It's been a few years since I watched the Princess Bride. It's a good movie. It's a great movie. It's a classic. I just started four sentences in a row with the contraction "it's," one of which had a different tense than the others.
Watching it this time, I observed things a little differently. I can tell that the writing isn't magnificent screen-writing, unless we're talking about magnificent parody of bad, low-budget films. I also recognized the actor who plays Inigo Montoya from other media, which was interesting.
I guess what I chiefly want to say is that as my writing has matured I think my appreciation of the Princess Bride—and other works like it—has deepened. It's still hard to say why it's good, or what parts of it aren't good writing (and why that doesn't matter). In order to explain all that in detail I would need to write a paper. I can just tell now how it falls under the category of "so bad it's good."
That's it for now. -shrugs-
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