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bikebloke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-16-09 10:17 AM
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32. I read the book many years ago...
and loved it. Hilarious. Then I finally saw the flick not long ago. It was OK.
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  -I don't get The Princess Bride. Drunken Irishman  Jun-15-09 10:38 PM   #0 
  - that makes Zogby cry  mcctatas   Jun-15-09 10:38 PM   #1 
  - Good. I hope he cries all night.  Drunken Irishman   Jun-15-09 10:41 PM   #3 
  - as you wish  Tuesday Afternoon   Jun-15-09 10:39 PM   #2 
  - Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.  kwassa   Jun-15-09 10:49 PM   #4 
  - Whoa,calm down buddy !  jeff30997   Jun-15-09 10:56 PM   #6 
  - LOL. I loved all the character actors in that film. The acting was amazing. And yes it was  applegrove   Jun-16-09 12:26 PM   #43 
  - For that kind of movie, it's entertaining.  Starbucks Anarchist   Jun-15-09 10:49 PM   #5 
  - Exactly...what you said. nt  Flying Dream Blues   Jun-16-09 11:35 AM   #41 
  - Inconceivable!  Orangepeel   Jun-15-09 10:56 PM   #7 
  - You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.  CreekDog   Jun-15-09 11:05 PM   #8 
  - It's basically a video game, there's all these challenges the main character has to win  CreekDog   Jun-15-09 11:06 PM   #9 
  - Well you just described...  jeff30997   Jun-15-09 11:16 PM   #12 
  - BOOO. Its obviously too sophistacated for you  TZ   Jun-16-09 07:30 AM   #29 
  - It's cute but it's not in my top 50.  AlCzervik   Jun-15-09 11:08 PM   #10 
  - Obviously.  BarenakedLady   Jun-15-09 11:12 PM   #11 
  - Rest In Peace.  Aristus   Jun-15-09 11:26 PM   #13 
  - I'm dead to a lot of people.  Drunken Irishman   Jun-15-09 11:29 PM   #14 
     - See? Give The Princess Bride another chance, and you will be resurrected in a spectacular  Aristus   Jun-15-09 11:32 PM   #15 
        - That only happens when you're mostly dead  skygazer   Jun-16-09 10:13 AM   #31 
  - That's disappointing.  TheKentuckian   Jun-16-09 12:06 AM   #16 
  - As you wish  pokerfan   Jun-16-09 12:07 AM   #17 
  - Okay then ...  RoyGBiv   Jun-16-09 12:09 AM   #18 
  - I thought it was just me  abq e streeter   Jun-16-09 12:49 AM   #19 
  - You would make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts. n/t  leeroysphitz   Jun-16-09 11:03 AM   #39 
  - If theres nothing else on cable and I'm really baked its pretty good.  rcrush   Jun-16-09 01:58 AM   #20 
  - its supposed to be campy and stupid  MrsBrady   Jun-16-09 02:00 AM   #21 
  - Well, it's genius, and hilarious, so I'd say you're missing everything.  jobycom   Jun-16-09 02:05 AM   #22 
  - Ha!  Drunken Irishman   Jun-16-09 03:41 AM   #24 
  - no, you're not missing anything  Skittles   Jun-16-09 03:13 AM   #23 
  - There was one moment I thought was truly hilarious  JNelson6563   Jun-16-09 06:20 AM   #25 
  - No, I'm with you. I think it's supposed to be camp humor, like the old Batman tv show.  Bucky   Jun-16-09 06:35 AM   #26 
  - R.O.U.S are gonna git you.  Debi   Jun-16-09 06:52 AM   #27 
  - It's OKaaaaaay . . . I wouldn't go out of my way to see it, or anything.  HughBeaumont   Jun-16-09 06:55 AM   #28 
  - You are missing a sense of humor  3.14158675309   Jun-16-09 09:24 AM   #30 
  - I read the book many years ago...  bikebloke   Jun-16-09 10:17 AM   #32 
  - It's a kids film.  surrealAmerican   Jun-16-09 10:25 AM   #33 
  - inconceivable!  charlie and algernon   Jun-16-09 10:28 AM   #34 
  - Its simultaniously a subtle spoof of the classic hero and princess tales  DarkTirade   Jun-16-09 10:35 AM   #35 
  - I think you have to see it as a child first.  Shell Beau   Jun-16-09 10:41 AM   #36 
  - Nope. My first time seeing it was in college.  TZ   Jun-16-09 11:28 AM   #40 
     - I saw it as a child. If I were to watch it as an adult for the first time,  Shell Beau   Jun-16-09 12:47 PM   #45 
     - Same here.  Pacifist Patriot   Jun-16-09 12:50 PM   #46 
  - I never got it either  hamsterjill   Jun-16-09 10:50 AM   #37 
  - I read the book in the early 80's. It was fantastic! The movie is  Strong Atheist   Jun-16-09 10:59 AM   #38 
  - My finance and I got together because of that movie:)  waterboy   Jun-16-09 12:25 PM   #42 
  - I love that movie. But not everyone gets all movies. "Napoleon Dynamite" was a complete bust for me.  GreenPartyVoter   Jun-16-09 12:29 PM   #44 
 

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