My All-Time Favorite Movie

Rating: 10/10 (10 June 2015)

Upon reading all of the reviews for this movie, I cannot believe how many "horrible"' sits received (Being only about four, but I digress)! The Princess Bride is my absolute all-time favourite movie and I could sit and watch it for hours on end, which I do.
For starters, yes, it's cheesy and, yes, the writing is amateur-ish and, yes, the sets are all clearly mostly done in a sound stage, but guess what, mate? This isn't a "Gravity" or an "Imitation Game". This movie was made in 1987, and it has that classic diamond-in-the- rough feel to it. Someone wrote that it was "a tacky movie with tacky acting". That's the fun of it! The Princess Bride isn't supposed to be a completely serious film, and most of the actors in it were just starting out so, yes, please forgive them if they aren't Meryl Streep- quality.
Another spectator voiced that "this is a fantasy piece, yet it mentions Australia's criminal record?" All I can say is that this person has clearly never read the book. Throughout the entire work, page breaks in parentheses read "this was before _____ but after taxes, but then again, /everything/ is after taxes", giving it this raw sense of being that conveys the illusion that The Princess Bride truly could have happened anywhere in your imagination.
Another person complained about the "crappy writing". To said person: have you not asked a fan of The Princess Bride to finish any quote or to give you their absolute favorite quote? What does Billy Crystal get stopped for on the street? Here's a hint, it isn't even "you look mahvelous," it's "have fun storming the castle!" A few of my favorites include "Drop. Your. Sword.", "Life is pain, highness; anyone who says any differently is trying to sell you something." and "Wuuuuuuv!! Twuuuuuu wuuuuuuv!!"
Back to the rawness: I cannot express enough that, while the movie is cheesy, it /was/ made in 1987, which truly gives it that sense of innocence. It takes someone nauseatingly closed-minded to not enjoy this movie simply because that implies that they don't know how to let go and just enjoy themselves every once-in-a-while. The Princes Brice wasn't made to be a 2015 blockbuster, it was mead to be something that the whole family could enjoy without being a goofy, over-rated cartoon.
In addition to being my favorite movie, The Princess Bride is also my favorite book. I mentioned before how the author took breaks to continuously prove that this story truly could have happened in any time period. I also love the writing style of it. For instance, in the section where Fezzik is fighting the Man in Black against the boulders, the writer consistently spoke of Fezzik "Killing the man in one simple snap and discarding his disheveled body over the cliff.....or at least, that's what he'd have /liked/ to do."
Also, what a lot of people don't know: Buttercup is an idiot. Now, I'm not just saying that because that's how Robin brilliantly portrayed her in the picture, but in the book the writer clearly said that Buttercup was ignorant. For instance, it didn't take her three times for her to realize she was in love with Westley. No, it took /ages/, and she didn't realize it truly until a broad, a /dutchess/, came and checked Westley out, leaving Buttercup scatterbrained and proceeding to knock on his flat door at five in the bleeding morning.
The book also goes into depth about Inigo killing Count Reugen. For instance, rather than cutting back to Humperdinck and Westley's encounter as the picture does, there is at least a good quarter of a chapter describing the Count and Inigo's fight. At the end, where Inigo's stabs Reugen for the final time, killing him, in the book, Inigo actually rips his heart out with his sword, seeing as that is what the Count did to Domingo.
In short (though, really, rather long), The Princess Bride is a movie that should be cherished for ages to come. I look forward to sharing it with my future children and English classes.