Mel Brooks favorite!
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I'm in the "majority" on Blazing Saddles, but I have at least liked everything of his I've ever seen.
My brother felt we wouldn't enjoy High Anxiety because we never saw too many Hitchcock movies, but it was still as entertaining as any of Mel's pictures.
FYI, you forgot Life Stinks in your list. He was the main star in that one rather than a supporting player.
My brother felt we wouldn't enjoy High Anxiety because we never saw too many Hitchcock movies, but it was still as entertaining as any of Mel's pictures.
FYI, you forgot Life Stinks in your list. He was the main star in that one rather than a supporting player.
I love most of Mel Brooks films, I think his most sophisticated and original movie was "The Producers" it is clever, has aged well, and doesn't have to lean on as much toilet humor as his other films (although if anyone knows how to do fart jokes correctly it's Mel Brooks
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You're right. And I meant to include it! I guess it just wan't too memorable for me. However, even when Mel Brooks wasn't at his best, he was still funnier than most other film makers!
"They said you was hung"
"And they was right!"
"And they was right!"
Young Frankenstein may be a better movie, but I went with Blazing Saddles. They're both longtime favorites anyway, and everything else from The Producers through High Anxiety I think also holds up well.
After that, it begins to get a bit more shaky; parts of some movies are okay, and some others are pretty forgettable overall. Life Stinks would be one of the latter; it was trying desparately to be funny and succeeded only in seeming desparate (and not very funny.)
After that, it begins to get a bit more shaky; parts of some movies are okay, and some others are pretty forgettable overall. Life Stinks would be one of the latter; it was trying desparately to be funny and succeeded only in seeming desparate (and not very funny.)
The Producers, followed closely by Young Frankenstein.
ditto Auntie Hill...
but unlike everyone else it seems I can't stand Blazing Saddles. I have never been able to sit through the whole film, same thing with Caddyshack (which I know isn't a Mel brooks film, but people seem to love it like one)
but unlike everyone else it seems I can't stand Blazing Saddles. I have never been able to sit through the whole film, same thing with Caddyshack (which I know isn't a Mel brooks film, but people seem to love it like one)
Brooks won an Oscar for the screenplay to The Producers, which I consider one of the all-time best comedies ever produced.
Also, to this day I find Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein to be two of the most quotable movies of the latter 20th Century.
--Ted
Also, to this day I find Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein to be two of the most quotable movies of the latter 20th Century.
--Ted
Blazing Saddles. Brilliant and hilarious. I also think The Producers and Young Frankenstein are both excellent. I don't much care for Spaceballs, and I've had mixed feelings about the parts of History of the World Part One that I've seen on television, although I haven't seen the whole film from start to finish, so I can't completely judge.
I also rather like his short film The Critic, which can be found on youtube.
I also rather like his short film The Critic, which can be found on youtube.
"What knockers!"
Young Frankenstein for me.
Space Balls second, and History of the World third.
Space Balls second, and History of the World third.
Blazing Saddles, hands down, just for being so quotable:
"You're acting like it's a hundred and twenty degrees out here! It can't be more'n a hundred and fourteen!"
"The sheriff is a n-*DING*!"
"What did he say?"
"He said the sheriff is near!"
"You're acting like it's a hundred and twenty degrees out here! It can't be more'n a hundred and fourteen!"
"The sheriff is a n-*DING*!"
"What did he say?"
"He said the sheriff is near!"
