Mel Brooks
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Topic: Mel Brooks
Posted By: video vertigo
Subject: Mel Brooks
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 19:22
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Just the movies he directed. Which do you prefer? ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 19:24
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High Anxiety was his last good film. Anything before that and including that is pure Gold. very difficult to choose. My shortlisit is Young Frankenstein or The Producers. Ill have to think about it. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 19:37
Really? I like the ones after as well, I haven't voted because I can't decide either. ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Snow Dog wrote:Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 19:40
Sorry..I'm sure that many do like them. I just thought his films got a bit "tired". Anyway we'll see what the poll comes up with, yes?  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 19:45
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Blazing Saddles is still the funniest movie I've ever seen in my life. The writing in that was absolutely brilliant. Too many one liners to mention, but all just pure gold. I've seen it about 30 times and still laugh like mad.
Trivia: who played the role of Sheriff Bart in the VERY short lived TV spinoff Black Bart? Slm Pickens as Taggert was simply brilliant. E ------------- 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 19:55
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights Blazing Saddles Silent Movie Spaceballs Dracula: Dead and Loving It (none below 2/4 stars) I just love Robin Hood. It's light-hearted and gets laughs all the time. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 21:00
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THAT is a tough poll.
Spaceballs.
But History of the World, Robin Hood, Producers, Blazing Saddles, ALL great.
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Posted By: enteredwinter
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 21:09
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For me, the choice is between Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, two classic comedies that came out in the same year, somehow. Although it's close, I choose Blazing Saddles, because it works well both as a comedy and as a social commentary. ------------- 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 21:13
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hahahhaha Blazing Saddles... the movie that give bleeding heart liberals a coronary  I extend a laurel.. and hardy handshake to our new... *fill in the blank* ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 21:16
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Blazing Saddles is my all time favourite, although everything up to History of the World part 1 was excellent. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 22:21
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Blazing Saddles may just be the funniest movie ever made. I also like (a lot) History of the World ...
Hey, where the white women at?
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Posted By: darkmatter
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 22:36
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I had to go with Spaceballs, very closely followed by Young Frankenstein. "How many assholes are on this ship?!" "Aye!!" "I knew it, I'm surrounded by assholes! Keep firing, assholes!" |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 22:58
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It's tough, but I got to go with Spaceballs.
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Posted By: Bastille Dude
Date Posted: March 03 2007 at 23:41
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I'll let my sig do the talking.
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 06:31
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Young Frankenstein
Just for Peter Boyle doing 'Puttin' on the Ritz'
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 06:39
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I'm more of a Gene Wilder fan, who wrote most of Young Frankenstein and did other gems like 'The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother'. Madeline Khan also brilliant, and Peter Boyle, both sadly gone now.
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 16:27
I like most of those movies but I decided to go with The Producers for this reason:
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 16:30
HAH!!!!!!!!! I raise you tasteless KKK parodies  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 16:31
Sadly I've yet to see that move  ------------- <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 16:34
oh my.... see it... please... funniest damn movie I've ever seen I swear to God.. especially viewed in context of todays.... climate... They simply will never make movies like that again... they couldn't...------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 16:36
| My brother and I were just talking about the genius of Mel Brooks and the desire to see more movies by him/. I've only seen Spaceballs and snippiets of History of the World Part 1. Pure comical genius. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 16:43
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Ben trust me.. if you haven't seen it, see it.. You'll never look at a pot of beans the same way again
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 19:49
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There's really no comparison in my book: SILENT MOVIE is the best Mel Brooks film ever.... It's filled with such an exquisite humour, DomDeLuise, Marty Feldman, Mel brooks... What else do you expect? With guest appearances by Sid Caesar, Paul Newman, Liza Minelli, master "Mimo" Marcel Marceau.... a masterpiece of humor... almost worthy of being called a true heir to Chaplin's works..... Blazzing Saddles is overrated for me... Spaceballs is OK, Young Frankenstein is another masterpiece, Gene Wilder, Madeline Khan and Peter Boyle make it a joy to watch (the scene with the blind man, parody of Whale's Bride of Frankenstein -1935, with Karloff and Colin Clive- is magnificent)... The History of the World is so-so, funny at times, idiotic at times, boring at times.... High Anxiety is bordering in bad, but it has its moments... Dracula, Dead and Loving It is ATROCIOUS, a true disaster with no humor, and no taste for parodying masterpieces as Browning's 1931 Dracula or 1992 Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula... And he should've dig for more Dracula-movie references (1958 Fisher, Badham's Dracula, Murnau's or Herzog's Nosferatu, The Jack Palance Dracula, all the countless -well, 6 - Hammer versions with Lee).... Instead, he chose to parody only two with absolutely no grace... And don't get me started with Robin Hood.... (though, as it's a character I don't love as much as The Count, I don't know many other movies).... But Silent Movie is a 10/10 film....SEE IT. To make a silent movie in the color era and actually make it successful, now that's the skill Mel Brooks had.... ------------- 
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Posted By: Chus
Date Posted: March 04 2007 at 21:16
WOW nobody voted for Dracula: Dead And Loving It .. Leslie Nielsen at his best.. well everytime Les is at his best. ------------- Jesus Gabriel |
Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: March 05 2007 at 00:56
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: March 05 2007 at 12:42
read my post below yours... I found it terrible.... But in one thing you're right: Leslie Nielsen saves this movie from being one of the worst comedies ever... he's such a great comedy-actor, without him, that atrocity would've been really a rotten lettuce. -------------
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Posted By: daz2112
Date Posted: March 05 2007 at 15:25
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Blazing Saddles ------------- In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole |
Posted By: Chus
Date Posted: March 05 2007 at 21:47
Read it after I posted  . Perhaps coming from Mel it might not be what one expects, but it's still hell funny, at least to me. I guess it's indeed the "Leslie factor"------------- Jesus Gabriel |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: March 05 2007 at 21:52
And probably the only reason they were given a pass back then is because Richard Pryor co-wrote it. E -------------
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Posted By: cookieacquired
Date Posted: March 05 2007 at 21:55
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Picking one is tough.. I put blazing saddles
but there's always young frankenstein, history of the world, the producers...
just don't pick
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: March 05 2007 at 21:56
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From what I've seen... Blazing Saddles Spaceballs Young Frankenstein High Anxiety A related film that is also great, is Hear No Evil, See No Evil. Gene Wilder is wonderful as ever. Of course, don't forget the not so good Woman in Red, with Gene Wilder and Kelly Le Brock. -------------   
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: March 06 2007 at 07:57
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Anybody for some schnitzengruben?  |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: March 07 2007 at 21:23
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Young Frankenstein is the best funny movie ever... it has so many jokes... "Frau Brucher!" ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 08 2007 at 03:29
I'll see your tasteless KKK parodies... ...and raise you The Scariest Grin In Movie History: 
...and a side bet of Gene Wilder at his best:  ------------- 
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: March 08 2007 at 09:04
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I've gone for 'The Twelve Chairs' (and I guess I'll be the only one...)
look underneath the slapstick, and it's actually a very clever critique of the social values of post Revolutionary, 1920's Russia....
...it gets a clappy from me, anyway... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: March 08 2007 at 21:15
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Histroy of... High Anxiety Blazing Saddles Spaceballs. |