maybe I could act more directly, and just put a tail on him.
2021: I tried showing it to two young adult members of my extended family. Yep. They were offended ideologically by a lot of it, felt it should not be shown, refused to watch it past about halfway through. Humor is dead. "Toxic masculinity, racism, sexism, idealizing the family unit, body shaming, intolerance..." I just said "as you wish" and walked away from their critique.
@@lancer525 Oh I remember it clearly because it was actually a big deal and I got in trouble for trying to talk to them rationally about it. I got to deal with the panicky breathing, hands flapping, wide-eyed "u r doin me a violens" BS and of course my wife, seeing "younger people in distress", sided with them. a) Racist. All the players are white. b) Sexist. Putting Buttercup in the role of a woman who needs the violence of men to make her life function correctly. c) homophobic: not one LGBTQ representation in the entire film. I don't remember if they came up with anything else, I think we didn't get very far because they were doing a lot of REEEEE REEEEE REEEEE so it was hard to talk.
yeah it's been almost another 10 years, where our cast at they best fuckin make it through this pandemic else I'm bout to go kick some ass and drag some souls back.
Cary Wright. "This photo shoot was such a corny, ill-conceived idea..." The above seems to have been written by a person whose taste has not yet matured sufficiently to permit appreciation of a masterfully done story, written for children, to be throughout their lives. The book is still in print. I think the flick could be re-released in IMAX, and do well - maybe very well. This movie and the book have been acknowleged by acclaimation to be classics, so I don't think you should put too much faith in your critique. It might lead you into Delusions of Significance.
Walter Sock. I completely agree with your point about Cary Elwes's flawless looks. "Flawless" is not a frequently-used term when speaking of men's looks - at least not in mixed company. But within a second of first seeing his entire face, I was stunned. A second or so later, I reallized that I, a straight male, had just seen the first man that I could, without reservation, call truly beautiful man, and undeniably masculine. And I thought of that by myself, without prompting. I then considered taking out a contract on him, secondary to just a tiny dab of the greenest possible jealousy. My polarity being what it is, Robin Wright won the impact contest, no contest. Womanchild personified. But I have to agree that, if I were bi or gay, he would have his hands full. Of course, they were doubtless full as early in his life as the girls stalking him could arrange. And God, can he and Robin Wright act!
