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re: Mel Brooks
Posted on 3/6/23 at 8:49 am to SammyTiger
Posted on 3/6/23 at 8:49 am to SammyTiger
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Worst is relative.
It’s still funny
Agree. It would have been a solid if underwhelming effort had he not done Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. Kind of a disappoint when you compare it to those two.
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Posted on 3/6/23 at 8:52 am to IndianInBR
I watched Spaceballs before i even knew Star Wars was a thing 
Mel Brooks is a generational genius.
Mel Brooks is a generational genius.
Posted on 3/6/23 at 8:56 am to IndianInBR
Part 1 came out over a decade before I was born and it's one of my favorite comedies. It holds up just fine. Nothing in the past decade comes close.
Posted on 3/6/23 at 9:08 am to IndianInBR
I almost made a similar post but about Animal House as I was bored last night and decided to watch it for the first time in ages. That one definitely hasn't aged well.
Edit: I'm not saying I thought AH was a Brooks movie.
Edit: I'm not saying I thought AH was a Brooks movie.
This post was edited on 3/6/23 at 11:44 am
Posted on 3/6/23 at 9:24 am to IndianInBR
I can understand criticism of History of the World part one. I haven’t seen it in over 20 years, but I remember it being a bit of a chore to get through. It had some good moments, but Brooks’ other work is far better.
Posted on 3/6/23 at 10:55 am to rebelrouser
quote:I didn't like High Anxiety until I read it was a tribute to Hitchcock. Somehow I missed that the first couple of times I watched it. Legally prescribed or illicit, drugs may have been a factor.
History of the World Part 1 is his worst. Well, until History of the World Part 2 comes out.
The French revolution and the Inquisition parts of History of the World Part I are much better than the Roman parts, at the beginning.
Gregory Hines died way too young. F cancer!
Will we really get a Hitler on Ice scene in Part II?
Posted on 3/6/23 at 11:43 am to IndianInBR
You Look Like the Piss Boy!
This post was edited on 3/6/23 at 11:56 am
Posted on 3/6/23 at 12:25 pm to CU_Tigers4life
More down votes incoming!
Posted on 3/6/23 at 1:49 pm to LittleJerrySeinfield
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I almost made a similar post but about Animal House as I was bored last night and decided to watch it for the first time in ages. That one definitely hasn't aged well.
What the hell is wrong with people today!??!!
Posted on 3/6/23 at 2:18 pm to LittleJerrySeinfield
I get that humor is subjective and if the folks that disliked his movies are from other countries then I would totally get it. If from different generations I’d be a bit more surprised as a lot of his movies stretched multiple generations.
Mel Brooks was the gold standard for comedy for the longest time. He was smart enough to limit his parodies to one and done and also spawned a lot of similar works. Good and terrible parodies can probably claim at least some link to his works. He didn’t invent the genre but he refined it.
So much of his work is highly quotable which is proof of just how timeless those works are.
But if you demand your comedy to be more like modern movies (quippy or the like) then you’re probably not going to like Brooks or Monty Python or similar styles.
Mel Brooks was the gold standard for comedy for the longest time. He was smart enough to limit his parodies to one and done and also spawned a lot of similar works. Good and terrible parodies can probably claim at least some link to his works. He didn’t invent the genre but he refined it.
So much of his work is highly quotable which is proof of just how timeless those works are.
But if you demand your comedy to be more like modern movies (quippy or the like) then you’re probably not going to like Brooks or Monty Python or similar styles.
Posted on 3/6/23 at 7:11 pm to parrotdr
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That one definitely hasn't aged well
I tend to suspect that a lot of classic comedies relied more on paying attention to the screen while the joke was being built to see visual clues which made the verbal joke work. You don't need to pay attention to the visual if you're watching a Chris Rock stand up special, but you do for movies like Animal House, Space Balls, Christmas Vacation, etc.
Posted on 3/6/23 at 7:45 pm to IndianInBR
That take is N-V-T-S, nuts.
Posted on 3/6/23 at 11:51 pm to IndianInBR
Is there a History of World thread? Search only brings up this thread.
Posted on 3/6/23 at 11:54 pm to rebelrouser
High Anxeity, silent movie and To Be or not to be were bombs to me.
HOtW was one of the first bootleg movies I had as a kid I wasn't supposed to have.
HOtW was one of the first bootleg movies I had as a kid I wasn't supposed to have.
Posted on 3/6/23 at 11:55 pm to SUB
The second half of the French revolution. Drags on.
Posted on 3/7/23 at 2:05 am to Napoleon
Posted on 3/7/23 at 2:54 am to Napoleon
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High Anxeity, silent movie and To Be or not to be were bombs to me.
HOtW was one of the first bootleg movies I had as a kid I wasn't supposed to have.
High Anxiety is probably my favorite movie ever. I don't care for Silent Movie or To Be or Not to Be
Posted on 3/7/23 at 12:49 pm to beauchristopher
To Be or Not to Be is a remake of a Jack Benny movie. It was decent enough.
If you can’t watch HoTW and laugh throughout, I don’t know what to tell you. If Mary Margaret Humes as a vestal virgin doesn’t keep your attention, nothing will. Granted, it’s not my favorite of his films and not the same level as The Producers, but it’s great.
Fun Fact: Brooks Films produced The Elephant Man, but Mel kept his name out of the credits because he didn’t want anyone thinking that it was a comedy. Also, John Hurt, who played the Elephant Man, played Jesus in the Last Supper scene of HoTW.
If you can’t watch HoTW and laugh throughout, I don’t know what to tell you. If Mary Margaret Humes as a vestal virgin doesn’t keep your attention, nothing will. Granted, it’s not my favorite of his films and not the same level as The Producers, but it’s great.
Fun Fact: Brooks Films produced The Elephant Man, but Mel kept his name out of the credits because he didn’t want anyone thinking that it was a comedy. Also, John Hurt, who played the Elephant Man, played Jesus in the Last Supper scene of HoTW.
Posted on 3/7/23 at 1:18 pm to IndianInBR
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frankly they are cringey AF. The humor is so base and crass, I could not sit through 10 minutes of part 1.
And you look like a bucket of shite!!!
This post was edited on 3/7/23 at 4:45 pm
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