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Not at all PC, especially after recent events in America but by God it’s still one of the funniest movies ever made. Watching it at the moment and I expect RTÈ will get a few emails!

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Dub Ste

daheff wrote: »

Campfire scene.
Nuff said

Next time it's on, put the subtitles on, you haven't lived until you've seen a fart subtitled.........................:D

Wanderer78

zorro2566 wrote: »

Not at all PC, especially after recent events in America but by God it’s still one of the funniest movies ever made. Watching it at the moment and I expect RTÈ will get a few emails!

im sending one right now, more of this please!

El_Duderino 09

Cal4567 wrote: »

Brilliant username. I wonder if others here catch onto it.

Great movie, one of the funniest ever made. The only trouble is after 3/4 watches, you tend to remember all the jokes before they hit you.

I think you'd need to be a teenager to get into it. Hard to imagine an adult liking a movie with a scene where they fart because they're eating beans. Plus, breaking the fourth wall at the end is a bit cheap (maybe it was a novel trick back in the 70s, but it's a bit cheap now)

Cal4567

WacoKid wrote: »

Terrible movie!!!

Brilliant username. I wonder if others here catch onto it.

Great movie, one of the funniest ever made. The only trouble is after 3/4 watches, you tend to remember all the jokes before they hit you.

CastorTroy

I'd say if there was something people wanted to complain about, it would be Mel Brook's playing a Native American.

I think a complaint I would have about it and pretty much any comedy that does it is the song. It's always a risk because it goes too long. So if it doesn't work it really drags and people can lose interest. Any other joke is over quickly enough.
In this case as well it wasn't in any way lively and apart from her interacting with a couple people, there wasn't even any physical comedy.

WacoKid

Terrible movie!!!

El_Duderino 09

MontgomeryClift wrote: »

What would be the objection? Apart from the language, it's a film written by (and mostly starring) Jews and Richard Pryor in which the whites are stupid bigots, the blacks are smart, and a Jew and a black sheriff are the heroes.

Absolutely a PC movie. Written in the civil rights era, the anti-PC brigade would go bananas if it were released today. It goes under their radar because they actually think it's not a PC movie.

The kind of peope who rail against PC today are exactly the kind of peope who railed against PC in the past. They would not have liked the civil rights movement and they would have recognised Blazing Saddles as more "PC gone mad".

Interesting to note that so far in this thread there have been precisely no posts criticising the movie as racist but loads of posts fanticising about the PC brigade criticising it as racist.

Dodge

MontgomeryClift wrote: »

What would be the objection? Apart from the language, it's a film written by (and mostly starring) Jews and Richard Pryor in which the whites are stupid bigots, the blacks are smart, and a Jew and a black sheriff are the heroes.

There hasn’t been any objections

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What would be the objection? Apart from the language, it's a film written by (and mostly starring) Jews and Richard Pryor in which the whites are stupid bigots, the blacks are smart, and a Jew and a black sheriff are the heroes.

Muppet Man

If you like crude comedy westerns you should have a look at "a million ways to die in the west". Some Really funny and outrageous scenes... Underrated in my opinion, with lots of cameo apparences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPv2V7Cqmxw

Montage of Feck

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

RTE showing the latest up to the minute films, from 1974

The 70's was the high water mark for movies.

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I wonder do those with a problem with it know the late and very great Richard Pryor was one of the writers?

CastorTroy

To keep it tied to TV, I only recently found out about the TV series. Credit to pixelburp

pixelburp wrote: »

On a lighter note and things I never even realised; did you know Warner Bros. produced 4 seasons of a Blazing Saddles sitcom, but intentionally never aired it, just to bypass Mel Brook's attempts to retain the rights of the Blazing Saddles IP? Needless to say the footage presented in the video below is awful stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmpFypaGkKE

But watched it myself last night/today. Enjoyed it again. Though was sure it was this that had the 7 shot 6 shooter.

Was trying to think what was the last fun spoof movie before we got the stream of Disaster Movie type crap? I'll admit liking the first 2 Scary Movies.

vriesmays

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

RTE showing the latest up to the minute films, from 1974

2020 ain't a patch on 1974 for movies.

Snow Garden

That's Headley!

'Now go do that voodoo that you do so well'

rednik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm6NygR95MA

Classic comedy.

joebloggs32

coolshannagh28 wrote: »

Cynical , lowbrow rubbish which isn't remotely funny.

I feel sorry for you

coolshannagh28

Cynical , lowbrow rubbish which isn't remotely funny.

daheff

Campfire scene.
Nuff said

Relikk

dhaughton99

When I read the posts name I assumed it was a 30 min weekly Marty Morrissey show, where he learns to ride a horse and sponsored by Blosom hill. I’m shocked surprised to see it is actually the movie.

endofrainbow

one of the funniest movies ever made

trashcan

Hangdogroad wrote: »

"I like rape"

See,out of context, that sounds bad....:D

trashcan

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Best film ever. Or thereabouts.

"Alright, we'll give some land to the **** and the ******, but not the Irish"

-negative response-

"Aw prarie shìt. Alright, everybody!"

Wahey!

joebloggs32 wrote: »

When i was in college and only two stations existed this was regularly popped on the video.
Id safely say we watched it a couple of times a month.
We were constantly quoting it.....if only it was needed for the exams!

It's an endlessly quotable film.( I've put up a few on the film quotes thread) and in the top 2 or three funniest films ever made, along with Life of Brian and possibly Airplane.

Stewie Griffin

Don't shoot him. You'll just make him mad....

Hangdogroad

"I like rape"

Ardent

Never mind that shít, here comes Mongo!

joebloggs32

When i was in college and only two stations existed this was regularly popped on the video.
Id safely say we watched it a couple of times a month.
We were constantly quoting it.....if only it was needed for the exams!

Ol' Donie

Best film ever. Or thereabouts.

"Alright, we'll give some land to the **** and the ******, but not the Irish"

-negative response-

"Aw prarie shìt. Alright, everybody!"

Wahey!

Looptheloop30

I can't afford no horses