The Princess Bride
Fair warning, this review is a gush-fest. If you want a movie that causes pain wait till next week and here are two clues for the next review, clue 1
As for The Princess Bride there isn’t much to say. It was based on a book 
I did read the book many years ago and while it was enjoyable I think the movie is better, the book is also weird if I recall.
Cary Elwes as Westley and Robin Wright as Buttercup
The story is pretty simple. Westley and Buttercup are young lovers but one day Westley goes off and is presumed dead. Five years later Buttercup is forced into an engagement to Prince Humperdink. Humperdink then hires Vizzini, a genius Sicilian, Inigo, a fencer out for revenge and Fezzik, a kind giant with a gift for rhymes (I know what a a cliche), to kidnap and kill Buttercup in order to start a war with a rival country. However the Dread Pirate Roberts follows them and defeats all of them and runs off with Buttercup. The pirate turns out to be Westley who took on the alias of the Dread Pirate. However Buttercup and Westley are caught by the Prince and his henchman the not very nice Count Rugen.
Westley is tortured and is mostly dead but Inigo and Fezzik get a miracle and storm the castle on Buttercup’s wedding day. Inigo gets his revenge for the murder of his father on Count Rugen who killed him and Buttercup and Westley are together. The whole story is told as a book a grandfather is reading to his grandson.
Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya
Typically when I review a movie I have to ask myself what was good about the movie as a general opener but with The Princess Bride it’s more of a question of what is bad and I’m hard press to have a negative.
I guess one thing is that film is very filmy. You can tell the stuntmen from a mile away and your blind. The sets look fake and there are tons of Anachronisms. Like the British discovered Australia in 1606 but the tone of the movie have a Renaissance quality. Even given those flaws they actually add to the atmosphere of fun swash-bucking fantasy romance. And characters more than make up for anything.
Wallace Shawn as Vizzini, Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya and André the Giant as Fezzik
The characters are one of the main highlights of the movie which is necessary since the story is fairly simple, which is fine. All the characters are interesting unique and memorable. A lot of that comes from the writing, everyone gets good lines. I just love these characters, argh damn you movie. Even SUPER minor characters are memorable like the king and the impressive clergy man with his “mawwiage speech.”
Wallace Shawn as Vizzini with Robin Wright as Buttercup at the Battle of Wit
Maybe it’s all the mold I have breathed in cleaning my basement and the exhaustion of it has melted my brain but I can really find a fault with this movie. I mean I guess the ending song is a prime example of 80s cheesy and Buttercup, the titular character is not the most interesting. But she is brave and once she knows her true love is alive she doesn’t lack conviction. I suppose agmonst the other kickass characters and quotes she isn’t that memorable but she is likable enough, I don’t have an issue with her.
Robin Wright as Buttercup with Chris Sarandon as Prince Humperdinck and Christopher Guest as Count Rugen
Also since I’m a costume person, the costume are very nice. Everything is one point and looks like the character actually have wore the clothes and have lived in them, which is rare on films. And props for Buttercup’s wedding gown being blue.
Cary Elwes as Westley and Robin Wright as Buttercup
So let us don our holocaust clocks and grab a M.L.T sandwich and watch The Princess Bride
Billy Crystal as Miracle Max and Carol Kane as Valerie
I’ve never seen The Princess Bride. It’s one of those movies that is always on TV and I always catch it like half way through. I need to rent it.
I recently saw Maleficent and for me it wasn’t all that great. It was too expositional and seemed to be trying too hard to make Maleficent into a protagonist. I can understand giving one of the most infamous Disney villains a backstory-that’s cool and I think the majority of people ask themselves “what made this one evil?” But the reason/backstory has to be a good one…not just some shameless money grab.
The Princess Bride is a great movie you should watch it. I agree with you about Maleficent. I think of all the Disney villain she is that last one I would consider for a back story, she was just meant to be evil but in giving her a backstory or a character arch they rob the character or what made her her enjoyable.
Is the next review Malifecent?! If it is than yes! This movie is finally getting it’s butt kicked! Sleeping Beauty was one of my favorite movies to watch when I was little, and when that movie came out and I saw it, I wanted nothing to do with that movie from then to now! I hate that movie so much! But I like Princess Bride, that is good.
Correct, that is the next movie, and I hated it too. Every second made me what to face palm myself.