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Borat

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Borat: Too over the top or a breath of fresh air?

  • It was uncomfortable over the top

    Votes: 1 3.3%

  • I was crying the entire time

    Votes: 17 56.7%

  • Dont plan on seeing it

    Votes: 7 23.3%

  • Who cares

    Votes: 5 16.7%
  • Total voters
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Bleed S & G

Bleed S & G

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Has anyone else seen this movie yet? Went and saw it last night, I laughed from start to finish, in raunchy times and in peaceful times. I'm a big Jackass fan but this is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen and tops the 40 year old virgin, old school, and wedding crashers as the funniest movie that has been made recently. My buddies thought it was too over the top and at some points felt uncomfortable. I thought it was great comedy as they took every sterotype and magnified it 100 times with real life people.
 
I agree 100%...i saw it yesterday and can honestly say it is the first time i have laughed in a theater from start to finish...I saw it in a theater with all college kids so i am interested to hear what some of the older people think about it...
 
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I've been a huge Borat fan for some time now.... but too much of that movie was staged. What makes him so funny is when people buy into his supposed interview. Its worth seeing for some laughs though.
 
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I'm a big fan of Borat, and this movie didn't disappoint in the least. My wife and I both agreed it may be the funniest flick we've seen in many, many years. I was rather amused by the people who didn't like the movie (I saw it in Milford, OH which is somewhat hickish...by "somewhat" I mean totally). One dude was bitching on the way out of the theater about the movie being un-American. Another couple a row in front of up left during the scene where Borat sings his national anthem. Hilarious...
 
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Bleed S & G;653411; said:
Has anyone else seen this movie yet? Went and saw it last night, I laughed from start to finish, in raunchy times and in peaceful times. I'm a big Jackass fan but this is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen and tops the 40 year old virgin, old school, and wedding crashers as the funniest movie that has been made recently. My buddies thought it was too over the top and at some points felt uncomfortable. I thought it was great comedy as they took every sterotype and magnified it 100 times with real life people.
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It is my opinion that this is exactly what makes SBC such a genius. He is within a few seconds of an encounter with someone able to identify and focus on the areas of conversation that will take that person out of their comfort zone. He is amazing at reading people and improvising on a moments notice. To me it is the uncomfortableness that makes it funny.

I would guess this guy is right up Tibor's alley. :wink2:
 
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Hilarious...what a couple of douche bags,,,

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/10/film.boratlawsuit.ap/index.html

Humiliated frat boys sue over 'Borat' portrayal

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SANTA MONICA, California (AP) -- Two fraternity boys want to make lawsuit against "Borat" over their drunken appearance in the hit movie.
The legal action filed Thursday on their behalf claims they were duped into appearing in the spoof documentary "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," in which they made racist and sexist comments on camera.
The young men "engaged in behavior that they otherwise would not have engaged in," the lawsuit says.
"Borat" follows the adventures of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's Kazakh journalist character in a blend of fiction and improvised comic encounters as he travels across the United States and mocks Americans.
The plaintiffs were not named in the lawsuit "to protect themselves from any additional and unnecessary embarrassment." They were identified in the movie as fraternity members from a South Carolina university, and appeared drunk as they made insulting comments about women and minorities to Cohen's character.
The lawsuit claims that in October 2005, a production crew took the students to a bar to drink and "loosen up" before participating in what they were told would be a documentary to be shown outside of the United States.
"They were induced to agree to participate and were told the name of the fraternity and the name of their school wouldn't be used," said the plaintiffs' attorney, Olivier Taillieu. "They were put into an RV and were made to believe they were picking up Borat the hitchhiker."
After a bout of heavy drinking, the plaintiffs signed a release form they were told "had something to do with reliability issues with being in the RV," Taillieu said.
The film "made plaintiffs the object of ridicule, humiliation, mental anguish and emotional and physical distress, loss of reputation, goodwill and standing in the community," the lawsuit said.
It names 20th Century Fox, a unit of News Corp., and three production companies as defendants.
Studio spokesman Gregg Brilliant said the lawsuit "has no merit."
The plaintiffs were seeking an injunction to stop the studio from displaying their image and likeness, along with unspecified monetary damages.
"Borat" debuted as the top movie last weekend with $26.5 million.
 
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I liked the line from Jim Emerson's review, "The full title is 'Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.' Every single word in that title (including 'for' and both 'of's') is, in its context, really funny. If you have to ask why, then you probably won't understand why 'Borat' is funny, either."
 
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I guess I should take it with a grain of salt, but, I have been to kazakhstan a couple of times, and we adopted our children there. Guess I won't see the movie. Kazakhstan is now a nationally known place. Their response is," come and see the country for yourselves". I for one know how kind, and gracious the people are. Oh well.
Moose
 
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Moose;657936; said:
I guess I should take it with a grain of salt, but, I have been to kazakhstan a couple of times, and we adopted our children there. Guess I won't see the movie. Kazakhstan is now a nationally known place. Their response is," come and see the country for yourselves". I for one know how kind, and gracious the people are. Oh well.
Moose
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As I have come to understand it, Cohen's motivation for creating the Borat character and making the film has nothing to do with a desire to make fun of Kazakhs or Kazakhstan. His comedy is built entirely around two things: (1) making normal, upstanding people completely uncomfortable, and (2) exposing ignorance. The real 'victims' of his work (if you really want to call them that) are the moronic frat boys, the anti-Semitic old asshole at the rodeo, the intolerant snobs at the dinner party, and so forth. On his HBO show, he has put Andy Rooney on the spot (a classic interview), poked fun at racist, southern gun enthusiasts and made complete asses out of about half a dozen meathead college wrestlers. I suppose it's unfortunate for Kazakhstan that he picked them to fictitiously represent, but there's no real reason for them to be upset. They were chosen because they are, to most Americans, completely foreign and obscure. I've seen people in post-screening interviews saying shit like, "Yeah, I didn't know anything about Kazakhstan before the movie--it was kind of interesting to see it." Hilarious, considering Borat rarely (if ever) actually speaks Kazakh, the movie was filmed in Romania, and the people of Kazakhstan are closer to Mongolian in ethnicity than they are to Russian. If you didn't know anything about Kazakhstan before watching the movie, you don't know anything about Kazakhstan now. So really, again, the joke is not on Kazakhstan--it's on the people who are thick-headed and self-involved enough (your average American) to believe everything that's put in front of them.
 
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I picked "over the top" for want of a better option. I actually haven't seen the movie but have watched all of his HBO episodes. I laugh my butt off but feel guilty every minute for doing so.

Cohen puts out the kind of comedy that makes any conservative bones you might have very uncomfortable. He is exposing dirty little secrets that seem better left kept. Kinda like the Simpson's when they first came out - or Family Guy. Its OK that I see it - but probably not a lot of other people.
 
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