As you wish.

boomerang · Posts: 12628 Location: CHS

"The Princess Bride" is the only movie that stands up to repeated viewings. It is one of the very few movies I can even stand to rewatch.

And I went to a fancy-pants art school and I've watched a lot of fancy-pants movies, including all those famous foreign things that everyone assumes are better than anything that could come from America. Hey! I even had fancy-pants film-making teachers.

Snobbery be damned, romance be damned: I say TPB is the best movie ever. (And I'm not even a romanticy type.)

Discuss.

P.S. The book is even better!

2PacksAday · Posts: 1422 Location: Missouri

I voted in agreement with you, but I don't think it's the only movie that can be multi-viewed.

One of my favorite parts is during the torture scene....Christopher Guest delivers his lines so flat....IMDB probably has the quote....yep...

"What did this do to you? Tell me. And remember, this is for posterity so be honest. How do you feel?"

lezzles · Posts: 4730 Location: Way Down Under in New South Wales

From IMDB -
Count Rugen: [Inigo stands up after getting stabbed by a knife thrown by
Count Rugen] Good heavens. Are you still trying to win?

[Inigo falls back against the wall]

Count Rugen: You've got an overdeveloped sense of vengeance. It's going to get you into trouble someday

[Rugen draws his sword and lunges at Inigo who then forces the blade to his left shoulder. Again Rugen lunges at Inigo and the blade is deflected to Inigo's right arm]

Inigo Montoya: [Rugen swings his sword but Inigo blocks it and then begins advancing] Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father prepare to die.

[Inigo falls on a table. Rugen attacks and Inigo blocks four times before he continues to advance on Rugen]

Inigo Montoya: Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father prepare to die.

[Now Rugen attacks five times and Inigo blocks every single one]

Inigo Montoya: [Louder] Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father prepare to die.

Count Rugen: Stop saying that!

[Rugen attacks and Inigo blocks it and then stabs Rugen in the shoulder. Then Rugen swings his sword. Inigo ducks and stabs Rugen in the other shoulder. Then he advances quickly and they fight]

Inigo Montoya: Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father prepare to die!

Count Rugen: [Rugen gets his sword knocked away and Inigo slices his cheek] No!

Inigo Montoya: Offer me money

Count Rugen: Yes

Inigo Montoya: Power too promise that!

[he slices Rugen's other cheek]

Count Rugen: All that I have and more. Please.

Inigo Montoya: Offer me everything I ask for.

Count Rugen: Anything you want.

[Rugen attacks but Inigo grabs his arm and stabs Rugen in the stomach]

Inigo Montoya: I want my father back you son of a bitch.

[Inigo plunches the sword into Rugen's gut and he falls down dead]

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Brilliant!

Diane · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:13 am Post: 3190871 -

Thanks, lezzles, you convinced me.

Netflix, here I come.

Rockhead · Posts: 5649 Location: looking over into the abyss

Agreed, followed closely by the Holy Grail

RH

Francis · Posts: 15616 Location: Paris, France

Never heard of TPB, I have to check that out. Sounds promising..

sozobe · Posts: 43544

Totally.

(I knew what this was gonna be about just from the title...)

I'd venture to say that it's especially beloved by parents, since it's one of the VERY few movies that can be pretty much equally enjoyed by kids and parents. There are other movies that have overlap; sozlet thinks it's fabulous, I think it's pretty good, or vice versa. This is the only one I can think of that we both consider a masterpiece. (Sozlet's called it "The... BEST... movie... EVER!!!" many a time.)

Setanta · Posts: 45238 Location: On a rocket to the fourth dimension

This thread is inconceivable . . .

ossobuco · Posts: 46183 Location: Enchanted Land

I suppose I should try it again. It is some friends' favorite movie. They showed the video one evening. I went and did the dishes, to give you a clue how I couldn't stand it. Maybe I could just read the script...

boomerang · Posts: 12628 Location: CHS

Wuuuv. Twu wuuuv.

It certainly one of the more quotable movies ever made! We use lines from it around the house all the time.

I really love the unintelligible clergyman. (I don't think he was quite so nutty in the book but I could be mistaken.) I mean really, what kind of person would choose any form of public speaking as a career? I don't know how any of the actors kept a straight face during that scene.

I think my favorite part is the scene where Vizinni thinks he's out-thinking Roberts about which cup the poison is in with all that sputtering surety:

"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line."

I never thought of it as a kid's movie and was absolutely delighted when Mo took a liking to it.