"Princess Bride"........ a flick in a class by itself...agree?

Question

As you wish....

Answer 1

I completely agree! This movie has so many genre's within itself and yet remains simply breathtaking. This movie is a romance, a drama, a comedy, an action, a horror, a fantasy and a thriller all wrapped into one. There is no way you could peg it into just one category it really is in a class by itself.

Answer 2

The Princess Bride being considered anything other than a classic?!?

That would be completely and in all other ways INCONCEIVABLE!

Probably my favorite movie ever... I mean it ... ever.

Answer 3

i believe this is one of the best classics and yes it is in a class all to itself I love that movie

Answer 4

and THAT was Billy Cystal playing the miricle man? - wow, did plastic surgery help him !

and one of the Top Ten sword fights in cinema history

Yep, if anyone doesn't like it, the only thing to do is go through his pockets and look for loose change - he's more than mostly dead

Answer 5

Agreed. A Classic. One of my favorite movies. "As you wish"

Answer 6

most definately!! what a great movie -- little girls love it, little boys love it - teens love it - grown men and grown women love it!!!
I am the Dread Pirate Roberts! There will be no survivors!!!
key2e -- It was professional wrestler Andre the Giant

Answer 7

I, too, would agree with your assesment.

It is a fun, clean movie with action and adventure. It is also one of the most quoted movies ever. We have already see several people quoting things like:
"Inconcevieble!"
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father prepare to die."
"As you wish"

There are so many other memorable lines in that movie as well such as:
Miracle Max: You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.

Vizzini: Am I going MAD, or did the word "think" escape your lips? You were not hired for your brains, you hippopotamic land mass.

Inigo Montoya: I donna suppose you could speed things up?
Westley: If you're in such a hurry, you could lower a rope or a tree branch or find something useful to do.
Inigo Montoya: I could do that. I have some rope up here, but I do not think you would accept my help, since I am only waiting around to kill you.
Westley: That does put a damper on our relationship.

Inigo Montoya: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.
Westley: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die.

Fezzik: We face each other as God intended. Sportsmanlike. No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone.
Man in Black: You mean, you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword, and we'll try and kill each other like civilized people?
Fezzik: [brandishing rock] I could kill you now.
Man in Black: I think the odds are slightly in your favor at hand fighting.
Fezzik: It's not my fault being the biggest and the strongest. I don't even exercise.

Ha-ha, you fool. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian, when *death* is on the line.". Hahahahahah. [Vizzini falls over dead]

Buttercup: You mock my pain.
Westley: Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

Inigo Montoya: Are you the Miracle Max who worked for the king all those years?
Miracle Max: The King's stinking son fired me, and thank you so much for bringing up such a painful subject. While you're at it, why don't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it? We're closed.

Miracle Max: Goodbye boys. Have fun stormin' da castle.
Valerie: Think it'll work?
Miracle Max: It would take a miracle.

Miracle Max: Go away or I'll call the Brute Squad.
Fezzik: I'm on the Brute Squad.
Miracle Max: You *are* the Brute Squad?

Prince Humperdinck: First things first, to the death.
Westley: No. To the pain.
Prince Humperdinck: I don't think I'm quite familiar with that phrase.
Westley: I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.
Prince Humperdinck: That may be the first time in my life a man has dared insult me.
Westley: It won't be the last. To the pain means the first thing you will lose will be your feet below the ankles. Then your hands at the wrists. Next your nose.
Prince Humperdinck: And then my tongue I suppose, I killed you too quickly the last time. A mistake I don't mean to duplicate tonight.
Westley: I wasn't finished. The next thing you will lose will be your left eye followed by your right.
Prince Humperdinck: And then my ears, I understand let's get on with it.
Westley: WRONG. Your ears you keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, "Dear God! What is that thing," will echo in your perfect ears. That is what to the pain means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.

The Impressive Clergyman: Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam...

[after defeating Fezzik, who lays on the ground unconscious]
Westley: I do not envy you the headache you will have when you awake. But for now, rest well and dream of large women.

Dread Pirate Roberts: Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

Here is some PRINCESS BRIDE trivia for you as well:

Director Rob Reiner left the set during Billy Crystal's scenes because he would laugh so hard that he would feel nauseated.

Despite his character Fezzik's almost-superhuman strength, André the Giant's back problems at the time prevented him from actually lifting anything heavy. Robin Wright Penn had to be attached to wires in the scene where Buttercup jumps from the castle window into Fezzik's arms because he couldn't support her himself.

According to author William Goldman, when he was first trying to get the movie made in the 1970s, a then-unknown Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to play Fezzik, and he was strongly being considered because Goldman could never get his first choice, André the Giant, to read for the role. By the time the movie was made about 12 years later, Arnold was such a big star they could not afford him, Andre was cast after all and the two big men had gone on to become friends.

The most famous of the "classic blunders" mentioned by Vizzini - "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - was reputedly advice given by General Douglas MacArthur to President John F. Kennedy, in 1961.

Bottom Line - The Princess Bride is in a league of it's own and it ranks among the all time classics.

Answer 8

Love that movie. As you wish.

Answer 9

I agree its a great movie, I think everyone should watch it at least once.

Answer 10

Indeed.

As you wish...

And then there is Princess Caraboo. Also lovely.