The only thing I can credit Moranis with is that he did not ruin the first Ghostbusters.
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Yet this is far from knocking on 80s and forward Mel Brooks.
Nobody is knocking Mel Brooks.
But Spaceballs is his weakest work, imo, and weaker than Shaun.
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i find it amazing that in this day and age people still WANT to do work for hire in the comics industry.
“Swiping” is an unfortunately common practice in the comics biz (particularly the big two houses) in which an artist deliberately copies another artist’s work and passes it off as his own. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the artist doesn’t have the talent to come up with his own stuff, but in mainstream comics, deadlines often preclude artists from doing their best work.
Also, as RockB pointed out, the superhero comic industry is as exploitative as any other corner of the entertainment industry. The creative people responsible for all the content tend to get the short end of the stick while the guys higher up on the food chain clean up with perpetual rights to all characters and titles.
If it’s the Great Depression, your business does not have the resources or the structure to handle anything but work for hire contracts, and the artists in your employ are young Jewish men struggling to feed their families, then work for hire is the best arrangement for both parties.
If you subsequently grow into a multibillion dollar international entertainment conglomerate on the strength of those artists’ creations, while simultaneously allowing those artists to fade into anonymity and poverty under the aegis of dusty and yellowed contracts that were signed before you were even born, then you have neither sensible nor moral business complaining that people are “stealing” elements of “your” work.
You haven’t seen almost all his movies.
The face is from a movie called Vampire’s Kiss. Look up clips on YouTube and tell me you’re not entertained.
Shaun of the Dead is a legitimately great movie. Spaceballs is a lesser work from a good filmmaker with a notoriously uneven body of work.
At least it does a great 2001 parody that most people misinterpret as one of many references to Star Wars.
swiper no swiping?? More artist need to master this command
And yea Shaun>>spaceballs. Its not even close.
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That, however, does not give a person license to be a dick about it, or cover people who have Asperger’s. Or need medication of some sort.
It also doesn’t mean that their feelings have any sort of rational basis. 
As I said - must be a generational thing.
Shaun of the Dead > Spaceballs
Blazing Saddles > Shaun of the Dead
Blazing Saddles = Young Frankenstein
Now, we’ve cleared that up, let’s move on. Also, it’s not a generational thing as I think I’m older than all of you.
Madness. The blue tint from your past avatar must have seeped into your brain.
Though I dunno how off in years I am to you.
I never really was into Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, or The Producers, though. High Anxiety was just “ok” to me. Pre-80s, only ones I really liked were History and Blazing Saddles, though both of those ARE better than beyond them.
Welcome to Asperger’s can I take your orndem hmmf rnnf hmmm errr…
The Producers and Young Frankenstein are heads above History of the World. That’s not even a debate. A debate is fair between YF and BS, but those are easily his crowning achievements in satire and parody. I’m 33 BTW, will be 34 in a couple months. I’m also a huge comedy nerd, a well known movie snob and all around douche when it comes to my opinions.
Yeah I can’t agree to that, but I’ll leave it at that. 32 in Feb here, so I figured right.
And for what I will assume to be flamebait, but…
From best to worst.
Blazing Saddles
History of the World
Spaceballs
Men In Tights
Dead And Loving It
High Anxiety
Young Frankenstein
The Producers
Silent Movie
Come at me.
ftfy, bruv
When my brother-in-law married my sister, he gave all the groomsmen a copy of Spaceballs. He already had my approval (I set them up, after all), but it was then when I knew I truly gained a brother.
I like Spaceballs more than Shaun of the Dead.
I can get behind this, though I think that while Young Frankenstein is more clever in its use of old-school moviemaking tropes, Blazing Saddles is much funnier.
/unless you refering to the Manga specifically (Which I highly doubt you are, and even your not, they are I garantee it) then step off. Akira is a shitty movie. I’ll take Scott Pilgrim anything just about over the Akira movie. Talk about blown out proportion.
And did you just shit on the Muppets? The fuck is wrong with you?
Any video that was played in class was permission for me to fall asleep.
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Yeah, it was the batmans that agreed to a crackdown
