Blazing
Saddles 8/10
Blazing
Saddles is one of those movies where I have heard a lot of gags and
seen some of them in other films or referenced but never sat down and
watch the actual film itself. I finally did and am glad I did because
this movie had me laughing my ass off. It stars Cleavon Little as a
prisoner named Bart that is made the sheriff of a small town. Why?
Because they figured that as soon as he arrived that he would be
killed and then they could then plow right through the town with
their train tracks. I laughed my ass off when he arrived and as the
town all whipped guns out on him he took himself hostage and went
into the sheriff's station. He finds the Waco Kid played by Gene
Wilder in his cell hanging by his ankles form the top bunk drunk.
The
state attorney general Hedley Lamarr played by Harvey Korman (known
as The Skipper from Gilligan's Island to me) is the one that wants to
clear out the town. His assistant is Taggart played by Slim Pickens.
Their relationship is weird as hell. Mel Brooks who also wrote and
directed this plays a few parts but the main one is J. Le Petomane.
This movie is silly as I don't know what. More than I was expecting.
I thought this would be a straight up cowboy film but there are
instances of things from a hundred years past when this took place
that show up.
And of
course there is a lot of things that folks would find offensive
today. Hell, it was offensive back then but I know how to laugh at
absurd shit. This movie ends up spilling into another movie being
made and onto the studio lot. I'm gonna find some more movies that I
know about but haven't seen that came out years ago, particularly
comedies.
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