I observe this motion picture film today in time off from job as prostitute. I go on subway with many people of the chocolate face and mixed others to the Eastern Part of the Village of Homosexuals, Jews, other prostitutes of odd dress from me, and rapists of many piercings. The motion picture is sold out of every showing from sunset to rooster crow! So I go at 2:00.
The motion picture room is used to be a theatre of the Jews, but it has been exorcised and is very pretty with heat, nice on chilly day.
The gays and Jews and I laugh and laugh and laugh and make much applause at end of motion film! Theater is full of them and even though I have to sit with underpants on face to protect from germs, I enjoy seeing film with them, best way to see film is full room!
Enjoy most of the bear and the hen and fat friend man very funny, although too much naked for me, reminds me of too many clients.
El Perro Fumando and I just got back from seeing it. And we both randomly laughed through dinner as we thought of scenes from the movie.
It is absolutely hilarious, though admittedly quite low-brow. Good thing we love low-brow.
There were a number of scenes that had me short of breath, laughing so hard:1) The naked brawl.
2) Frat boys.
3) Singing the National Anthem.
4) Abducting Pamela.
I agree with Wee Bairn, however. The Revival was more disturbing than funny. And the movie dragged a bit between the Brawl and arriving in LA. Otherwise, great great fun.
I just got back from it. I thought it was very nice. The nude wrestling scene is one those things you can never un-see, but it was also as hard as I can ever remember laughing at a movie.
As mentioned above, some of the scenes are more scary than funny - the rodeo guy and the frat boys, for instance, are much uglier and far more offensive than Borat. The thing about Borat is that, as backwards and as ignorant as he can sound, his ignorance is more naive than malevolent. There’s almost a kind of innocence in it. He isn’t mean and his professed beliefs about Jews are so ridiculously over the top (they have horns, they can "transform themselves) that Borat just comes off as more absurdist than offensive. The people he’s interacting with aren’t pretending, though, and they are mean and man is it ugly.
Back to the funny – the scene at the dinner party was almost as good as the wrestling scene. It just kept getting more and more uncomfortable. When Borat returned from the bathroom…:eek: :o
I think I pretty much could tell which scenes were scripted and which were real, but I’m still not completely sure about the ending. On the hand, I think Pamela Anderson HAD to have been in on it, but her reactions in the scene are so convincing it makes me wonder. She’s not that good an actress, is she?
We were wavering back and forth about this over dinner after the show.
My opinion is that Pamela and security were both aware.Pamela did a good job running away, and there was some incidental cursing from her, if you can hear the soundtrack over the audience’s laughing, but I can’t see the entire climax of the movie, with a specific actress in a specific situation and secured filming rights for the venue, and a higher quality film camera (as opposed to the grainy camcorder/hidden camera in a lot of the real scenes) keeping good shots on the action throughout the chase, without it being set up ahead of time. And though security acted none too gently in wrestling Borat to the ground, they also didn’t detain him too strongly considering that real security would see this as assaulting the client, with seemingly malicious intent, and they would react pretty strongly.
I also wonder if the frat boys uesd more offesnive language about slaves and others, and if so, why was it not included- to keep them from *really * getting their asses beat once people find out about it? Could they be kicked out of school??
Yep, I watched it on Thursday. Made me laugh out loud more than any film I’ve seen in the cinema for a long time. Wouldn’t want to watch it again though, it’s a bit taxing on the old ‘cringe-othalamus’. I was shrinking into the seat fabric during that infamous rodeo scene.
The scripted plot-driven moments are the perfect glue to hold the juicy unscripted parts (that we all know to be the satirical essence of Borat) together. The pacing was just about right, and the gags had a remarkable hit rate.
I think it sounds hilarious, but unfortunately for me, I cannot stand the whole “people being made fools of” genre of comedy. It makes me cringe to the point of nausea.
I felt some gut-level discomfort throughout the film too, and I’d thought of myself as a base misanthrope who relished seeing others mocked and belittled. Cohen’s humor must tap into some primal squirm factor in our genetic code—or maybe I’m just not as evil as I thought.
On the scripted/unscripted question: I particularly wondered about the nude-run-through-the-business-conference scene, which nearly made me tear something internally, but which also seems like it would’ve landed Cohen and his co-star in jail, if not the hospital.
In fact, I’m shocked that the guy has (as far as I know) thusfar escaped being savagely beaten.
My wife and I saw it last night with some friends and we unanimously loved it. The naked wrestling was amazingly funny.
As we were leaving the theatre I commented that Cohen really really doesn’t care what people think about him, and everyone agreed.
A couple things made me uncomfortable, like insulting the guy’s wife at the dinner party, and taking them from thinking he would soon make a great American to calling the cops on him, but a few things make this ok for me. #1 those people are probably not as innocent as they make themselves in front of the camera (they live on Secession Dr. - privately named, presumably by themselves), and #2 I’m sure the producers are right there to clean up any mess, explain the situation, and pay them to sign the release as soon as they get their shot.
If anybody was really that offended by Borat we would’ve seen some blurred faces.
I haven’t had a movie make me laugh to tears in a very long time, and then Borat hit the screen.
I have to believe though that perhaps they get the releases signed before the shooting. I cannot imagine some(any) of the people signing off on this AFTER the shoot. This also allows them to make very quick exits as I imagine they would have to in a few situations.
Holy Shit. If you thought Team America, World Police was over the top, this takes things to a whole knew level. Very Niiiice!
Same here. I kept saying: How can they do that??? I don’t think I went 30 seconds in any stretch of the movie without laughing. The 9/11 reference was just nuts!
I suspect the frat guys knew the score and were just playing to the cameras. The Evangelical Church folks, though, couldn’t all have been hamming it up. Those guys were, I thought, the scary ones! And PamELa had to be in on it. No way would her agent or manager not know about Borat and what he typically does.
What would lead you to believe that? I grew up in the Carolinas and that’s exactly how most kids their age act. They didn’t seem evil to me, though. They sounded like they were repeating things that had been told to them by other people (most likely their parents but also pastors, teachers, coaches, etc.) - when they mature enough to have original thoughts they’ll have a chance to see it differently.
Yeah, this movie could possibly be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. Not a moment wasted in the movie, everything was played up to the max. Definitely a must see.
Bruno was never my favorite, but I’m intrigued.
I learned years ago never to judge a movie based on its trailer, especially if it’s a comedy (although it was funny how my screening’s audience laughed even harder at the god-awful Turistas trailer shown before it than the actual movie). I’m with those who say it’s the funniest movie in 10 years (I actually said “funniest movie since Team America” right after it ended!). I was under the impression that EVERYTHING in it was staged, so now I have to think about things again, since that makes thing seem even funnier (the news channel interview comes to mind, for example).
I actually thought this was only the 2nd funniest movie I saw this year (I almost said ‘all summer’ but I forgot that it’s not still in the high-80s in most areas.) Jackass 2 was consistently funnier from beginning to end in my opinion. Borat started a little slow and had a couple of jokes that didn’t quite work.
Althought I must say - the funniest scene in Borat (naked wrestling) might have been funnier than the funniest scene in Jackass 2 (old man balls.) I’ll probably be debating that in my head for years. I need to watch them both on the same day sometime.
I’ll see it in the next few days, just so I can figure out how I feel about the whole concept. I’m sure that some of these people ask for what they get, but I also recently read an interview where the movie’s producer said “I never felt like we tricked anyone in a cruel way,” which I find very hard to believe. So we’ll see.
Team America was only 2 years ago.