#44: Blazing Saddles (1974)

I was first introduced to Mel Brooks as a kid watching Spaceballs. I could watch Robin Hood: Men In Tights a hundred times, and it would never get old. I love his humor, even if it is a bit too silly at times. I had seen Blazing Saddles in pieces many times on cable, but this was my first time watching it from beginning to end. It's classic Mel Brooks storytelling - heavy on the jokes, light on the plot. I'm sure all of the racial stuff was groundbreaking at the time. It's definitely a classic, more ambitious and controversial than his later stuff, but not all of the humor ages as well.