Was bored out of my mind today, saw my DVD of "The Princess Bride." It kicks ass, but I'm wondering how Inigo Montoya can be hit in the gut by a thrown dagger and not feel any aftereffects like ten minutes later. Sort of like how in the Tomb Raider movie Mansfield Powell could have been hit in the chest with a thrown knife and suddenly feel no aftereffects five minutes later? And it's not like, being grazed or anything either. It's like, someone throws a dagger at one of these guys, it buries itself into said body part, said person gasps in pain and shock and bleeds and staggers and pulls the knife out and perfectly normal stuff, then the person they're fighting comes up to him to finish him off, and whee, renewed strength! Powell fights until Lara Croft kills him, so you could say it was a last burst of stength instead of a full recovery, but he fights like nothing happened to him! No grimace of pain or ragged gasping for breath or nothin'. The recovery is slightly more realistic for Inigo, where he's struggling to keep from keeling over but can still use his arm, and manages to parry Count Rugen enough to keep from being impaled (but still takes minor injuries), and then manages to get to his feet and kill the Count in a fit of anger, but it's rather unrealistic that he stays strong afterwards. I was honestly expecting him to collapse and die from his wounds immediately after that, knowing he'd completed his life goal. Not run upstairs and jump out a window and ride off into the night with the other heroic people on four white horses. I mean, is being impaled by a knife not as serious as it sounds?

If it wasn't that serious a wound and just a bluff, that was a damn good bluff.