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Dimmukane:

--- Quote from: mrjoegangles on 22 Apr 2008, 13:26 ---There you go.  I can agree with you on the Princess Bride.  As it is the greatest single satire since Swift.  The story within the story is what makes the book so much better then the movie could ever hope to be.

Not that the movie was cute and great in its own way.

P.S.  I was just joshing you when I wrote that reply.  I was writing a satirical response and thought a good joke could be had by all.
Never even imagined so many people would take it so seriously.  Honestly, its just some gentle ribbing, no need for everyone to blow it all out of proportion.

At least you have developed a sense of humor.

--- End quote ---

If there's one consistent law about the internet, it's that sarcasm doesn't carry well.  Something like that can easily be misconstrued.

And The Princess Bride is totally an awesome movie. 

To stay on topic, I finally got around to watching The Seven Samurai.  It's pretty damn good, and I can see how it influenced so many other movies.  If you've got 3 and a half hours, it's definitely time well spent.

KvP:
I recently started watching Homicide: Life on the Street again. It's even better than I remember, and I remember it being fucking excellent. If you like cop shows, they've never been done better than this.

Uber Ritter:
I don't know if I understand how the Princess Bride is satire (parody perhaps).  And wonderful though it is, I don't think that it can beat out Huckleberry Finn for the best satire since Swift.

Shreazla:
I hope I'm not straying to far off-topic here by replying to this -

The Princess Bride is an overblown, out-of-proportion film (the book is even more satirical, but the satiric nature of the book did not translate as well to film) - The character cast is filled with overused stereo types -

The tall, dark, hansome protagonist is a man who dresses completely in Black.
There is a dairy-maid-turned-princess, who is helpless until the protaganist comes to save her
You have the hulking, but stupid fighter giant.
The diminutive, but intellectual Sicilian.
The villan with the memorable feature (the six fingered man)
A tale of "true love"

Blah, blah blah - Anyway, you get the idea - Goldman uses these archetypes to poke fun at traditional fairy tales and fantasy books, and continues even further in the book, and uses racial stereo-types to poke fun of society and people in general... there's a lot more to the book, and I didn't go into nearly as much depth as would be needed to describe the book or the films satirical elements completely, but oh well "c'est la vie".

Aminal:
YOU FORGOT INIGO MONTOYA

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