Is it just me or was the "We ain't found *beep*!" remark a bit over the top in the combing the dessert scene?
I thought the afro-pick part was actually pretty funny (one of the few redeeming jokes in this movie) but then it was immediate ruined with a super stereotypical line that's way beyond OK (and should not have been acceptable even in 1987). How did this get through editing?
You are right! I know how you feel, I really do!
When I was watching the movie, I was just happily laughing along, and then THAT happened! Can you believe it!? When that happened, I couldn't laugh anymore and then stopped laughing as seeing and hearing that made me cry *snif snif*. And then I just cried and cried and boo-hooed for the rest of the movie, BOO-HOO-HOO-HOOOOO!
And then some horrible heartless racist who was sitting a few rows in front of me, who was laughing, also stopped and was very angry, looking at me shouting "What a *beep*in' baby! Shut the *beep* up, bitch!" (He was a black man, but that wasn't going to make me think, because thinking is evil and what racists do.) But that hurt my feelings and then I cried even more and loudly!
And then everyone in the theatre started getting mad at me, but they were just a bunch of racists meanies so they deserved to have the movie ruined for them anyway! One of them got up and stomped out of the auditorium and then came back with the manager, who then told me to leave the theatre! God, so unfair, so evil! So I told him that he was in big trouble for showing racism in his racist theatre, but then two big security men grabbed and then bullied me out! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!? Everyone cheered that I was being made to leave, bunch of horrible, terrible racists!
I'm still crying even now ever since I saw that and have never been able to stop since 1987! It was so awful, SO AWFUL! BOO-HOO-HOO-HOO-HOOOOOOO!
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Decent people shouldn't post here. They'd be much happier posting somewhere else.
Okay this was even WORSE than the OP. There's sarcasm and there's plain *beep* ing annoying. Please do the universe a favor and consume a jug of bleach. Thank you. And just to be clear, I'm not joking.
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I know! How evil of Mel Brooks to make that poor Vulcan swear! /sarcasm
"Slice, Pull, Staple, its a boy!" - Maul57
I can handle the whatever!
I guess the OP doesn't speak jive.
shareWatching it now. To accuse Brooks of racism is to not know the man and his work one iota.
Anyone know if there's a box set of all his movies?
Anyone know if there's a box set of all his movies?
This thread is racist.
shareRigth now, the best option is this:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mel-Brooks-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B007LNBS2I/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382557556&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=mel+borooks
However it does not contain Life Stinks or Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
How's this... "Don't waste any horses...send a coupla *beep* -Blazing Saddles.
I used to get offended about this stuff, but then I remembered that this was comedy, and that Mel Brooks didn't make the tropes... he just mocks them.
All the trolls need to shut the hell up. The OP should be able to discuss racism without reading a bunch of nonsense from basement-dwellers who have decided that since they don't mind, everyone else should have to feel the same way.
I bet you're a real hoot to hang out with.
shareThe OP should be able to discuss racism without reading a bunch of nonsense from basement-dwellers who have decided that since they don't mind, everyone else should have to feel the same way.
Since the guy yelling it later went on to play a calm and logical vulcan in Star Trek, I can't help but find it hilarious.
sharethe combing the desert thing was not meant as a racism joke. the comb was meant to make them look like idiots because the president told them to comb the Desert as in look for them but they took it literally and used giant combs
shareI'm not sure if anyone pointed this out yet, but why does that particular line bother you so much but the jewish jokes don't? You speak of racism, then only pick out one thing that can be construed as such. It's a comedy, it's hilarious. If you didn't find much of the movie funny at all, then leave it to the rest of us who thoroughly enjoy it. It didn't become a cult classic for nothing.
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