134. The Princess Bride (William Goldman, 1973)
Genre: postmodern pastiche, maybe?
Rating: 7.5
A pretty funny mock-old-timey adventure tale. More sarcastic than the movie: rather than the frame story of a lovable old grandpa reading the book to his grandson, here we get an editor (a fictional version of the real author William Goldman) who's abridging the book while telling us how dull the fake-author's original version was, how much he hates his wife, and how his kid is so fat he could roll faster than he could walk. Now that's entertainment.
Quote: "Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited."