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Poll Question: Favorite Film
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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.
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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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WOW nobody voted for Dracula: Dead And Loving ItConfused.. Leslie Nielsen at his best.. well everytime Les is at his best.Wink
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Originally posted by Chus Chus wrote:

WOW nobody voted for Dracula: Dead And Loving ItConfused.. Leslie Nielsen at his best.. well everytime Les is at his best.Wink
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Originally posted by martinprog77 martinprog77 wrote:

Originally posted by Chus Chus wrote:

WOW nobody voted for Dracula: Dead And Loving ItConfused.. Leslie Nielsen at his best.. well everytime Les is at his best.Wink
totally agree .Clap
 
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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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by martinprog77 martinprog77 wrote:

Originally posted by Chus Chus wrote:

WOW nobody voted for Dracula: Dead And Loving ItConfused.. Leslie Nielsen at his best.. well everytime Les is at his best.Wink
totally agree .Clap
 
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.
 
 Read it after I postedEmbarrassed. 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"Wink


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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:


Originally posted by moreitsythanyou moreitsythanyou wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by moreitsythanyou moreitsythanyou wrote:

I like most
of those movies but I decided to go with The Producers for this reason:
HAH!!!!!!!!!I raise you tasteless KKK parodies  LOL

Sadly I've yet to see that move Cry


oh my....   see it... please... funniest damn movie I've ever
seen  I swear to God.. especially viewed in context of 
todays.... climate... LOL They simply will never make movies like that again... they couldn't...


And probably the only reason they were given a pass back then is because Richard Pryor co-wrote it.

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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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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. LOL
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Anybody for some schnitzengruben? LOL
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Young Frankenstein is the best funny movie ever... it has so many jokes...
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:


Originally posted by moreitsythanyou moreitsythanyou wrote:

I like most of those movies but I decided to go with The Producers for this reason:


HAH!!!!!!!!!

I raise you tasteless KKK parodies  LOL




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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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...Clap
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Histroy of...
High Anxiety
Blazing Saddles
Spaceballs.
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