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GET SMART getting smarter!
Hey folks, Harry here... there's been some rumbles of some sort of fuck over going on between Warner Bros and GET SMART creative geniuses Buck Henry and Mel Brooks. Something about them being furious at how little they were being offered, etc etc etc...
BUT - Today - ink went to paper and cash went to banks - and Mel Brooks and Buck Henry have been officially signed on as creative consultants on the GET SMART movie with Steve Carrell and Anne Hathaway. In fact - Carrell has already shot one joke scene that Mel Brooks wrote for his character in this film. With more to come, apparently from both Mel and Buck.
This is, of course, very good news to all of us lovers of Control and the missions that Maxwell Smart and 99 go on.
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as in what your mother likes me to do to her
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awesome
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i like
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i was getting a little worried about this project, so this is really good news!! HAIL MEL AND BUCK!!
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JK...:)
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NOTHING is as funny as Brooks and Henry when they're working together. Except maybe Brooks and Gene Wilder. Or Brooks and Reiner. But you get the point.
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I'm guessing the producers think it's better to give these guys some cash to sit down and shut up rather than ignore them and have them run their mouths off to the press about how they could have improved the film.
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Courtesy of Jeffrey Wells, I just read a bunch of stuff on the film that deflated all my enthusiasm for the film. It sounds awful. I'd like to think that Brooks and Henry onboard would be good, but at this late stage, I think you can expect it to be nothing more than hush money.
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Apr 13, 2007 4:59:35 PM CDT
Sorry, but Spaceballs and Robinhood Men in Tights SUCK!
by kinghenryviii
I love ol Mel but I thought Spaceballs and Men in Tights - men in Tights in particular was shit. In my opinion, he peaked with History of the World, Young Frank, and Blazing Sad. I think he's funny as hell and very talented / creative but he's been kinda off for a while. The Producers was great but .... sorry ya'll. My opnion. He could turn this into something great - here's to hoping!
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I kinda doubt it. Never good when you have 70-year-old men writing jokes targeted to teenagers. It smacks of the embarrassing uncle trying to be "hip".
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Can we safely say at least 25 years ago?
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..I'm happy. I've got nothing but respect for him, he's a very funny guy, but his last couple of flicks were duds. Spaceballs is gold though, kinghenry. Not up to his classics, but still really funny.
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Mel Brooks is awesome.
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...is comedy 'gold'
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It's not Young Frankenstein, but it was amusing. Dracula: Dead And Loving It sucked, though.
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...still got it, at least he did when he wrote the killer screenplay for "To Die For." Course that was 12 years ago.
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...for creating GET SMART in the first place. A GET SMART film without Mel and Buck is like a SPIDER-MAN or X-MEN movie without a Stan Lee cameo...Sure, you don't really need them/him to make the film, but why in hell would you want to?
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You must not have watched a room of college students laugh throughout a Spaceballs / Blazing Saddles double bill, or seen a living room of High School students loose it during History of the World Part One lately.
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Chances of this film sucking are now lower.
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This should as good as could be hoped for.
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could this be the result of all the TB's that this project has created? Yes I agree that Mel Brooks, as much of a comedy legend, can pander to the "youth" crowd as in the rapping in Men In Tights. Be topical, just try to be "hip".
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just try NOT to be hip
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Now I'm happy! Bring it on!
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The only thing that surprises me about this remake is that Steve Martin isn't "starring" in it!
Thank the Christ!!!
ps whoever that "FIST" poster is, would he please get a life , stop jacking off at his terminal and leave this forum to people who really CARE about movies. You bitter and twisted soul - I hope you find happiness in SOME universe. -
and I am confused by the comment about "70-year-old men writing jokes targeted to teenagers." Um "Get Smart" was a show that aired approximately forty years ago (1965-1970) so the target audience nostalgic for this property is middle aged baby boomers. Sorry, punk ass kids, but this is not your movie, this is OUR movie. Now get your rap music off of my damned lawn.
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