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Post by spooner5020 on May 20, 2020 0:47:22 GMT
Yeah I did actually. Liked it way more than Star Wars actually. Why did this movie get so much hate when it came out?
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Post by spooner5020 on May 20, 2020 0:48:21 GMT
No, I didn't enjoy it at all. Brooks isn't really my kind of comedy and Spaceballs is probably his worst from the ones I've seen. Dracula: Dead and Loving It was really painful too. I liked Dracula DaLI because of Leslie Nielsen brought his comedy genius to it. I don’t get the hate for the film. Sure it’s Mel’s weakest, but everyone acts like it’s on the level of Disaster movie. |
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Post by darksidebeadle on May 20, 2020 10:08:20 GMT
Yeah I did actually. Liked it way more than Star Wars actually. Why did this movie get so much hate when it came out? I saw it at the cinema and everyone I knew loved it |
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Post by amyghost on May 20, 2020 10:16:04 GMT
Initially, I didn't find it that funny because by the time it came out the first wave of Star Wars fan hysteria had abated, making it seem a bit dated and irrelevant on release. Now, with the passage of time and the subsequent uber-revival of interest in the films it comes off much better. It's a definite mixed bag of dopey gags and some biting wit, but then again, what Mel Brooks film isn't?
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Post by Vits on May 20, 2020 19:00:00 GMT
6/10
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Post by amyghost on May 22, 2020 10:32:38 GMT
Initially, I didn't find it that funny because by the time it came out the first wave of Star Wars fan hysteria had abated, making it seem a bit dated and irrelevant on release. Now, with the passage of time and the subsequent uber-revival of interest in the films it comes off much better. It's a definite mixed bag of dopey gags and some biting wit, but then again, what Mel Brooks film isn't? I think I may have brought this up with you before amy..., I like Life Stinks and that one gets dismissed as one of his lessor films. I think it has a nice balance of humor and heart and it even made me cry.
I need to see Robin Hood Men In Tights and Dracula Dead And Loving It, though neither seem to hold much appeal value.
I still can't find it in me to work up much enthusiasm for DDaLI, but Robin Hood has aged better than expected. Not one of Mel's best efforts, but it has enough chuckles to make the investment in viewing time worth it. I agree on Life Stinks; I wasn't crazy about it the first time out, but the film has kind of grown on me in later watchings. I can see, though, why hardcore Brooks fans rejected it at the time of its release.
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Post by amyghost on May 23, 2020 11:11:56 GMT
I still can't find it in me to work up much enthusiasm for DDaLI, but Robin Hood has aged better than expected. Not one of Mel's best efforts, but it has enough chuckles to make the investment in viewing time worth it. I agree on Life Stinks; I wasn't crazy about it the first time out, but the film has kind of grown on me in later watchings. I can see, though, why hardcore Brooks fans rejected it at the time of its release. Brooks held a mirror up to our faces with Stinks and I guess it would have put off those wanting an over the top farce\parody that wasn’t going push our sentimental or even denial buttons. Its subject matter is confronting and of course the revulsion projected towards those loser yuccky homeless wasn’t funny. I have been watching several TV movies lately from the 70’s and 80’s on you tube. I came across one of the best ones I had seen, No Place Like Home, with Jeff Daniels and Christine Lahti. It was directed by Lee Grant and was about a homeless family. It resonated deeply and was acted and presented as top notch as these little TV movies could be, within their runtime and censorship restrictions. They had their own little genre and have a unique feel that is so steeped in the era in which they were made, that they are also charming. Now we just get sledgehammered with millennial harshness. I couldn't have said that better. Seventies television certainly touted its share of mindlessness, but at its best it could present a mirror to life with humor and humanity that didn't exclude the fact that there's a grim side to it all. Now, it's nothing but grimness, with no wit, just millenial 'irony' which consists of little more than snark without the insight that makes true irony and humor possible. I'm bored to death with the posturings of that harshness, just one more reason I find myself turning back to the products of that Seventies decade more frequently these days.
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Post by janntosh on May 31, 2021 16:20:43 GMT
Thumbs up. The “12345” part had me In stitches. Rick Moranis is a national treasure. Pizza the Hutt though. Ew!
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Post by Popeye Doyle on May 31, 2021 16:36:26 GMT
Not really.
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Post by millar70 on May 31, 2021 21:13:21 GMT
It's pretty funny, but it's reputation has grown at a rate that I'm not sure is deserved. It's not THAT funny.
There are many other Mel Brooks films that I find much funnier.
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