The Special Edition DVD of The Princess Bride was released yesterday. I stopped at Borders on my way home last night and picked it up. This is one of our favorite movies from way back.
When it was released in 1987, I saw it in the dollar theater in Valdosta, Georgia, when I was home on break from college. I loved it immediately. I took all my friends to see it. I took my sister to see it. I think I saw it five times before it left the theater.
Marty and I weren't in touch then. We'd broken up the year before, and it would still be another year before we talked again. After we started dating I showed him the movie, and he loved it too.
On DVD it's gorgeous. I'd heard that the original DVD version was very badly done, but this new edition is great. There are a bunch of extras on the disc -- tracks of commentary by both the director and the writer, special interviews with the cast, a making-of documentary, and more. But the best part is that it looks and sounds better than I've ever seen or heard it before. Swoooon.
When it was released in 1987, I saw it in the dollar theater in Valdosta, Georgia, when I was home on break from college. I loved it immediately. I took all my friends to see it. I took my sister to see it. I think I saw it five times before it left the theater.
Marty and I weren't in touch then. We'd broken up the year before, and it would still be another year before we talked again. After we started dating I showed him the movie, and he loved it too.
On DVD it's gorgeous. I'd heard that the original DVD version was very badly done, but this new edition is great. There are a bunch of extras on the disc -- tracks of commentary by both the director and the writer, special interviews with the cast, a making-of documentary, and more. But the best part is that it looks and sounds better than I've ever seen or heard it before. Swoooon.
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