Why The Princess Bride Rules

Okay, so I REALLY have nothing to write about today. :) Therefore, I will explain to the world why The Princess Bride is the coolest, awesomest, best movie ever made.
First off, although it is your typical adventure story, each of the characters has his/her own quirky elements that make such a story atypical. The dashing hero is mostly dead for a day before saving his beloved. She almost destroys two of the few perfect breasts in this world. The evil prince can track a falcon on a cloudy day. The evil count has six fingers on his right hand. The bumbling boss thinks Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates are morons. The lovable giant only likes to kill people as god intended. And the expert swordsman hates waiting.
(Did I mention all the wonderful one-liners?). :)
With a delightful script, mostly read by a Jewish grandfather to his Fred Savage grandson, it's like we get a handful of fun stories in one. There's fencing, fighting, giants, escapes, true love, miracles (and I know there's more than that I just can't remember the whole line off the top of my head). It's a smorgasbord of all the best parts of movies rolled into one.
Not only that, it has one of the best revenge scenes I've ever seen, where Inigo Montoya gets the best of the six-fingered count who slaughtered his father. His most famous speech? "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." And when the count says he'll give Inigo anything he asks for, he wrenches that sword into the count's chest and replies, "I want my father back you son of a bitch." Pure poetry.
I must have seen this movie 100 times, with no exaggeration. Not only is it a great movie, but it's a great indication of whether or not I will like someone upon first meeting them. I only know one person who has never seen this movie, an ex-boyfriend of mine. When he told me he'd never seen it I thought, whoa. I shall have to remedy that. Since I own the movie we sat down and watched it one night, because I simply can't date someone who's never seen this movie. I told him a little bit about it, how charming it was, and how much fun we'd have watching it. But when the movie was over and I asked him, excitedly, what he thought of it, he said, "Eh. It was okay."
Okay? Okay?? I don't think so. We broke up about a year later (which was really a year too long).
Thankfully, all of my friends and most of my family are fans, and can recognize when I quote a line from the movie. But the best is my boyfriend, who either joins in when I start quoting or does his own quotes if the occasion calls for it. I told him at the beginning of our relationship that if all else fails, we'll always have The Princess Bride.
Oh yeah, and there's a Dread Pirate Roberts too. :)