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Friday, December 22. 2023

Silliest movie: We don't need no steekin badges

Not a Christmas movie, but damn silly. Have to love Gene Wilder, and Cleavon Little is perfect.


You can watch Blazing Saddles on Amazon. 




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When Blazing Saddles came out my father and my uncle, an old german farmer, who had grown up working with draft horses, went to see it (don’t ask me). When it was over my uncle's only comment was that you couldn’t knock out a horse with a punch, implying that he had tried. But you would have had to have had to harness draft horses to understand....
#1 Snowgoose on 2023-12-22 19:22 (Reply)
Not as good as Young Frankenstein though.

B.S. tries too hard to be "funny" towards the end.
#2 browndog on 2023-12-22 21:49 (Reply)
For those that don't have the Amazon Prime:

https://archive.org/details/blazing-saddles-1974_202210
#3 feeblemind on 2023-12-22 22:13 (Reply)
If you like Blazing Saddles you will love Steve Martin's obscure Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.
#4 Dangerous Dean on 2023-12-23 00:14 (Reply)
Truly an under rated and under appreciated film!
#4.1 RJP on 2023-12-23 08:58 (Reply)
"'Scuse me while I whip this out."
#5 Maniac on 2023-12-23 09:37 (Reply)
The comedy was too stupid, except for the guy mistaking a funeral for a birthday party.

I prefer droll situational comedy, like Stranger than Fiction (2006)
#6 rhhardin on 2023-12-24 16:37 (Reply)

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