Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles are not only my favorite Mel Brooks movies, but in my top 10 all-time.

Blazing Saddles wrote:Bart: You are my guest, and I am your host. What is your pleasure? What do you like to do?
Jim: I don't know... play chess... screw...
Bart: [quickly] Let's play chess.

Young Frankenstein wrote:Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: You know, I'm a rather brilliant surgeon. Perhaps I can help you with that hump.
Igor: What hump?

Young Frankenstein wrote:Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Igor, help me with the bags.
Igor: [Imitating Groucho Marx] Soitenly. You take the blonde, I'll take the one in the turban.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I was talking about the luggage.

What gorgeous knockers!

Oh! Thank you!

I love Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein as anyone with a shred of a sense humor would. But for me, it's High Anxiety. It's a really well-executed Hitchcock parody and the theme song is brilliant.

I have seen exactly none of these movies all the way through. A lot of "History of the World", a bit of "Blazing Saddles". None of the others.

It's making this thread enjoyable to read.

itchy mcgoo wrote:I have seen exactly none of these movies all the way through. ..

WHAT?!? You're fucking kidding me!

Frau Blücher: Would the doctor care for a brandy before retiring?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: No. Thank you.
Frau Blücher: Some varm milk... perhaps?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: No... thank you very much. No thanks.
Frau Blücher: Ooo-val-tine?

ChristopherM wrote:

itchy mcgoo wrote:I have seen exactly none of these movies all the way through. ..

WHAT?!? You're fucking kidding me!

Bef...BEF! You must do yourself a favor and rectify this. I suggest "Young Frankenstein" first.

Mandroid2.0 wrote:

ChristopherM wrote:

itchy mcgoo wrote:I have seen exactly none of these movies all the way through. ..

WHAT?!? You're fucking kidding me!

Bef...BEF! You must do yourself a favor and rectify this. I suggest "Young Frankenstein" first.

Fuck that. Do it in chronological order. End with Spaceballs, if you feel daring. Or end with History of the World: Part 1 if you want to leave with a perfect impression. You can skip Silent Movie. Probably even High Anxiety if you felt like it.

1. The Producers (1968)
2. The Twelve Chairs (1970)
3. Blazing Saddles (1974)
4. Young Frankenstein (1974)
5. Silent Movie (1976)
6. High Anxiety (1977)
7. History of the World: Part I (1981)
8. Spaceballs (1987)

caix wrote:

Mandroid2.0 wrote:

ChristopherM wrote:

itchy mcgoo wrote:I have seen exactly none of these movies all the way through. ..

WHAT?!? You're fucking kidding me!

Bef...BEF! You must do yourself a favor and rectify this. I suggest "Young Frankenstein" first.

Fuck that. Do it in chronological order. End with Spaceballs, if you feel daring.

It's definitely true that Spaceballs isn't flawless, but the parody of Alien near the end is gobsmackingly brilliant. I remember a sleepover where my friend and I literally rewound that scene six times and kept on collapsing in hysteria.

Ok, I was in fifth grade, but still...

endofanera wrote:I love Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein as anyone with a shred of a sense humor would. But for me, it's High Anxiety. It's a really well-executed Hitchcock parody and the theme song is brilliant.

Way to go, dude. High Anxiety is virtually ignored in the Mel Brooks canon...and it's practically as funny as any of the other great ones. The theme song, yes, it's bery-bery funny.


Silent Movie is pretty cool, but when I see a Mel Brooks movie I want to hear...um...dialogue. I love the "King of the Winos" scene with the giant liquor bottle and its aftermath in which a giant pile of homeless people have collapsed on Mel Brooks.