Best Mel Brooks movie Ever...?

[pink-o]

Personally, I don't think anything will ever beat "Young Frankenstein".

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	The Producers 1968
	1 (17%)
	The Producers 2009
	0 (0%)
	Blazing Saddles
	2 (33%)
	The Twelve Chairs
	0 (0%)
	Young Frankenstein
	3 (50%)
	Spaceballs
	0 (0%)
	High Anxiety
	0 (0%)
	Silent Movie
	0 (0%)
	Other
	0 (0%)
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[Ron Obvious]

1. The Producers was the cleverest...

But Blazing Saddles the funniest. His later work (Robin Hood, Spaceballs, etc) were downright awful, sadly.

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. Saddles. The perfect storm. The only one I could really sit thru, frankly. n/t

[pink-o]

3. You could not make Blazing Saddles today!

Not with the dialogue loaded with the N-word.

I was just watching Brooks on American Masters. They all wanted Pryor to play the lead, but the studio already knew he was a huge coke-head and didn't want to risk it, so Cleavon Little got it instead.

He did a great job!

[Scuba]

4. I absolutely loved "Young Frankenstein" and I still voted for "Blazing Saddles".

[UTUSN]

5. Picked "High Anxiety" for visibility and it's not shown so often, so I re-watch the ones that DO

get shown more, over and over, (History of the World, Young F, Blazing, Robin Hood). But Life Stinks is great.



At the AFI awards for him (or a clip of an interview), BROOKS replied to somebody asking about his "potty humor" with faux "outrage" (but a little sincere), "When you say potty humor, you're not just talking to Mel BROOKS. I am also BrooksFilms, the producer of The Elephant Man, Frances (& listed more)!"

[tavernier]

6. Not a fan

but I am aware that I'm totally alone on this opinion.

[LeftinOH]

7. I seem to recall 'Blazing Saddles' being shown on network TV

..with the dialogue completely uncensored. Can this memory be for real?

[pink-o]

9. Before the 90s, people used the N-word without discrimination.

it amazes me to hear it in old movies, and makes me cringe every time.

But yeah, the rest of the dialogue is pretty raunchy as well...we don't expect flowery phrases and Jane Austen prose from Richard Pryor!

And you could be correct. I watched "Network" uncensored on PBS about 15 years ago, f-bombs and everything. So maybe the FCC had some kind of loophole--that they sure don't have now!

[Ron Obvious]

10. I remember that too...

But they silenced the famous farting around the campfire scene, sadly enough.

Standards change on what's offensive, I guess.

[datasuspect]

8. history of the world