Posted on 07/24/2009 4:53:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
A friend of mine played Borat on DVD for me a few weeks ago. Probably the most painfully unfunny movie I ever saw. No thank you, Bruno. I won’t waste my time or money on you.
From the trailer, Borat looked to be one of the funniest films ever. It looked like a brilliant mockumentary full of very funny moments.
The actual movie ... not so much.
Using shock for the sake of shock and relentlessly low brow and swimming in the gutter, Borat was about as funny as Schindler’s List.
I loved Borat. Bruno had some funny moments, but it is gross in the extreme. And rather than proving America’s supposed “homophobia,” it does the opposite. The Americans depicted are way too patient with and tolerant of Bruno’s antics.
Very well stated.
If somebody curb stomped this idiot and kicked his a$$ up and down main street I’d pay to see that
Isn’t the character gay.....98% are sickened by that behavior, even if it is “comedy”.
I went and seen Borat in the theater - there were moments I laughed so hard I had tears coming from my eyes, and times I felt so disgusted I wanted to walk out. Overall, it was a funny movie.
Bruno I wouldn’t go see if someone forced me to go at gunpoint.
Now it seems with "Bruno", Cohen made the same film. Hey, he thought to himself, I'll go to the American south again and expose homophobia for all to see. But even some homosexual movie reviewers are panning the film. Hey Cohen, try something different next time. I've got an idea, why not pose as a conservative and go around lib communities and expose them for the bigoted clods most of the are?
Somebody in New York did exactly that a few years ago.
Your studying about something I lived through.
I think I have the edge here.
Please educate me. No sarcasm.
That he wins peoples trust to get them to play along with his skits and then uses that to ridicule and condemn them (just like the jackass producers did in "Jesus Camp") is merely typical of how leftists use deceit to further their agenda, and then try to spin that betrayal by calling it satire.
I had posted on Debbie Schussel's website some time ago a somewhat severe analysis of this man Cohen. Someone replied that "Borat is a genius and you are an idiot". I laughed and put it aside. I said that there is an inner cruelty in some persons. They can use "acceptable avenues" of using humiliating and degrading approaches. This is the mark of a sociopath.
I went on to say that if the likes of Cohen, was in a concentration camp, he would survive as a "Sonder Commando". The pathetically poor gypsy people of Glod, Romania, were chosen by Cohen to spoof Kazakhstan. I read he would have been at risk in that actual country, so he picked on these desperately poor people. They got $4 per day. I understand that the depths of depravity were attributed to these unsuspecting people.
I know of his particular native country. Years aqo, when there, I found that the "joker" who got away with "murder" because the "victim" had to laugh it off, often had a characteristic. If someone ever pulled off the same thing on THEM, they had to watch out for a physical assault. I hope I will be excused for this long screed.
I feel better already (laughs).
And that includes the Contractual Obligation album.
I agree.
I was merely providing an example of early 70s “shock humor”.
Friom what I have heard, the very line I quoted from memory (I hope at least with SOME degree of accuracy) almost got the Pythons kicked off the air in the UK.
I agree.
I was merely providing an example of early 70s “shock humor”.
From what I have heard, the very line I quoted from memory (I hope at least with SOME degree of accuracy) almost got the Pythons kicked off the air in the UK.
Not sure how I managed to double post that.
Sorry.
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Exactly right. Well said.
A little late in an extra post here. I chanced my arm on my previous post, but have the perfect riposte for a flaming. (I think). I get a certain unkind pleasure over relating what was referred to in regard to your post.
An ordinary citizen was entering a bar in New York. Cohen (as Borat) came up to him and fingered the man's jacket. As he ran his hands through the material, "Borat" said- "I like to feel this cloth, but I would like to feel what's in it more!"
The man started in real manly fashion, just his fists. A well known actor ran out of the bar and saved "Borat". No charges were laid.
I put myself in the man's shoes. I don't know about him, but I would have been so shook up, it would have ruined a perfectly innocent evening.
The guy ain't funny. Ah well, back to Abbott and Costello. LOL.
Shock humor is a new creation. We can thank the rise and worship of the man/boy and his infantile brain.
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