Admit it, you quoted the next line. Or any line for that matter!

The Princess Bride…it elicits great memories fore all of us, well those of us that have seen it, ever, but especially if you saw it the first time in the 1980s.

The movie is 28 years old, can you believe it! I still remember seeing it for the first time, I have the 25th edition of the DVD and the book, spot on it was.

One of the great things about this movie is there are so many quotable lines and as I’m thinking about this, I might have written about this before. But, what I was about to say was that if you post one line from the movie on Facebook, like the title of my post, you start a flurry of activity! People will start post after post after post of memorable quotes.

You know you’ve had entire conversations with quotes from just this movie, admit it. And you love it!

And I know you were thinking “Hello, My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRAI9_MkmBM

Inconceivable!

As you wish…

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Loved it.

I really liked this movie. Aside from the million bajillion ants, it was alright. Did you see the movie Antz? Years ago the cartoon. It was a cartoon, so if you looked at the ants when they were up close it wasn’t so bad. The same goes for this movie, when you’re up close and personal with the ants, they’re kind of cool, the have facial expression, they have personalities. They even have names.

This movie, was in true comic book form. It was like the perfect graphic novel jumping off the page. The opening was pretty funny, you had a tragic hero, who only wanted to do right by his daughter and just couldn’t seem to catch a break, hand picked to be a super hero.

There was a great cast supporting cast, the hero, I should have told you, played by Paul Rudd, who knew he was such an action hero. Not after seeing him in Clueless oh so many years ago. You had some heavy hitters like Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly. In true Marvel fashion there was a hint of Avengers, ok more than just a hint, there were characters and name dropping like crazy. There were struggles to get up to speed, fights with girls, angry daughters, secrets, and finally almost to the end of the film, Stan Lee, this came just after I wondered aloud, “Where is Stan Lee?” and there he was, ten seconds max, but he was there.

One of the other cool things about this movie is I learned a few things about ants, well, maybe more than I ever wanted to know, but it was cool none-the-less. To learn why crazy ants are called crazy ants and how they work together to accomplish a goal. Some things you might already know, but others, well, it was a learning experience.

All in all, I really liked this movie and I’m looking forward to seeing it again…on my hard drive.

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I enjoyed this movie. But…I don’t think everyone will.

Now, let me tell you why.

If you are a child of the 1980s and spent any time playing video games or in a video arcade, you will enjoy this movie. If you enjoy Adam Sandler movies, no matter what, you will enjoy this movie. if you can suspend believe and see Kevin James as the President of the United States, you will enjoy this movie. If you like classic rock, music from the 1980s, you will enjoy this movie.

Now, If…you don’t enjoy those things, you might not enjoy this movie.

I know the movie didn’t get great reviews, well, actually, I didn’t know that until people told me about it after I saw it, but it wouldn’t have mattered, I wanted to see it and that’s all there was to it. When I saw the advertisement the first time, I thought, huh? Then…when I saw the preview, I immediately texted PSM a link to the trailer and said, “We are going to see that!” I don’t regret it and I will probably add it to the collection at some point.

It was a little long and it could have stopped after the Pac Man battle, but it didn’t, so there it may have gone a little too far, but I was engaged. The cast was top notch. The supporting cast was great and slightly surprising. Dan Ackroyd and Lanie Kazan played very small roles, but it was fun to see them, Sean Bean was a bad arse, as he always is, but then silly, Jane Krokowski as the First Lady, a little odd and…I am convinced that Brian Cox is typecast. Martha Stewart and Serena Williams were in it for about 30 to 60 seconds each, maybe, purely for comic value.

Rounding out the lead roles with Adam Sandler was Kevin James, his childhood friend, now the president and unfortunately, like you might imagine him to be and Josh Gad, better known to the greater human race as Olaf, who likes warm hugs and let me just say, a little odd to hear him scream at Navy Seals and use grown up language and then you get a hint of Olaf, then the final member of the team is Peter Dinklage, who just kills it whatever he does. Of course, you have to have a female lead and I really enjoyed Michelle Monagan, a bad arse herself yet, sitting in a closet drinking wine from a sippy cup, I liked it.

Like I said, or haven’t said yet, not an academy award winner and I do hope they make their $88 million back, but based on the very small showing at the theater today, I have a feeling they might miss the mark. But…having spent a lot of quarters and time in an arcade, Ms Pacman is my game, along with my dream of having my own game one day [either stand up or table top, hint hint]. The soundtrack really made the movie, http://www.songonlyrics.net/soundtracks/pixels-soundtrack-list.html and you know, if it’s an Adam Sandler movie and has anything to do with the 1980s, it’s going to be classic rock and it’s going to be good.

So, now you have my thoughts on the movie. Like video games from the 80s? Classic rock? Go see it. Can you wait until it comes out on video? Yup. Will it be on dvd soon? Yup.

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Let’s say…I HEART this movie!

I went to see Kingsman: The Secret Service today and O M G! I la la la loved it. Did I say I loved it? Just in case…I LOVED it!

Now…why did I love it? Let me tell you…First, the cast, wow! Colin Firth was Fabulous did you like how I did that?  as Galahad, he is a well dressed, well, spy, part of a secret organization and he brings in an unrefined potential recruit in, the actor I don’t remember seeing before, but was fantastic, Taron Egerton. Mark Strong was Merlin, he played a good guy, very unusual, but a great character, part of me kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, but he was a good guy throughout.

Michael Caine was Arthur, think there was a Round Table, knights, defenders of the realm feel? I love Jack Davenport, who was Lancelot and not in the film very long, but I love him, loved him in the original Coupling and the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. I promise I am not glancing over Michael Caine, but what could I say about Michael Caine that hasn’t been said about the man, the genius, the legend.

Mark Hamill was not part of the Kingsman, but who doesn’t love to see him in movies? Sofia Boutella, who I didn’t know, was an assassin of sorts, with the most wicked prosthetic feet, very sharp, let’s just say. Samuel L Jackson was, well, really bad, but what was comical was his lisp throughout the entire movie, hard to focus or take him seriously.

There were a bunch of actors I was not familiar with, but still quite enjoyable. Then there were fist fights, umbrella fights, gun fights, gee a lot of fighting! Really cool spy gear and wear, bullet proof suits, transmitting glasses, lethal fountain pens, just to name a few of the items you would receive if you were invited and passed the test to join the Kingsman.

There were a few really grody moments, but now you know so you can decide for yourself. I look forward to hearing what you think!

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