The Princess Bride Watch A Long
Added 2024-08-16 16:00:17 +0000 UTCHey Peaches! Can you believe Jay has never seen The Princess Bride? Today we Fix IT! Watch Jay start cautiously optimistic and slowly fall in love with one of the best movies ever.
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It’s stunning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Bride_(novel)
Stephanie Krutsick
2025-04-07 07:28:49 +0000 UTCPlease tell me y’all have been told that the book itself is written by a man who wrote it as a fake book he fake heard from his immigrant father as he grew up - and that literally the entire book itself is a troll with fake references, fake abridging notes, etc. And that man is the screenwriter for this movie, based on his own troll book, based on his own childhood with his immigrant father. It’s amazing. Also, the suction cups are far more horrifying in the book, as they are described as being on every centimeter of the man’s body, including inside his tongue and mouth. Tiny suction cups all over your body in the thousands. But the book is only like 175 pages long, is wonderful, and trolled one of my best friends in senior year of 2000-2001 high school to do a book report on it as if it were ACTUALLY a book that was abridged from an older, lost version. She’s lucky I caught her the week before and told her it was, in fact, a troll book this whole time and just as comedic as the film in its very inception.
Stephanie Krutsick
2025-04-07 07:26:40 +0000 UTCSo great! Please react to the at-home celebrity version made during COVID (it is on YouTube). I grinned like an idiot the entire time.
Claire Deeley
2024-08-23 04:25:31 +0000 UTCSQUEE
Camille R
2024-08-22 01:15:04 +0000 UTCThat’s right! I forgot that.
Kate L.
2024-08-18 18:55:22 +0000 UTCThey both learned to fight with both hands, and Carey casually had a broken toe. The story is in his “making of” book. If I remember right, he broke it on the 4X4 that Andre got to ride around set. One year he did cons he was specifically promoting his book. He told that story. When we met him, they had curtains up to close him off from the con floor and created a mini booth. He doesn’t like crowds. He does seem like one of those shier people who comes alive when he’s acting. You’d never know.
Kate L.
2024-08-18 18:54:06 +0000 UTCI am here for the look on Adam’s face when Jay says, “That’s Amanda,” and Adam responds with “I know.” It is so sweet. This is one of my comfort movies. Whenever I just need to escape into something fun I turn on this movie. I am so happy that Jay got to experience it. “Have fun storming the castle!”
Michael Lentz
2024-08-18 04:36:22 +0000 UTCAwesome watch along as usually. Jay worrying about not liking this move. I was like same feeling as I got about him not liking skeleton key aka goonies in space.
Michael Enslein
2024-08-17 23:42:47 +0000 UTCThe sword fights were choreographed by the same guy who choreographed the light saber fights in the original Star Wars trilogy
Linda Montez Brooks
2024-08-17 05:07:25 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite movies of all time.
Linda Montez Brooks
2024-08-17 04:40:54 +0000 UTCHadn't seen this in a while. Always love it!
Nosde Tra
2024-08-17 03:25:55 +0000 UTCGreat watch also. Thanks guys.
Ana Greer
2024-08-17 00:49:44 +0000 UTCThe book "As You Wish" is pretty good. Carey Elwes said that the scene at the fire swamp when he gets hit on the head by one of Humperdink's men actually knocked him out! Also, I love the fencing scene.
Ana Greer
2024-08-17 00:49:21 +0000 UTCJay has never seen Princess Bride?!?!? Inconceivable!
Zephyr (AD)
2024-08-16 23:53:29 +0000 UTCI watched this film later in life too Jay and it for the most part withstands the test of time. It is still so charming, whimsy and funny.
Urooj Qureshi
2024-08-16 23:50:31 +0000 UTCLove this movie. I also love the story of how Mandy Patinkin used the death of his father (from cancer) as inspiration for Ingio's revenge against the six fingered man. Adds such amazing depth to that final sword fight scene!
Tato
2024-08-16 23:27:30 +0000 UTCI don't know that it is the very best ever, but certainly it deservedly sits at the high table of the great screen swordfights. It is one of the duels I enjoy watching the most, especially for their running commentary! It does a great job of conveying a lot of info about the characters too. The Mask of Zorro is a true high point and Antonio is a worthy successor to Tyrone Power (I knew someone who knew someone who'd worked with some of the team and apparently Mr Banderas was very very good indeed, one of those actors who are gifted with a sword. Even so, a bit of me still remains blown away by Ridley Scott's finest film - The Duellists. Shot in quite a different way, but brilliantly intense and conveys the feeling of what it would be like to have a psychotic Harvey Keitel coming at you with a cavalry sabre :) !
Jon Kay
2024-08-16 23:06:50 +0000 UTCThe best fencing in cinema? I'd argue Antonio Banderas v Catherine Zeta Jones in The Mark of Zorro is the best fencing duel in cinema.
Bernard Manansala
2024-08-16 20:19:02 +0000 UTCThe AC is not that bad guys.
Bernard Manansala
2024-08-16 19:30:21 +0000 UTCI atarted crying at the first "As you Wish"......
Shauna
2024-08-16 19:20:54 +0000 UTCIt's so fun! I only watched it for the first time a few years ago, and it's just so dang charming throughout. Understandable why people love it to this day, why they have interviews with the cast at different anniversaries.
fivefingers_through_fire
2024-08-16 18:23:08 +0000 UTCThis is exactly what I needed today. Thank you.
Tania C
2024-08-16 16:59:34 +0000 UTCI cannot stress enough how excited I am for this. When I got married, I walked down the aisle to an acoustic guitar version of the main song from the movie. This movie means everything to me, I can’t wait to watch Jay fall in love with it too!!
Nikki Wood
2024-08-16 16:59:28 +0000 UTCWell this just sealed how i'm spending my night. I'm amused at the start to know that you're equally shocked. Can't want to come back and enjoy again with you two.
Megan Blair
2024-08-16 16:33:28 +0000 UTCOh, so Jay’s a year younger than me then, and I made it to HS without seeing it. It was several of us in one big camp group, and they put it on for movie night instantly.
Kate L.
2024-08-16 16:22:49 +0000 UTCHave fun storming the castle!
Kate L.
2024-08-16 16:16:57 +0000 UTCHe hasn't seen this classic that's right up his alley?? Inconceivable!!
Aimee Lynn
2024-08-16 16:05:50 +0000 UTCWeactions. Weactions war what bwing us twogetha twoday
Austin Arminio
2024-08-16 16:03:21 +0000 UTC
