The Princess Bride

CastorTroy

Sure we already had the remake

Double C

https://twitter.com/Cary_Elwes/status/1174124906327330816?s=19

faceman

pixelburp wrote: »

Swap "is" for "was"; Goldman died last year regrettably, so that this subject is even in the air, smacks of an IP suddenly legally unshackled from the one dissenting voice enabling the reboot.

Ah I didn’t know that! That could change things...

Wayne Jarvis

Ah I don't really see the big deal. They want to remake a movie, so what? Just watch the original, it's good, enjoy it!

branie2

I haven't seen the film

RobbingBandit

branie2 wrote: »

I haven't seen the film

Inconceivable

Dtp1979

branie2 wrote: »

I haven't seen the film

Lucky bastard. Enjoy

JP Liz V1

A film for all the family, still holds up, no need for a remake

Imagine how good (and by good becomes bad) the ROUS's would be. Devoid of all charm

pixelburp

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Imagine how good (and by good becomes bad) the ROUS's would be. Devoid of all charm

Ehhhh now. I LOVE the Princess Bride - like, bordering on mania only slightly dulled by age - but I never thought the ROUSes were ever that great. A fantastic punchline to Wesley's dismissive "I don't even think they exist", but the actual FX was a bit crap. Some of it framed fine, but in others painfully obvious it was a bloke on all fours.

I know it is, it's sh1te; like really fvcking sh1te. But that's part of its charm nowadays.
You just know that any new ROUS would be CGI death rodents completely overdone and no soul

I mean the cliffs of insanity (Cliffs of Moher) look amazing, until there is ANY cast in shot when it becomes the worst of Star Trek foam backgrounds. The Shrieking Eels look horrid, the sea sound stage is as as fake as you can get.
It's all B-Movie greatness perfectly coming together, with a cast that nail it (almost all of them anyway)
Christopher Guest was worth the price of the DVD alone.

The ONLY thing which they could improve on is the Pit of Despair, by having its levels, but that is absolutely not worth the mess everything else would be

To people thinking of remaking this...

CastorTroy

pixelburp wrote: »

Ehhhh now. I LOVE the Princess Bride - like, bordering on mania only slightly dulled by age - but I never thought the ROUSes were ever that great. A fantastic punchline to Wesley's dismissive "I don't even think they exist", but the actual FX was a bit crap. Some of it framed fine, but in others painfully obvious it was a bloke on all fours.

What are you talking about? Looks nothing like...



Never mind.


I did a rewatch recently. Only my second time watching and think I enjoyed it more the second time.

Dades

Those things are cool. Proper freaky because they're REAL. A big CGI rat will still be a big CGI rat no matter how good it looks.

For all we know that guy in the rat suit might really have been vicious.

The Princess Bride

Actually, ROUSes are real, I should know, after all.
Most unpleasant creatures, frightfully ugly, and rather smelly.

Sonics2k

I will say one thing. I've never seen even the idea of a remake of a movie be so universally shat on.

The only articles I can find which seem to be positive about the idea are rooted in the idea of making the Princess more badass, ala Merida in Brave.

But even if they were to do this, and ignoring all social agendas, the movie would lose it's identity. Andre the Giant is Fezzik. Cary Elwes makes a fantastic Dread Pirate Roberts and let's be honest, anyone else who tried to play Vizzini would simply be terrible.

Merida, for all the airs and graces her mother tries to instil, was trained by her warrior father (even if against the wishes of her mother)
Westley was a simple farm hand until trained savagely by the previous DPR.

There is no reason for the commoner farmer's daughter Buttercup to be a bad ass (much like very few of us non competitive fighters/soldiers are any way badass)

Hammer of the Clods

Sure why not remake it. If there's a remake and it's awful nobody will really care, and will highlight how good the original was.

To make my point a short list of remakes that nobody ever mentions/remembers (except when talking about terrible remakes)
Arthur
Get Carter
Psycho
Carrie (twice)
The Fog
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton's, only notable because of the similarity to Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob comic)


Not to say Princess Bride is a perfect film. The cliffs of insanity climbing sequence is absolutely horrible to watch.

TherapyBoy

Hammer of the Clods wrote: »

Sure why not remake it.

Because remaking this film means some other film doesn’t get made.

Stone Deaf 4evr

Hammer of the Clods wrote: »

Not to say Princess Bride is a perfect film. The cliffs of insanity climbing sequence is absolutely horrible to watch.

Watched this at the weekend with my 9 year old daughter, it popped up on Netflix, I hadn’t seen it in years, and she had never seen it, so in light of all the recent chat, decided to give it a whirl.

I was actually taken aback at how basic it is - for some reason, it may have gotten muddled in my head with the likes of willow, and labyrinth. It’s a relatively grounded tale, with the only fantastical bits being the giant rat and the eels, otherwise it’s a straightforward character piece. But you know what? It doesn’t need any more than that, everyone seems to be having a great old time in it, and despite some overt references to suicide by princess buttercup, it was perfectly tame for a young audience. I think the bigger danger in remaking it, is that they’d lean too heavily in the fantasy direction and add a heap of cgi creatures that aren’t needed.

mcmoustache

I saw this for the first time a few years ago and I grew up in the 80s. It was quite surreal knowing so much of the dialog from memes and others quoting it*. What surprised me was that despite some ropiness in presentation, it made a beautifully complete package. As was said before, it was probably the cast who made it.



*Starwars was another one where I knew most of the lines.