So what you’re saying is that you’re Buttercup?
That’s usually the case.
You should see it again, it stays carbonated. The Breakfast Club on the other hand…
I got a good price on a load of Flying Monkeys that Skald offloaded on some unsuspecting wholesaler. Give me a day or so to retrofit the cranial lasers and stuff them full of the special enzymes that make their poo explosive, and then I’ll send them over to deal with you.
The Breakfast Club was never any good. I, of course, identified with the nerd character, which means I watched a movie about how everyone else hooks up with love interests, while the guy I identify with instead gets the privilege of doing everyone else’s detention homework for them and is still alone.
For anyone (else) inspired by this thread to rewatch the film, it’s currently available on Netflix as streaming video.
Not to mention that the girl who had any semblance of a personality got made over into another clone.
I have the same problems with another movie everyone loves but me, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Ferris is a dick who completely exploits and fucks over the only decent human being in the whole movie.
Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist.
YES! Someone who agrees with me!
Well done sir. A good pun is its own re-word.
That’s three of us! It’s a movement! My friends shunned me in high school because I hated this movie. I always wanted Ferris to get caught and expelled, or something. I cheered for the sister.
Anyway, I was making dinner last night and flipping through the channels on the TV I hit upon Princess Bride right at the point where they are emerging from the Fire Swamp. So naturally I had to stand there and watch the rest of the movie 
I like The Breakfast Club well enough, but have never cared for the ending for exactly these reasons.
While not exactly a match made in heaven (I think he was scared of her), Alison and Brian would have made at least as good a couple as any of the pairings we actually see at the end of the movie. I don’t think he’d have cared about how she did her hair and makeup, either.
Huh…three pages and no one has mentioned one of my favorite bits - the fact that Westley is way prettier than Buttercup. One of the reasons women love it (IM-not-so-HO) is that young Cary Elwes is just sigh staggeringly beautiful. Sit me down with PB, a glass of wine and a nice MLT, where the mutton is nice and lean, and I’m a happy girl.
Because it’s awesome.
Do you also prefer that the tomatoes be perky?
On one of my other forums someone had been asking about a regular poster that had disappeared. He’d taken over a newspaper and consequently it had taken over all his time. I described it pretty much like this;
“[poster] has taken over a newsprinting machine. So far it’s sucked one year of his life away. One day he may go as high as five, but we’re really not sure what that will do to him, so he’s going to stick with what he has.”
Well put. I can’t even watch Princess Bride anymore because of the incessant quoting.
I caught the same showing, but near the beginning. Unfortunately, there was a bad weather system coming in and I lost my satellite signal during the “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” scene.
BTW, a “florin” and a “guilder” are gold coins.
I’ve just returned from the Fire Swamp, so apologize both my absence from the boards and my not adding to this thread. Yes, I finally watched it, a friend alerted me to the fact that it was on last night (coincidentally, on a TV channel we just got for the first time on Friday!) so I had to stay up to watch it (even though I would have normally been in bed at that time).
Yes, I enjoyed it a lot - makes me think of what Monty Python might have done with a love story, as several aspects of it reminded me of Holy Grail or Life of Brian; which makes me think it could probably be whatever type of movie you want it to be, if someone like me likes somewhat bizarre Pythonesque comedy, it can be that, if someone like action adventure, it can be that kind of movie, my seven year old daughter just saw it recently at a “princess sleepover” held at a friend’s church, guess what kind of movie it was hyped to the girls as?
I liked seeing Wallace Shawn although since I was first introduced to him in Star Trek, everything I see him in now reminds me of Grand Negus Zek. 
(I also think that Jason Alexander could have pulled off that role just as well if not better. Was Hollywood aware of him when that movie was made?) The biggest surprise was Billy Crystal, I seemed to like the movie better as it went along (so-so at the beginning, ok a third of the way through, and by the end I was really enjoying it) so his character came along at just the right point, had no idea it was him under all that makeup, but he easily was the best actor in the whole movie.
My biggest criticism of it is related to one of the things I really liked about it - what I really liked about it is that it was what I’d call a “three-walled movie”, it had no problems breaking down the fourth wall whenever and wherever it seemed fit, and I always enjoy a sly wink to the audience. (And yes, Fred Savage’s character pretty much did say what I was thinking when I was thinking it). But, even though the movie was very self-aware, and knew it was a twist on the traditional love story, it still wound up being a traditional love story!! The bad guys still die, the hero/heroines get rescued, Inigo successfully avenges his father (and lives), Wesley doesn’t die, and, of course, the princess does marry Wesley and true love prevails.. (The Grandfather? Vizzini? Who said it, or was it both at various times?) explained events going against “standard expectations” with a shrug and “life isn’t fair”, which I found highly satisfying - but then the movie just slaps that in the face! Grr! About the only thing that did run counter to normal expectations is letting the evil prince live but, gee, for a movie that was so self-aware and was intent on being “different” from other stories of its genre, it sure doesn’t deliver.
That being the only thing that I have against it, I’d give it a solid “8/10”. And the added “I would definitely watch it again” - that may not seem like much but keep in mind, I’m the kind of person not to watch movies, I barely watch them and see only about one a year in theatres if that. Even if I’ve enjoyed a movie, there are very few that I’ve watched again. I would definitely watch this again (and maybe even buy it for myself, an even rarer occurrance for me!)