Last year I posted about my top 5 movies. Number one on the list was (and will always be) The Princess Bride. It’s my favorite movie of all time, and I watch it often. My younger sister and I used to watch it and compete to see who could say a line first (I bet watching it with us was super fun. not.). I watched it while I was getting ready for my wedding, and while I was in labor. So now that you know how much I love this movie, you get how any news story related to it catches my eye. Add travel to that mix, and it’s irresistible!

From NBC Travel Kit:

Mullins was wearing a shirt adorned with the image of a giant name tag with the slogan: “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”

Fans of the ever-quotable 1987 fantasy romance, “The Princess Bride,” will recognize it as one of the best-known lines from the film, but travelers on board the flight apparently found it threatening, Mullins told Stuff, a news outlet in New Zealand.

One of the flight attendants asked him to change, but he said he didn’t have anything else to put on. She went to try to find him something but couldn’t, so he wore it the whole flight while she “avoided eye contact with him for the rest of the flight.”

So okay. Obviously if you’ve lived under a rock for the last 25 years and haven’t heard of the movie, I can see how it would be off-putting. And since Mr. Mullins wasn’t inconvenienced in any way, this is kind of a non-story. Except for its relation to the best movie of all time, of course.

By the way I so love the beginning paragraph to this article:

He didn’t try to sneak shrieking eels past security or channel the menace of Dread Pirate Roberts, yet a recent flight turned into the Pit of Despair for a passenger with a fondness for “The Princess Bride.”

And….queue Princess Bride quote-off. The comments of the NBC article are pretty funny. Of course, I think anything related to this movie is incredibly fun. Also I kind of want this t-shirt now. And I just spent a LOT of my day watching Princess Bride videos.

If you haven’t seen this movie, you are missing out. Go watch it this weekend! Fun for the whole family.

Readers, have you seen it? What’s your favorite line? Or if it’s too hard to pick a favorite, how about the first one that pops into your head?

Have fun storming the castle!

There are about five movies (or sets of movies) that I would watch, any time. Intellectually I know that these are not the best movies of all time, but they are so highly entertaining that I can view them over and over and never get tired of them. Any time USA or TNT or one of the other cable channels is showing one, I will leave it on that channel. Even if I’m not actively watching it, I will enjoy it while I’m, say, folding laundry or cleaning the kitchen. Writing my list down, I’m realizing there is a theme….. Here are my top five:

1)      The Princess Bride. Best dialogue ever. My Number One movie of all time.

2)      The Mummy, The Mummy 2. Don’t judge, please. Brendan Frasier is a hot, smart, tough action hero who loves his girl. Rachel Weiss is gutsy and clever. What’s not to love? (The Mummy 3 was terrible. Terrible. Made me very sad.)

3)      Independence Day. Will Smith. Enough said.

4)      The Bourne Trilogy. Matt Damon is the baddest action hero around, IMO. And the car chases are so awesome they hurt my brain.

5)      True Lies. Hysterical plot, great special effects, bad guys get it in the end. And Jamie Lee Curtis doing a strip-tease.

At Blog World, I stayed in the Westin Bonaventure in downtown LA. It was my first time in LA, so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. But imagine how excited I was when I saw this plaque on the elevator leading to my room:

In case you can’t read it, it says, “This is one of two elevators used in filming “TRUE LIES” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. September 1993.” Staying in the hotel where part of one of my top five movies was shot? Yes!!!

Readers, what are your top five movies? What kind of super cool things have you seen while traveling?