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The Best Mel Brooks Movie

Steely Dan

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Favorite Mel Brooks Movie  

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  1. 1. IMO, the best Mel Brooks movie is....

    • Spaceballs
      12
    • Young Frankenstein
      18
    • History of the World part 1
      5
    • The Producers
      3
    • Robin Hood Men in Tights
      0
    • High Anxiety
      2
    • Silent Movie
      1
    • Blazing Saddles
      27
    • Dracula Dead and Loving it
      0
    • Life Stinks
      0
    • The Twelve Chairs
      0

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It comes down to two for me and I'd have to flip a coin. Young Frankenstein or Blazing Saddles with History of the World Part 1 and Spaceballs geting an honorable mentions.

 

Young Frankenstein has so many great gags and the dance scene is one of the best if not the best scene in any Brooks movie, IMO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH2nQHPs4aA Peter Boyle is awesome in that scene and as the monster in general. At the end when Madeline Kahn comes out like the bride of Frankenstein. Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Terri Garr at the peak of her hotness, Kenneth Mars, Gene Hackman all put in great performances. :lol:

 

The campfire farting scene in Blazing Saddles is another awesome scene. Brooks is at his best as the Governor too. The toll booth scene, the scene where Gene Wilder shoots the guns out of the hands of the bad guys, the fight with the gay chorus dancers are all great.

 

History has some great scenes like the inquisition song. The King Louis stuff and others I'm probably forgetting.

 

Spaceballs has some good moments but nothing really stands out to me from that film for me.

 

Since I'm betting a landslide for Blazing Saddles I'll go with YF.

 

Not a movie but Get Smart has to mentioned somewhere here.

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Blazing Saddles hands down except during Halloween when it's Young Frankenstein.

 

Speaking of Young Frankenstein you need to watch Son of Frankenstein where Brooks got a lot of ideas. The dart scene from Young Frankenstein was taken almost directly from SOF. BTW Bela Lugosi plays Ygor probably one of low lights of his career.

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High Anxiety has to get an honorable mention- it really did an outstanding job of producing over-the-top Hitchcock parody. Classic scenes such as the vertigo in the hotel, Dick Van Patten being killed with an extremely loud radio, the ink down the drain, and the final tower scene. You just don't see it near as much on TV anymore, but I thoroughly enjoy watching it.

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Bart: I better go check out this Mongo character.

[bart reaches for his gun]

Jim: Oh no, don't do that, don't do that. If you shoot him, you'll just make him mad.

 

Blazing Saddles!

 

followed by YF, with honorable mention to Silent Movie.

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Somebody's got to go back and get a shiitload of dimes!

 

Sorry about circumventing the language filter Scott but it just wouldn't have been the same otherwise.

 

 

:lol: I pissed myself when I heard that line the first time

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Blazing Saddles hands down except during Halloween when it's Young Frankenstein.

 

Speaking of Young Frankenstein you need to watch Son of Frankenstein where Brooks got a lot of ideas. The dart scene from Young Frankenstein was taken almost directly from SOF. BTW Bela Lugosi plays Ygor probably one of low lights of his career.

 

Compared to the Ed Wood stuff that's a highlight.

 

History of the World is my favorite Mel Brooks movie

 

How was that?

 

 

 

Got to be the Producers for me.

 

'Springtime for Hitler and Germany, Winter for Poland and France...'

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGp0hCxSg98

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH2nQHPs4aA

 

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCut8SrV0kA

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZybFl_pfMk...feature=related

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Somebody's got to go back and get a shiitload of dimes!

 

Sorry about circumventing the language filter Scott but it just wouldn't have been the same otherwise.

 

Taggart may be my favorite character in that film.

 

"I hired you people to try to get a little track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots."

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