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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Posted: December 18 2011 at 13:54
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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Posted: December 18 2011 at 18:56
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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