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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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
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To: reed13k

I don’t want literature.
I want stories that are fun to read.

For me that really took off with the detective novels of the period between the World Wars and began to fade in the mid eighties when politics began to bulldoze its way into every genre.


41 posted on 09/19/2019 7:02:14 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: alancarp

Laughed out Loud - thanks!


42 posted on 09/19/2019 8:12:07 PM PDT by week 71
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To: traderrob6

#9. To the Hollyweird Left, “nothing is inconceivable”.

If they can ruin something, they surely will try.

Cary Elwes is a gentleman.


43 posted on 09/19/2019 8:12:37 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Bommer; traderrob6; conservative98

Comparing the movies of the last 40 years since the end of the big motion picture studio companies, I think we are poorer for it. Whatever we may fault those companies with in retrospect, they produced many top quality pictures that are rarely matched by today’s independent system.


44 posted on 09/19/2019 8:12:43 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

And the best part is they made the cattle shut their mouths. You want to be a gay communist? Marry that lesbian actress, don’t let anyone find out what you’re doing, and shut your damn mouth!


45 posted on 09/19/2019 8:20:23 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: reed13k

#19. Re “Casablanca”, “It’s a Wonderful Life” or “Meet me in St. Louis”, the Left will try to destroy the themes of patriotism, redemption/friendships, and family/friends and fun.

Just wait till they go after “The Wizard of Oz”. Let’s try that on for size.

The “Wizard” will be known as “The man with a Height Challenging Condition”.

The Munchkins will be known as “Little People in funny outfits by Versace”.

Dorothy will be the “promiscuous young girl who takes off on a long trip with three strange men”.

The “Cowardly Lion” will be known as the “Faggy Feline”.

The “Scarecrow” will be known as “The Plant Materials Man”.

The “Tin Woodsman” will be known as the “Destroyer of Forests”.

Glinda, “The Good Witch” will be known as the “Evil Corruptor of Young Women”.

The “Wicked Which of the West” will be known as “Maxine Waters, the Witch of the World”.

And “OZ” will be known as the “Jeffrey Epstein Democrat Party Rest Home and Brothel”

Just can’t wait to see that movie.


46 posted on 09/19/2019 8:21:30 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: rfp1234

#30. Re “Don’t remake ‘Robin Hood: Men in Tights’”.

Too late, they already have. It is known as the Democrat majority on the House Intelligence Committee starring Adam “Schiff for Brains” Schiff and Swallowswell, among others.


47 posted on 09/19/2019 8:23:18 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: reed13k

I would include the 90s. lots of wonderful things in the 90s


48 posted on 09/20/2019 1:54:07 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Bommer

Really; I see remakes of movies that weren’t particularly memorable (Flatliners, Pet Sematary) and realize they simply have nothing else - no more original ideas. Haven’t been to a theater since the last of the Hobbit movies (and they weren’t so good).


49 posted on 09/20/2019 5:16:22 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: conservative98

It’s one of the all-time great adaptations from page to screen, so I’m sure they will redo it just so they can take a big dump on it. The cringy shoe-horning in of diversity, queer stuff, and feminism should be fun for the whole family.

Hollywood has run out of ideas. It doesn’t really matter since they have already succeeded in their mission of making lots of money while destroying our culture.


50 posted on 09/20/2019 11:17:10 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Fact: Dogs can extract more info from smelling a pile of $h!t than humans can from viewing CNN)
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