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Poll Question: Which do you like the most?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
3 [6.98%]
13 [30.23%]
12 [27.91%]
1 [2.33%]
0 [0.00%]
3 [6.98%]
8 [18.60%]
2 [4.65%]
1 [2.33%]
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    Posted: December 19 2011 at 20:59
I voted Producers
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No contest "Blazing Saddles", but "History of The World, Part I" must be acknowledged.
 
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Blazing Saddles for pure impact, but Young Frankenstein can creep up on me. 

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Hmmm, I can't choose between Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. I'll give it to Young Frankenstein because it has lower votes than Blazing.
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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

For me Mel Brooks produced great comedy up to High Anxiety and thereafter descended into puerile opportunism.
I'm afraid I agree, some of his later flicks are painful-- and I wonder how many realize Gene Wilder wrote much if not most of Young Frankenstein, though Mel Brooks seemed determined to obscure that.  Seems Brooks was a man starved for good material and when the good ideas ran out, he just kept producing.   The other Sid Caesar 'Writers Room' clan seemed not to have that problem; Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart.
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Blazing Saddles for me.It's hard to pick just one favorite because I like so many of his films.


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My wife got me a box set of 8 a while back.  No Spaceballs or Dracula in it.  I just finished  The 12 Chairs.  I think dreadful is the best description.  I'm giving History a spin.
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Voted for Young Frankenstein as it contains a section with Gene Hackman (as the violin playing blind hermit) which is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. For me Mel Brooks produced great comedy up to High Anxiety and thereafter descended into puerile opportunism.
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THIS MOVIE
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Spaceballs.
Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005

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1.- Young Frankenstein
2.- To Be or Not To Be (He played 5 characters but didn't direct it )
3.- Silent Movie
4.- History of The World, Part I
5.- Dracula: Dead And Loving It
6.- High Anxiety
6.- Blazing Saddles

Can't stand 5 minutes of Spaceballs or Robin Hood, both are terrible IMHO.

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Blazing Saddles
Spaceballs
The Producers
Robin Hood - Men In Tights
History of the World
Young Frankenstein
High Anxiety
The Twelve Chairs
Silent Movie
Life Stinks
Dracula - Dead and Loving It
 
In that order.. I think.. LOL
 
Hands down one of the funniest directors along with the Monty Python and the Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker gang
 
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Blazing Saddles, followed by YT and the Producers. I actually like Spaceballs less and less as time goes on. It just seemed so hollow and cheesy, compared to his 70's output. Men in Tights was neat, though.
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Had to vote for Blazing Saddles.  It has Count Basie in it.
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Lincoln County Road or Armageddon.
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I've never actually genuinely laughed at any of his films.
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The Producers for me Thumbs Up
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All I can say that if you can't tolerate silly, you won't get into Mel.  I see Blazing Saddles has fallen behind Young Frankenstein, so I went for that.  I have to put both at the top with Spaceballs third.  What a terrible thing to lose one's mind.  Mel's has been long gone for a long time. LOL
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Spaceballs!!!!!
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Young Frankenstien... although Blazzing Saddles and Spaceballs are runners up.
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Brooks was one of my favorite directors once. Now I think I overrated him. I only like Silent Movie and Young Frankenstein, with some good moments in Spaceballs... Some decent jokes here and there in Dracula and in History of the World, and utter boredom in Robin Hood and the others. Especially the atrocious Blazing Saddles, one of the worst 10 films I've ever seen. 
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