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The Princess Bride (1987)

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HUMPDAY. Sundance 2009 Preview ...
by Karina in Karina on SpoutBlog

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"Director Lynn Shelton’s follow-up to My Effortless Brilliance, Sundance Dramatic Competition entry stars Mark Duplass (HumpdayThe Puffy Chair) and Joshua Leonard (The Blair Witch Project) as two college friends who meet up a decade later and somehow end up pacting to make a boy-on-boy sex tape together. Answering our 4 Questions We Ask Everyone, Shelton declared her love for The Princess Bride, named the crew member she poached from Medicine for Melancholy, and explained her philosophy of low expectations. Tell us about your movie: who did you work with, what did you shoot on, why did you make it? Give us the reductive, 25-word or less, “It’s like [pop culture reference a] meets [pop culture reference b]!” pitch, then explain what the quick and dirty sell leaves out. Humpday is like Bang the Drum Slowly meets Jaws. " [More]

HUMPDAY. Sundance 2009 Preview ...
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The Princess Bride
by JimBell in JimBell Blog

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"The Princess Bride (1987; USA) is a romance and one of the best pictures ever made. But it is not the kind of romance that we nowadays think of, and we should rehabilitate the old term “romance.” For one thing, we would understand why this is such a powerful film. Today we define romance very narrowly as some kind of love relationship between two people. But The Princess Bride is a romance in the broader, richer, classic sense—with a great sense of humour as well.

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I wuved, twuewy wuved this movie!
by kickstandsup in kickstandsup Blog

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"Looking for a movie with action, romance, twue wuve and mawwiage? Then look no further than this one. The Princess Bride has been around for many years and occasionally, I still have to pull out the VHS or DVD and watch it again. Excellent casting, story/plot, and a feel good movie.This is a good movie for almost any age, however kids may freak out over the shreaking eels. " [More]

The Princess Bride
by civex in civex Blog

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"This is one of my three all-time favorite movies, and I'm not really sure why. Everything just works. Rob Reiner, the director, nailed it. Peter Falk and Fred Savage nailed it. Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, and Andre the Giant nailed it. Christopher Guest totally nailed it with his villain-with-the-flat-affect characterization of heartless, truly heartless, evil. Even Mark Knopfler nailed the score. How can you not love a movie with the characters "The Ancient Booer" and "The Assistant Brute." I've watched it several times since it came out, and it draws me in every time. It's a truly iconic fantasy. My current theory on why the movie works so well is that the characters seem to respect each other. The Dread Pirate Roberts, Inigo, and Fezzik not only respect each other as adversaries, they seem even to care while they are adversaries, making their morph into friends completely credible. It's ensemble acting at a high level, and it makes it almost necessary for us the viewers to care ... " [More]

The Princess Bride on Reel 13
by jjgittes in jjgittes Blog

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"Entertainment Weekly recently dedicated an entire issue to the "New Classics", films released within the last twenty-five years that have resonated within American culture and are sure to be the lasting films of the future. The biggest omission in their list of 100, in my mind, was 1987's THE PRINCESS BRIDE, which aired on Reel 13 last night. It's cinematic quality notwithstanding, it seems to me that THE PRINCESS BRIDE is easily one of the most beloved, admired and quotable films ("Inconceivable", "My name is Inigo Montoya…" etc.) of the last twenty-five years. I am heartily disappointed that films like Brian DePalma's SCARFACE and THE SIXTH SENSE are considered to be more well-remembered on EW's list.With that out of the way, suffice it to say that I am among those that consider THE PRINCESS BRIDE to be an outstanding and perhaps more importantly, very fun film. It features a tight, clever script from one of the all-time great screenwriters, William Goldman, who made sure ... " [More]

Star Wars Meets Princess Bride. ...
by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com

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"I never knew it was so easy to add lightsaber effects to any YouTube clip. Earlier this week, when I wrote about the new Clone Wars lightsaber game for the Nintendo Wii, I saw it done with the infamous “Star Wars Kid” video (see it here). And now, thanks again to Fark.com, I see it done with a clip from The Princess Bride (above). Apparently, this is only the latest in a trend; people have been changing swords to lightsabers in nearly every movie featuring swashbuckling, including the Pirates of the Caribbean movies (see here and [More]

Clip from The Fall: Where’s the ...
by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com

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"As I mentioned back when I reviewed the film’s trailer, I will be seeing Tarsem Singh’s The Fall for the eye candy alone. But now Roadside Attractions has unveiled a clip from the fantasy drama (via Yahoo!), and there’s not one bit of that sweet, delicious spectacle I crave. Fortunately, the scene actually works for the film because it has none of the flashy visuals. The young actress here is terrific, seemingly working off her costar with a combination of innocence and improvisation (the miscommunication at the end is priceless, whether it was off the cuff or scripted that way). It gives us a sense that this isn’t a film only for the eyes, but is also for the heart, as in a Cinema Paradiso or (2008 Sundance-winner) Captain Abu Raed or something. In fact I kind of wish the man in the scene was a much older fell " [More]

There's a hole in the 'Bucket'
by usesoap in usesoap Blog

loved it.

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"After a second-half career slump, director Rob Reiner has taken great pains to critic-proof his latest film, “The Bucket List.” “I'll pair two of America's best-loved elder actors, give them oddly endearing eccentricities, saddle them with a terminal illness, but show how they learn to LOVE LIFE!!!” he says (exclamation marks are a necessity here).So when a critic attempts to lay into the film for being rote and pandering, he or she will be derided for besmirching the actors' good names and callously drubbing those dealing with cancer.Well, bring on the hate mail. This is “Wild Hogs for the septuagenarian set (“Mild Hogs?” “Terminal Hogs?”), and it is a TV dinner of a film – everything spooned out in carefully measured proportions, pre-packaged and cold, without a hint of spice or surprise.The two ailing leads are a cantankerous old wisecracking coot and a gentle, grounded guru who are both diagnosed with the b ... " [More]

STARDUST
by Windbreaker in Windbreaker!

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"Unless you have an outrageously large DVD collection, just rent this. It's good, but probably won't have you craving too many repeat viewings over the years. I've seen so many ads for fantasy flicks in the post-Lord of the Rings era that just try too hard. They figure the grander the scale, the more satisfying the adventure. Oh how I long for the days of Princess Bride (not that there were many small scale movies like Princess Bride back then... but I can fantasize). Stardust is somewhere in the middle of the fantasy film spectrum. It isn't real close and intimate like Pan's Labyrinth (instant classic), and also isn't 4 hours long with 18 primary characters. Some of the camera shots get out of control. I don't need all the sweeping space-to-earth type shots in a story like this. Show me the journey, not an accidental blooper of Sputnik orbiting over Utah.So, what's Stardust about? Glad you asked. It's about a town in the horse-n-carria ... " [More]

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