Larry Charles to direct Borat movie

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sexytime!

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 2 October 2006 02:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i like, very much

― and what (ooo), Monday, 2 October 2006 03:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Drudge is running another press release disguised as an article

then there's this, about the ADL raising concerns...

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Getting closer:

He ventures deep into unmediated America, spot-tests some big, surprisingly ambitious sociological theories, then wrestles a fat guy naked.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 October 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

happy birthday to SBC, who turns 35 today.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 13 October 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

is it common for a film to get 100% on Rotten Tomatoes?

http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/borat/

it's getting the best reviews that i've ever seen for a comedy.

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

good lord i cannot wait for this movie

― shabba ranks (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

NOT TO PARADE WITH PISS BUT:

12 for 12 is nice & all, but it'd be a better barometer of its widespread acceptance w/ more Variety-type raves and less JoBlo.com and CliffYablonski.edu raves.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Charles, who is also Jewish, insists that revealing hidden prejudices has not just comedic payoff but redeeming social value: ''At one point, we went into a gun store and Borat asks, 'What kind of gun would you recommend to kill a Jew?' This gunstore guy doesn't hesitate: 'I'd recommend a 9mm or a Glock automatic.' That's one of those moments when you're going, Holy s---, that just really happened."

― shabba ranks (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2006-10/25888534.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2006-10/25888529.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

roffle

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

more photos: http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809426565/photo/stills

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy s---, that just really happened

"We went out, came back in with the cameras, he wouldn't do it!"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

foreigners are funny.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

12 for 12 is nice & all, but it'd be a better barometer of its widespread acceptance w/ more Variety-type raves and less JoBlo.com and CliffYablonski.edu raves.

Yeah, It's kinda hard to take the web, um, critic seriously when their quote reads:

"There are a lot of blue state folks who are offended by Cohen's portrayal of Kazakhstan as a backwards country of idiots. Hopefully, Cohen will find a way to make fun of these fun-hating cretins in his next picture"

Liberals hate comedy. These emo-terrorists want nothing more than to destroy our laughter. Never forget.

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

That quote is so wrong I don't even know where to begin.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno if I'm offended so much as I just don't laugh at it.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

THE RED STATES WELCOME OUR NEW COMEDY JEWBOY OVERLORD

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/twentieth_century_fox/borat/sacha_baron_cohen/borat13.jpg

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

official site up:

http://www.boratmovie.com/

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 05:56 (seventeen years ago) link

hey guys i saw this. it was OKAY!

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 05:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm surprised that so few of you have any sympathy for the Kazachs concern about how their unknown country is being portrayed by Cohen. Say what you will but you KNOW that waaaay too many people will get a distorted view of Kazachstan and sorta believe it.

Despite that, I love Borat and I can't wait to see the film.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 08:30 (seventeen years ago) link

preview screening tonight!

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link

hey guys i saw this. it was OKAY!

Nothing more than that? :-/

I'm surprised that so few of you have any sympathy for the Kazachs concern

The concern seems for the most part to be coming from the government, who are a bunch of tools to start with.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

You feel that if the populace saw it, they'd take it to their hearts?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Are the people who'd get the wrong idea about Kazakhstan (from a comedy) a group that would otherwise engage in Kazakh tourism?

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

x-post -- This seems to be the theory with the other country being made fun of, yes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

That says something about the American heart that a) I'd rather not believe and b) I'd rather not believe about Kazakhs anyway.

xpost - It seems a decent idea to have non-poisonous views even on nations that don't depend on tourist Dollars (Iraq springs to mind :)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, viciously racist stereotypes are bad enough, but defending them because previously people wouldn't have had any views on that country as if that didn't make it worse is just completely WTF.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

would Borat concept not work as well if he was from an imaginary 'Stan?

― ;_; (blueski), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I AM LOOKING FOR MY COZEN LARRY! + Andy Kaufman = Borat (also = me asleep)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

So, are you all ready for "Throw the Jew down the well" or whatever to become the new "I'm Rick James, bitch"?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, viciously racist stereotypes are bad enough, but defending them because previously people wouldn't have had any views on that country as if that didn't make it worse is just completely WTF.

How does that make it worse? If a small group of people who didn't know or care that Kazakhstan existed before now have an incorrect view of it - who was harmed? They never would have patronized Kazakhstan and its industry, nor are they in a position to guide policy toward Kazakhstan. For all intents and purposes, Kazakhstan is as real to them as Hobbitland.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

wtf milo

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

It's THE SHIRE!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

except that the jew song was out two years ago, and kinda already forwarded around by everybody back then.

but i am waiting for "All your base are belong to us" or "Wazzzzup" or "I wuz fuckin' mah momma!" whatever to become the new "I'm Rick James, bitch".

xpost

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

＇へ＇凸 xpost

― Allyzay (allyzay), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Still, I don't know what you all are on about. the Kazakh penchant for rape & archery makes it far more likely i'll spend my tourist dollars there.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I would totally be excited to see the Kazakh steppe and especially the Baikonur Cosmodrome

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Chico Marx vs Cozen Larry vs Borat vs Yakof Zmirnoff

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, the catchphrase being out-of-date is totally going to keep fratboys from yelling it out of cars.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/twentieth_century_fox/borat/sacha_baron_cohen/borat13.jpg vs http://www.bransonarrangements.com/images/client/showID_230_yakovhorse.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Borat is based on a Russian Doctor Sasha Baron Cohen once met. He said the Doctor was completely hilarious, but it was unintentional.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Tho i would be genuinely entertained by Borat's attempt at a Branson show

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Shakey Mo + internet connection = broken record

― am0n (am0n), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

holeeee shitttttt

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 19 October 2006 03:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i have a low tolerance for embarrassment humor so big stretches were super uncomfortable for me, but jesus christ there are a million moments that are just not on film in any other way anywhere

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 19 October 2006 03:59 (seventeen years ago) link

the film was very funny, but disappointing. not as consistent as an episode of Baron Cohen's old show, but when he hit, he hit it out of the park.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 19 October 2006 07:46 (seventeen years ago) link

"I'd like to invite Cohen here. He can discover a lot of things," said deputy foreign minister Rakhat Aliyev.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

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