Yet Another movie Poll, Favorate Mel Brooks Flicks

amar · Post by **amar** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 11:52 pm

"the people are revolting!"
"yeah I know, they stink on ice."

Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:22 am

Unfortunately, and though Mel Brooks is quite kowledgeable about Russian-Soviet litterature, his Twelve Chairs wasted the material of Ilf and Petrov's hilarious original novel.
Leonid Gajdaj's movie Dvenadtsat' stul'ev was much better.

So I voted for Fronkensteen, being partial to Marty

Feldman.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 1:10 am

Zubivka wrote:Unfortunately, and though Mel Brooks is quite kowledgeable about Russian-Soviet litterature, his Twelve Chairs wasted the material of Ilf and Petrov's hilarious original novel.
Leonid Gajdaj's movie Dvenadtsat' stul'ev was much better.

So I voted for Fronkensteen, being partial to Marty Feldman.

Oh, and it had the grandpa from Everybody Loves Raymond.

lonewhistler · Post by **lonewhistler** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 1:17 am

...looks like I'm with the herd on this one. Young Frankenstein. Havn't seen too many of Mr. Brooks' films, have yet to see Blazing Saddles... :roll: Spaceballs comes in at second for me.

burnsbyrne · Post by **burnsbyrne** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 5:53 am

I'm torn between voting for Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein. My favorite line from BS is, "We'll take the N****s and the Ch***s, but no Irish!" From YF, "Frau Blucher!", "Neigh"

Cyfiawnder · Post by **Cyfiawnder** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 8:48 am

Well if you were a horse and someone yelled "glue factory" where you could hear it, wouldn't you Neigh too??

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 9:22 am

Cyfiawnder wrote:Well if you were a horse and someone yelled "glue factory" where you could hear it, wouldn't you Neigh too??

You'll have to explain this one a bit more plainly Cy. Wouldn't glue factory have the word Kleber in it? Or should I be using Transylvanian, not German?

Oopsie...did a little google-sleuthing...it's an urban legend!
http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/blucher.htm

amar · Post by **amar** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 9:32 am

for one thing, glue in german is "leim", pronounced as lime.
and glue is made out of horses....???

burnsbyrne · Post by **burnsbyrne** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 9:37 am

I have never heard the glue rumor. I just figured that the horses didn't like Frau Blucher NEIGH!

Mike

amar · Post by **amar** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 9:40 am

yeah, me too, I alsways thought it was just some brainless kind of gag. which I guess it is too.

Cyfiawnder · Post by **Cyfiawnder** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 9:43 am

Sorry I was always told that her name meant glue factory... my bad. Some glue is made from Hooves, especialy back in the day. The other reason I was told the horses whinnied everytime her name was mentioned has something to do with... um well

you know... with the horses... Like the unfounded stories about Catherine the great... get it??? I'm not going in any more detail than that, this IS a family site....

amar · Post by **amar** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 9:46 am

i don't get it...the horses what? cojones, or the other dangly thing?

Montana · Post by **Montana** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:31 am

There's a BareNaked Ladies tune that uses the phrase, "If you think of her as Katherine the Great, you should be the horse to help her meet her fate..."
Must vote for Young Frankenstein; the cast was superb. Although I did enjoy High Anxiety.
"Put ...the candle ...back!"

PhilO · Post by **PhilO** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:38 am

No E wrote:It's obvious (to me anyway) that not enough of you have seen "The Producers."

Maybe I need to see it again; just didn't grab me as much as some others. It's one of those that everyone including my wife says I should like because it's the greatest comedy of all time. Same with the supposedly greatest American film, Citizen Kane; just not one of my favorites (I think the greatest is On the Waterfront).

PhilO

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:50 am

I voted for the Producers (I should see Young Frankenstein again), b/c High Anxiety wasn't on the list. Brilliant fun if you like Hitchcock movies.

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