• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    22 hours ago

    Mel Brooks is pulling the stops. He’s not dead, and neither is his comedy.

    What I love is that he’s taking risks.

    It’s not perfect, but we all appreciate it. Fuck the haters, man.

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      11 hours ago

      Lol, receiving a boatload of cash to strap your name to a sequel to a successful movie you did decades ago and then keeping your hands out of it, is “taking risks”?

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      I’m mostly concerned because Mel Brooks hasn’t made a good film since Spaceballs.

      I know a lot of people love Men in Tights, but it was just a bunch of reused jokes from earlier films. Even the title song was just “Jews in Space” from the epilogue of “History of the World Part I.”