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Alice Marie Cain

Floors. Vastly over-rated.

Val Wann

RE: Blazing Saddles - if you recognize the monicker Le Pétomane and can laugh at a politician using that name, then you'll likely appreciate the remainder of the movie. (recent reporting of court proceedings in the USA echo this fiction from a couple generations ago). Note the movie is aimed squarely at the a$$holey attitudes in the USA, many of which carry over to today, so some of the satire may be more intellectual than visceral to you.

Alexander

Blazing Saddles may be seen as offensive in it's language by today's standards, but Mel Brooks knew exactly what he was doing. This film killed the Cowboy genre in films and TV. But I have to disagree with you on one minor point, but this could be because I am much older than you. Robin of Sherwood written by Richard Carpenter was the best ever adaptation of the Robin Hood myth. The acting is occasionally a little wooden, especially in the early episodes, and the use of a "Twilight filter" when filming during the day is a bit obvious, but this is a show that started in 1984 and you work with what you have. As much as I love Danny John Jules, I didn't really get on with Maid Marion and her Merry Men, but it was aimed at a much younger audience that I was when it came out.

LeiHaddock

yeah that was really an entertaining video. and I coulda watched another 20 min of you talking about that movie, easy

Shawn Adams

Depends....is your sensibilities easily offended? If not then yes see Blazing Saddles.

Steve

"Blazing Saddles" is one of the most hilarious films ever made. It also is the most offensive film ever made. Mind you, the offensiveness is intentional to show how racism is bad, and also that juvenile humor is funny.

Fenrir Wolfganger

1) I know that was 21 minutes but it was over so fast. 2) Enjoyable, and informative, as always. I find I enjoy the fight scene better when you explain what's going on. 3) Re: Book review, I was looking forward to you reading an excerpt in your multi voiced style, that's what sold the Millennium Mage series to me. 4) Blazing Saddles? I first saw it as a child and would happily watch it again, but not with my straight laced wife and teenage son. Think 70's British humour, can be hilarious but there's some innuendo etc as well. 5) All the best with the audiobook recording, see you when we see you.

Berthulf

Well now, it's been a while since I saw any of Maid Marion and her Merry Men, so thank you for that service: I'm not sure I could repay you if I tried. It was my absolute favourite back in the day (and yes, I know how many days ago that was). I always loved the way it turned the Robin Hood themes and tropes on their heads, and of course, Baldric doing his best Blackadder impersonation (though I didn't know it at the time... though, now I need to know which came first)...

Sean Grinslade

As a Gen-X American, Blazing Saddles was a welcome inoculation my father showed me as a boy to combat all the antisemitism, racism, American Exceptionalism, Manifest Destiny, and homophobia in our city and family. Mel Brooks and Monty Python helped this weird lad survive 1970-80s New Mexico/West Texas - I joke the three movies that best define my growing up are Dazed and Confused, No Country for Old Men, and The Milagro Bean Field War. Much like Monty Python, Mel always adds music to his movies which he usually writes. Most of his comedies include a big musical number. He even parodies this in The Producers (1967) which he then adapted to Broadway as a musical in 1999 at the behest of David Geffen. He then re-adapted the Broadway musical into another movie The Producers (2005). The changes from 1967 to 2001 shows Mel knew the very specific 60s jokes and drug humor won't land with 21st Century audiences. There is a reason Oscar winning actress Anne Bancroft married the multi-hyphenate WWII veteran.