Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition)

Buy This Item Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition)  List Price: $12.98  Available from Amazon  $6.99  on 11-28-2008     Features Actors: Richard Collier, Carol DeLuise, Dom DeLuise, Liam Dunn, George Furth Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Language: English, Spanish Subtitles: English, French, Spanish Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.) Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 Number of discs: 1 Rating: Studio: Warner Home Video DVD Release Date: June 29, 2004 Run Time: 93 minutes Average Customer Review:   327 Reviews 5 star:  (233) 4 star:  (58) 3 star:  (12) 2 star:  (5) 1 star:  (19) See all 327 customer reviews...   (327 customer reviews) Reader Reviews This review is from: Blazing Saddles (DVD) Blazing Saddles is one of the great comedies of all time. Unfortunately, it's likely that no major studio today would release it. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Something About Mary and American Pie (all hilarious movies which I would highly recommend, by the way) contain toilet humor that makes Mel Brooks at his most graphic seem like a Disney movie in comparison. However, today's politically correct Hollywood would be horrified with a comedy that uses racial epithets left and right, worrying about the backlash that subject matter would cause. This is too bad because Blazing Saddles shows that such language, given the right context, can actually combat bigotry by showing how stupid it really is. Cleavon Little, as Sheriff Bart, and Gene Wilder, as The Waco Kid, are presented as islands of sanity in a sea of ignorant, racist townspeople. The 'n' word is thrown out repeatedly, but is intended as an insult to the people who say it rather than a slur against blacks. Mel Brooks, a very liberal Democrat, recognized that racism is offensive and nasty in nature and showed it in its true light in Blazing Saddles. As a result, the film does more to ridicule racism and bigotry than most serious "message films" on the same subject ever could. Unfortunately, the corporate suits who now run the big studios are more worried about image and profits than producing quality movies. As long as a film offends as few people as possible and appeals to as many members of the general public as possible (preferably between the ages of 18 and 35), the executives like it -- even if the film has no originality or artistic merit at all. As a result, films like Blazing Saddles and TV shows like All in the Family are taboo these days. Hollywood has lost a lot of daring and courage since 1974. See Blazing Saddles and you will realize just how much.  Comments (5) | Permalink |  function showYesNoCommunityResponse(uId,result,value) { var msgLayer = getElement("thanks" + uId); if ( result == "SUCCESS" ) { msgLayer.innerHTML = "Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.com readers and reviewers. Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."; } else { showVoteErrorResponse(msgLayer,result,value); } } (Report this)

Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition) List Price: $12.98 Available from Amazon Price: $6.99 Updated on 11-28-2008.

SPONSORED LINKS

WEBMASTER RESOURCES

Increase your websites importance by offering your visitors one-click consumer reviews and purchase reviews for "Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition)" and similar Products from DVD Dispatcher. Just copy and paste the code into your page and add on-topic value to your site. Provide a link to this product on your website: Read reviews and get product information on <a href="Blazing-Saddles-30th-Anniversary-Special-Edition--B0001Z4OXS.htm">Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition)</a> Your Code will look like this: Read reviews and get product information on Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition)