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Diversion of the Day: The Ted Pirate Roberts
Apparently Sen. Ted Cruz is a fan of The Princess Bride. A really, really big fan. While speaking at a Des Moines church Sunday, the presidential candidate reenacted a scene involving many of the film’s most loved characters:
Pretty good impression, if you’re into that kind of thing. I would have preferred a long riff from the vastly superior Rob Reiner film, This is Spinal Tap. Maybe the Artie Fufkin scene in the record store or a five-minute-long video of Cruz stumbling around backstage, shouting “rock ‘n’ roll!” (It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever.)
Here’s where I need to offer my somewhat controversial opinion of The Princess Bride. Despite it being so adored by so many of my fellow Gen X-ers, I thought the movie was just … okay. Not terrible, not great, just kind of meh.
Of course, any time I say this, I’m pilloried by outraged fans (much like Kat Timpf suffered regarding Star Wars) who try to convince me of the film’s unparalleled brilliance by quoting its most famous lines at me, ad nauseum. Attack me if you must, but Spinal Tap was Reiner’s masterpiece. For anyone to think otherwise is inconceivable.
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I like Spinal Tap. I love the Princess Bride. And I think, too, that it is so much more than a kid’s movie. Anyone who’s been married for around 137 years has to feel his heart strings tug during the “Miracle Max” scene that Cruz renders so well. Oh, and all the masters cited during the great sword fight scene were all actual sword masters. I have always thought that that was pretty cool.
I know it’s a great movie, because I have studied my Agrippa.
He had some things going for him, though…
He was stupid hot in Robin Hood Men in Tights. But nowadays…