― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 8 September 2006 10:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 8 September 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link
http://thedailytransom.observer.com/2006/09/toronto-film-festival-borat-breakdown-total-freakout.html
http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/sept06/borat089903.php
But after about an hour of chaos, it became evident that the film would have to be abandoned. As Borat, Baron Cohen told one festival organiser: ‘If you don't give these people money back, I crush you.’
...Before the fiasco, all was looking well. Up to 1,000 fans had filled the Toronto streets chanting ‘Bo-rat’ and waving Kazakh flags, while the character strode down the red carpet accompanied by a horse and cart and women dressed as peasants.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 September 2006 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Friday, 8 September 2006 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link
The show had long been sold out, and many rush-seat hopefuls went home unhappy, and one desperate fan trolled the line on Gerrard St., offering $80 for a single ticket - four times the regular price. There were no apparent takers.
http://www.thestar.com/images/thestar/img/060908_baron_cohen_300.jpg
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― señor citizen (eman), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
You mean "Not that I'll be able to actually go to a movie theater to see it."
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― something less threatening (heywood), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link
oh thank god.
― gbx (skowly), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Somehow I think his retiring Borat is part of the plan. (Letterman has never been funnier than when he'd go out on the streets of Manhattan in '82 w/ hidden camera and ask "What's in that bag? I'm Mr. Curious" and get ppl rushing away from him.)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 September 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Friday, 8 September 2006 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Friday, 8 September 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link
[...]
Cohen's representatives refused to allow him or his alter ego to respond to the controversy because it's not close enough to the film's release date.
hahahahah between all these great quotes and the "anti-Borat hard-liners" phrase, somebody had fun writing this.
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― señor citizen (eman), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link
I definitely remember seeing this in the times and thinking wtf!? Why is their an ad from the government of Kazakhstan? I totally didn't put it together.
― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dreaming of People With Black Eyes,Dressed In Black (jergins), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― S- (sgh), Thursday, 14 September 2006 01:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 14 September 2006 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link
C+C Music Manufacturing Plant!
There was another fave music listing that cracked me up but I forget and it's not there any more.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 14 September 2006 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link
God, worse case scenario, like if our President threatens Borat or something, he can just come out and say "OK, I lie, I am not from Khazakhstan but neighboring Turkazikmenia" or something. It'd hardly matter.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link
S.B.C. is one of the best-looking clowns in eons. I'm glad Ali G always kept his legs open while interviewing.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― señor citizen (eman), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― señor citizen (eman), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyway, on of the topics that appeared to be contained in the magazine was a 'Best & Worst Dressed' list. On the cover were the usual waify trollops, but also this:http://www.cinemablend.com/images/news_img/3393/3393.jpg
Perhaps I should see what they say.
― S- (sgh), Friday, 15 September 2006 05:01 (seventeen years ago) link
woo hoo, coming to portland!
oh yeah, and in regards to the talks with dubya thing, what's this about the kazakh oil fields being on the level of certain middle east countries?
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 16 September 2006 06:45 (seventeen years ago) link
vid of Borat's response to the Kazakh lawsuit against him
"...and cleanest prostitutes in all of Central Asia!"
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 16 September 2006 08:40 (seventeen years ago) link
I found myself asking what we need this for -- a brit making a hamfisted attempt to show us the American heart of darkness through satire or whatever it was. And there's something very have-it-both-ways about the whole thing, getting to indulge in racism and sexism in order to "expose" racism and sexism (and often just bait people into appearing racist or sexist out of their own niceness and embarrassment). A revealing moment for me was the debutante stage-whispering to her father "this guy is so fucking gross." I thought that really disrupted SBC's smug "I'm revealing the horrors of this culture" schtick, where I'm sure he was trying to make some kind of point about the parallels between his cartoonish attempt to deliver his daughter as a gift and American conservatism or something. I don't think the daughters of wealthy southerner conservatives are being sold into sex slavery, I think they're mostly just fine.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 21 November 2020 04:22 (three years ago) link
Apparently the whole debutante ball thing was a scripted, staged scene with dozens of paid extras playing the attendees. Not that it makes any difference to the inherent unfunnyness of it all.
― everything, Saturday, 21 November 2020 04:58 (three years ago) link
I found myself asking what we need this for -- a brit making a hamfisted attempt to show us the American heart of darkness through satire or whatever it was.
"a jew who has lived in the USA for fifteen years" is possibly the more apposite descriptor here
― huge rant (sic), Saturday, 21 November 2020 05:03 (three years ago) link
― everything, Friday, November 20, 2020 11:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
fertility dance is the funniest scene in the whole movie
― flopson, Saturday, 21 November 2020 06:18 (three years ago) link
there's something very have-it-both-ways about the whole thing, getting to indulge in racism and sexism in order to "expose" racism and sexist
while i agree that Borat 2 sucks, this is true of everything SBC has ever done, a lot of which is v good
― flopson, Saturday, 21 November 2020 06:22 (three years ago) link
yeah I think you're right about that
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 21 November 2020 06:59 (three years ago) link
while i agree that Borat 2 sucks, this is true of everything SBC has ever done
― Left, Saturday, 21 November 2020 07:37 (three years ago) link
but the having it both ways thing seems to be a feature of almost all acclaimed adult comedy from around the late 90s until some point last decade
― Left, Saturday, 21 November 2020 07:48 (three years ago) link
“Your Kanye. He tried to move to Kazakhstan and even tried to change his name to Kazakhstan-ye West. But we said no. He’s too antisemitic even for us.”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/05/borat-targets-trump-ye-and-antisemitism-at-kennedy-center-honors
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 December 2022 23:52 (one year ago) link
lmao Borat at the Kennedy Center Honors what a vision
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 00:06 (one year ago) link