A Mel Brooks Poll
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Topic: A Mel Brooks Poll
Posted By: Mr Greeen Genes
Subject: A Mel Brooks Poll
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 14:31
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Definitely between Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of The World Part I and Spaceballs for me... Don't know if I even like one better than the other... Robin Hood: Men In Tights is up there too. |
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Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 15:33
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Spaceballs for me ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 16:08
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Damn, is this tough Blazing Saddles has a slight edge over Spaceballs for me, I guess, but it's all good -------------  Time always wins. |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 16:12
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Gotta be Young Frankenstein. ''Put . . . the candle . . . back!''
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 16:15
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Sir don't you think we're being a bit too literal? No! He told us to comb the desert so we're combing it!
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 16:20
 "We ain't found #$%&!" ------------- Time always wins. |
The Truth wrote:Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 19:55
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Young Frankenstein, with Blazing Saddles a close second (although Blazing Saddles is one of the most quotable movies evar).
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 20:01
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Young Frankenstein followed by Spaceballs, I like them all though.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 20:04
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nothing ever came close to The Producers, though I'm a big YF fan .. after High Anxiety his films really went downhill (could it be because Wilder wrote much of the better Brooks screenplays anyway ?) |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 20:05
| Young Frakenstein, even though The Producers and Blazing Saddles are some of the greatest comedies ever too. Spaceballs was one of his weaker films. |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 20:07
| Can't say I've seen a single one. |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 20:10
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 20:10
| I don't like any of the 3 or 4 of those I've seen |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 20:12
Change that. Now.
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 20:13
If I could change it I would, I've never had the chance to see any of them, so I have not. 
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 20:14
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The only one I haven't seen is Silent Movie, because it was so widely unavailable for a while.
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 21:15
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Hmmm so hard! The producers, history of the world, spaceballs, blazing saddles...bah! They are all so good. Have to go with spaceballs because it was the first I saw. |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 21:20
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Between Spaceballs and Men in Tights.
I'll give one to Men in Tights because I know it'll get less. |
Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: July 07 2010 at 00:54
My vote goes to Young Frankenstein. ------------- 
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: July 07 2010 at 01:50
Apart from Get Smart (The best sitcom ever) created by Mel Brooks,
 I have to vote for Young Frankenstein.
Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: July 07 2010 at 02:02
Must be because your I.Q. is too high to appreciate the humor.
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: July 07 2010 at 12:05
| Definitely Young Frankenstein. One of the funniest movies ever and Brooks' most consistent from beginning to end. I think the producers is a close second. Both Blazing Saddles and Spaceballs have their moments, but are not consistently funny. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: July 07 2010 at 12:12
No choice for me - Marty Feldman clinches it.  ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: gr8dane
Date Posted: July 07 2010 at 13:05
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Blazing saddles for me. Would love to see History of the world again. Have not been able to track it down. Anal Johnson Abby Normal ------------- Shake & bake. |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: July 07 2010 at 13:31
| Either Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein. |
Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: July 07 2010 at 13:32
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Without Blazing Saddles none of the others would exist including the popularity of the Producers. You also forgot one called the 12 Chairs. ------------- 
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: July 07 2010 at 23:24
naw, it's probably just because I haven't seen The Producers or Young Frankenstein. I was not a fan of Blazing Saddles, that's for sure |
Posted By: Mr Greeen Genes
Date Posted: July 08 2010 at 00:53
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I voted for History of The World, Part I. I feel its pretty underrated.
The end of Blazing Saddles gets a little annoying. I feel like they should've left some parts out. Maybe Spaceballs too, but I still love both... I really gotta see The Producers though. I've only seen the play. No Gene Wilder in the play... heheh
How's 12 Chairs?
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: July 08 2010 at 01:57
Well, while I laughed at parts, it was not as funny as I was expecting it to be. Young Frankenstein SEEMS funnier to me, but I watched it as a child, and maybe that's the only reason why.
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Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: July 08 2010 at 14:14
^ Maybe it was because you didn't see it at a drive in with some beers and other kinds of stuff carammed into a car with 4 other guys.  Pretty funny stuff. -------------
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: July 08 2010 at 14:26
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Brooks was one of my favorite directors once. Now I think I overrated him. I only like Silent Movie and Young Frankenstein, with some good moments in Spaceballs... Some decent jokes here and there in Dracula and in History of the World, and utter boredom in Robin Hood and the others. Especially the atrocious Blazing Saddles, one of the worst 10 films I've ever seen. ------------- 
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Posted By: Conor Fynes
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 02:19
| Young Frankenstien... although Blazzing Saddles and Spaceballs are runners up. |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 02:27
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Spaceballs!!!!! ------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 09 2010 at 05:47
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All I can say that if you can't tolerate silly, you won't get into Mel. I see Blazing Saddles has fallen behind Young Frankenstein, so I went for that. I have to put both at the top with Spaceballs third. What a terrible thing to lose one's mind. Mel's has been long gone for a long time.
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Posted By: Progist
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 13:12
The Producers for me 
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Posted By: Noak
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 13:51
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I've never actually genuinely laughed at any of his films.
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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: July 11 2010 at 14:40
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Had to vote for Blazing Saddles. It has Count Basie in it. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: July 16 2010 at 17:49
| Blazing Saddles, followed by YT and the Producers. I actually like Spaceballs less and less as time goes on. It just seemed so hollow and cheesy, compared to his 70's output. Men in Tights was neat, though. |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: December 16 2011 at 12:06
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Blazing Saddles Spaceballs The Producers Robin Hood - Men In Tights History of the World Young Frankenstein High Anxiety The Twelve Chairs Silent Movie Life Stinks Dracula - Dead and Loving It In that order.. I think.. Hands down one of the funniest directors along with the Monty Python and the Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker gang ! ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: December 16 2011 at 12:32
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1.- Young Frankenstein 2.- To Be or Not To Be (He played 5 characters but didn't direct it )
3.- Silent Movie 4.- History of The World, Part I 5.- Dracula: Dead And Loving It 6.- High Anxiety 6.- Blazing Saddles Can't stand 5 minutes of Spaceballs or Robin Hood, both are terrible IMHO. Iván
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: December 16 2011 at 15:44
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Spaceballs.
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Posted By: AlexDOM
Date Posted: December 16 2011 at 17:35
THIS MOVIE
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: December 16 2011 at 18:20
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Voted for Young Frankenstein as it contains a section with Gene Hackman (as the violin playing blind hermit) which is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. For me Mel Brooks produced great comedy up to High Anxiety and thereafter descended into puerile opportunism. ------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 18 2011 at 13:54
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My wife got me a box set of 8 a while back. No Spaceballs or Dracula in it. I just finished The 12 Chairs. I think dreadful is the best description. I'm giving History a spin. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: December 18 2011 at 17:40
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Blazing Saddles for me.It's hard to pick just one favorite because I like so many of his films. -------------  |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 18 2011 at 18:56
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Posted By: Sheavy
Date Posted: December 18 2011 at 18:58
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Hmmm, I can't choose between Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. I'll give it to Young Frankenstein because it has lower votes than Blazing. ------------- 
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Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: December 18 2011 at 19:03
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Blazing Saddles for pure impact, but Young Frankenstein can creep up on me. Where all da white women at?!
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: December 19 2011 at 20:26
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No contest "Blazing Saddles", but "History of The World, Part I" must be acknowledged. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 19 2011 at 20:59
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I voted Producers |