Great movie, great book

Rating: 10/10 (26 August 1999)

Aside from being a superb movie on its own merits, TPB is the best, most faithful adaptation of a book I have ever seen (rivaled perhaps by "The Silence of the Lambs"). This is certainly due to the fact that the book's author, William Goldman, is also an accomplished screenwriter, and did the adaptation.
My only disappointment in that respect was that Inigo's story -- which was almost a complete chapter in the book -- had to be reduced to a few lines. (As Inigo would say, "No time to 'splain; let me sum up.") With it went one of the funniest characters in the book, a friend of Inigo's father named Yeste.
So see the movie, and read the book; and the movie is good enough that it really doesn't matter which you do first.
By the way -- does Count Rugen's torture machine go up to eleven?