Woot! Can't wait, looking forward to it!

I can't wait to watch ur reaction on episode 1of star wars with u

Great Channel

As you wish...

Yes!!! I love the prequels!

Inconceivable!

Um, one thing aged, the boy's game though, which of course isn't important at all

The original author of "The Princess Bride" also called it a classic. You have to admire a guy who calls his own story a classic before it's been published and anyone has had a chance to read it.

I agree! I can see why so many people voted for this over others

@@VKunia - Andre the Giant really was that strong. He got his first job moving furniture because he could do the work of 4 men. He could carry a piano by himself. The actress who played Buttercup was terrified the first time she saw him. He is one of the largest humans to ever live. He was actually a giant. RIP. He was like 7'6 and 500 pounds. He was never going to live to reach 50 because of his giant-ism. He could drink 100 beers and not be particularly drunk. He said that he 'quit drinking' when he only drank 3 bottles of wine a day.

Never noticed it before.

There's a theory that the grandpa is the current Dread Pirate Roberts, and he's reading the book to his grandson in preparation for passing down the mantle to him.

Peter Falk was always a favorite

Even after all the times I've watched this movie, the ending NEVER gets old

@@benjamingrist6539 Unless Grandpa IS Wesley. He only added the mediaeval stuff to hide his true identity.

My dad dragged me. And then I dragged my best friend. And then he dragged our entire group of friends.....

and then you married her for having such great taste right? :D

And this is why we MUST NOT repeat it! (Oops, we are)

It's not any worse than the rainbow hair people have now. In 10 to 20 years you will look back and say the same thing

You should see my yearbook, lol. Even in the 80s, I was like "what happened?" The 70s was so cool, I couldn't wait to grow up.....and then the 80s came and it was, like, oof.

@@susie9893 The princess ended up becoming Wonder Woman's aunt

@@TTM9691 hey at least we got good movies and cartoons

The line he delivers "I want my father back you son of a bitch" is soo believable and moving.

@@menotu000 “Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die.” He’s not saying it to the six fingered man, he’s saying it to cancer.

believe or not, it sounds even better in the spanish dub

This is the reason I could not watch this movie for years after my own dad died of cancer.

@ Yeah, in spanish this phrase sounds so powerful and full of rage.

So true!

@@gayet66 Yes it is I saw this at the drive thru when I was 7

"something about this movie that can’t be repeated" I agree. Aside from, well, everything about it, I would point to one thing specifically, in three words: Andre. the. Giant. There has never been, and will never be, another Andre. The guy simply WAS Fezzig. There are other big dudes out there, but none with the same imposing stature as Andre. 7'4" tall, over 500 pounds. That FOREHEAD. That deep VOICE, with that thick French accent. That HAIR and those SIDEBURNS. Those HANDS!! That absolute BULK of a man. Who also happened to be the sweetest, kindest, gentlest, most teddy bear-est human imaginable. Acromegaly is no joke; it left Andre in pain, and lead him to an early grave. But it also made him who he was. As much as the entire cast were *perfectly* suited to their respective roles and played them to perfection (and the director, music, sets, fight choreography, etc), I could almost see any role being re-cast, except for Andre as Fezzig. It simply cannot be done without him. R.I.P. Andre.

So true! And Cary Elwes (the main actor) said this about a plan to remake it: "There’s a shortage of perfect movies in this world. It would be a pity to damage this one."

He apparently kept struggling with his lines during his first scene, so Mandy Patinkin got up and slapped him He got all his lines right first time from then on

@@MrGBH Weirdly, that seems in line with their characters

Andre was over 7 feet tall and over 400 pounds

That is so cute. A bunch of buff amd burly wrestlers watching an action adventure fantasy romance film. A good film for everyone of any age

@@dgrmn12345 I spent 24 years in the U.S. Army, almost exclusively in combat units. You can walk into any unit, even special operations units, and just say "MAAAWWWIAAAGGEE!" and you will have the hardest, toughest men you've ever seen replying "MAWWIAGE IS WOT BWINGS US TOGEVVUH TODAY!" This movie is universal currency, I don't care how big and tough you are, you love this movie.

Wise dad.

That's a great book. I can't believe that Cary Elwes filmed most of this movie with a broken foot!

I have that book AND the novel version of Princess Bride

@sadlobster1 - so do I. And I read each of them in one sitting.

@@professionalvampire1 Lucky you, I need weeks to get through a thick book like Princess Bride; mostly because I like to take my time

I saw Carey Elwes at a comic convention when he was selling his book and I remember him saying Mandy Patinkin cracked a couple of ribs from laughing.

Donr forget Carol Kane ,his wife, she was great back jn the day too.

Mandy Patinkin (Indigo) bruised his ribs from trying not to laugh at Billy Crystal improving during the Miracle Max scene! Such a GREAT movie!

And they allowed him to improv everything.

To this day people ask if his sandwich is leeeeaaaannn. lol

The sandwich bit was completely improvised by Billy Crystal.

That day vader was amazed to discover that when Boba was saying "As you wish" what he meant was "I love you"

@@Tocy777isback0414 oh You are the one who wrote all this fan fiction

"My name is Bruce Wayne. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

The movie goes to great lengths to equate "as you wish" with "i love you" just to end it with grampa's loving smile uttering those words to his grandson. How can you NOT feel the feels inside?!

Pretty sure she's both.

as you wish

Sounds like how my parents would behave in their elderly years

I say this to my husband all the time lol

She asked before "Where's the torture"? There it is. :)

He was a large man, I think women was more like giant women such as himself...

@@glenmcdonald375 exactly

Yeah, this never struck me as about fat-shaming, it's just a comment on Fezzig's unusual size.

Yeah, I never thought it meant large as in fat but as in large sized people of course…

I always liked the possibility that fezzik is actually part of a giant race. Somewhere in the world is a country or an island where everyone is huge and he's kind of wishing him thoughts of his home- with big women😁

Especially men in tights lol

I loved him in Saw! That's where I first saw him in.

Except Ted Cruz haha

Except his foot.

He's had an incredible career and is supremely talented and so good looking that even the straightest of men can only say "damn, that's a handsome man", it baffles me how he never got to top of the heap movie star level.

@Oswald Smith It's normally the right thing to say if the person is being erratic. As far as Buttercup was concerned the pirate had no reason to be that angry at her about somebody she loved and he had no reason to be on her that way.

@@parker469a. The Pirate is her true love.

@@mysilentprayersalways1913 You didn't read the other posts in this thread did you? Anyway, she doesn't know that and that is what what my comment was in reference to.

i understood that reference

Manly men!

A friend of Achoo, son of Ahsneeze

according to the story Cary improvised that line because Kevin Costner was visiting the set.

@@sea-envy3137 that would make it even funnier

It was absolutely not a satire of medieval fantasy romance movies. I could see someone who has only seen the movie thinking that but the books is quite larger in scope. Shifting between hard literature to fairy tale to history. If anything it's a satire of books that are boring, don't engage the reader. Books that prattle on. You could say it's a satire of bloated literature. But it plainly tells you in the book that it was made as an homage to the adventures of Goldman's past. The idea for the core of the book, as well as voice, came to him when his kids asked him to come up with a bedtime story. The frame device of the book (the faux hard literature part) came as a solution to mixing a traditional tale with modern writing techniques. But really it's a story about stories. How they get passed down over time. One generation to the next.

LMAO

Is the old woman just Princess Buttercup in makeup? I feel like that would be the most fitting thing so that she would be blaming herself literally.

@@parker469a In a way, it was her own guilty subconscious calling herself out in a dream

Only a dozen?

@@juliahorn3659 I did say "at least"

He adapted it but yeah

Stardust.

@@crapstirrer What an appropriate name. It was obviously well chosen. You may have a point, I had forgotten about Stardust, and in truth, I barely remember it, as I last saw it in theatres. That being said, I think most people forgot about it, which suggests that it probably isn't of the same quality.

@@notmee2388 I legit can't understand how you can forget about Stardust :-/

@@mormacil Years, life, a ton of other movies watched and I can''t keep track of them all, or maybe senility, take your pick.

I will never forget Stardust. For the closing credits song alone.

Yeah, no CGI, no stunt doubles, that's actually them. Excelt for the acrobatics that Wesley does, I'm sure that was a stunt double

@@molasorrosalom4846 Correct! Bob Anderson trained them both, and there are very few wide shots to "hide" the faces of the stunt performers because the stunites are only in a handful of shots, but the rest is Cary Elwes (Wesley) and Mandy Patinkin (inigo). Bob Anderson is also responsible for a few of Errol Flynn's films back in the day, as well as doubling Darth Vader for the Original Star Wars films and he was the lead swordmaster on all three Lord of the Rings films.

It was my fencing instructor's favorite too. He used it as an example in differentiating stage, sport and real fencing.

Yeah, when everyone else got to rest between takes those two were dragged off for fencing practice. It was the last scene they filmed.

It took them a week to film the three minute duel.

I Second Casablanca....... and Raise "The Quiet Man" with John Wayne......

Is this legit?

@@jmgonzalez4 I don't think it was broken. In think he strained a muscle. It's been a long time. Wesley is mostly a dummy because he couldn't stop laughing, and even the director left the set because he kept ruining takes.

Me too!!

Not the worst childhood thought i ever heard.

@@eeduranti Imagining your dentist grandpa riding horses to work in downtown Minneapolis, and killing bandits with a sword is pretty cool

Touches...

Well the 2022 Olympics will be in China

@@240Ldemon ah ha ha

Ah! Polka!

It’s a sport to some, to others an experiment, and to some, an “interrogation.”

There's a clip on youtube with him talking about it. It's amazing.

I miss the 80s and not just the hair.

I’m no mathematician, but there is zero difference between 119 and 150 beers! Lol

he wasn't quite that tall or quite that heavy; those were the figures used in wrestling appearances, and all wrestlers are announced with exaggerated heights and weights. he was still enormous tho. if he weren't working with other wrestlers with exaggerated heights and weights, there'd be no need to lie about his.

To quote Cary Elwes on the subject: "there is a shortage of perfect movies in this world. It would be a pity to damage this one."

Only If they kept everything the same but gave Buttercup a personality

@@Mastermint But the whole point is she's the classic helpless damsel in distress in constant need of rescue. She started off with a little personality tho. She jumped into the water trying to escape, and she told off the pirate, even pushed him down the steep mountain before she knew it was Westley. After that she was totally helpless though.

My dad made a printout of that quote in Spanish as an office decoration, with a picture of Iñigo, unfortunately someone in the office hadn't seen the film and thought it was a threat of some sort!

He is also the lead guitarist for spinal tap. His fingers go up to 11

And an amazing writer/director in his own right. "Best in Show" and "Waiting for Guffman" are classics, and he was on SNL for at least one season. Plus, so many other comic greats like Billy Crystal, Carol Kane (SO great in 'Kimmy Schmidt'), then there's National Treasure Mandy Patinkin, a pre-"Saw" Cary Elwes (among so many other movies/TV shows) and Robin Wright who just directed her first film that was at Sundance. A true classic.

@@juicycantona350 That's my favorite trivia ever. I'd loved both films for years, and when someone pointed out they were both Christopher Guest and his fingers going to 11. It was a revelation. Since both are Rob Reiner movies you cannot convince me this wasn't on purpose. Yes it's based on book written well before the movie(or rather much older historical document)... but you can't tell me Rob didn't see the character description and immediately wrote in Christ G. In his notes.

He’s also a British baron, who used to be in the House of Lords before they restructure the membership requirements.

And Prince Humperdinck is Susan Sarandon's ex-husband.

@Holly Marie: Great recommendation!

Yes Please!!!

When I saw Stardust in the theaters I immediately thought of Princess Bride as a comparable movie. Glad to see others think so too.

absolutely this!!!!!!!

One of my favorite Andre the Giant stories comes from Hulk Hogan. After he discovered an authentic French restaurant in LA (with real French owners), Andre would spend the entire day there ordering the ENTIRE menu. Hulk Hogan guessed that Andre was probably homesick and wanted a reminder of home.

.... Just one more thing....

@@ThePorpoisepower 🤔☝🏼 😁😉👍🏻

andre wasn't 7'4". he was only announced as such at wrestling appearances. all wrestlers are announced with exaggerated heights and weights.

I was firmly against it, and then someone suggested that they should bring back Fred Savage as a father telling the story to his child, and I went, that's actually a pretty good idea...

@@kattahj Sadly, they DID "remake" the movie (albeit through a session of video calls) for Quibl...and people HATED it. Furthermore, Cary Elwes himself slandered those who made it on Twitter

Original = perfection Remake = travesty

Don't forget Legend with Tom Cruise and Tim Curry. All 3 films can never be recreated respectfully.

William Goldman adapted his own novel, as I understand it, so he probably had a lot of time to consider ways of improving on his story.

I love the book just as much.

"A Scanner Darkly" is another of the rare movies that is better than it's book

Nope. The book is better. It's among the most underrated if all time. Most people read it and get confused by the beginning, which is about Goldman adapting it (the grandpa section of the movie shares the theme). People miss how absurdly brilliant that is. I've never seen it done so well. Behind that the prose, the pacing, the beats, the character work and narrative are all top class. But again, people don't read it for what it is.

He wasn't dead dead just mostly dead

Shes also Claire Underwood in house of cards and Hypolyta in Wonder Woman.

@@mezlabor ooohhh!!! I KNEW I'd seen her face somewhere! Damn

Damn, i didn’t recognize her!

And Jenny in "Forrest Gump."

My mom used to beat the crap out of me for nothing and I still saw all these great movies. So weird.

I missed all the kids 80s movies, and I was born in '84...but, I was raised in the b&w universal horror monster movies ;)

Did that include the entire history? or did still have the boring bits cut out?

Did you know the Author, William Goldman also did the screenplay?

@@ThePorpoisepower It's the one with the history included.

@@garymcgregor5951 I remember reading about that once.

@@garymcgregor5951 I remembered it being something like that. either written by the same guy or written at the same time (maybe even while the movie was being made).