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Blazing Saddles RTE1

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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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joebloggs32

coolshannagh28 wrote: »

Cynical , lowbrow rubbish which isn't remotely funny.

I feel sorry for you

rednik

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

Classic comedy.

Snow Garden

That's Headley!

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

vriesmays

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

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

2020 ain't a patch on 1974 for movies.

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.

[Deleted User]

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

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.

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

[Deleted User]

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.

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

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.

WacoKid

Terrible movie!!!

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.

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.

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)

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!

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

LiquidZeb

Disgraceful bloody film. It was high time it was put in the dustbin. Enjoy racism and trying to pass it off as 'satire' or 'irony' is a farce. It's a trashy film for trashy people.

Wanderer78

LiquidZeb wrote: »

Disgraceful bloody film. It was high time it was put in the dustbin. Enjoy racism and trying to pass it off as 'satire' or 'irony' is a farce. It's a trashy film for trashy people.

proud trashor here

LiquidZeb

Wanderer78 wrote: »

proud trashor here

Well alright if you enjoy a film made by racist old white men for racist old white men go right ahead. I guess you'll recommend song of the south next.

Wanderer78

LiquidZeb wrote: »

Well alright if you enjoy a film made by racist old white men for racist old white men go right ahead. I guess you'll recommend song of the south next.

im more a camp town lady man myself

LiquidZeb

Wanderer78 wrote: »

im more a camp town lady man myself

Yeah and a homophobic slur thrown into the song for good measure. Tell me have you asked a BAME person or a member of the LGBTQIA+ community what they think of the film and it's 'humour?'

Wanderer78

LiquidZeb wrote: »

Yeah and a homophobic slur thrown into the song for good measure. Tell me have you asked a BAME person or a member of the LGBTQIA+ community what they think of the film and it's 'humour?'

humor is suppose to be controversial, it tests boundaries, it tests our acceptances, it can cause us to reflex and think about ourselves, and how we treat one another and this planet, its a critical human need

Seamai

LiquidZeb wrote: »

Yeah and a homophobic slur thrown into the song for good measure. Tell me have you asked a BAME person or a member of the LGBTQIA+ community what they think of the film and it's 'humour?'

Saw some of it the other night. Much of silly but did get a few belly laughs from it giving the two fingers to the PC brigade. As a dyed in the wool shirt lifter was I offended by it? Not one bit.

El_Duderino 09

LiquidZeb wrote: »

Well alright if you enjoy a film made by racist old white men for racist old white men go right ahead. I guess you'll recommend song of the south next.

Hard to know if you're being serious. It's an uber-PC movie. In the shadow of the civil rights movement, it reimagined the wild west with a black man as sherrif. At the time it was unimaginable for a black person to be in charge of white people. It had genuine social impact.

Granted, hasn't aged well and it's squarely aimed at a fairly childish audience of people who think fart jokes and the dreaded n word, are funny.

If it were released today:
1 it would be a teen movie along the lines of White Chicks, fart jokes and swearing jokes like Seth Rogan.
2 it wouldn't have any relevance to the world. Zero social impact.
3 the people who dislike PC/woke/Snowflakes, would hate it recognise it as PC gone mad.

El_Duderino 09

Seamai wrote: »

Saw some of it the other night. Much of silly but did get a few belly laughs from it giving the two fingers to the PC brigade. As a dyed in the wool shirt lifter was I offended by it? Not one bit.

LOL. It was a civil rights movie. You can reimagine it as giving two fingers to the PC brigade, if you want. But it was very much PC brigade movie.

Bannasidhe

LiquidZeb wrote: »

Yeah and a homophobic slur thrown into the song for good measure. Tell me have you asked a BAME person or a member of the LGBTQIA+ community what they think of the film and it's 'humour?'

I'm a member of the LQBTQ+ community and I still sing along to that song "suck in your tum, stick out your tush" cos know what I saw as a wee baby one watching that film? I saw homosexuals beating the living crap out of the rough tough macho cowboys while still looking fabulous.

And I've watched it with black friends who are also LGBTQ+ and they think it's hysterically funny.

The straight white conservative people in that film are thick. That's the joke.

Seamai

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

LOL. It was a civil rights movie. You can reimagine it as giving two fingers to the PC brigade, if you want. But it was very much PC brigade movie.

Well I wasn't talking about when it was made, I was referring to it giving the two fingers to today's "woke" generation who are offended at just about everything, I was imagining some snowflake stumbling across B.S. the other night and having a meltdown.

fleet_admiral

coolshannagh28 wrote: »

Cynical , lowbrow rubbish which isn't remotely funny.

Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one.

Blazing Saddles is a masterpiece

Hitler: "they lose me after the bunker scene"

El_Duderino 09

Seamai wrote: »

Well I wasn't talking about when it was made, I was referring to giving it the two fingers to today's "woke" generation who are offended at just about everything, I was imagining some snowflake stumbling across B.S. the other night and having a meltdown.

Yeah. In reality the only ones having a meltdown are the ones imagining the woke generation getting upset about it. Hard to imagine such an out of date movie holding anyone's attention now.