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Send a wire to the main office and tell them I said "OWWWW!" - tough choice this one. Young Frankenstein is the funniest movie ever, not just the funniest Mel Brooks directed picture of 1974.
This is some "Marathon Man" level torture right here except NO ONE is safe from this poll. Shame on the both of you. Choosing between these two comic masterpieces is just...impossible. That said, I'm going with "Blazing Saddles". I don't have a firm reason for doing this other than "Saddles" makes me laugh 0.000006% more than "Frankenstein". Maybe it's the campfire scene with all the farting? The fart jokes win the day! But let me just say - if "In America" makes it into the contest and we have to lose one of these two pieces of brilliance - well, it IS Trump's America now so I guess anything is possible. Looking forward to the brackets, even though part of my soul is dead from having to make "Brooksie's Choice".
Only one has the line, "Where are the white women at?"
As somebody who loves Mel Brooks more than his own mother, I hate this poll. If this is what the remainder of FS Madness is going to be, then we all need to throw back a strong drink and listen to John Morris's gorgeous Young Frankenstein score. Yes, Blazing Saddles is hilarious and yes, Mel brought it on the road just to PROVE it was the funniest movie of all time. But where Saddles is comedy spectacle, Frankenstein tap dances its way into art. Mel himself has said that while Saddles is his funniest, Frankenstein is his BEST. (Also, it's hilarious.) At the end of the day, Young Frankenstein has something for everyone: incredible set design, cinematography music, writing, and performances practically pulled from a James Whale classic. FS Madness is ALIVE! Blucher! (Horse neigh)
Oy. How to choose between two of the funniest movies of all time? On one hand you've got I Get a Kick Out of You, I'm tired, and Hedley Lamarr. On the other hand, Frau Blucher, Eyegore, and Puttin' on the Ritz. In the end I chose Young Frankenstein for two reasons: the aforementioned musical number with the hilarious Peter Boyle, and the sheer artistry.
They're both hilarious; they're both classics. You could open a film studies course about Mel Brooks with a week or two dedicated to either. That said - while Young Frankenstein is a matchless example of the spoof, it doesn't attempt Blazing Saddles' degree of difficulty. Saddles is a vintage Brooks screwball comedy, a cowboy send-up, and a twisted piece of social commentary which mostly sticks the landing all in one. I always give bonus points when a genre filmmaker expands their comfort zone without abandoning his or her signature moves - and here, going nuts in the Old West while tiptoeing through a racial minefield is big ups for Mel.
I really enjoyed Young Frankenstein, the craft shows commitment, the performances are amazing, and it's a definite classic. HOWEVER, I have to go with the movie that could never get made today. Blazing Saddles is an absurdly offensive, in your face, brash comedy. I grew up hearing that this movie was "racist", only to find out that it was in-fact satire of the racist roots of American cinema of the old west. After struggling through a few dozen major studio westerns in film school, Blazing Saddles was like the greatest sigh of relief I've ever had. It's vicious towards the studio system, absurd for the sake of absurdity, contains comedy on every level of the broad-to-subversive scale, and is just an absolute delight.
Some of the individual jokes land much harder in Blazing Saddles, but Young Frankenstein is a terrific film. Gene Wilder's authorship on the film helped propel the story for me into a work that enhanced the genre. It wasn't just a parody of the tropes of the James Whale films.
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What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin on here?! Are you kidding - Making me choose between these 2? I'd probably have both in my top 5 comedies of all time! I was actually refusing to vote, but realized I could only leave a comment if I picked one. The choice is harder than between taking the blonde, or the one with the turban. So I threw a dart, and after it ricocheted off the car tire, it landed on YF. But shame on you for putting me through this misery. If this is only the play-in match, I won't make it through the rest of the field. Good luck, shewiffs. You're gonna need it!
In all seriousness though, it does remind us all of what a loss it is losing Gene Wilder.
While Blazing Saddles is hilarious, it feels more like a collection of running gags. Young Frankenstein -- now there's a well constructed, gorgeously shot, wonderfully realized piece of cinema.
Extra points (in my book) for Frankenstein being a somewhat more loving tribute to the genre that spawned the spoof.
Tough choice. I love both of these movies. Yes, Blazing Saddles has more laugh out loud jokes, but Young Frankenstein is Brooke's masterpiece. The cinematography is perfect, the set design is spot on, and the choice to film in black and white is an inspired one. In both movies, the acting is incredible, but, at times, Young Frankenstein has a sadness and melancholy feel to it that balances out all the laughs, and makes it the winner. Plus the "Puttin' on the Ritz" scene never gets old, and makes me laugh so hard that tears roll down my face EVERY SINGLE TIME.
As with a lot of Mel Brooks, I love a lot of scenes in Blazing Saddles, but the find the movie as a whole to be a little lacking. But Young Frankenstein is his masterpiece. It's the only movie of his that I adore from beginning to end, and find the whole thing perfect.
I liked Blazing Saddles, but it's incredibly hard to top Young Frankenstein.
If this is what you are going to do to me as a play in game, I am already dreading the pain I am going to feel over the next month. This is painful. I'm going to have to Blazing Saddles only because I saw it most recently. I'm sure when I see Young Frankenstein again I will kick myself but for now this will have to do.
Tough choice! Saddles has more jokes, but I think Frankenstein is a better film.
Sadists. Y'all are sadists.