• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    7 months ago

    The fact that Cary Elwes did Men in Tights and The Princess Bride means that I constantly mix these two movies up in my brain.

    • thefartographer@lemm.ee
      34·
      7 months ago

      I can help you with this!

      In one, Cary Elwes plays a character who leaves his home but returns to save his true love from a corrupt king who is trying to force her to marry him. Along the way, he fights and then befriends a giant man who is friends with a man who is especially skilled with blades. He ultimately succeeds by cheating death and then placing the evil king in a precarious situation.

      In the other, Cary Elwes plays a character who leaves his home but returns and then meets his true love who he must save from a corrupt king who is trying to force her to marry him. Along the way, he fights and then befriends a giant man who is friends with a man who is especially skilled with blades. He ultimately succeeds by cheating death and then placing the evil king in a precarious situation.

    • roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      7 months ago

      Then he did The Pentagon Wars, an HBO movie back when HBO still made good stuff. It’s a true story and I saw an interview with the military guy he was playing. Dude said something like: “I checked out the guy who was playing me and in two previous movies he wore tights.”

      If you haven’t seen it, you should. It’s a fucking hilarious comedy of errors about the defense procurement process and design by committee.

  • Knasen@lemmy.world
    111·
    7 months ago

    I like that more and more websites have realized they are loosing traffic on denying ad blockers so that they offer the options to “disable and support” or “continue anyway”.

    Traffic is king and people will find other sites if you try to be a hard ass about it.