has the quote thread started? OK, then, I’ll just whip this out...

and before the “you couldn’t make this movie today” thread starts, let me offer the counterpoint: it’s was such a giant hit because it was funny and totally scandalous, ie you couldn’t make a movie like that in 74 either. Blazing Saddles created a scandal because there was nothing like it - or at least nothing like…

yeah - it felt more like an amusement park ride.

Mel’s other movie from 74 says hi.

Check out Infinity War for the final scene- the cgi on Mark Rufallo in the Iron Man suit is almost as bad as this. Almost.

seamless? Are we watching the same clip? That’s terrible cgi! Have you seen a movie in the last 15 years?

good-looking movie, but that still doesn’t look at all like the scene in the movie. Tim Blake Nelson does do an excellent “God-DAMMIT!”

ah! OK, that makes sense! Thanks for the catch.

The Avengers got an F? Too bad the link is dead, I’d love to read how that movie is worth the same grade as Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.

coincidence that in Live and Let Die, Roger leaves the Walther at home and packs a Magnum instead?

wow indeed. Did any Hollywood year ever have a top 20 that solid?

oh sure you could. The miracle was it was made then - it was considered the most offensive, subversive, awful movie of 1974. The kind of movie that Nice People didn’t see. I once read the appalled contemporary reviews of The Producers - the reviewers are so shocked, you’d think they where watching kiddie porn.

btw Blazing Saddles was the biggest movie of 1974? I had no idea it was any kind of hit, never mind the biggest of the year!

can’t hear you - someones ringing the bells. 

Sweet sufferin’ christ....

THANK YOU! I’ve read a lot of analysis of this on the comics blogs but there’s one point that they all miss: this is mostly about side-lining that old goblin Perlmutter. He’s a huge embarrassment to Disney (who thought he’d take his money from the original takeover and sod off to Florida never to be heard of again,…

is that last page by Steve Ditko?

actually, yeah: that whole season was very frustrating. 

edit: “The entire final episode felt like...”

YES YES and YES. Midge really is a terrible person, but she’s still better than her ex. So, why did she go back?