Official FF BMET - Romance Bracket Round 2

[Ozzy]

 

57 minutes ago, Uncle Buck said:

I'm totally with you on Audrey, but Ingrid Bergman wasn't bad either, and Casablanca was a better movie overall. 

You take out that end scene and no Casablanca was not a better movie and was not as entertaining start to finish, but at least it fits the category and is a quality film actually.

 

 

 

45 minutes ago, Malfatron said:

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/princess_bride

 

A delightfully postmodern fairy tale, The Princess Bride is a deft, intelligent mix of swashbuckling, romance, and comedy that takes an age-old damsel-in-distress story and makes it fresh.

 

Robin Wright and Cary Elwes star in this fairytale adventure about a beautiful princess and the gallant hero who rescues her from an evil villain. Directed by Rob Reiner, it's an enchanting classic the whole family will love!
Rating:PG
Genre: Action & Adventure, Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance

I can reference the internet as well.  

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/

The Princess Bride (1987)

PG | 1h 38min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 9 October 1987 (USA)

 

 

"While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love."

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Bride_(film)

 

"The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner, starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, and Christopher Guest. Adapted by William Goldman from his 1973 novel The Princess Bride, it tells the story of a farmhand named Westley, accompanied by companions befriended along the way, who must rescue his true love Princess Buttercup from the odious Prince Humperdinck. The film essentially preserves the novel's narrative style by presenting the story as a book being read by a grandfather (Peter Falk) to his sick grandson (Fred Savage)."

No mention of romance at all in either description, Rotten Tomatoes is clearly the only major internet film resource that references the film as a romance at all.  So no crap you linked to Rotten Tomatoes.  

 

 

It honestly should have never even got the nomination for that decade.  

 

 

Could Robin Wright sing Moon River? I didn't think so.

 

 

9 minutes ago, Outpost31 said:

Everybody remember this moment and take advantage of how entertaining it will be when The Thing wins best drama.

I would have less of a problem with The Thing wining best drama (which it will never do but is actually dramatic and fits than category) than The Princess Bride winning best romance.  And I hate The Thing, but not as much as I hate The Princess Bride.  

 

[Daniel]

Casablanca is a way better, way more significant, and way more influential movie that Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Your only argument is that Hepburn is hotter.

[MacReady]

In The Princess Bride, they skip the kissing, but then at the end the kissing is okay.  Proof.  Romance.

[seminoles1]

@Ozzy

IMDb only lists 3 genres per film in alphabetical order. So if it fits under more than 3 genres, then only the first 3 will be listed based on the alphabet, not on importance of genre.

Both websites you referenced say the story of the movie is Wesley reuniting with his true love. Like...does it get any more clear than that?

Edited August 14, 2020 by seminoles1

[Ozzy]

42 minutes ago, Daniel said:

Casablanca is a way better, way more significant, and way more influential movie that Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Your only argument is that Hepburn is hotter.

Define significant.  Holly Golightly played by Audrey Hepburn is arguably one of the most iconic film characters ever on screen (especially if one just looks at female characters) and has arguably made more money on just her likeness from the film than Casablanca ever made total.  Photos and images of her in the film are still sold in mass quantities today.  Her look basically created a look in itself and is attempted to be copied till this day.  If the question is in the films, who did I care about more, was actually interested in and who was more vulnerable as a character, well Audrey was way more vulnerable and relatable than Ingrid Bergman was.  Hell the male lead George Peppard was nothing special and the film was still really successful, Casablanca had Humphrey Bogart in it, could not get much better than that for a male lead!  Still say you take out a few key scenes and it is pretty so so overall.  Either way it is a great film but even that loses to this crap that is The Princess Bride, and how is that movie better than Casablanca as a romance I have no idea.  

 

Maybe Titanic has a chance to take it down, it is a solid romance and is not as "boring" as some others are apparently.

 

Is The Princess Bride in story alone better than the original Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Snow White or Cinderella?  **** no, but it is not a cartoon so it is this great story?  Nah.

 

 

Just now, seminoles1 said:

@Ozzy

IMDb only lists 3 genres per film in alphabetical order. So if it fits under more than 3 genres, then only the first 3 will be listed based on the alphabet, not on importance of genre.

Both websites you referenced say the story of the movie is Wesley reuniting with his true love. Like...does it get any more clear than that?

Who cares if it has to deal with love, most fairy tales do, does not mean they are a true romance.  It is a freaking grandpa telling a stupid kid a fairy tale.  Guess what the fairy tale has giants, knights, princesses and princes whatever the ****.  No **** and these are original great romantic ideas here?  Still say then Robinhood Men In Tights should win, it is way funnier and very similar things happen in the movie.

 

Guy gets the girl

 

Fighting

 

Erotica

 

 

Hijinx

 

 

It has all of it.

 

[MacReady]

@Ozzy, do you not like The Princess Bride at all or something?