Silent Movie

when the board of old white men started praying to a gigantic neon dollar sign ... I love realism

clownhead

The only Mel Brooks movie I’d never seen is ... pretty consistently hilarious? It’s also a blank check movie if I ever saw one; Mel Brooks used his clout from releasing two of the biggest comedies ever in a single year to make Hollywood’s first silent movie in decades — and…

Matt Singer

A washed up film director (Mel Brooks) and his two idiot sidekicks (Dom DeLuise & Marty Feldman) try to get a silent film made in the 1970’s. They just need to line up enough big stars to get it made. This is a very curious parody of silent films. The spirits of Buster…

David Whitman

"Are you crazy? A silent movie? In this day and age?" Down on his luck former film director and recovering alcoholic Mel Funn (Mel Brooks) hopes to make a comeback at his former home, Big Picture Studios, and pitches a silent movie to them - the first in 40 years. The…

Daniel

My grandpa has a funny story of him attending the SILENT MOVIE premiere back in ‘76, which he told on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson: When attending the premiere of this movie, my grandpa says he laughed probably harder than anyone in the crowd (and if you’ve heard…

Jake Alda Coffey

I'm glad Mel and his friends got to have some fun.

Justin Decloux

I appear before you, with an arm outstretched. To my left are films from the silent era, some fifty years before this one and a hundred years before us now, the best of the best piled one over the other. [an insert title appears, which reads: "Silent movies, the first wave…

reibureibu

”Marry me and you will never have to take your clothes off again.” After the double barrel success of parodying westerns and horror movies with Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein writer, director and actor Mel Brooks took an even bolder step by deciding to make a…

Henry Legedza

This movie is an all-around 6/10 EXCEPT for the bit where Marcel Marceau, world famous mime, is the only one to get a line in 'Silent Movie'. That's a 10/10 bit

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