and fred savage too
― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:32 (twenty years ago) link
...anybody want a peanut?"
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:34 (twenty years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:34 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Maria (Maria), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:54 (twenty years ago) link
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Friday, 13 June 2003 05:34 (twenty years ago) link
* note: "shit" may be hyperbolic.
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 13 June 2003 05:42 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 13 June 2003 05:44 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 13 June 2003 05:47 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 13 June 2003 05:51 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 13 June 2003 05:52 (twenty years ago) link
The adaptation of Secret Garden was okay though. Beautiful in spots. Once again, fairly bad child actors though. Also, they COMPLETELY ruined the bit with the key and the importance of the robin. I was very very very angry with this film when I was young.
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 13 June 2003 05:56 (twenty years ago) link
although often i find that kids noticing the discrepancies b/t books and movie adaptations thereof (as in: harry potter--to pick an example with mucho contemporary currency) is actually the first awakenings of critical consciousness. it's both exciting and a bit depressing to observe.
P.S. I am such a fairtytale rockist.
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 13 June 2003 06:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 13 June 2003 06:06 (twenty years ago) link
I like The Princess Bride film about 10% as much as I like the book, but I like the book a WHOLE lot, so...
I think the bit with Vizzini and Westley and the poison is fabulously witty. In fact Wallace Shawn is just hilarious, in a classically hammy way. And the film career of Carey Elwes may be entirely undistinguished, but ROWR (it's the mask and the boots you know).
Also, hello, PETER COOK is in it!
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 13 June 2003 07:20 (twenty years ago) link
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― Matt (Matt), Friday, 13 June 2003 09:29 (twenty years ago) link
― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 13 June 2003 09:54 (twenty years ago) link
― NA. (Nick A.), Friday, 13 June 2003 11:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 13 June 2003 11:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:49 (twenty years ago) link
And the dialogue sizzles: "Is this a kissing story?";"What is your name? I must know?" "Get used to disappointment." "What if you don't come back?" "This is true love. You think this happens every day?"'; "Inconceivable!" "You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."; "I'm going to go and kill myself as soon as i get to my room." "How lovely. See you in the morning."
Y'all start being nicer about it, or I'm going to have to get cross. And you wouldn't like me when I'm cross.
And you wouldn't like me when I'm cross.
― Jamie Conway (Jamie Conway), Sunday, 15 June 2003 12:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Chip Morningstar (bob), Sunday, 15 June 2003 21:16 (twenty years ago) link
I like the names for things that only feature briefly, like the holocaust cloak.
― isadora (isadora), Sunday, 15 June 2003 22:37 (twenty years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Monday, 16 June 2003 02:21 (twenty years ago) link
On another note: Robin Wright! Aaaah!
― Jamie Conway (Jamie Conway), Monday, 16 June 2003 05:16 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 16 June 2003 05:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Monday, 16 June 2003 12:33 (twenty years ago) link
I am going to name my next (male) dog "The Dread Pirate Robert" - and Ingio Montoya is one of my all-time favorite names - and he had an excellent tuckus, too.
What were those Wallace Shawn lines about "Never get involved in a land war in Asia...?"
And Cary Elwes is a perfect example of someone that's really easy to fantasize about - sexy and witty and funny and looks good in tights - what more could one ask for? (Yeah, I liked "Men in Tights," too, but not as much.)
Damn - now I know what I'll pop into the DVD player to fall asleep by. Thanks for raising the topic *grin *
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 04:45 (twenty years ago) link
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 04:49 (twenty years ago) link
I was reading the book last week, and I came across this line, and thought "ooh, more whimsical humour". Then I remembered that it was published in 1973.
― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 09:46 (twenty years ago) link
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 16:20 (twenty years ago) link
"I've hired you to help me start a war. It's a prestigious line of work, with a long and glorious tradition."
"Have you ever heard of Plato? Aristotle? Socrates? Morons."
"Been specializing in groups, fighting gangs for local charities, that kind of thing."
"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
"I'll explain, and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog-faced buffoon."
― Marmot 4-Tay: I'll sip from his well without hesitation. (marmotwolof), Saturday, 29 July 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roz (Roz), Saturday, 29 July 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot 4-Tay: I'll sip from his well without hesitation. (marmotwolof), Saturday, 29 July 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Saturday, 29 July 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot 4-Tay: I'll sip from his well without hesitation. (marmotwolof), Saturday, 29 July 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Saturday, 29 July 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Hott.
"We'll never survive!""Nonsense! You're only saying that because no one ever has."
― Marmot 4-Tay: I'll sip from his well without hesitation. (marmotwolof), Saturday, 29 July 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Of course, I first saw it with a guy I was pretty well in love with. I don't think I quite realized that we both were digging on Cary Elwes, though.
― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 29 July 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Saturday, 29 July 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Hahahah
I think it's one of those films for me that, having seen it once, I'll never need or even really want to see again, but I'm glad I saw it that one time and still remember just about every line from it one way or another. (See also Office Space.) I do still have the book, I think...*checks shelf*...yes indeed, as well as The Silent Gondoliers.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 29 July 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Saturday, 29 July 2006 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot 4-Tay: I'll sip from his well without hesitation. (marmotwolof), Saturday, 29 July 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link
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― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 29 July 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Saturday, 29 July 2006 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Sadly, although I do love The Princess Bride, I blame it for Shrek, which is shit.-- accentmonkey (tris...), July 29th, 2006. (accentmonkey) (later)
completely OTM.
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 29 July 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:24 (seventeen years ago) link
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― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link
lol @ the video game at the beginning of this movie.
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 December 2009 06:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i'd rather watch a real fairy tale movie than this lily-livered piece of shit.*
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, June 13, 2003 1:42 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
love amateurist being all gangsta about real fairy tale movies
― donde está mia farrow, fa la la la la, la la la la (s1ocki), Monday, 14 December 2009 07:09 (fourteen years ago) link
god how old was carey elwes in this thing, 12?
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 December 2009 07:25 (fourteen years ago) link
do you have to be young when you see this to appreciate it?
on now and i don't think i get it
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
big w/ mormons.
― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Saturday, July 29, 2006 11:07 AM (4 years ago)
This is so OTM! This movie and (surprisingly, imo) Monty Python & the Holy Grail all quoted endlessly in LDS seminaries all over America.
― great & spacious building (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Man fauxhemian is all over the Mormon jokes on this thread. Do they still post here? wesley/moroni is killing me. Killing! I'm easily pleased, you see.
― great & spacious building (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 03:07 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2011/10/12/the-princess-bride_900.jpg
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/10/07/princess-bride-reunion/
― DavidM, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
look how gangster mandy patinkin is. thats a homeboy right there
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
so Fred Savage is what, like 30 now?
when I was a kid "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" was shown on CC all the time, didn't realize until I actually saw the Princess Bride what a rip-off it is
really one of the few movies to be really funny and smart and touching without being vulgar, appeals to comic book geeks as well as kids and people like my Mom, I dunno how many movies like that exist
― frogbs, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
Fred has to be into his thirties, I was surprised at what a good director he's turned into -- he directed a lot of the episodes of Party Down, and quite a few from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
― bouquet beatdown (Nicole), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
O_O
Fred Savage is 35
― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
35 and too busy to turn up to the reunion photo shoot.
― DavidM, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
he was too busy talking about being in The Princess Bride on Happy Endings to show up for the shoot
― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
I thought Fred Savage was like 90 or something
― crüt, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://groovinbng.tumblr.com/post/45268897927/pixiepaperdollcartoon-loserwithoutcause
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
should crosspost this to ANGRY PATINKIN
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
MY NAME IS INIGO MONTOYAI GOT A BIG BONERPREPARE TO SIGH
― s1ocki (slutsky)
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view3/1366708/slow-clap-o.gif
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
Princess Bride successfully maintains a tone of extremely light handed satire with the barest pinch of self-mockery. If you respond to that tone, then you will find it a very entertaining movie. If not, you'll be repulsed by each and every minute of it, because that tone is the whole of the movie.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
caught this last night for the nth time and i found it much better all round than i remember, with the exception of wallace shawn who is as awful in the role as ever
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 April 2019 12:54 (five years ago) link
with the exception of wallace shawn who is as awful in the role as ever
INCONCEIVABLE!
― Roz, Sunday, 14 April 2019 13:00 (five years ago) link
:D no other response possible rly
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 April 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link
Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! (I wish for these to also be my final words)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 14 April 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link
his lines are good!
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 April 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
agreed. it would have been difficult to ruin Shawn's role. because it is a fairy tale, and he is written as an irritating little dweeb, overplaying the part was nearly impossible.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link
disagreed!
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
for contrast, guest's readings are almost absolutely flat, and his *looks* are great
and he kills it in the role
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
Until this moment I thought Rob Reiner and Ron Howard were the same person. Like, when Rob Reiner is in Spinal Tap (not looking at all like Ron Howard) I'd think "huh that dude looks real different with a beard"
Anyway I really love the sword fighting in this movie and I like the moment when The King says "won't that be nice ;) She kissed me! She kissed me!"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 14 April 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link