― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 5 November 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Sunday, 5 November 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
is this a joke or something? fox slashed the screens for insta-buzz and i can't imagine it going any better...
― natedey (ndeyoung), Sunday, 5 November 2006 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 5 November 2006 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link
$31,511 per screen, which i assume is good.
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 5 November 2006 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 5 November 2006 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― reddening (reddening), Monday, 6 November 2006 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― gbx (skowly), Monday, 6 November 2006 01:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer: none of th movies make scence but they r good. (latebloomer), Monday, 6 November 2006 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link
i wish alan keyes would've said something crazy.
i knew absolutely nothing of this movie other than recognizing cohen when i saw it. i could only think of i kiss you murat at first, but got over the similarity pretty quickly.m.
― msp (mspa), Monday, 6 November 2006 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 6 November 2006 04:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 6 November 2006 04:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― W i l l (common_person), Monday, 6 November 2006 06:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 6 November 2006 06:51 (seventeen years ago) link
In my opinion, the whole anti-semitism thing, as funny as it was, was too heavy-handed to be an effective social commentary. Also, even if Pamela Anderson was in on the joke (which I suspect she was), the scene with her was too close to a sexual attack to make me laugh. Borat getting people to agree (or disagree) with his sexist comments can be funny, but playing a sexual attack for jokes is a bit too much. In comparison, I don't think people would've laughed if he would've started to hurl anti-semitic rants to the Jewish couple who's house he was staying in (which would've been in character). It's only funny when the joke's on the bigot/sexist.
I really liked the main story in the film, and I don't think I've laughed so hard at the cinema for ages, but I think the film was too much in between a social satire and a politically incorrect comedy to be effective as either. A totally enjoyable film, but less than the sum of it's parts.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 November 2006 09:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 November 2006 09:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Monday, 6 November 2006 09:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 6 November 2006 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 November 2006 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link
That's the point though isn't it??
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link
What hypocrisies do "all" Westerners share?
― ONIMO's losing the plot (GerryNemo), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 November 2006 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Monday, 6 November 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link
This is a college town, there were lots of, um, let's just say "male college students" in the theater, and you would not BELIEVE how quiet it got during the Winnebago ride.
My only real qualm with the film is that "eh-HIGH eh-FIVE-ah!" is going to become this year's "I'm Rick James, bitch!", which will be a shame, because it was very well used in this (the telegram scene was one of my favorite least-likely-to-be-remembered moments [also the bear in the ice cream truck, staged as it seemed to have been]).
― hang down like sleeve of wizard (nickalicious), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― pisces (piscesx), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
The only part that the audience was audibly uncomfortable with was when Borat was showing off the pics of his son's cock.
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― rems (x Jeremy), Monday, 6 November 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 November 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Mahir "I Kiss You" wants to sue Borat, in November's Wired magazine:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/play.html?pg=4
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Even Pamela Anderson? I kinda doubt it.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link
This I admit was the one thing I've been wondering most about.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, I know the article is obviously one-sided, but if it reflects reality at all, I don't get what they do to actually deserve it? Or is it just The Jerky Boys: The Film? (yes, I'm aware of what several of his other targets have done).
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link