I'm getting old. Started watching Blazing Saddles last evening and turned it off halfway through.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

I cringed more than I laughed.

[underpants]

1. I watched it a few months ago.

Still hilarious.

[bluedigger]

2. You're tired. So tired.

I named my dog after Lili von Shtupp.

[Casady1]

3. Still funny

Brook's makes fun of racists.

[spooky3]

8. But the movie is pretty sexist, though, like

Nearly all from that era. Now we are more “woke” though we still have a distance to go.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. I made a similar observation in a post below.

[mucifer]

4. It's a movie making fun of racists. The Black man and People of Color with the

white townspeople save the town. The Sheriff is loved by all in the end. He kills the racist industrialist. Straight seeming cowboy falls in love with a guy from the chorus was cute too. Mel as a Native American speaking Yiddish was satire about how Jews played Native Americans in movies.

The only part I didn't like was the Arabs as bad guys part. I'm Jewish BTW. That part offended me.

[NanceGreggs]

13. If there is a need to explain ...

... why something is funny, it's probably because it isn't.

[mucifer]

14. Comedy like lots of things is subjective Just because you

don't like my explanation doesn't mean it's not funny to me. We just don't think alike . I was mentioning the politics behind the humor.

[NanceGreggs]

15. But what made you think ...

... the 'politics behind the humor' needed to be explained?

Yes, comedy is subjective. But just because some people don't find a joke funny doesn't mean they didn't 'get it'.

[GenThePerservering]

25. Or someone just doesn't get the joke

[Diamond_Dog]

5. Floyd,

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say I agree with you. I’d probably feel the same way.

Maybe I would have found it funnier years ago but not now.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

17. When I first saw it I laughed my @$$ off!

[aeromanKC]

6. I'm also getting old

And Blazzing Saddles is funnier every time I watch it dag nab it.

[Paladin]

7. That's alright.

If you made it half-way through, you got to enjoy the all-important Beans Around The Campfire scene. It's like sex: You never forget the first time you experienced it, and endless repeats are fully welcome...

[Arkansas Granny]

9. I'm getting old, as well. When I watch old shows from the 50's, 60's and 70's I am struck

by the misogyny. I grew up with it and experienced it, but, looking back, it was even worse than I realized at the time.

[spooky3]

11. Thank you. Totally agree. Also find it interesting how often people

Aren’t aware of it.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. Yep!

[sarge43]

20. The Quiet Man (52) is appalling to watch now.

At the time of release only one critic pointed out the misogyny and stereotyping.

[Arkansas Granny]

21. Perry Mason is pretty bad. Most women are portrayed either as helpless victims or conniving witches.

Even Della Street is patronized at times.

[DinahMoeHum]

12. Years back, I went to a movie party. . .

. . .where we watched a double feature: Cat Ballou and Blazing Saddles

I haven't watched Westerns with a straight face ever since.

[Paladin]

16. When Lee Marvin was presented his Best Actor Oscar for that role...

...he made a point of giving some credit to the horse. Classy act from a talented man.

[malthaussen]

19. Might be cringeworthy now because things have not changed as much as we like to think...

... I don't find it cringeworthy at all, because I think it sends up the racism and bigotry of the era very well. But though we like to pretend that times have changed since them, I'm not convinced that they have, so the futility of the spoof and the way it remains a valid commentary on contemporary mores might make it cringeworthy for someone who hoped we'd be doing better by now.

-- Mal

[a kennedy]

22. Was discussed here too......

https://www.democraticunderground.com/12708260

[sky_masterson]

23. I've always wondered how black people would take the humor from that movie

So I watched various reaction videos of people of color watching it for the first time.
The original shock of the blunt racism originally took most of the reviewers back, but the more they watched the more they got it and laughed. And actually loved it. They loved it as much as I do. It's blunt wrongness is part of what makes it great.
"They said you was hung" , "They wasn't lying" .

[kimbutgar]

24. When I'm channel surfing and see it's on I always watch a bit

It is still funny but Mel Brooks couldn’t make this movie now in our political environment And the racists of today couldn’t realize it’s a satire about them. And don’t get me started on the scene when Taggart was enlisting different groups to the posse to destroy Rock Ridge.

[lastlib]

26. "...and METHODISTS!"

that line always slays me. (I was raised in the Methodist church. One of our preachers was "rode out of town" for messing with boys.)