# I'm not really feeling the love the for "The Princess Bride." **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 8, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-really-feeling-the-love-the-for-the-princess-bride/704046 "2014-11-08T05:04:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-really-feeling-the-love-the-for-the-princess-bride/704046/101 "2017-11-11T21:22:26Z")
That’s just another word for a Doper… ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-really-feeling-the-love-the-for-the-princess-bride/704046/102 "2017-11-11T21:34:56Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Now I’m about to introduce him to a favorite from _my_ childhood, _Escape from Witch Mountain_, and I have a suspicion I’ll be similarly disappointed. Saw it with Li’l Map – it was actually good, and Li’l Map really enjoyed it! Many parellels to E.T. (a film created nearly a decade later). ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-really-feeling-the-love-the-for-the-princess-bride/704046/103 "2017-11-11T21:53:22Z")
_Debt???_ ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2017, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-really-feeling-the-love-the-for-the-princess-bride/704046/104 "2017-11-11T22:11:37Z")
I thought it was amusing the first time I seen it on a flight from indy to la … of course I said the same thing about airplane scary movie ect … ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-really-feeling-the-love-the-for-the-princess-bride/704046/105 "2017-11-12T16:53:07Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > I thought it was amusing the first time I seen it on a flight from indy to la … of course I said the same thing about airplane scary movie ect … But Airplane! is unquestionably great!(Airplane 2, not so much). Scary Movie, somewhat amusing. But Airplane! shouldn’t even be in the same sentence quality-wise. ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2017, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-really-feeling-the-love-the-for-the-princess-bride/704046/106 "2017-11-12T17:50:11Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > Nope. I was 27 when I saw it in its first run, and have loved it ever since. I know many others who also first saw it as adults and are also big fans. Huh, could be selection bias on my part then. I’ve hardly ever met anyone who watched it as a kid and didn’t like it, but I’ve heard several who watched it as adults whose reaction was more or less “That was it?” But maybe the adults who watch it and agree with the consensus that it’s awesome are less likely to comment on it. Although, I notice you say “in it’s first run”. As an alternative theory, I might posit that it’s been built up so much that a lot of people who see it as adults today might be expecting something else. Or, I guess maybe some people just have different tastes. Or else they’re replicants. That’s probably it. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-really-feeling-the-love-the-for-the-princess-bride/704046/107 "2017-11-12T21:18:10Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > The book wasn’t all that, either. The book is one of the few books I remember reading as a teenager (and I read many). The character development they could not put into the film, especially Inigo and Fezzik, was a huge part of that. And I found the moral of the story (also not in the film) to be profound. It is something I teach my students: Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2017, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-really-feeling-the-love-the-for-the-princess-bride/704046/108 "2017-11-12T21:19:29Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > The thread was only _mostly_ dead. If there were upvotes on this site, I’d give you 10,000. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2017, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-really-feeling-the-love-the-for-the-princess-bride/704046/109 "2017-11-12T22:48:12Z")
Curious. I’d not heard of _The Princess Bride_ until this decade; still haven’t watched it; but come across scenes on YouTube twice or thrice. Click I do; and enjoy them — but not enough to develop a strong urge to watch the entire film. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-really-feeling-the-love-the-for-the-princess-bride/704046/110 "2017-11-13T00:24:21Z")
Wasn’t Willy Deville involved with the soundtrack? Not his best work, but still, you won’t get me to say a bad word about Willy. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-really-feeling-the-love-the-for-the-princess-bride/704046/111 "2017-11-13T06:41:15Z")
He has a credit on allmusic . com as composer, Guest Artist, performer, Primary Srtist, and vocals, so, yes. The film score is credited to that Sultan of Swing, Mark Knopfler. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-really-feeling-the-love-the-for-the-princess-bride/704046/113 "2017-11-13T12:17:00Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > I read the book. Didn’t help. The only character I like is Inigo Montoya. I loathe the leads, and the premise is dopey. Do not see the charm. Of course, Inigo Montoya is the only character who actually does have TWOOO WUV. It’s subtle, but the story makes it clear that Inigo’s love for his father is truer than the love of Wesley and Buttercup for each other. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-really-feeling-the-love-the-for-the-princess-bride/704046/114 "2017-11-13T12:54:17Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > “The Princess Bride” has a LOT of great dialogue. Just piles and piles of wonderfully written lines, and it’s not just the 5-10 lines everyone keeps quoting; the movie’s dialogue is beautifully written. There’s not a line out of place. > > But dialogue does not a movie make. The movie has not aged well in terms of anything BUT the dialogue. The sets are a little cheap, the music a bit cheap, the directing not all that inspired, the pacing not great. I think my taste in movies has changed since I was young. I used to love “clever” humour with people trading clever remarks (e.g. the scene with the two poison cups, or the banter during the swordfight, or discussing African and European swallows gripping a coconut by the husk), but I’m indifferent to it now. I never liked Billy Crystal as Miracle Max, though. His broad performance seems like it’s from a different movie. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-really-feeling-the-love-the-for-the-princess-bride/704046/115 "2017-11-13T14:33:41Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I think my taste in movies has changed since I was young. I used to love “clever” humour with people trading clever remarks (e.g. the scene with the two poison cups, or the banter during the swordfight, or discussing African and European swallows gripping a coconut by the husk), but I’m indifferent to it now. Well, in the case of a Monty Python film, you can’t really be watching it the way you would a real movie. A Monty Python film is a set of comedy sketches that might be sort of tied together (Life of Brian, Holy Grail) or not (The Meaning of Life.) They’re fun if watched that way, but it’s just good comedy sketches. The Princess Bride is at least a proper movie. I’m not saying it’s a BAD movie. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-really-feeling-the-love-the-for-the-princess-bride/704046/116 "2017-11-13T17:11:35Z")
For the record, the Sprout just watched it for the first time (the adults in the household are big fans). He was very unenthusiastic going in, since it wasn’t about spaceships or animated LEGO figures, and we warned him there might be kissing (yuck!). In a classic case of life imitating art, he warmed up slowly, and by two-thirds of the way through he was pleading not to turn it off and promising to be good. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-really-feeling-the-love-the-for-the-princess-bride/704046/117 "2017-11-13T17:32:04Z")
> [@tim314](#): > > I love the Princess Bride. But I think it may be the sort of movie where if you first watched it when you were 9 or 10 years old, you’ll love it forever, but if you waited until adulthood, you missed your window of opportunity. I was in my 30s when the movie came out. Apparently my not-so-inner child kept the window open. 🙂 ETA: The Firebug and I watched it together earlier this year. He’s 10. He liked it. I’m 63. I still love it. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-really-feeling-the-love-the-for-the-princess-bride/704046/118 "2017-11-13T17:42:21Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > The mention of bantering humor earlier is a good description: much of the humor is in what people say. One of my favorite bits: > [@](#): > > \*\*Count Rugen: \*\*Ah. Are you coming down into the pit? Westley’s got his strength back. I’m starting him on the machine tonight. > \*\*Prince Humperdinck: \*\*[sincerely] Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work, but I’ve got my country’s 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it; I’m swamped. > **Count Rugen:** Get some rest. If you haven’t got your health, then you haven’t got anything. ---
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I’ve caught bits and pieces of it, but never was interested enough to stick around. I didn’t really like any of the characters that much. I typically like silly movies like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, and Austin Powers. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-really-feeling-the-love-the-for-the-princess-bride/704046/120 "2017-11-13T18:22:33Z")
> [@tim314](#): > > I love the Princess Bride. But I think it may be the sort of movie where if you first watched it when you were 9 or 10 years old, you’ll love it forever, but if you waited until adulthood, you missed your window of opportunity. I saw it in college with my best friend from elementary school. We laughed so hard we literally fell out of our seats, annoyed the people in front of us, and we in shock when someone walked out halfway through. We weren’t even high or drunk! The only other movies I have laughed that hard at in the theater were Bull Durham and Ghostbusters. I’ve never laughed that hard on subsequent viewings, but it was a great time when i saw it the first. But “Im not a witch, I’m your wife” gets thrown around our house a lot… ---
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