Young Frankenstein or Blazing Saddles?

See You Next Wednesday · Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:08 pm

Both are excellent flicks (both released the same year, 1974). But if forced to take one, which would it be?

I gotta go with Young Frankenstein.

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:20 pm

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King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:47 pm

i'd go with BS.

"somebody's gonna have to go back and get a shitload of dimes...."

Bobby42 · Post by **Bobby42** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:34 am

I saw "Blazing Saddle's" at the Northland Mall in Columbus when it was first relased in 1974. Laughed so hard it fuck'n hurt....and it was unrelenting, from one scene to the next. "Young Frankenstein" was great , but BS was over the top.

Kansas City Kid · Post by **Kansas City Kid** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:39 pm

Both are amazing but if forced to choose one it would have to be BLAZING SADDLES!!!!

Invictus · Post by **Invictus** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:11 pm

Man, this topic is almost a month old and Cuda has yet to weigh in on it.

BS is a far better movie than YF. Far, far better. It had Cleavon and Fat Freddie from The Mack in it.

More laughs too.

"Where the white women at?" (This sounds like something Canibus would say or has said...)

The Assassin · Post by **The Assassin** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:20 am

My dad graduated high school with Cleavon Little.They were good friends.

Gotta go with Blazing Saddles.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:17 pm

I'd rank History of the World well ahead of Spaceballs, but behind the other two mentioned. Not sure I wouldn't rank High Anxiety ahead of Spaceballs.

Invictus · Post by **Invictus** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:55 pm

Dinsdale wrote:High Anxiety

...you win!

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:08 pm

The Producers has to be up in there.

My own Mel Brooks all time list...

1. Blazing Saddles
2. The Producers
3. Young Frankenstien
4. History of the World
5. Robin Hood: Men In Tights

BBMarley · Post by **BBMarley** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:29 pm

1- Blazing Saddles
2- Young Frankenstein
3- High Anxiety
4- The Producers
5- Spaceballs

Risa · Post by **Risa** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:54 am

BSmack wrote:The Producers has to be up in there.

My own Mel Brooks all time list...

1. Blazing Saddles
2. The Producers
3. Young Frankenstien
4. History of the World
5. Robin Hood: Men In Tights

History of the World was the first Mel Brooks movie I remember seeing. My grandmother had it on laser disc... those big ol' flat white discs the size of albums that you slid in the player during the days of BetaMax. I remember me and my siblings would watch that movie over and over and over and over and over again. We watched it as much as Airplane! (now that movie was perfection, beginning to end). Gregory Hines was my personal hero. I didn't get the eunuch scene for years.

Young Frankenstein is on a different stratosphere than History or Blazing. Robin Hood was a disappointment; it only looks good in comparison to the travesty Dracula: Dead and Loving It. Spaceballs should definitely be in the number 5 spot over Robin Hood. Spaceballs was awesome, in an Ice Pirates way. It's only flaw was that it was made in the 80s; people shouldn't overlook it, though. I don't understand the hate for it, myself. Combing the desert with an afro-pick... come on, now. 'we ain't seen shit' bwahahahahahah