In Death Proof, I appreciated Kurt Russell's managing to create another indelible character, and the exciting delightfully non-CGI car chase the ends the movie. It's a good movie if you're really liberal with the FFWD button. Because yeah, the lengthy dialogue is draining and annoying, as is QT's continuing need to get in front of the camera despite the world's protests.
I like Blazing Saddles. The friendship between Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder is sweet and funny, a warm center that Mel Brooks lost track of in his later gagfests. Remember Wilder's wise counsel after the new sheriff is sitting dejected after the townspeople's rude reception: "You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers, these are people of the land, the common clay of the new west. You know--morons." And Howard Johnson was right about Olsen Johnson being right.
