View Poll Results: which is funnier?
Blazing Saddles (1974)
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Young Frankenstein (1974)
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Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein - the better film? (merged)
07-07-04, 02:48 PM
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I love both, but I would have to say Blazing Saddles.
Speaking of Young Frankenstein - I was watching it not too long ago and I had forgotten how freaking amazing Teri Garr looked when she was younger. Damn, she was sexy.
Speaking of Young Frankenstein - I was watching it not too long ago and I had forgotten how freaking amazing Teri Garr looked when she was younger. Damn, she was sexy.
07-07-04, 02:52 PM
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Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein - the better film? (merged)
So I picked up Blazing Saddles last night - damn what a funny film - and while watching it with my roommates, we got discussing which was the better film Saddles or Young Frankenstein.
While I think Young Frankenstein has a stronger story, I thought that Blazing is WAY funnier. And since I'm watching a Mel Brooks film for the funny, at least in theory anyway, I had to defend it as the superior film.
Still, I thought I'd open it up to you guys for discussion - which is the superior film: Young Frankenstein or Blazing Saddles?
While I think Young Frankenstein has a stronger story, I thought that Blazing is WAY funnier. And since I'm watching a Mel Brooks film for the funny, at least in theory anyway, I had to defend it as the superior film.
Still, I thought I'd open it up to you guys for discussion - which is the superior film: Young Frankenstein or Blazing Saddles?
07-07-04, 03:00 PM
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***ADDENDUM***
At least we can agree that since, oh about, Spaceballs Mel hasnt done a movie worth a damn - and even Spaceballs wasnt as good as his early stuff.
But then, in todays PC world, a movie like Saddles would NEVER get made - despite it making fun of white folks more than being a rasist vehicle.
At least we can agree that since, oh about, Spaceballs Mel hasnt done a movie worth a damn - and even Spaceballs wasnt as good as his early stuff.
But then, in todays PC world, a movie like Saddles would NEVER get made - despite it making fun of white folks more than being a rasist vehicle.
07-07-04, 03:01 PM
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I watched Blazing Saddles last week for the first time in quite a while. It just wasn't that funny to me anymore. I was surprised I had a hard time sitting through it. I still get a good laugh out of Young Frankenstein though.
07-07-04, 03:02 PM
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How did you miss this one?
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=373608
Posted just 30 min before you.
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=373608
Posted just 30 min before you.
07-07-04, 03:05 PM
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How did I miss it? Oh, I dont know - the amazingly vauge subject header might have something to do with it. Or perhaps that the OP didnt actualy USE any words that would trip a search engine in the BODY of the freakin' post?
That might have had something to do with it.
That might have had something to do with it.
07-07-04, 03:07 PM
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YF, my all-time favorite movie.
07-07-04, 03:09 PM
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Originally posted by El-Kabong
How did I miss it? Oh, I dont know - the amazingly vauge subject header might have something to do with it. Or perhaps that the OP didnt actualy USE any words that would trip a search engine in the BODY of the freakin' post?
How did I miss it? Oh, I dont know - the amazingly vauge subject header might have something to do with it. Or perhaps that the OP didnt actualy USE any words that would trip a search engine in the BODY of the freakin' post?
Last edited by Rivero; 07-07-04 at 03:19 PM.
07-07-04, 03:11 PM
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Or we could close the one with the vauge subject header. I know that clarity on the internet is often a taboo subject, but I like to be a trend-setter.
(Or point them both out to the mods and let them merge away)
(Or point them both out to the mods and let them merge away)
07-07-04, 03:17 PM
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Originally posted by El-Kabong
Or we could close the one with the vauge subject header. I know that clarity on the internet is often a taboo subject, but I like to be a trend-setter.
(Or point them both out to the mods and let them merge away)
Or we could close the one with the vauge subject header. I know that clarity on the internet is often a taboo subject, but I like to be a trend-setter.
(Or point them both out to the mods and let them merge away)
07-07-04, 03:54 PM
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07-07-04, 04:42 PM
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Blazing Saddles. Just like some of my favorite comedies, there is so much that can be gleaned from multiple viewings.
BTW--do we really need another thread about Blazing Saddles vs. Young Frankenstein?
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=373617
BTW--do we really need another thread about Blazing Saddles vs. Young Frankenstein?
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=373617
07-07-04, 05:46 PM
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Originally posted by Abranut
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=373608
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=373608
Wow, good thing nobody posted that link yet in this thread!
07-07-04, 06:33 PM
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I just watched Young Frankenstein last week and picked up the Blazing Saddles SE last week too.
So with both movies relativly fresh in my memory I have to say: Blazing Saddles.
So with both movies relativly fresh in my memory I have to say: Blazing Saddles.
07-07-04, 06:54 PM
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Young Frankenstein has a better story and is a more complete film, but Blazing Saddles has more laughs IMO. I'll give the edge to Blazing Saddles, but either way Mel Brooks did a bangup job directing two classic movies in 1974(as did that Coppola fella).
07-07-04, 07:30 PM
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Actually, I think they are different questions. I consider Blazing Saddles to be funnier, but Young Frankenstein is a better film.
Actually, I think they are different questions. I consider Blazing Saddles to be funnier, but Young Frankenstein is a better film.