Personally I don't even know why the idea of parody/satire is in the question at all when it comes to Princess Bride.

It's high concept.

What if there was a fairy tale story, but it's being filtered through a 12 year old boy? Then it tells a fairly by the book fairy tale (True love, a lover whisked away but returns in hiding, the evil prince stealing the true love, the trickster minor villian etc etc). It just so happens that the actual fairy tale they made up is actually really damn good, the characters are likeable and charming, the jokes land, and the action is great. SWo it winds up being a really really good by the numbers fairytale.

Obviously all that is a matter of taste, but I don't really see a need to look beyond that for some deep seated FEELING or MESSAGE it's trying to tell us about fairytales. Outside of this being a unique way of telling a rather good one.

Thing is, you add in the lovey-dovey stuff, and you basically have a renaissance era Disney fairy tale.

That's the thing, he is right up there with NDT for being a public (and vocal) advocate for science and rational thinking. It's one thing to have not seen the show, but he has done SO much more since then for furthering science in the public eye and encouraging governments and people to actively promote science.

O_O

Leave. Now. Just go. You we have no use for your kind here.

Seriously? You don't know who Bill Nye is? How is that even possible?

I should have time to record my bit tomorrow now that I have the go ahead.

I'm really looking forward to the third one, I hear that Trey is actually going to be doing motion capture for the car radio. It's supposed to be some very impressive CG work.

You realize the The Wizard of Oz, was a book first right? It seemed to get along just fine without being a musical.

The Great and Powerful Oz has a LOT of problems, none of which would have been solved by throwing in songs just to parrot the 30's movie.

OUR ARMY WILL RISE!!! ALL YOUR HOTLINKS WILL WOOOOOOORRRRK!!! HAAAAHAAAAHHAAAAAAA!!!!

I love hearing geek icons talk about geeking out. And then just watching him perform is amazing.

"Frankenstein's monster, named Adam and having taken the surname of his creator, becomes involved in a war between two immortal clans in an ancient city."

Also we shouldn't forget, this is based on the graphic novel, hence some of the more comic book elements.

Honestly I'm excited to see what it's actually like, watching the trailer it feels like one of those things that they just didn't know how to make a trailer for and just tried to cram it into the usual sci-fi action mold. Could be wrong, but there's nothing that screams it'll be downright atrocious to me (using the modern scale of hollywood action movies).

But then people will STILL POST BROKEN LINKS!! Don't you see?!

I'm not the crazy one here.

Gotta fix it, gotta fix em all, links can't be broken, links gotta work, gotta see the pictures. NOT CRAZY

And that's how Dorkman winds up saying he'll blow up his apartment if someone donates $1000.

And that's a joke only me and Spork are gonna get.

Mindcrack had thier 48 hour charity marathon last weekend, and they started by trying to do auctions (highest bidder) and it failed almost immediately. They moved over to almost the exact system Spork described and it seemed to work out the best for everyone involved, so I second that.