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Hey Patrons, here's your early access to our newest episode on Mel Brooks' Silent Movie from 1976! Part 1 of a planned two-part retrospective on Mel's films, this episode deals with the early films of his career; The Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, leading up to our spotlight on his fifth film, Silent Movie. 

We had some differing opinions on this episode but we'd love to hear your thoughts below! Stay tuned for our Patreon episode on Robin Hood: Men in Tights. 

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JokersJuicyAss

Oh Life Stinks, you want to know how badly that film did, it came out in 1991, you guys did some films from 1991 and they're notable bombs, well Life Stinks did worse than The Godfather: Part III, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, King Ralph, Problem Child 2, Oscar (Aka the films that actually killed John Landis more than John killing those 2 kids) Men and a Little Lady, Hudson Hawk, Toy Soldiers, Madonna: Truth or Dare, NOTHING BUT TROUBLE, Suburban Commando, Delirious (John Candy was busy in 1991) and Dutch. Life Stinks made less money then all of those movies

JokersJuicyAss

Well speaking of 1976, another film came out like a week before this bore, it's known as The Cars that Ate Paris and Ryan if you want to wash your mind go give that a watch, if not that, then the Animated Porno which came out 3 days after Silent Movie, Once Upon a Girl, just for the gimmick that this is a porno made by animators of Disney and Hanna Barbera, but also the fact Frank Welker Scooby Doo's voice actor has multiple roles in it

JokersJuicyAss

Hey Ryan since everyone is riding the old dried dick of The Irishman because I guess Netflix called it a vanity project, I want to know your thoughts on the matter given you have a take that isn't just, "Yes these Italians are so cool, Tommy gun go pew pew" on Scorsese movies. As for my takes, I'm more worried about smaller creators, since they're going to get more fucked by this, and honestly I don't give a damn about Martin, he peaked with Cape Fear, most of the shit he made after is forgettable at best, and Martin has enough money he probably can just self fund his next film starring the corpse of Al Panino but CGIed to look like Tony Montana in the Scarface Game

Mary and Steve

Listening to this is making me realize how much of Mel Brooks filmography I missed - I have a half-baked theory but I’ll wait to see if either of you bring it up 🙃 (I’m not that insightful tho) PS: my boyfriend loves listening to these with me and he gets a real kick out of how fired up you both can be (in his words, ‘I like how [Ryan’s] kind of an asshole’), I think he misses the East Coast

Mary and Steve

“I love those guys, they’re like the perfect Odd Couple”

Jesse Shade

The first time I saw THE GOLD RUSH was on a completely silent public domain vhs I checked out from the library. I still loved the film, but I had ascertained as a stupid kid that all silent movies were supposed to be presented as completely silent. So that's why it took me till college to get into the old stuff, because I finally realized how important sound was into properly presenting these movies.

Jesse Shade

And I was on Ryan's side when I first saw Young Frankenstein, it was on a bus late at night from a new york trip and I didn't get its appeal. The pacing was so different than what I expected out of Mel Brooks from Spaceballs. Only when I watched it right after Wilder died and I had gained an appreciation for Universal monster movies did I finally understand and now love it quite a bit, but I can understand where Ryan is coming from because I used to be there.

Mary and Steve

PPS: I had no idea Langella was so hunky, Twelve Chairs just rocketed up near the top of my to-watch list

Sidetracks

Haha I love that! Thanks so much for listening.

Ryan Lancello

Once Scorsese started working with DiCaprio the quality of his films vary wildly and are very hit or miss. Smaller filmmakers will as usual have to adapt or die, dinosaurs just go extinct.

Mary and Steve

Maybe theory isn’t the best way of putting it but IMO there’s two main pairs: Blazing Saddles & Young Frankenstein and SpaceBalls & Men in Tights. Whichever pair you saw closest to the ages of 9-13 will be gold and the other one is either lazy or ‘not as funny as everyone says.’ This ties into the recycled jokes and bits. This is all based on my experience, your mileage may vary. Personally, I saw YF first, then BS, High Anxiety and History of the World when my parents thought I was old enough. In high school I saw MiT and SB and was entirely underwhelmed because very little new was brought to the table. Contrast my bestie at the time, who saw MiT first and thought Blazing Saddles was boring. Also, aforementioned boyf’s theory is the jokes were re-used because home media wasn’t as accessible so people maybe saw a movie once or twice and ‘forgot’ by the time the next movie came out.

Ryan Lancello

Both thoughts are extremely insightful, definitely on to something, makes you think about time in regards to our individual relationship to these things. Great stuff!

Samuel Moszynski

The Dictator was bad, but Cohens 'The Brothers Grimsby' was even worse. My buddy made me watch it. I stopped watching modern movies after I saw This Is 40

Joel Acklen

I didn't hate it when I watched it, but I don't think it needs to be seen

Brett Lawrence

Always appreciate your honesty. Nice work, fellas. By the way, how about that 20th Century Fox VHS box set of 7 Mel Brooks films? I’m fairly certain I picked that one up the week it came out in 1997. Prized possession. Love him or not, Mel was a big part of my movie-viewing life back then. Very much looking forward to your words on Life Stinks.