Blazing Saddles RTE1

coolshannagh28 wrote: »

Cynical , lowbrow rubbish which isn't remotely funny.

I feel sorry for you

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.

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

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

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

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.

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 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)

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 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 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 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

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.

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.

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"