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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 07:27 PM Original message |
Mel Brooks Destroyed America |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
1. Aha.. All those funny movies were just a distraction... |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 07:30 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. No, The Producers was a blueprint! A blueprint for economic terror!!!! nt |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:06 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. We should have been able to see that!! How blind we were!! |
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bunkerbuster1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
3. "Well you can lock us up and lose the key |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 07:52 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Perfect response. |
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skooooo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
4. Mel Brooks made it possible for Obama to become President! nt |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:24 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. Yeah, President of Pottersville. nt |
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skooooo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:59 PM Response to Reply #14 |
29. Sherrif of Rock Ridge! |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
5. History of the World is perpetually duels with Airplane for funniest movie ever.... |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:30 PM Response to Reply #5 |
16. Moses and the fifteen commandments. Love that skit! nt |
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DaveinMD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:36 PM Response to Reply #5 |
17. great movies |
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pnorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
6. I get an awful lot of my movie "leads" here on DU. |
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Mabus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 07:56 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I hope you got the original with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:23 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Dick Shawn was priceless! I also loved him in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. |
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Mabus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:39 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. He was hysterical |
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sufrommich (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:41 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. Dick Shawn and Ethel Merman were the funniest characters |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:44 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Ditto. It was Ethel's best pic. When they dumped her upside down and |
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sufrommich (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:48 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I love the scene with Dick Brawn driving in his car |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:49 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. LOL!!!! That image is seared on my brain. nt |
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pnorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 09:49 PM Response to Reply #8 |
38. That's the one I ordered. |
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Mabus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 10:14 AM Response to Reply #38 |
45. You will not be disappointed |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:27 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" couldn't be made today. Back in the seventies, |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:43 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. Chappelle could easily make that movie today, imo. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:45 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Yeah, he could, but it wouldn't get the distribution it would need. |
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intheflow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 09:08 PM Response to Reply #23 |
33. I agree, it would be labeled a "black movie" |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 09:15 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Yeah, but Chapelle would make it funny. Smith or Murphy would make it "Disneyesque." nt |
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intheflow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 09:19 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Disneyesque sells to white folk. |
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FloridaJudy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 09:47 PM Response to Reply #33 |
37. It's twue! |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 10:08 PM Response to Reply #37 |
41. It rewehy is twue. Hehe. nt |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 09:05 PM Response to Reply #6 |
31. An amazing classic film is "The Shanghai Gesture." Just had to mention it. |
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intheflow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 09:05 PM Response to Reply #6 |
32. You will not be disappointed. |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
10. Even "Men in Tights", which got terrible revues, had its hysterical moments. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:08 PM Response to Original message |
11. it was frau blucher |
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RollWithIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:10 PM Response to Original message |
12. It's good to be the King... nt |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
19. My Inauguaration Day Vision... |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:49 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. I love taking the power away from that word! That was Brooks' genius. |
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The Wizard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 09:42 PM Response to Reply #25 |
36. Lenny Bruce did it first |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 09:51 PM Response to Reply #36 |
39. Indeed! Thanks. |
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grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 11:05 PM Response to Reply #36 |
43. his great book |
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pnorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 09:57 PM Response to Reply #19 |
40. "He's a ni...." |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 11:39 PM Response to Reply #19 |
44. The President is near??? |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:50 PM Response to Original message |
27. The original is among my favorite movies of all time |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 08:53 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Paulson is Bloom. Gramm was Bialystock. |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 11:01 PM Response to Reply #28 |
42. Thanks, I will.. maybe rent it over the Holidays.. |
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The Wizard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
30. You know |
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