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[kay_brooke]

Yay, Internet! Massive thunderstorm last night flooded half the city and more importantly knocked out my wireless Internet for the night. Desperate, I tried playing Sims 2 on my laptop instead. Except the mouse I used to attach to it is packed away in a storage shed in Kokomo, and the game was too frustrating to play using the touchpad. Really

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[arsinoee]

My love of The Princess Bride comes from it being that movie that as a kid you watch again and again until your parents hide/destroy the tape because its melting their brain from the repetition. Because of this I'm pretty much incapable of judging it as an adult.

The book is awesome though. Did you send away for the bottom-of-the-hill scene (or whatever its called)? I've been meaning to forever.

This whole post is a thinly-veiled excuse to use this icon, lol.

[kay_brooke]

Yeah, there are movies I was that way about when I was little. I can't tell you how many times I watched The Neverending Story. I'm kind of afraid to watch it again as an adult because surely it can't be as good as I remember.

My copy of the book said there was a website where you could read the bottom-of-the-hill scene, but there's nothing there!

Oh gosh darnit!

[arsinoee]

Just went looking. Wikipedia on the reunion scene and Here's what you get when you send away for the scene to the publisher.

Trixy and false! Ah, well. :)

[auntiemeesh]

I agree that the book is better than the movie. I read the book first, and as always with book to screen conversions, was a little disappointed with some of the choices made, but I still enjoyed it. And yeah, I was just about fifteen when it hit theaters, and the fact that Cary Elwes was too cute for words may have had something to do with it.

[nidoking]

I added you as a friend because we live very near each other and share similar interests.

I agree that the book was better, mainly because the movie left out one of my favorite scenes (when they descended the five levels of darkness to rescue Westley), but the descriptions were fuller, and the humorous style of the "abridgement" really made the story in the book. But, like the Harry Potter series, many people watch the movie and never even worry about there being a book, so they don't know how much better the book is. Not that many Harry Potter fans haven't read the books, though, so that's probably a bad example.