my favorite movie of all time

Rating: 10/10 (21 January 2008)

This has been my favorite movie ever since the first time I saw it in July of 1991. I remember the day well, I had just had my 8th birthday and I was on my way upstairs to play Super Mario World on my new SNES when my father was flipping through the channels, and found this movie. At the time, I was really into wrestling and my favorite was Andre The Giant, when my father told me he was in it I asked him to tape the rest and I'd watch it later. After dinner, my brother and I watched the movie and we were hooked, we spent the rest of the summer watching that movie practically every day. We even had our parents buy us plastic fencing swords so we could act out the dueling scene between Westley and Inigo. To this day, whether consciously or subconsciously, I compare every film I watch to 'The Princess Bride' because I look for a movie that has just the right amount of every genre you can think of; drama, comedy, fantasy, epic, love story, fairy tale, period, modern, adventure & suspense. All those in one movie, not to mention Andre gives one of my favorite performances ever. Sure, he's playing a gentle giant much like he was in real life but for a man who had to learn his lines phonetically, that's something. Last but not least, Robin Wright who's portrayal of the beautiful, innocent, kind-hearted and pure-spirited Buttercup captured my love...and still has it. Overall, if I could only watch one movie the rest of my life, it would be 'The Princess Bride' by S. Morgenstern, okay well...William Goldman.