Match Cut Director Consensus - Mel Brooks

[Ezee E]

http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2001/06/19/brooks/story.jpg

[Ezee E]

The Producers - 7
Blazing Saddles - 7
Young Frankenstein - 7
Silent Movie - 5.5
History of the World, Part I - 6
Spaceballs - 7
Robin Hood: Men In Tights - 7.5

Consistent.

[Boner M]

The Producers - 7
Young Frankenstein - 4
Spaceballs - 3

[Kurosawa Fan]

The Producers - 3.0
Blazing Saddles - 7.0
Young Frankenstein - 7.5
Spaceballs - 6.0
Robin Hood: Men in Tights - 5.0

[Mysterious Dude]

The Producers - 6
Blazing Saddles - 6
Young Frankenstein - 8
High Anxiety - 3
Spaceballs - 6.5
Robin Hood: Men in Tights - 6

[EyesWideOpen]

Blazing Saddles - 6
Young Frankenstein - 7
History of the World, Part 1 - 5.5
Spaceballs - 5.5
Robin Hood: Men in Tights - 6

[Melville]

I guess I forgot to vote in the Joe Dante consensus.

The Producers - 4 (Springtime for Hitler is hilarious, everything else is shrill)
Blazing Saddles - 4
Young Frankenstein - 6 (again, the best part is the musical performance)
History of the World: Part I - 3.5
Spaceballs - 3.5 (Dark Helmet is hilarious, everything else is awful)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights - 1.5

[The Mike]

I grew up on Mel's movies, so this is gonna be skewed high....

The Producers - 8.5
The Twelve Chairs - 8.0
Blazing Saddles - 8.0
Young Frankenstein - 10.0
Silent Movie - 9.5
High Anxiety - 8.5
History of the World Part I - 7.5
Spaceballs - 7.5
Life Stinks - 5.0
Robin Hood: Men in Tights - 7.5
Dracula Dead and Loving It - 3.5

One of the few directors I've seen everything from.

[Watashi]

The Producers - 7
Blazing Saddles - 5
Young Frankenstein - 7.5
Spaceballs - 5
Robin Hood: Men in Tights - 7

Men in Tights is one my ultimate guilty pleasures.

[Pop Trash]

Wow this thread is depressing. Gremlins 2 beating out Young Frankenstein :cry: Anyways...

Blazing Saddles -9
Young Frankenstein -10
Spaceballs -7

[The Mike]

Wow this thread is depressing. Gremlins 2 beating out Young Frankenstein :cry:
So true. We really need to just change the name of this site to "Bizarro World."

[Raiders]

The Producers (1968) 7.5
Blazing Saddles (1974) 5.5
Young Frankenstein (1974) 7.0
High Anxiety (1977) 3.0
History of the World: Part 1 (1981) 6.0
Spaceballs (1987) 5.0
Life Stinks (1991) 4.0
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) 5.0
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) 2.0

[Spinal]

The Producers - 3.0
Spaceballs - 6.0
Robin Hood: Men in Tights - 5.0

You are insane, Captain Grumpypants.

[Spinal]

The Producers - 9
The Twelve Chairs - 7
Young Frankenstein - 8.5
Silent Movie - 7
Spaceballs - 4
Robin Hood: Men in Tights - 2.5

Don't remember Blazing Saddles well enough.

[soitgoes...]

The Producers (1968) - 5.5
Blazing Saddles (1974) - 9.0
Young Frankenstein (1974) - 9.5
High Anxiety (1977) - 4.0
History of the World: Part I (1981) - 4.5
Spaceballs (1987) - 6.0
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) - 4.5
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) - 2.0

Its like he sold his soul to the devil for one year of greatness.

[MadMan]

There's still a few films I haven't seen from Mel Brooks. Regardless, he's one of my all time favorite directors.

The Producers(1968)-9.5
The Twelve Chairs(1970)-7.0
Blazing Saddles(1974)-10.0
Young Frankenstein(1974)-9.0
High Anxiety(1977)-7.0
History of the World: Part I(1981)-8.0
Spaceballs(1987)-8.5
Dracula: Dead and Loving It(1995)-2.0

I have seen Life Stinks and Silent Movie, but I don't remember either well enough to rate them. Although I recall parts of "Stinks" being very weak/bad, and "Movie" being slightly amusing.

Oh and my favorite film of his is Spaceballs. His overrall rating is 7.625.

[Russ]

The Producers - 7.0
The Twelve Chairs - been too long
Blazing Saddles - 8.0
Young Frankenstein - 9.0
Silent Movie - 6.0
High Anxiety - 7.5
History of the World Part I - 7.0
Spaceballs - 5.5
Robin Hood: Men in Tights - 5.0

[eternity]

The Producers- 7.5
Blazing Saddles- 8.5
Young Frankenstein- 8.0
Silent Movie- 6.0
Spaceballs- 9.5

[Weeping_Guitar]

The Producers - 8.5
Blazing Saddles - 8
Young Frankenstein - 10
High Anxiety - 6
History of the World Part I - 7
Spaceballs - 7
Robin Hood: Men in Tights - 6.5
Dracula Dead and Loving It - 2.5

[Ezee E]

Some awful scores for High Anxiety. Why so bad? It seems like Hitchcock-spoof would be funny.

[Ivan Drago]

The Producers 6
Young Frankenstein 7.5
Spaceballs 8

[Russ]

Some awful scores for High Anxiety. Why so bad? It seems like Hitchcock-spoof would be funny.
I think it's pretty funny -- especially the first half, set in the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous -- the second half, not so much.

Harvey Korman is a riot, tho.

[Yxklyx]

The Producers - 7
Young Frankenstein - 7

[dreamdead]

The Producers -- 4 (for the reasons Melville stated)
Blazing Saddles -- 9.5
Young Frankenstein -- 7
High Anxiety -- 2.5 (painful... though Korman is a hoot)
History of the World: Part I -- 4.5
Spaceballs -- 4
Robin Hood: Men in Tights -- 6.5
Dracula: Dead and Loving It -- 3

[Spinal]

The Producers -- 4 (for the reasons Melville stated)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights -- 6.5


You too? :crazy:

[megladon8]

Young Frankenstein - 4



I'm afraid I'm going to have to insist that you explain yourself with this one.

[Boner M]

I'm afraid I'm going to have to insist that you explain yourself with this one.
See Spinal's explanation of Eating Raoul.

[Winston*]

"It's not funny"
"You're crazy"
No, you're crazy"

= every debate about a straight comedy ever.

[Derek]

"It's not funny"
"You're crazy"
No, you're crazy"

= every debate about a straight comedy ever.

That's not funny.

The Producers - 8.5
Blazing Saddles -- 8.0
Young Frankenstein - 7.5
History of the World: Part I - 6.5

Way too long since I've seen Spaceballs. I remember liking it, but the snippets I've caught on tv over the years lead me to believe it may not have aged well.

[Watashi]

We didn't land on Sherwood forest. Sherwood forest landed on us.

[Winston*]

That's not funny.


No debate here.

[dreamdead]

You too? :crazy:

Sorry, he's a filmmaker who could be prone to nostalgia ratings. I will say, though, that The Producers was one of my most formative viewings back when I was nineteen. I stared blankly at the thing; it was like someone getting jacked up on sugar and then performing shrilly (like a version of Waiting for Godot that is so bad that it leaves the realm of tragedy and becomes slapstick). The targets are too obvious (old rich women funding Mostel and Wilder--crazy, I tells you), save for when Brooks pushes the envelope. I rarely laughed.

Men in Tights likely isn't any less obvious, but I know that I consistently laughed, and it was viewed at the same time. And I've always liked Elwes.

I do believe that Blazing Saddles is one of the four funniest films I've ever seen (with Holy Grail, Love and Death and Withnail and I), so there's that as an equallizer. :pritch:

[Bosco B Thug]

The Producers - 6.5
Blazing Saddles - 5.5
Young Frankenstein - 7
Silent Movie - 6
High Anxiety - 5.5
Spaceballs - 4.5

[Sxottlan]

I'm surprised by the ratings so far. Or maybe I shouldn't be.

Blazing Saddles: 10
Young Frankenstein: 10
Spaceballs: 9
Robin Hood: Men in Tights: 4

[origami_mustache]

Blazing Saddles (1974) - 9
Young Frankenstein (1974) - 9.
History of the World: Part I (1981) - 6
Spaceballs (1987) - 6.5
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) - 5

[B-side]

These low scores for Young Frankenstein are making my blood pressure rise.

Young Frankenstein- 9

[Ezee E]

Added Silent Movie. It's merely okay. 5.5

[transmogrifier]

Men in Tights is one my ultimate guilty pleasures.

Signature ahoy!

[Watashi]

Signature ahoy!
It looks silly without the "of".

[Dead & Messed Up]

The Producers - 9
Young Frankenstein - 7
High Anxiety - 3
Spaceballs - 4
Robin Hood: Men in Tights - 2
Dracula: Dead and Loving It - 2

I've never been impressed. His comedy seems too slow-paced, and increasingly obvious in direct proportion to his increasing years.

[Ezee E]

RESULTS:
1. Young Frankenstein - 7.98 (25)
2. Blazing Saddles - 7.53 (19)
3. The Producers - 6.9 (20)
4. Silent Movie - 6.67 (6)
5. Spaceballs - 6.18 (20)
6. History of the World, Part 1 - 6.0 (12)
7. Robin Hood: Men In Tights - 5.13 (15)
8. High Anxiety - 5.0 (10)
9. Dracula: Dead and Loving It - 2.25 (6)

-Life Stinks -- 4.5 (2)
-Twelve Chairs -- 7.33 (3)

THE Completist: The Mike
Offended by bad ratings: Spinal, Megladon8, Pop Trash, Brightside, and The Mike

OVERALL: 6.44

[Boner M]

Was kinda hoping this'd be my first 'biggest hater' trophy. :sad:

[Ezee E]

Was kinda hoping this'd be my first 'biggest hater' trophy. :sad:
You'd still be runner-up to Melville, who has gotten it so many times, that I deemed it unfit here.

[The Mike]

I don't know about offended. Deflated, maybe. Not offended. :lol:

[Spinal]

That 6.9 rating for The Producers is deeply offensive. I'm not backing down on this point.

[Winston*]

That 6.9 rating for The Producers is deeply offensive. I'm not backing down on this point.

Just assume all those bad ratings came from people who mistakenly watched the horrible Broderick/ Lane version instead.

[Qrazy]

# "Spaceballs: The Animated Series" - 2
# Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) - 5
# Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) - 6
# Life Stinks (1991) - 6
# Spaceballs (1987) - 8
# History of the World: Part I (1981) - 5
# High Anxiety (1977) - 6
# Silent Movie (1976) - 6
# Young Frankenstein (1974) - 7
# Blazing Saddles (1974) - 9
# The Twelve Chairs (1970) - 5
# The Producers (1968) - 7

Fuck I missed it... I wanted completionist!

[Ezee E]

# "Spaceballs: The Animated Series" - 2
# Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) - 5
# Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) - 6
# Life Stinks (1991) - 6
# Spaceballs (1987) - 8
# History of the World: Part I (1981) - 5
# High Anxiety (1977) - 6
# Silent Movie (1976) - 6
# Young Frankenstein (1974) - 7
# Blazing Saddles (1974) - 9
# The Twelve Chairs (1970) - 5
# The Producers (1968) - 7

Fuck I missed it... I wanted completionist!
post in main consensus thread.

[MadMan]

That 6.9 rating for The Producers is deeply offensive. I'm not backing down on this point.Agreed. I don't understand anyone who did not find that movie to be very funny, and also one of Mel Brooks' best films.

[Sycophant]

Damn. I need to start paying attention to these again.

[Kurosawa Fan]

That 6.9 rating for The Producers is deeply offensive. I'm not backing down on this point.


Agreed. I don't understand anyone who did not find that movie to be very funny, and also one of Mel Brooks' best films.

*flexes muscles*

[Sycophant]

MADMAN DOES NOT UNDERSTAND YOU, KUROSAWA FAN.

[MadMan]

MADMAN DOES NOT UNDERSTAND YOU, KUROSAWA FAN.No, no I do not. There's no need to shout, though :P


*flexes muscles*I fear no one. Except God. And maybe Kasier Soyze.

[Kurosawa Fan]

No, no I do not. There's no need to shout, though :P

I fear no one. Except God. And maybe Kasier Soyze.

Watch yourself MadMan, or I'll kick the shit out of Boner.

[MadMan]

Watch yourself MadMan, or I'll kick the shit out of Boner.I thought you were going to fight him at the Wal-Mart parking lot. If he ever states which one you guys' are going to rumble at, let the site know.