Posted on 02/15/2009 5:58:30 AM PST by TornadoAlley3
Blazing Saddles (1974) Closed Caption
Comedy, WesternTV14
Warner Brothers
Mel Brooks
Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens
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Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene Wilder have great chemistry, and the delightful supporting cast includes Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, and Madeline Kahn as a chanteuse modelled on Marlene Dietrich. As in Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), and High Anxiety (1977), director/writer Mel Brooks gives a burlesque spin to a classic Hollywood movie genre; in his own manic, Borscht Belt way, Brooks was a central player in revising classic genres in light of Seventies values and attitudes, an effort most often associated with such directors as Robert Altman and Peter Bogdanovich . Some of this film's sequences, notably a gaseous bean dinner around a campfire, have become comedy classics.
— Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
This is the funniest movie of all time, IMHO.
Does this mean they’ll run the uncut version?
They do run the un-cut version on the premium cable channels. “Mongo only pawn in game of life...”
Could this movie be made today? I doubt it.
Too much PC.
“They said you was hung”
“And they was right”
The last time AMC ran it, it was the edited version. This channel runs commerical blocks that are nearly as long and numerous as the movie segments. They’re horrible.
I can’t watch them.
Obama’s favorite movie:)
I could even force myself to laugh at what is arguably the unfunniest comedy ever made.
It’s Twue, It’s Twue!!!
I’ll bet you don’t like the Three Stooges or Marx Brothers either.
I thought it was an ok movie. Depended a little too much on the N word to draw laughs. Young Frankenstein is in my estimation one of the funniest movies ever made.
Mel Brooks should be awarded with a laurel, and hardy handshake for making this movie.
“I am dee-pressed......”
There is something about Mel Brook's writing that sits on the border between outrageously hilarious and sickeningly mediocre humor. The comic rendition of Porter's I Get A Kick Out Of You strikes me as UNfunny and a dumb opportunistic stunt issuing from a sophisticated yet immature mind.
On the other hand, I was in stitches when Mel Brooks sang High Anxiety (which is a send off of Cole Porter's style) in the movie of the same name. Go figure.
And yes, I love the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers, but WC Fields cannot be topped.
"Piss on you, I work for Mel Brooks."
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