@@MumRah The epitome of a gentle giant. It's also sad because he had issues lifting weight. He couldn't even carry the cast, which is why they used dummies and wires.
For the short time they're on camera, these two, Max and Valerie, were the just incredible. But to me, the greatest character of all was the grandfather. I hate to say that because all the characters were so perfect, but from his entrance to the epic last words of the movie, the grandfather was exactly what you want to see in a grandfather.
@@Michael-dy2lb And the grandfather, it could be argued, is the true center of the movie ... and it's Peter Falk, so how can you possibly go wrong! I'm glad you mentioned Valerie: Carol Kane does the impossible and plays the grounding force to Billy Crystal without losing her own energy, humor and chemistry with him.
I dont know, not to compare myself to Billy, but one night I was doing Stand-Up in SAn Fran and said a joke that made a guy throw-up through his nose! .....ok, I dont win an academy for it, but a memory of laughter I'll never forget.
The Goodies managed to kill someone with their episode Kung Fu Capers. A viewer was laughing for about 25 minutes straight and suffered a fatal heart attack.
4:20 the director gave the actors license to be their characters, and Princess Bride is one of the best-loved, most quotable and memorable movies of all time. Surely a coincidence. Not a lesson to be learned here.
But it cost them a lot of money. Hyper-capitalists wouldn't ever think to spare a few bucks of time for a greater subjective appeal when there's nothing objectively better about it, unfortunately
@@susie9893 Exactly. If you could simply throw together a given mix of actors and plot and get a guaranteed hit people would have been throwing money at this movie.
Are you aware this is a film adaptation of a novel? Hilarious little book including a third part, not only the main story and the one about the child and his grandfather that were includedin the film, but also about the writer trying to sell his script to Hollywood studios.
I just introduced this film to my kids Last weekend. A 13-year-old son absolutely loved it. My 7-year-old daughter, Ended up crying and nearly being traumatized, By the torture scene I completely forgot was in the movie. 😅
Bro I’m a grown ass adult, and the torture scenes are *still* hard for me to watch. Its strange… because its not any blood or gore or really scary imagery, its how you see this character whose just overcome odds that seemed impossible suddenly so hurt and terrified and hopeless, all he can do is devolve into tears. Excellent writing!
I loved that description. I know Crystal was a huge baseball fan so no surprise he was familiar with Stengel. I'm less sure how he felt about his grandmother.
"You seem a decent fellow, I hate to die." is such a brilliant response in its intent. Not only is it sincere, but it expresses a few different ideas. -I hate to die, because I wish I could get to know you as a friend. -I hate to die, because, based upon your character, it seems Ill have earned it. -Humility is disarming. Tons of character here.
That whole scene is one of my all time favorites in cinema. Inigo Montoya flipped the script in terms of just being another goon to a proper rival. It made me recall and miss the days of "gentleman villains"
I had the sound byte "bye bye boys, have fun storming the castle" play when I shut down my computer. My two Huskies would hear it every night when I'd close down and get ready for bed. They knew it was time to go upstairs. One day, we were watching the movie and when it got to that line, both dogs ran upstairs. It was so cute! 🐺❤️🐺❤️
For those who haven't seen them, two wonderful Princess Bride things came out of the Covid Lockdown period. One was a script reading done by the entire remaining cast (plus a couple of new faces to replace those who had passed away). The other was a re-enactment of the movie done by many, many people, mostly in their backyards, where they would take one small scene, use whatever props were at hand, and act out the scene, then toss it to the next people. Both are very much worth watching for any fan of the movie.
There are UA-camrs who visited the filming locations to reenact a few scenes. Mobileinstinct's channel comes to mind. He found the hut that Buttercup lived in when Wesley and her first met along with many other recognized locations. Pretty interesting if you're a fan, like I am.
OMG It may not be OK with YT to post links in the comments, but maybe the channel name would help! I, for one, would sure appreciate it =] (oh, by the by, I see YT suggestions on the side are changing as I type this...will have to check a few out -- this is such a time sink
I remember getting my friends to watch it and they complained when they saw the cover. Once we finished the movie they all thanked me too. It just so good!!! I.dont think there was a moment without laughing. 😂
I want to thank you for your recommendation. I had already seen the movie a bunch of times before your recommendation, but it is still a great recommendation.
In my state, I saw two different license plates in two towns far apart, "TO BLAYV," in one, and "TO BLAAV" in another. I thought, that tears it. I'm getting my own. And I did. It reads: "NICE MLT."
Of all the films that poke fun at their genre and still bring the pathos, nothing is a good as The Princess Bride. A beautiful movie. Delighted to get an inside view of a little of it.
Not often are filmmakers fortunate enough to have a screenwriter that not only *wrote* the book, but had also won two Oscars (William Goldman won Best Screenplay for "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid" and "All the President's Men"). "The Princess Bride" was his favorite work and he wouldn't let anybody touch it until the right people asked-it would have broken his heart to have it made into a crappy movie
IMHO, the movie is better than the book. In the book, Goldman tried to be oh-so-clever, which I thought got a bit grating after a while. In the movie, he was smart enough to leave out the too-clever stuff and have it be just clever enough.
@@balok63a40 I first read the book in 6th grade and absolutely loved it. My favorite part wasn't in the movie: The moral. "Life isn't fair, but it's fairer than death." A great truth for a teenager to learn.
Minor nitpick - William Goldman won the Adapted (not original) Screenplay Oscar for "All the President's Men" (as it was not an original story, but an adaptation of an already-published book of the same name).
@@balok63a40 He'd also had time to assess reader's reactions to different sections of the books, to better figure out what were "the good parts", as well as leaving out things that couldn't possibly have worked in a movie (such as the author's inserted interjections, ostensibly from his childhood "experiences"). So the movie got to be the best parts of "the good parts"-plus a few things he thought of after publication.
I remember watching this in '87 on the last day of school my sixth grade year in the music room. I wanted to go outside and play but a girl asked me to stay for the movie. Man am I glad I did, this is one of my all-time favorite movies. My mistake it was June of '88.
After my parents got our first VCR in 88 or 89, "The Princess Bride" was one of our number one rentals. We probably rented it at least once a month until the mid-90s. Another big rental in our house was the Sylvester Stallone movie "Oscar."
@nomadbrad6391 was released in September 1987 in Canada, Poland, Turkey, and a limited release in the US. Full US release was October. There were plenty of pirate (quite fitting for this film) copies of films that did the rounds in those days.
Back in the day before the movie, I bought the book on my first day at college because I liked Norman Green's cover illustration. After helping my new roomie move in, I settled down to read. When I reached, "I'm not left-handed," I whooped-then apologized to my bewildered roommate. A few minutes later, I got to "I'm not left-handed either," shrieked aloud, and threw the book in the air...it took a while after that to persuade my roommate I wasn't certifiable 😅 I'd never done anything like that with a book before, nor have I done so since!
@@rleague685 : Yeah...and it's not every day that the author of the book you want to adapt into a movie just happens to have already won two Oscars for screenwriting (for "Butch Cassidy" and "All the President's Men"). But Goldman held out until he had the right offer-of all his works, this was the one that meant the most to him, and he was very protective of it
Given the state of Hollywood these days, reminiscing about this movie almost gets you emotional. As everyone here has already said, it's one of the most perfect movies ever made and I have so many fond memories of it. I've quoted portions of it for most of my life. What an amazing work of art!
I saw this movie in the theater I think eight or nine times. When I was about 12 years old, I had mononucleosis. My mother (RIP), who had the Princess Bride book, would read it to me while I was resting on the couch, just as in the movie with the grandpa reading to the grandson. However for me this was in 1986, long before the movie came out. After she died, I found her Princess Bride book... Only then did I realize, she had highlighted the passages she read to me, and skipped others because she didn't want me to get bored. Now as an adult, I realize how much time she spent in preparing that for me. ❤️❤️💯💯 Love your mother while you still can!!!! And call her. NOW! You don't get an advanced warning when it's gone.
It goes hand in hand with: "Life *is* pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something". (I *know* that the people who dismiss this movie as a children's fairytale didn't LISTEN)
It just shows how well suited Billy and Robin Williams were as friends. Improvisational geniuses. Princess Bride was an instant favourite with me and it hits the mark still.
I don't know if someone else is with me. But every time during the credit scene of this movie, I can't help but tear up. It just makes me so happy. This is just a perfectly beautiful timeless movie and I can't wait to watch it again for the nth time.
I watched it today for the first time! (Well not technically, I watched it when I was super young but didn't remember a thing) And I loved the movie so much! Very charming film, reminds me of The Never Ending Story
I recall being a little skeptical of this movie the first time I watched it, but when the kid complained about his grandfather pinching his cheeks and then Columbo walked in and pinched his cheeks, I cracked the first smile of many as I settled in.
There are several movies like that for me. I wish that I could watch Planes, Trains and Automobiles again for the first time so that I could laugh until I cried at the scene were John Candy is in a devil's outfit laughing.
You have no heart and soul if you don't love this movie. Now, let me tell you exactly why this film is so special. It's easy to say that the essence of art is love, a love for art, for humanity, for being alive. But that's only part of it. A great sense of fun is the truest essence of Art. Because when human beings are at play, we're in our most natural state of being. A great sense of fun is what elevates MOZART from Beethoven. And what elevates Ernst Lubitsch above every other director in my eyes. You also feel that robust sense of fun in Shakespeare and Moliere (among many many other things). Anyways, thanks for the video. This movie is an all-time favorite of mine.
@@ernestmendez5487 That made me laugh. Maybe I should 've added something like this 😉 to my question above to make it clear that I'm only joking. My bad. And to be honest I didn't really read the book but listend to the audio book. Hope it still counts as a positive though 😉
Years ago when Space Shuttle still flew, they had to go out on a spacewalk to fix the solar panels on the ISS. I'd listen to the spacewalks while I worked because I'm a nerd. Anyway, as the astronaut was exiting the hatch they played the "Have fun storming the castle! Think it'll work? It'd take a miracle... BYE!" I couldn't help but laugh and have to explain to some coworkers why. I wish I could find that clip, LOL. And yes, they did repair the panel!
I don’t know how this movie does it, but it’s just so incredibly quotable. Nearly every scene is full of quotable and hilarious lines, which are somehow so unique that all you have to do is quote one line and everyone knows which movie you’re talking about. Many great movies have a few lines like this, but somehow Princess Bride manages to fill a whole movie with them. Inconceivable. 😊
One of my top 5 all-time favorite movies! You know it's good when lines directly from the film make their way into your family's vernacular. Two decades ago, my fiancee and I broke up briefly. I had to go abroad to do some research and a few weeks later (once he'd had time to regret his decision) he showed up for my birthday. At a lovely French restaurant, he stopped dinner and proposed for a second time. My response: "Have you the wing?"
@@yetinother Sounds like a good enough reason to me! But yeah, my kids are never gonna forget. And they're women but they'd never want the line changed. It's always, Bye bye boys, have fun storming the castle!
This is one of those movies where it was just perfect all around. I really hope no one gets the idea to remake it because it would just never meet the expectations this one created. This movie is timeless!
it really is the best movie made even by todays standards. the cast was perfect, the director was perfect, the crew that helped to produce it were amazing at their craft. it really can not be understated how amazing and flawless the movie itself is, from start to end it was pure perfection.
I am SO not surprised. This is beautiful! With all my favourites…Princess bride is absolutely my all time favourite movie! Have an odd connection to this film. I was staying at the King Eddy hotel in Toronto at the same time as this movie was being premiered. Unbeknownst to me Cary Elwes is also staying in the hotel for the premier. For some reason, a brown manila envelope is delivered to my room. I have to assume he was in the suite next to my suite for whatever reason I received his entire itinerary and tickets to the premiere. This was back in 1987 probably August. I still have it because it wasn’t until maybe five years later when I found it again in my stuff. I had seen the movie and was absolutely in love with it. I then I realized what a piece of history I had in my hands. I do hope he was able to still attend his own premiere, even even without it. Actually, now that I think about it, I hope the person who delivered it didn’t get fired.
Hahaha 😂 when ever my husband leaves for work or anyone I known says they are heading somewhere.. I still say “ Have fun storming the Castle!” Haha lol
That must be the ultimate compliment to a comedian. When you make someone laugh so much they are bruised from repressing it! Billy Crystal you are and will always be a legend!
This is why it is the greatest comedy movie of all time. My wife and I use quotes from this movie all the time. It has brought joy and fun to our lives.
The Princess Bride - one of the best movies ever, and definitely better than the book...the author wrote the screenplay, iirc, and improved on his original work.
@InCinematic tbh, I never got much more than the first chapter or so into the book - Goldman was doing his preface about how the original book was so amazing...so long as you cut out the boring parts, but as part of the set up (replaced by the Fred Savage/Grampa Columbo parts in the movie), Goldman is taking us through his day at home around the dinner table, and he is mocking his overweight kid...and I know riding the chubby kid is a time-honored tradition...but not by your own parent! Your friends can say stuff about it, and whether you are Rerun, the Great Hambino, adult Curly, Chunk, or a thousand others, your friends are ok and you know they like you, and if some douche from the other side of town tries it, they will have your back.... But your Dad? The one who's supposed to be on your side? Making fun of you, even in his head? Nope! I'm out. I never got to the Fire Swamp. I never made it to the boat with the Shrieking Eels. I never made it to see Buttercup meet Wesley the Farm Boy. I left Mr Goldman's table, and never went back. Maybe someday I'll just skip the set up and start with "once upon a time..." But that day is not this day.
@@InCinematic I definitely disagree with this comment of movie vs book. The book made fun of all the genre "love and adventure", it was filled with made up anecdotes of the author's family struggling to keep his own family life together and how he is writing the definite story about love, based in an old text lost, when he himself is going downhill with his life. I read it 20 years ago, in my twenties, and this quote stuck with me: "True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops." So definitely it deserves to be read, enjoying the sarcasm, the funny comments of the character-author... It has much more between lines than a story of adventures.
@@marieroberts5664 None of that was true though. Goldman made it all up--not only the stuff about S. Morganstern's larger book, but about his own family. His wife wasn't a psychiatrist, and they didn't even have a son. It was all part of the satire.
This was and still is a massively underappreciated movie. I watched a video a little while back just about the swordplay and the stance and the way they swung their swords around and the way the sword master explained the subtle nuances of the choreography it made me appreciate the movie even more. It is so clever and still holds up to this day. I love this movie.
@@EweChewBrrr01 based off the description I guessed it wasn't Shadiversity or Skallagrim, but I'm sure there there are other UA-camrs out there I've not yet encountered, so I must've got lucky. I like her videos
@@jowbloe3673 - Each of us has the right to an opinion. I am truly sorry for you that your sense of humor (or your inability to suspend disbelief) leaves you unable to enjoy a really funny movie. But no insults. Each to his/her tastes.
What other characters or scenes from The Princess Bride do you particularly enjoy?
How can you not absolutely adore Andre The Giant? What a legend.
@@MumRah The epitome of a gentle giant. It's also sad because he had issues lifting weight. He couldn't even carry the cast, which is why they used dummies and wires.
For the short time they're on camera, these two, Max and Valerie, were the just incredible. But to me, the greatest character of all was the grandfather. I hate to say that because all the characters were so perfect, but from his entrance to the epic last words of the movie, the grandfather was exactly what you want to see in a grandfather.
@@Michael-dy2lb And the grandfather, it could be argued, is the true center of the movie ... and it's Peter Falk, so how can you possibly go wrong!
I'm glad you mentioned Valerie: Carol Kane does the impossible and plays the grounding force to Billy Crystal without losing her own energy, humor and chemistry with him.
Yes.
A bruised rib from suppressed laughter is basically the highest physical achievement a comedian can muster LOL
That or literally making a man die of laughter (split between Michael Palin and Kevin Kline, A Fish Called Wanda)
I dont know, not to compare myself to Billy, but one night I was doing Stand-Up in SAn Fran and said a joke that made a guy throw-up through his nose! .....ok, I dont win an academy for it, but a memory of laughter I'll never forget.
They don't call it busting a gut for nothing.
Robin Williams sent a woman to the hospital with a hernia from laughing
The Goodies managed to kill someone with their episode Kung Fu Capers. A viewer was laughing for about 25 minutes straight and suffered a fatal heart attack.
The entire 30 hours of Billy Crystal's improv NEEDS to be released. I'd pay top dollar for all that footage.
That would make so much money
Release the Crystal Cut!!!
Crystal Paper Cuts with Lemon!
Ditto!
Today, eliminating a stray laugh here and there is child's audio editing play.
I tell my granddaughter “have fun stormin’ the castle.” everyday when she’s leaving for school.
My parents would always tell me that too when I left!
That’s awesome!
one day she'll turn around and say "it'll take a miracle".
😂😂😂
my grandpa did that too
“Medieval Yiddish standup” - never was there a more appropriate descriptor of this scene! 😂😂😂
I like that you got 666 likes
Oy vey!
Release the tapes, raw and uncut. The people demand it.
OR WE WILL STORM THE CASTLE ! !
@@apurugganan It would take a miracle....
@@Zudah_Pilot Byeeeee!!!!
Definitely 🎉
Here, here, surrender the tapes, raw and uncut, or my armies will march onward to take em........ yes, I'm trying to be funny there.
Don't dismiss Carol's character.
"I'm not a witch, I'm your wife!"
"And after what you just said, Im not even sure I want to be _that_ anymore!"
I use that like all the time!!!
My phone is called 'I'm not a witch, I'm your WIFI"
Carol Kane is an absolute treasure, and with Billy, not a duo, but a geometric construct.
HUMPERDINK, HUMPERDINK, HUMPERDINK
Princess Bride is a perfect movie.
One of the most perfect movies ever!
And yet, the book is 10times better and the movie hardly does it justice.
I completely agree ❤❤
It's, it's, like, the Princess Bride of movies! Oh, wait...
“Since the invention of movies, there have only been five films that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.”
Since the invention of movies, there have been five movies that were rated the most beloved, the most pure. This one left them all behind.
What are the 5 movies?!
@@MsJennaBuchananthat was taken from the book, and used into the movie.
@@MsJennaBuchananCitizen Cane, Casablanca, An Affair to Remember, Gone with the Wind, and It's a Wonderful Life.
@@bretterry8356 I might replace Gone With the Wind with The Shawshank Redemption but I can respect your choices.
@@bretterry8356 I'm not a fan of Citizen Cane, I would probably swap it out for 12 Angry Men
As beloved as The Princess Bride is, I still think it is criminally underappreciated.
Inconceivable!
i'm always recommending this and the men in tights movie with the same main actor.
@@CirnoBushthat's a criminal comparison.
Nope, theyre both awesome, and Cary Elwes is phenom in both.
I think "criminally under rated/under appreciated" is criminally over used.
4:20 the director gave the actors license to be their characters, and Princess Bride is one of the best-loved, most quotable and memorable movies of all time. Surely a coincidence. Not a lesson to be learned here.
Thedirector, you mean meathead from all in the family. He was a meathead on that show, and as his waistline expanded, so did the meat in his head.
But it cost them a lot of money. Hyper-capitalists wouldn't ever think to spare a few bucks of time for a greater subjective appeal when there's nothing objectively better about it, unfortunately
Inconceivable
Yeah, I’m in for 30 hours of Miracle Max bloopers. Where do I send my money?
We should start a gofund me lol
I'll pitch in!
@@AnimeSunglasses Same
it is incredible how much the failing entertainment industry could be saved if they would just give us all the bloopers ever.
I am a Liberian prince and I have the tapes. I can send you my account info 😂
Well now, who DOESN'T want to see that blooper reel?
I think we're owed that in a special edition release!
I do! 😮
Yes, with the staff laughters in, I could watch a 3 hour short version.
Should edit into its own spin off movie
_Miracle Max: Off Broadway Review_ with special appearance by Carol Kane!
You can't plan a movie like The Princess Bride, when you've got the right people sometimes it just happens.
You do realise that it took *years* of failed attempts for funding to finally shoot this movie?
That's either the best kind of movie or the worst @@susie9893
@@susie9893 Exactly. If you could simply throw together a given mix of actors and plot and get a guaranteed hit people would have been throwing money at this movie.
Are you aware this is a film adaptation of a novel? Hilarious little book including a third part, not only the main story and the one about the child and his grandfather that were includedin the film, but also about the writer trying to sell his script to Hollywood studios.
@@xlerb2286 I feel like you just contradicted yourself 🤔
I just introduced this film to my kids Last weekend.
A 13-year-old son absolutely loved it. My 7-year-old daughter, Ended up crying and nearly being traumatized, By the torture scene I completely forgot was in the movie.
😅
Bro I’m a grown ass adult, and the torture scenes are *still* hard for me to watch.
Its strange… because its not any blood or gore or really scary imagery, its how you see this character whose just overcome odds that seemed impossible suddenly so hurt and terrified and hopeless, all he can do is devolve into tears. Excellent writing!
lol There's a torture scene in this movie, what is it a rack pull? I genuinely have no memory of this and I watched it many times when I was younger.
@@MarikHavairit’s the Count’s machine that Wesley gets strapped to.
@@MarikHavair the life sucking machine.
@@MarikHavair Remember the "Not to 50!" line? Yeah. That scene.
"A cross between Casey Stengel and my Grandmother." BRILLIANT!!
only Billy Crystal had an image in his head
I loved that description. I know Crystal was a huge baseball fan so no surprise he was familiar with Stengel. I'm less sure how he felt about his grandmother.
Must have been her hair, lol
"You seem a decent fellow, I hate to die." is such a brilliant response in its intent.
Not only is it sincere, but it expresses a few different ideas.
-I hate to die, because I wish I could get to know you as a friend.
-I hate to die, because, based upon your character, it seems Ill have earned it.
-Humility is disarming.
Tons of character here.
That whole scene is one of my all time favorites in cinema. Inigo Montoya flipped the script in terms of just being another goon to a proper rival. It made me recall and miss the days of "gentleman villains"
One of my favourite lines in cinema.
Also foreshadowing.
Was that Zorro? Black horse, black whip, and black sword Zorro?
also, "I hate to die" is a nice nod to how his character was presumed dead and that ruined everything.
"As you wish" will always be one of the best sentences.
man, i really wish that standup was in a box somewhere and eventually sees the light of day
This and the hours of Robin Williams as the Genie!
@@InCinematicAnd the extra footage shot for Mrs Doubtfire
@@InCinematic Maybe not all the jokes, but you can find some on youtube (with animatics to go with)
@@InCinematicOMG yes! Robin Williams, RIP. What an icon.
What we really need (but are never going to get) is a Robin Williams and Billy Crystal stand up comedy.
I had the sound byte "bye bye boys, have fun storming the castle" play when I shut down my computer. My two Huskies would hear it every night when I'd close down and get ready for bed. They knew it was time to go upstairs. One day, we were watching the movie and when it got to that line, both dogs ran upstairs. It was so cute! 🐺❤️🐺❤️
Pavlov much? 🤣
@@walternullifidian 🤭
😂😂😂
Adooooorable :))
Darling!
Inconceivable!! “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means”
"I don't PAY you to think!"
For those who haven't seen them, two wonderful Princess Bride things came out of the Covid Lockdown period. One was a script reading done by the entire remaining cast (plus a couple of new faces to replace those who had passed away). The other was a re-enactment of the movie done by many, many people, mostly in their backyards, where they would take one small scene, use whatever props were at hand, and act out the scene, then toss it to the next people. Both are very much worth watching for any fan of the movie.
There are UA-camrs who visited the filming locations to reenact a few scenes. Mobileinstinct's channel comes to mind. He found the hut that Buttercup lived in when Wesley and her first met along with many other recognized locations. Pretty interesting if you're a fan, like I am.
OMG It may not be OK with YT to post links in the comments, but maybe the channel name would help! I, for one, would sure appreciate it =] (oh, by the by, I see YT suggestions on the side are changing as I type this...will have to check a few out -- this is such a time sink
the compilation one is a tear jerker. It was one of the last things Carl Reiner did before he passed away. It was a good one to end on
Yes!!!! It was amazing!!!!
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The Princess Bride might just be the most timeless movie I'll ever see..
Young Frankenstein is right up there, too…don’t you think?
I love both……I don’t think I could pick one over the other.
And this is why The Princess Bride is one of the best movies of all time
The "Never Ending Story" is right up there, too!
@@janinelazier5789now i gotta check it out, thanks.
One of? No, THE best.
Everytime I recommend THE PRINCESS BRIDE to somebody, they seek me out to thank me for it. That’s how I measure this amazing film.
I remember getting my friends to watch it and they complained when they saw the cover.
Once we finished the movie they all thanked me too. It just so good!!!
I.dont think there was a moment without laughing. 😂
I want to thank you for your recommendation. I had already seen the movie a bunch of times before your recommendation, but it is still a great recommendation.
Every now and then I encounter someone who didn't care for it. Not to be repetitive, but it's inconceivable to me.
That is a movie no one could remake.
please don't jinx it
It has been suggested that a Muppet remake would be acceptable. I concur.
Nothing’s sacred I’m afraid, you just wait…
It may not stop someone from trying unfortunately.
But nobody can stop em from trying! That’s Hollywood, baby!
In my state, I saw two different license plates in two towns far apart, "TO BLAYV," in one, and "TO BLAAV" in another. I thought, that tears it. I'm getting my own. And I did. It reads: "NICE MLT."
Best personalized number plate eva! (All of them)
Now I want one! How does NTAWICH sound?
Excellent!
@@susie9893I dunno. I saw a big black expensive car with MAGNETO as the plate. Can’t tell me he wasn’t in there.
Hence my UA-cam handle
3:44 now that takes a true genius to be that funny, where you can actually hurt someone with your comedy. 🤭🤣
I would genuinely watch the entire 30 hours of raw footage.
When the comedy is so good, you bruise your OWN RIB tryna hold it in 😂
It's 3:20 in the freaking morning, I have no idea why I'm up, but suddenly I'm dying for a mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich.
But the mutton's gotta be nice and lean
Having lived on a sheep farm I've had my fill of mutton
@@raymondclark1785What does it taste like? I’ve never eaten meat from a sheep. No, not even lamb chops.
@redvelvetrose Fresh from young sheep it's like Pork, old mutton gets gamey and is better in stews
Of all the films that poke fun at their genre and still bring the pathos, nothing is a good as The Princess Bride. A beautiful movie. Delighted to get an inside view of a little of it.
Unusually, the movie was better than the book.
Most parodies that make fun of their genres: This genre is stupid.
The Princess Bride: This genre may be stupid, but I wouldn't want it any other way.
Kung Fu Hustle does a GREAT job with all the Wire Fu that came out of Hong Kong, that's the only one that comes to mind as being in the same league.
@@VictorQuesada-bl1xk I love that film, too. Good comparison.
Not often are filmmakers fortunate enough to have a screenwriter that not only *wrote* the book, but had also won two Oscars (William Goldman won Best Screenplay for "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid" and "All the President's Men"). "The Princess Bride" was his favorite work and he wouldn't let anybody touch it until the right people asked-it would have broken his heart to have it made into a crappy movie
IMHO, the movie is better than the book. In the book, Goldman tried to be oh-so-clever, which I thought got a bit grating after a while. In the movie, he was smart enough to leave out the too-clever stuff and have it be just clever enough.
@@balok63a40 I first read the book in 6th grade and absolutely loved it. My favorite part wasn't in the movie: The moral.
"Life isn't fair, but it's fairer than death."
A great truth for a teenager to learn.
Minor nitpick - William Goldman won the Adapted (not original) Screenplay Oscar for "All the President's Men" (as it was not an original story, but an adaptation of an already-published book of the same name).
@@forcewielder2000 : fixed it! :-)
@@balok63a40 He'd also had time to assess reader's reactions to different sections of the books, to better figure out what were "the good parts", as well as leaving out things that couldn't possibly have worked in a movie (such as the author's inserted interjections, ostensibly from his childhood "experiences"). So the movie got to be the best parts of "the good parts"-plus a few things he thought of after publication.
Princess Bride is the definition of movie magic.
One of my favorite lines that gets overlooked is "Do the THING! And that other thing!"
One of my favourite lines from the movie 🤔 the movie
The OG "Do the thing"
Hahaha..yes. That is overlooked. Perfectly delivered as well.
I remember the line but can't recall the scene. Is it from miracle max?
@@JG-vq6rd It was Vizzini on the boat.
I remember watching this in '87 on the last day of school my sixth grade year in the music room. I wanted to go outside and play but a girl asked me to stay for the movie. Man am I glad I did, this is one of my all-time favorite movies. My mistake it was June of '88.
Pretty good trick......are you a time traveler??? Movie was released in October of 1987 in theaters nation-wide.
Did you marry her?
I remember watching this with my wife before she died. That was 40 years ago today. I miss you baby! Updoots are welcomed.
After my parents got our first VCR in 88 or 89, "The Princess Bride" was one of our number one rentals. We probably rented it at least once a month until the mid-90s. Another big rental in our house was the Sylvester Stallone movie "Oscar."
@nomadbrad6391 was released in September 1987 in Canada, Poland, Turkey, and a limited release in the US. Full US release was October. There were plenty of pirate (quite fitting for this film) copies of films that did the rounds in those days.
Back in the day before the movie, I bought the book on my first day at college because I liked Norman Green's cover illustration. After helping my new roomie move in, I settled down to read. When I reached, "I'm not left-handed," I whooped-then apologized to my bewildered roommate. A few minutes later, I got to "I'm not left-handed either," shrieked aloud, and threw the book in the air...it took a while after that to persuade my roommate I wasn't certifiable 😅 I'd never done anything like that with a book before, nor have I done so since!
I had a similar experience. I remember telling my girlfriend, "goddammit, they've gotta make a movie out of this!"
Haha! Awesome 👌🏼
The book is so friggen good!!
@@rleague685 : Yeah...and it's not every day that the author of the book you want to adapt into a movie just happens to have already won two Oscars for screenwriting (for "Butch Cassidy" and "All the President's Men"). But Goldman held out until he had the right offer-of all his works, this was the one that meant the most to him, and he was very protective of it
Given the state of Hollywood these days, reminiscing about this movie almost gets you emotional. As everyone here has already said, it's one of the most perfect movies ever made and I have so many fond memories of it. I've quoted portions of it for most of my life. What an amazing work of art!
Don't worry. Some Hollywood freak will be along any minute to ruin this movie's legacy with a horrible remake "for a modern audience".
The perfect movie. "Have fun storming the castle." Always loved that line.
Whenever I suggest THE PRINCESS BRIDE to someone, they come to me to express their gratitude. That's how I evaluate this wonderful movie.
Do you think it will work?
My all time favorite movie. 0:15
I saw this movie in the theater I think eight or nine times.
When I was about 12 years old, I had mononucleosis. My mother (RIP), who had the Princess Bride book, would read it to me while I was resting on the couch, just as in the movie with the grandpa reading to the grandson. However for me this was in 1986, long before the movie came out.
After she died, I found her Princess Bride book... Only then did I realize, she had highlighted the passages she read to me, and skipped others because she didn't want me to get bored.
Now as an adult, I realize how much time she spent in preparing that for me. ❤️❤️💯💯
Love your mother while you still can!!!!
And call her. NOW! You don't get an advanced warning when it's gone.
I would happily buy a box set that just contained every minute of that chaos. That one scene, every single take. That would be something.
To this day, the 'Get used to disappointment....'kay' line is still one of my absolute favorites to quote.
It goes hand in hand with:
"Life *is* pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something".
(I *know* that the people who dismiss this movie as a children's fairytale didn't LISTEN)
I think it in my head a lot 😅
Miracle Max and his wife... The amazing Billy Crystal and Carol Kane...
One of the Greatest Movies EVER! Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein...Classics.
With The Princess Bride you just names 3 of my favorite movies.
Yes
Mine, too!
Those are my top 3
Absolutely great movies but I think Princess Bride is in a category all to itself.
Oh please god! I've never needed bloopers more in my life!
The Princess Bride is a perfect movie! Maybe the perfectest!
"Anybody want a peanut?!?"
the LINNNNNES. my god the lines were SO good and memorable. i think that's what gave it such staying power. it's INFINITELY quoteable!
No more rhyming! I mean it!
Fezik, are there rocks ahead?
If there are we'll all be dead
If there are, we'll all be dead!
It just shows how well suited Billy and Robin Williams were as friends. Improvisational geniuses. Princess Bride was an instant favourite with me and it hits the mark still.
I don't know if someone else is with me. But every time during the credit scene of this movie, I can't help but tear up. It just makes me so happy. This is just a perfectly beautiful timeless movie and I can't wait to watch it again for the nth time.
When Carol came out and hissed, "Liar, L i a r!" I lost it. I couldn't hear what she said after.
Despite the heavy makeup, I'm always reminded of when she played Latka's wife on Taxi. I'm sure that character got her the role in princess bride.
I wish I could watch this movie for the first time again
I watched it today for the first time! (Well not technically, I watched it when I was super young but didn't remember a thing) And I loved the movie so much! Very charming film, reminds me of The Never Ending Story
I occasionally watch videos of people reacting to films for the first time. It's as close as we can get to your dream
read the book!
I recall being a little skeptical of this movie the first time I watched it, but when the kid complained about his grandfather pinching his cheeks and then Columbo walked in and pinched his cheeks, I cracked the first smile of many as I settled in.
There are several movies like that for me. I wish that I could watch Planes, Trains and Automobiles again for the first time so that I could laugh until I cried at the scene were John Candy is in a devil's outfit laughing.
You have no heart and soul if you don't love this movie.
Now, let me tell you exactly why this film is so special. It's easy to say that the essence of art is love, a love for art, for humanity, for being alive. But that's only part of it. A great sense of fun is the truest essence of Art. Because when human beings are at play, we're in our most natural state of being. A great sense of fun is what elevates MOZART from Beethoven. And what elevates Ernst Lubitsch above every other director in my eyes. You also feel that robust sense of fun in Shakespeare and Moliere (among many many other things). Anyways, thanks for the video. This movie is an all-time favorite of mine.
So what does it say about my heart and soul if I don't care for the film but love the book?
You have no sense of humor because you take yourself too seriously. But hey, you're a reader, so that's a huge positive.
@@ernestmendez5487 That made me laugh. Maybe I should 've added something like this 😉 to my question above to make it clear that I'm only joking. My bad.
And to be honest I didn't really read the book but listend to the audio book. Hope it still counts as a positive though 😉
Nice post but I hope you're not seriously saying Mozart was a better composer than Beethoven! To the Pain sir!
Years ago when Space Shuttle still flew, they had to go out on a spacewalk to fix the solar panels on the ISS. I'd listen to the spacewalks while I worked because I'm a nerd. Anyway, as the astronaut was exiting the hatch they played the "Have fun storming the castle! Think it'll work? It'd take a miracle... BYE!" I couldn't help but laugh and have to explain to some coworkers why. I wish I could find that clip, LOL. And yes, they did repair the panel!
I don’t know how this movie does it, but it’s just so incredibly quotable. Nearly every scene is full of quotable and hilarious lines, which are somehow so unique that all you have to do is quote one line and everyone knows which movie you’re talking about. Many great movies have a few lines like this, but somehow Princess Bride manages to fill a whole movie with them. Inconceivable. 😊
It's literally a rolling meme, 20 years before the term was born.
Have fun storming the castle. Has to be one of the best lines ever!!! Such a great movie.
Truly one of the greatest films ever made. A masterpiece of cinematic history!
30 hours of bloopers? Slap it on bluray and take my money!
God, I love that movie so much! There are so many great lines and iconic scenes, brilliantly done. It's one of my all-time favorites. ❤😂
'Medieval Yiddish Standup' is something I didn't know I needed in my life. But here we are.
Right up there, solidly in my Top Ten Favorite Movies of All Time. So many quotable lines that my family throw at each other to this day.
Yup
I thought I *was* moving faster.
Princess Bride, Galaxy Quest, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail are my most quoted movies ever
@@KALtheHighstorm117 you just scored my trifecta!
@@susie9893 Awesome! It's pretty rare to run into a fellow Galaxy Quest fan. Such an underrated movie!
One of my top 5 all-time favorite movies! You know it's good when lines directly from the film make their way into your family's vernacular. Two decades ago, my fiancee and I broke up briefly. I had to go abroad to do some research and a few weeks later (once he'd had time to regret his decision) he showed up for my birthday. At a lovely French restaurant, he stopped dinner and proposed for a second time. My response: "Have you the wing?"
Mahwidge!
@@themelonman6302 "That bwessed awangement; that dweam within a dweam!"
@@LQOTW “And wuv! Twue wuv!
I will be 100 and my kids in their 70s and I will still wave them off, "..have fun storming the castle!"
I say this sometimes, and it's usually completely lost on the person, I don't care and say it anyways just for me to laugh about
@@yetinother Sounds like a good enough reason to me! But yeah, my kids are never gonna forget. And they're women but they'd never want the line changed. It's always, Bye bye boys, have fun storming the castle!
My parents are in their 80s and we're still all saying this to each other (the grand kids too)
I would pay to watch all 30 hours of that
0:50 - "You keep using that h-word... I do not think it means what you think it means."
One of my favorite quotes of all time
Each time I see this scene I have to relearn and be amazed that this is Billy Crystal.
I'm so glad I found this. Things are kinda rough right now, but this brought me genuine joy... so thank you. 😁🙏
Stick with it friend, you got this shit
Hope things will be better soon. Glad you knew how to find joy.
I feel that
Run with us, then, friend, we are _your_ brute squad
Hope things get better bud. You can make it.
All these years and it still remains one of my all time favorite movies. I don't believe it will ever lose its place in my heart ❤️.
Bruising a ribs from holding in laughter! I need more moments in life like this 😅
Princess Bride is truly a rare 10/10 perfect movie masterpiece.
His wife was what really cemented the character.
I never realized that was Billy Crystal. 😂 I’ve watched that movie quite a few tunes since I was a kid too. One of my mom’s favorite movies.
Understandable. It was years before I realized Buttercup and Jenny were the same actress.
I never realized it was possible to not realize that was Billy Crystal.
Same here, I should have recognized the voice😢
Miracle Max is absolutely one of the best characters ever in cinema.
Best movie ever. My sons and I use line on each other regularly. I'd watch those outtakes!
This is one of those movies where it was just perfect all around. I really hope no one gets the idea to remake it because it would just never meet the expectations this one created. This movie is timeless!
This is one of my favorite films. I’ve watched it so many times I can almost recite every line, but it still makes me laugh. 👍🏻🌹
Excellent video. It is great to still hear insights into a movie that has been covered to death due to its popularity.
It's a film I always forget is one of my favorites until I watch it again.
it really is the best movie made even by todays standards. the cast was perfect, the director was perfect, the crew that helped to produce it were amazing at their craft. it really can not be understated how amazing and flawless the movie itself is, from start to end it was pure perfection.
One of cinema's all time best! Thanks Billy, and everyone else who put this gem together.
I am SO not surprised. This is beautiful! With all my favourites…Princess bride is absolutely my all time favourite movie! Have an odd connection to this film. I was staying at the King Eddy hotel in Toronto at the same time as this movie was being premiered. Unbeknownst to me Cary Elwes is also staying in the hotel for the premier. For some reason, a brown manila envelope is delivered to my room. I have to assume he was in the suite next to my suite for whatever reason I received his entire itinerary and tickets to the premiere. This was back in 1987 probably August. I still have it because it wasn’t until maybe five years later when I found it again in my stuff. I had seen the movie and was absolutely in love with it. I then I realized what a piece of history I had in my hands. I do hope he was able to still attend his own premiere, even even without it. Actually, now that I think about it, I hope the person who delivered it didn’t get fired.
Loved this movie then love it now. “As you wish” set the bar soooo high 😂😂😂😂.
A favorite in our household. My 13 yr old son frequently quotes lines from this one.
Hahaha 😂 when ever my husband leaves for work or anyone I known says they are heading somewhere.. I still say
“ Have fun storming the Castle!” Haha lol
That must be the ultimate compliment to a comedian. When you make someone laugh so much they are bruised from repressing it! Billy Crystal you are and will always be a legend!
What a great first date movie.
'3 hours of medieval stand-up'.
So his normal Catskills shtick, then?
The best movie, hands down. There is no other move that is quoted as much as "The Princess Bride".
This is why it is the greatest comedy movie of all time. My wife and I use quotes from this movie all the time. It has brought joy and fun to our lives.
Princess Bride is the greatest movie of all time and there's not even a close second.
At least half a dozen lines from the movie are permanently in my family's lexicon. I mean it...
Half a dozen? Inconceivable!
@@TheDarkSkorpion So it is down to you. And it is down to me.
...anybody want a peanut?
Life IS pain! Anyone who says differently is selling something.
@@KALtheHighstorm117 Hello lady
Just imagine a LotR length film, entirely inside Miracle Max's hut... Oh. My. Goodness.
🤭
Every new thing I learn about this film makes me love it more.
Big, big Love. And. Thank-you ❣️
The Princess Bride - one of the best movies ever, and definitely better than the book...the author wrote the screenplay, iirc, and improved on his original work.
I need to re-read the book. What do you think was the biggest improvement?
@InCinematic tbh, I never got much more than the first chapter or so into the book - Goldman was doing his preface about how the original book was so amazing...so long as you cut out the boring parts, but as part of the set up (replaced by the Fred Savage/Grampa Columbo parts in the movie), Goldman is taking us through his day at home around the dinner table, and he is mocking his overweight kid...and I know riding the chubby kid is a time-honored tradition...but not by your own parent! Your friends can say stuff about it, and whether you are Rerun, the Great Hambino, adult Curly, Chunk, or a thousand others, your friends are ok and you know they like you, and if some douche from the other side of town tries it, they will have your back.... But your Dad? The one who's supposed to be on your side? Making fun of you, even in his head? Nope! I'm out.
I never got to the Fire Swamp. I never made it to the boat with the Shrieking Eels. I never made it to see Buttercup meet Wesley the Farm Boy. I left Mr Goldman's table, and never went back.
Maybe someday I'll just skip the set up and start with "once upon a time..."
But that day is not this day.
@@InCinematic I definitely disagree with this comment of movie vs book. The book made fun of all the genre "love and adventure", it was filled with made up anecdotes of the author's family struggling to keep his own family life together and how he is writing the definite story about love, based in an old text lost, when he himself is going downhill with his life. I read it 20 years ago, in my twenties, and this quote stuck with me: "True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops." So definitely it deserves to be read, enjoying the sarcasm, the funny comments of the character-author... It has much more between lines than a story of adventures.
@@marieroberts5664 None of that was true though. Goldman made it all up--not only the stuff about S. Morganstern's larger book, but about his own family. His wife wasn't a psychiatrist, and they didn't even have a son. It was all part of the satire.
The book is hilarious satire. I love them both.
Sooooo where's the footage? I demand the Crystal Cut.
Yes! Let's do this!
Crystal Cut! Yes! 🤣♥️
It’s inconceivable to expect the other actors not to laugh during that. 😂
Not one word about the INCREDIBLE chemistry between Billy Crystal and Carol Kane... which was my favorite part of the whole movie...
The magic of this movie is truly special and I don't know if it could ever happen again.
This was and still is a massively underappreciated movie. I watched a video a little while back just about the swordplay and the stance and the way they swung their swords around and the way the sword master explained the subtle nuances of the choreography it made me appreciate the movie even more. It is so clever and still holds up to this day. I love this movie.
Jill Bearup?
@@michaelsorensen7567 YES!! She did an awesome job explaining it.
@@EweChewBrrr01 based off the description I guessed it wasn't Shadiversity or Skallagrim, but I'm sure there there are other UA-camrs out there I've not yet encountered, so I must've got lucky. I like her videos
Underappreciated?! Everybody loves it (except me). I think it is one of the most overrated movies ever.
@@jowbloe3673 - Each of us has the right to an opinion. I am truly sorry for you that your sense of humor (or your inability to suspend disbelief) leaves you unable to enjoy a really funny movie. But no insults. Each to his/her tastes.
A fantastic 5 minute video on a fantastic 5 minute scene.
Absolute masterpiece of a movie
Billy Crystal is and always has been a comedic legend. Watching him and Robin Williams improve off one another was pure gold!