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[WedgeX]

Just watching the Princess Bride, and started thinking about framing stories. Best, worst, and others. The Princess Bride's breaks up the story perfectly. Peter Falk teaches Fred Savage that life isn't fair. It asks all the right questions.

Clearly the best.

 

[teruterubozu]

Amadeus - Old Salieri reminiscing in the mental institution

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

The Count of Monte Cristo.

 

[Ninja Beagle]

The Count of Monte Cristo.

This right here.

 

[Jarmel]

The Usual Suspects

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

It's not Saving Private Ryan, that's for sure.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

It's not Saving Private Ryan, that's for sure.

*American flag flapping in the wind*

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Stand By Me's was pretty good. Especially the opening's somber rendition of the song.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Rob Reiner is massively under appreciated.

 

[meltingparappa]

The Prestige is FANTASTIC.

I heard you like unreliable narrators so I put an unreliable narrator inside your unreliable narrator.

 

[Cyan]

Wow. Princess Bride was actually the first thing that came into my head when I read the thread title.

Though I was thinking of the book, because... wow.

Spoiler

It took me years to realize the frame wasn't real.

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Rob Reiner is massively under appreciated.

You can probably thank the last decade and a half of his career for that.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

You can probably thank the last decade and a half of his career for that.

I still haven't gotten around to watching Flipped. I heard nice things.

 

[UncleSporky]

Wow. Princess Bride was actually the first thing that came into my head when I read the thread title.

Though I was thinking of the book, because... wow.

Spoiler

It took me years to realize the frame wasn't real.

Oh my god I was totally confused for a long time too.

I was like geez how could anyone write hundreds of pages about trees, thanks for abridging this for me dude.

I got really pissed about it later.

 

[zbroome]

Memento

 

[iuxion]

Dead of Night.

 

[demon]

Oh my god I was totally confused for a long time too.

I was like geez how could anyone write hundreds of pages about trees, thanks for abridging this for me dude.

I got really pissed about it later.

What's this now? I haven't seen the movie in a long time so I have no idea what you guys are talking about.

 

[UncleSporky]

What's this now? I haven't seen the movie in a long time so I have no idea what you guys are talking about.

The Princess Bride book

Spoiler

is written as if it is an abridged version of a massive tome. The author talks about how his father read it to him and he skipped all the boring parts, and now he is doing the same for us. Frequently you will be taken out of the story and the author will refer to this or that "infamous" segment where the original author was a master troll who spent 20 pages describing absolutely nothing of any importance. One example is "the packing scenes" describing all the miscellaneous objects that Buttercup packed and brought with her when she moved to the castle. The author also pretends that there are "Florentine scholars" who study this work and its significance and he hopes he doesn't offend them too much by leaving out all these boring scenes.

And I totally believed all of this because it is written very seriously.

There are some interesting and cool parts that were not in the movie, such as Fezzik and Inigo breaking into the Pit of Despair past a bunch of crazy traps. But there are also really awful parts such as the ending.

 

[Messypandas]

Forrest Gump. Come at me bros

 

[Bananakin]

Hyperion

(and also Princess Bride, but it's already been said)

 

[br0ken_shad0w]

 

[Hari Seldon]

The Count of Monte Cristo.

Close the thread.

 

[SolKane]

Decameron

 

[PhoenixDark]

The Count of Monte Cristo.

I'm starting to feel dirty for agreeing with Sculli recently

Amadeus gets my vote film wise

 

[Imm0rt4l]

The Count of Monte Cristo.

Came to post this.

 

[water_wendi]