I'm sure the vast majority of voters on here are in the same boat as me. It's crazy at 41 I'm still obsessed with this film. I bought the film score cd and it's freakin brilliant. The music has so much emotion it's insane.
shareFantastic movie.
shareIt came out the year I married my husband, so I have my own reasons for being fond of this film. But it's nice to see how many people who were young then still love it.
shareI watched it for what had to have been at least the 50th time last night and there are scenes/lines that still make me laugh. Buttercup's facial expression when Westley tells her the fireswamp's not that bad. I KNEW YOU WERE BLUFFING (I knew he was... bluffing...). Do you normally begin conversations this way? That's just the beginning.
shareI was 12 in '87 when this movie came out, so we're about the same age. My first exposure to it was the TV trailer, which I thought was hilarious. The scene I remember most from the trailer was Miracle Max's line about the paper cut and lemon juice. I tried to get my older brother to take me to see it at the theater but that never happened. I kept looking for it at the video store though, and at some point in '88 it was finally there. I rented it and watched it with my best friend Corey, and we both ranked it among the funniest movies we'd ever seen. For example, the Impressive Clergyman scene had me laughing to tears, and Corey was laughing so hard I thought he'd fall out of his chair.
A while after that I found out that the Baptist minister who lived across the street had bought a copy of that movie, so we kept borrowing it from him. We watched it probably twenty times over the next couple of years.
I just watched it tonight at home on Blu-ray, through a 1080p projector on a 100" screen about 10 feet away. That made up for never having seen it in the theater. It beat the hell out of the 19" TV and VHS tape from when I was a kid.