Common Held Beliefs or Ignorance about a Film That Drives You Crazy

When the belief becomes fact, print the belief.

Yup

I was wrong

YouTubeTV requires a subscription.

That’s how Mrs Maven & I watch it, usually during lunch.

Several people post unauthorized copies. Some of them appear to live outside the USA.

The episodes usually disappear after the original date. From time to time there is no current episode. Sometimes the date is mislabeled.

Sometimes there are various internal glitches, including gaps, ending prematurely, and an annoying zooming in and out for no apparent reason.

“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

…because the legend is glorious and the fact mundane.

There are several other minor misquotes similar to yours, but they don’t distort the underlying meaning.

The same cannot be said for an episode of Blue Bloods. Tom Selleck’s character mangles the meaning to criticize a disreputable journalist, claiming that the movie says that it’s OK to lie if it serves your agenda. That is the exact opposite of the original intent.

Some people just have to be right, at the expense of a joke. What is the title of this thread?

Is he a philosopher?

He never explains his reasoning to Westley. What he’s saying isn’t his reasoning. It’s the raw material for his data collecting that goes into his reasoning.

Switching the cups was just to be sure (it was a life-and-death game, after all), but that wasn’t the bulk of his plan. I mean, really, any criminal “mastermind” whose plan depends on “Look, what’s that over there!?” wouldn’t have even gotten as far as grabbing the princess.

Then we saw that scene very differently. As I saw the scene, he first wasted a bunch of time going on about his various fake deductions, during which he was either (a) trying to bore/distract Westley, or (b) frantically trying to come up with his real plan.

Then step 1 of his real plan was to distract Westley, and switch the cups while Westley wasn’t looking. Which (from his perspective) he did.

Step 2 of his real plan is he picks up a cup, either cup, and “starts drinking” from it, watching Westley. He thinks one and only one cup is poisoned. He thinks Westley knows which cup is poisoned, except that Westley is wrong. He assumes that Westley (like most people) wouldn’t be willing to just voluntarily drink fatal poison. Therefore, when he sees Westley willingly drinking from a switched cup, he realizes that Westley thinks he has won (which is true), and therefore assumes that his guess was right, and that he is winning, so he drinks the poison and dies.

Honestly, it’s a pretty brilliant plan… it just gets totally out-of-the-box outflanked.

“Cutting the cord” doesn’t mean getting rid of all subscription services.

There’s no “s” in Hal David.

Heck, he was hired by a criminal mastermind to grab the princess.

Interesting detail- Westley, when he sets up the game, says “Where is the poison? “, Not “Which cup is the poison in?” Thus, “both” is an acceptable answer, by the rules given. It’s a classic bar-bet setup, and exact wording is important.

One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken. Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, you do not accept this bet, because as sure as you stand there, you’re going to wind up with an ear full of cider.

Are you sure that was Cher? The YouTube clip says it’s Cilla Black. I mean there’s no auto-tune that I can hear. :smile:

I remember the Cilla Black (and a later Dionne Warwick) version. But I looked it up numerous places, and it was Cher over the final credits.

I started googling because, when I watched the clip above, I thought “This doesn’t sound like the version I know.”

Now, why Burt asked Cilla Black to record it later, I don’t know…

Well, I missed this before: Cilla Black sang on the UK re-release and Cher sang on the US version. I only knew the Dionne Warwick rendition.

Groot died in Guardians of the Galaxy. He was not reborn as a seedling. The character we’ve seen in the subsequent movies in the series is the original Groot’s child.

I remember people used to criticize in the 90s how in Star Wars: A New Hope the Stormtroopers assaulting Leia’s diplomatic transport were all stupid for doing a direct frontal assault and not just cutting through somewhere else or having Vader lead the assault but if you actually watch the movie it’s an almost perfect assault. The rebels know they’re coming from the hatch but then the Stormtroopers plant a sort of flashbang high explosion charge on the door which causes the rebels assembled to flinch which then allows the Imperials to come out blazing. In fact the Imperials only lose about 3 guys against a well fortified position, and they broke the Rebel defensive line almost immediately.

Do you mean that “I am Groot” never literally means “I am Groot”?

Sometimes it means “I am Groot but not exclusively so.”

It’s a subtle language.

Same individual, offspring, or relative gets kind of fuzzy, for plants.