"I hired you people to try to get a little track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots. "
“get no thrill from cocaaaa-aaa-aaaine”
How can you not love a movie with Gucci saddlebags and the Count Basie Orchestra playing in the middle of the desert.
It may not be perfect but it’s the funniest goddamn movie ever. The fact that Mel made it and the masterpiece Young Frankenstein in the same year is a hat trick that more than makes up for any uneven later work.
Part of the joy of BS is that it will never be repeated. No one would finance a movie that politically incorrect now. When was the last time a movie ridiculed racisms so directly? Chris Rock is funny when he goes on about “cracker ass crackers” really I think he’s talking about my brother in law, but Mel attacked racism with a big pie in the face.
Hmmm… meh. Sorry, I can’t even work up a chuckle for these jokes – I thought that the horse-whinny broke the (already slow) pacing, for example. I’m fully willing to admit that it’s simply a matter of taste. But Blazing Saddles is hysterical pretty much the whole way through! Is it weird for me to expect that I would react similarly to the two?
Write me off as a casualty of taste, I guess. Airplane and Office Space are more my speed.
Newly empowered dictator for life addressing his people:
“From now on, everyone in the land will have clean underwear! And they must wear clean underwear. In order to ensure that this is so, everyone must now wear their underwear OVER their other clothing!”
I’ve seen it, not that funny to me, but thats fine.
I checked IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000095/
Sleeper 1973 Very funny when I first saw it.
Bananas 1971 somewaht funny
Take the Money and Run 1969 Funny when I saw it long ago.
Sleeper has not aged all that well and yet 1 year later Brooks made
Young Frankenstein (1974) & Blazing Saddles (1974) which are both still very funny.
My niece and nephew love them and they are 19 & 23. My nephew asked whose Howard Cosell for sleeper and thought the concepts were stupid.
Better Off Dead is a great movie with many good quotes : “Do you realize the street value of this mountain?!?!”. But it lacks one crucial ingredient for me, which is universality. (Which is potentially a made up word in this context.) By that I mean that BS, Grail, Brian, Airplane, etc all are so widely known that given the proper demographics you can use quotes from said movies in a crowd of strangers and have at least three people chime in with the line that follows.
There are loads of old movies that are being omitted from this list and some would say that isn’t right, but the old movies, no mater how funny, all lack a critical mass of modern audience. I saw a Bob Hope movie (Road to… umm somthing) a few months ago and was amazed at how funny it was (since I always thought Bob Hope was boring as crud.) But no one else would know any lines from the movie, so it fades in memory.
But when I say “No thank you! 15 schitzengruben is my limit!” or “Blessed are the cheesemakers.”, someone in the crowd chuckles.
Bob Hope’s The Paleface is pretty funny too. I still laugh at the Indian Scout with his grim forbidding face who breaks into girlish giggles after breathing in laughing gas. Priceless.
Make no mistake, the guy might be way too old school and squeaky clean for younger generations, but his comedic talent was genuine.
Try a well-timed “I want my two dollars!” in a crowd. Or an “I’ve been going to this high school for seven and a half years. I’m no dummy.” Or even just a repeated “Ricky! Ricky! Riiiicky!”
Though the most often used one in my family is calling things “Fronch.”
Hey I love Better off Dead, but whenever I discuss it with people, they don’t know what I’m talking about.
I have also noticed that I am in a small Minority that thinks Cusack is an absolutely top notch actor that is good in almost any role. (The anti-Cruise)
I’m with you on Cusack. Gross Point Blanke, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, even in the Runaway Jury which I didn’t really like all that much he still did a good job. However, I saw an interview of him on the Daily Show and I swear you’d think the guy had no sense of humor whatsoever. He seems to share a personality with Sean Penn.
Hey! I was looking at the “memorable quotes” section in the IMDb and found these quotes. I don’t think they’re memorable at all. In fact, I don’t think I EVER saw these scenes! :eek:
They look like alternatives to the “Candygram for Mongo” scene.
Bart: [Mongo walks down the street past a mannequin-like, penny-arcade-style “gunslinger” - Bart’s voice is distorted and seems to be coming from the penny-arcade machine] I’m the marshal in this here town, and you’re nothin’ but a big fat ferret.
[Mongo starts to pull his gun on the offending “marshal”]
Bart: Hold it! If you wanna draw on me, put a quarter in the machine.
[Mongo deposits a quarter in the appropriate slot]
Bart: Ready? Now draw on the count of three. One, two…
[Mongo is about to draw when the “marshal” falls away to reveal a cannon, which blasts Mongo in the face - we can now see that Bart has been throwing his voice with a bullhorn]
Bart: … Three.
Bart: [dressed up as a carnival barker, Bart stands before a big sign, in front of the Rock Ridge town well] Step right up, ladies and gentlemen and… Mongos! Dive, dive, dive, for buried treasure! This is the exact spot where the Spanish Armada was sunk by the British Navy, leaving millions and millions of Spanish Dubloons at the bottom of the sea!
Mongo: [excited] Spanish balloons?
Bart: Right on!
Mongo: Mongo take chance!
Mongo: [Bart has dressed Mongo up in an antique diving suit, complete with helmet and hose] Hey, how Mongo get air?
Bart: [pointing out for him] From this wonderful antique pump. Good hunting!
Bart: [Mongo has reached the bottom of the well and is looking around at…? Above, Bart lets the pump stop] Time for my lunch break.
[a sign is lowered for Mongo: “For more air, deposit 25 cents”]
