Just today, in fact, and I feel a bit more like a real Doper. It’s beautiful stuff, deep in its simplicity. I have to admit a tear rolled down my stubbly cheek when the little boy (how nicely underplayed) finally wanted to hear his grandad read a passage about kissing. What an economical and effective way of communicating the process of growing up and the depth of realtionship between the two people.
Please add your thoughts here (but preferably not just lines from the film).
I first saw this movie about 10 years ago, well after most of my friends had seen it. I was reluctant to watch it at first, but in the end I loved it. It is remarkable in the fact that it is suitable for most age groups.
Try reading the novel, now. Exactly the same story, entirely different message. And both were written by the same guy! Personally, I like the novel better, but a lot of people don’t like the darker undertones.
On behalf of the SDMB Princess Bride Appreciation Society, I would like to say, “WELCOME”.
I read the book long before they ever thought about making the movie. I like both. Differently, but both.
Now you get all of the jokes. 
Ditto. Both the book and movie are wonderful; the movie contains some total gems of acting and delivery (Mandy Patinkin, Wallace Shawn, and Andre the Giant all shine), scenes which don’t come off quite as well in the book, but the book has many more layers of meaning, and is a little more, I don’t know, purposefull.
No, I don’t, nor actually do I really want to. I’ve scrupulously avoided becoming a card-carrying megafan of any film (partly because I haven’t seen the major movies in the learn-all-the-lines sub-genre like Rocky Horrow Show and Spinal Tap - the latter of which is on my ‘to see’ list, though not the former and also because like people who become megafans of C.S. Lewis one tends to lose the essence of thing thing/man the more you become obsessed in the minutiae)*.
I noted though how much Shrek owes to Reiner’s work, which itself is clearly derivative of other movies (books, other cultural artefacts?) How much longer, I ask, must the Brits be typecast as the cowardly, scheming, woosy bad guy? (Seldom bad woman, incidentally.) What happened to the charminbg suave man about town?
Has anyone else remarked on the similarity between the Cary Elwes character and Errol Flynn? Silly question, I would imagine. Someone’s probably written a thesis on it.
Me too. And it’s one of the very few movies that I actually enjoyed even though I read the book first. One of the few movies that did justice to its novel counterpart.
I’ve only seen the movie, since I got it for Christmas a couple years ago. I love it, and I love it more each time I see it. In fact, my love for a certain character makes me feel all cheery when I see the username of a certain Doper. It’s a good little story and Robin Wright Penn is purty. I don’t think there’s a part of the movie that I don’t like.
I saw the movie in the theater when it first came out and became an instant fan. I’ve probably seen it around 25 times since, and it never seems to get old. Excellent performances, witty dialogue. I love it.
Read the book about two years ago, and it was at least as funny, perhaps even more funny than the movie, with all the extra seriousness of the story. The book, in short, is brilliant. Maybe I should go read it again now!
I own it, and have seen it probably 100 times.
There was discussion just today in the office about it. Someone said she liked the “rhyming part,” so we were all trying to remember the lines.
Something like: “Are there rocks up ahead?” then, “If there all, we’ll all be dead!” etc., etc.
I never tire of that film.
I even visited Andre’s web site today, cuz I couldn’t remember when he died. He was so good in that movie. 
It’s one of my favorite films. I have the book but haven’t had a chance to read it yet. I think the film is one of the few perfect films ever made, A Christmas Story being another one. Everything about The Princess Bride is fantastic. The writing is touching, funny and clever. The direction is top-notch and never in your face. And the acting is to die for. Everyone is absolutely wonderful. I’ve always been disappointed by Cary Elwes in other roles. I thought he was going to be a major star after seeing him in The Princess Bride, but alas, not the case. I think Chris Sarandon as Prince Humperdinck keeps getting better after each viewing.
One of my proudest moments was showing The Princess Bride to my ex-girlfriend and it ended up being her favorite film.
The first time I saw this, it was at a friend’s house. As it ended, the friend offered me a cookie out of the batch she was eating. I said, “Well, yeah. It’s a cookie moment, isn’t it?” I’ve since learned to cherish life’s cookie moments. The Princess Bride is one of the very few completely good movies that doesn’t cater to anything hateful in any soul.
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That’s beautiful.
A favourite yet I always forget to list it in my ‘Top howevermany films’ :smack: .
I’m a bit of an old romantic at heart, read a lot as a child and brought up in Robin Hood country to boot, so imagine on my third or fourth veiwing - I started to recognise some of the locations ! Filmed in the Peak District in England, Dovedale, the moors above Hathersage etc. I’ve walked in those places - not only did someone else imagine pirates and princesses there as I did when I was a child but, they made a film to show everyone else too 
(I wouldn’t say I’ve seen it an obsessive number of times, I can’t quote lines, but when it was on French TV the other day I was able to just about hear the original dialogue in my head rather than the dubbed voices.)
Every character, every location, in the movie was a very well-worn stereotype. Swashbuckling heroes, golden princesses, castles, dungeons, etc. And that’s what makes the movie so brilliant. They took these incredibly overused elements and put them together in an entirely new way–and not as a parody, either. The movie is even self-referential in this respect. The Dread Pirate Roberts is only a character, after all, played by a series of suitable “actors.”
So, yeah, it is kind of a silly question.
I first saw it a few months ago (and also started a celebratory thread). I absolutely love this movie. I showed it to my kids, and now whenever they come over, they want to watch it again, and my son will throw me an “As you wish,” line whenever I ask him to do something. A true timeless classic. Absolutely wonderful stuff. I particularly loved Andre the Giant’s character.
I remember when this first came out - I took my two younger brothers (then 12 and 10) on a “date” and gave them the choice of seeing Jim Belushi in “The Principal” or “The Princess Bride.” They chose “The Principal,” but we got the time wrong and missed it, so they sighed and said, “OK, we’ll go see that PRINCESS movie.” (“Is this a kissing book?”) They’re now 30 and 28 - man, time flies, doesn’t it? - and both of them STILL tell me they’re so glad we got our schedule mixed up. I earned some seriously high sister points that night.
My husband and I chose “Storybook Love” as our wedding song, too. My brothers got misty-eyed.
I don’t really have anything to add to the love-fest…it’s one of my very favorite movies. Both the husband and I can quote most of it, and we own both a video and dvd copy of it.
“You mocked me once - don’t do it again!”
“No! To the pain!”
Classic.
And the husband is incapable of using the word “possible” without adding “, pig”
Ahem.
It’s “Life is pain, HIGHNESS.”
Carry on.