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TechnoTV - Blazing Saddles [Blu-ray]
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List Price: $28.99
Our Price: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Carol Arthur, Richard Collier, Liam Dunn, George Furth, Burton Gilliam
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569828384
Format: AC-3
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-09-05
Running Time: 93
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1974
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Summary: great
Comment: I bought this movie for my husband's birthday, and he loves it. Amazon was fast, inexpensive and easy to use.
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Summary: Incredible picture quality on blu-ray!
Comment: I didn't have high expectations for picture/sound quality of Blazing Saddles on blu-ray. I mean, it's such an old movie, how good could it be?
I was actually shocked to find it has excellent picture quality ...amazing picture quality, considering the movie was filmed in 1974! The edges are sharp, the colors are rich, I have never seen Blazing Saddles like this before. The audio is also very good.
If you're a Mel Brooks fan, this one is well worth getting on blu-ray.
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Summary: One of the funniest movies ever made
Comment: You can't go wrong having this movie in your collection. It is funny every time you watch it.
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Summary: Great Mel Brooks flick
Comment: This movie is just as funny as it was when it first came out over 30 yrs ago. I decided to get the DVD after several years of having 1 liners from the movie coming up in casual conversation. This is a classic and only Mel Brooks could produce a movie that mocks racism this way. Executive at studios today would probably be afraid to release a movie like this.
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Summary: classic comedy
Comment: Blazing Saddles is such a classic. From "candygram for Mongo!" to "it's twoo! it's twoo!" it's nonstop laughs.
To save money, the railroad needs to go through the town of Rock Ridge, and governor's right-hand man, Hedley--not Hedy!--Lamarr (Harvey Kormann) come up with a solution to get the residents to leave: hire a black sheriff (Cleavon Little).
When Bart (Little) gets to his office, he discovers the Waco Kid (Gene Wilder) sleeping off a drunk in his cell. They become friends and allies and save the day.
Brooks doesn't miss a trick with the humor, which, despite the famous campfire farting scene (which I saw once inexplicably edited for television as burping), is both sillier and smarter than most modern over-the-top comedies. I think it's because the jokes are all very pointed, and they're funnier because they're true.
The biggest point of the movie is, of course, racism, and it's treated in a way unheard-of today--by blatant ridicule. Those who are racist out of ignorance learn the error of their ways, and the outright bigots are shown to be idiots. It pulled out all the stereotypes and turned them around and demonstrated their foolishness. I don't want to turn this into an anti-PC rant, so I'll just point out that laughing at something helps it lose its power.
My sons, of course, loved it, and it sparked a lot of serious in-depth discussions about racism and about humor. They hadn't seen it before, because it's rated R, but there are R-rated movies, and then there are R-rated movies, and I don't think it was inappropriate for my 12- and 16-year-old sons.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The railroad's got to run through the town of Rock Ridge. How do you drive out the townfolk in order to steal their land? Send in the toughest gang you've got...and name a new sheriff who'll last about 24 hours. But that's not really the plot of Blazing Saddles, just the pretext. Once Mel Brooks' lunatic film - many call it his best - gets started, logic is lost in a blizzard of gags, jokes, quips, puns, howlers, growlers and outrageous assaults upon good taste or any taste at all. Cleavon Little as the new lawman, Gene Wilder as the wacko Waco Kid, Brooks himself as a dim-witted politico and Madeline Kahn in her Marlene Dietrich send-up that earned an Academy Award nomination all give this sagebrush saga their lunatic best. And when Blazing Saddles can't contain itself at the finale, it just proves the Old West will never be the same!
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