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Ted Cruz backs 'Princess Bride' star's call against remaking classic film
The Hill ^ | 09/18/19 09:40 AM EDT | ZACK BUDRYK -

Posted on 09/19/2019 5:10:08 PM PDT by conservative98

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) backed up “The Princess Bride” star Cary Elwes’s dismay at the notion of a potential remake of the 1987 classic on Wednesday.

“There’s a shortage of perfect movies in this world. It would be a pity to damage this one,” Elwes tweeted Tuesday, paraphrasing a line from the film, in response to a Variety article that quotes Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Tony Vinciquerra as saying “very famous people whose names I won’t use” want to remake the film.

“I have never agreed with a statement more,” Cruz tweeted Wednesday, quoting Elwes’s tweet.

Cruz has repeatedly discussed his love of the fantasy film, reenacting the scene where Elwes’s character Westley is revived from near-death in front of an Iowa church congregation during his presidential campaign in 2015.

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To: conservative98

Another friggin’ remake...reboot...or whatever it is called this week.


21 posted on 09/19/2019 5:43:36 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: a fool in paradise

Don’t give them any ideas.


22 posted on 09/19/2019 5:44:05 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: A Navy Vet

Lolol!!


23 posted on 09/19/2019 5:47:57 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: traderrob6

Agreed. It’s as ridiculous as a remake of True Grit.


24 posted on 09/19/2019 5:57:20 PM PDT by TheDon (MAGA!)
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To: conservative98

Yeah Ted! Pick up that important mantel of not remaking a Rob Reiner movie and meeting with a B-actress over gun consfiscation. And this moron wonders how a bigger idiot like Beto almost beat him? Maybe Texas should tell him why he’s there in the first place! Texas Nothing! Twitter, Everything!


25 posted on 09/19/2019 5:57:52 PM PDT by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: Army Air Corps

Still waiting for the live action remake of Shrek


26 posted on 09/19/2019 6:02:02 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: reed13k
The nucleus of so much greatness in our former civilization is in Victorian England. I'm fascinated by the technology, science, literature, thought, etc of that era. It's the starting point for the greatness. So, yeah, maybe it's more like a century of greatness for Western civilization, with the decline becoming irreversible in the late 1980s.

One can't help but wonder if great nations giving up a strong national identity leads to their downfall.

27 posted on 09/19/2019 6:07:20 PM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: Bommer; conservative98

Well, I’d say in before the Ted Derangement folks comment, but never can seem to beat them to the thread.

It’s like some folks sit around all day watching for a Ted Cruz thread so they can bash one of the five or so conservative senators we have in Washington.


28 posted on 09/19/2019 6:11:29 PM PDT by unlearner (War is coming.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
He was a big man. My wife met him back in the 80's, and said had had a can of Coke in his hand; it looked like it was a child's toy. His hand completely swallowed it. But she said he was like a big teddy bear to everyone he met.
29 posted on 09/19/2019 6:12:02 PM PDT by Viking2002
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To: conservative98

Above all, don’t remake “Robin Hood: Men in Tights”.


30 posted on 09/19/2019 6:12:44 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Obscured by Clods)
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To: unlearner

They do. :)

A remake of Princess Bride is a ridiculous idea.


31 posted on 09/19/2019 6:13:44 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: conservative98

Millennials can’t create :-*it!!!!


32 posted on 09/19/2019 6:15:46 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: grania

Would music be considered “artifacts”?

There is absolutely no question the best music in the history of mankind was produced “in the 60’s through the 80’s”.


33 posted on 09/19/2019 6:21:20 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: grania

I’ve always compared “sampling” in raps and hip hop to how the Romans reused statuary in things like the Arch of Constantine. Definitely a sign of decline.


34 posted on 09/19/2019 6:23:34 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie (Ca)
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To: traderrob6
Would music be considered artifacts?

I think it would, since music now has a physical component.

35 posted on 09/19/2019 6:33:18 PM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: a fool in paradise
All I have to say is

36 posted on 09/19/2019 6:42:03 PM PDT by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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To: MrEdd

Need a like button for this.

(See tag line)


37 posted on 09/19/2019 6:54:27 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Ask about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: traderrob6

They’ve run out of ideas folks, remakes are their only option anymore.

Not really. Hollywood is ran by bankers. The will not take risks on anything that they don’t think will make money. That’s why you see the independent film companies in Georgia taking more risks and Hollywood stuck on stupid with Super heros and making Disney cartoons into CGI. Waiting on ‘Song of the South’ zippidy do dah


38 posted on 09/19/2019 6:56:23 PM PDT by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: conservative98

Fake news! The last “classic” film was made in 1974...


39 posted on 09/19/2019 6:56:38 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: conservative98

Hollywood is morally bankrupt. They no longer have any creativity. They are so far Left now, whatever they touch, they destroy.


40 posted on 09/19/2019 6:58:27 PM PDT by robel
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