Borat

valkyrie · #1 11-03-2006, 05:34 PM

Hm, that sounds pretty lame and predictable.

You know, I find that guy in those credit card commercials -- the faux European dude who talks about "very very very rewarding" while his sidekick dances and stuff -- hilarious, but I think it's because he's not trying too hard. It sounds like Borat is trying too hard. I'm all about faux European dudes, but you have to be more random than obnoxious.

Drolefille · #2 11-03-2006, 05:44 PM

His is classic, he's used the character a lot and it's gotten a 95% at Rotten Tomatos. I'm going to see it. I just don't think it's explainable.

Peaches-n-Cream · #3 11-03-2006, 06:58 PM

I want to see this movie this weekend.

Thrillhouse · #4 11-04-2006, 02:36 AM

The movie was really funny but the trailer basically had most of the funny parts so nothing too new.

xo_kathy · #5 11-04-2006, 01:37 PM

I've never gotten the funny in this character. When I've watched the skit on his show, it usually pains me to see people feeling/acting so awkward around him. It never makes me laugh.

Guess I won't see it!

AchtungBaby80 · #6 11-04-2006, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by xo_kathy

I've never gotten the funny in this character. When I've watched the skit on his show, it usually pains me to see people feeling/acting so awkward around him. It never makes me laugh.

Guess I won't see it!

OK, good, I thought I was the only one who failed to see the humor. It's not that I find it offensive, really...it's just that I don't think it's funny.

Munchkin03 · #7 11-04-2006, 03:18 PM

The thing that's disturbingly funny to me about Borat is how he gets people to say things that they really shouldn't. Is it latent anti-Semitism, or simply the overly agreeable nature of Middle America? You make the call!

That said, a Bruno movie is coming out soon.

sdsuchelle · #8 11-04-2006, 07:22 PM

I'm suprised this hasn't been brought up yet...

During the movie, Borat hitches a ride with 3 Chi Psi brothers, and they get wasted, watch a porno, and a couple of the brothers say some slightly offensive things (all I can remember is "if you're a Jew, you get special treatment in America" or something like that).

Do you think Chi Psi cares? My friend said they'd probably like it, since its promotion, but it seems like it makes them look pretty bad IMO.

BabyPiNK_FL · #9 11-05-2006, 02:18 AM

I've seen the movie and they also begin to discuss about how minorities and women have the "upper hand" in America. You can tell they just try to get people started (i feel that the movie is also striving to make a point about blatant racism/classism/sexism in U.S. and A. under all of that comedy and homo-erotic wrestling) but they obviously cut out the most offensive parts. It most likely got down right offensive, but thankfully they didn't show anything so bad (most of the stuff in the movie in general was so "bad" it was extremely funny or so rude that it made an obvious point as I said earlier). I was upset that they excluded the song about throwing Jews down the well, it was a comedic high point (in my personal opinion) while highlighting ignorance in the deep south. Most of it was kinda sketchy and led to nowhere, but there are many classic moments as well. The biggest shocker for me wasn't the prostitute, nor the mysogyny, nor the racism, but the fact that he fell asleep outside a church (looking very homeless/disheveled) and no one woke him up and offered him food or a shower, they just walked around him right into the service! Hypocrisy at it's finest...

nlauren · #10 12-12-2006, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by sdsuchelle

I'm suprised this hasn't been brought up yet...

During the movie, Borat hitches a ride with 3 Chi Psi brothers, and they get wasted, watch a porno, and a couple of the brothers say some slightly offensive things (all I can remember is "if you're a Jew, you get special treatment in America" or something like that).

Do you think Chi Psi cares? My friend said they'd probably like it, since its promotion, but it seems like it makes them look pretty bad IMO.

L.A. judge sides with "Borat" against frat boys
Mon Dec 11, 5:57 PM ET
As the esteemed Kazakh television journalist Borat Sagdiyev might say: "High Five. Sexy Time. You Lose."

Two college fraternity buddies shown guzzling alcohol and making racist remarks in the "Borat" movie have lost their bid for a court order to cut the scene they claim has tarnished their reputations, court papers revealed on Monday.

The students sued the movie's distributor and producers last month, saying filmmakers had duped them into appearing in "Borat" by getting them drunk and falsely promising the film would never be shown in the United States.

At the time the suit was filed, a judge denied the pair's request for a temporary restraining order that would remove footage of them from the film, but the plaintiffs were given a another chance to seek an injunction at a hearing last week.

The South Carolina college students lost again when Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joseph Biderman ruled they had failed to show a reasonable probability of success on the merits of their case or that money damages alone would be insufficient to resolve their claims.

Arguments on the latest motion focused mainly on the future DVD release of the hit movie, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."

The faux documentary, distributed by 20th Century Fox, has already grossed more than $120 million at the North American box office after six weeks in theaters.

The lawyer for the students, Olivier Taillieu, said last week that while the film's theatrical run is coming to a close, the perpetuity of the film on DVD posed ongoing problems for his clients, including harm to their ability to seek work.

Last month, Taillieu said the movie had cost one of the students a job at a major corporation and another a prestigious internship. The students were identified in court papers only as John Doe 1 and John Doe 2. A third student involved in the scene did not take part in the suit.

The film stars British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen as a fictional Kazakh TV journalist whose boorish sensibilities clash with ordinary Americans. The story line is driven by a series of improvised encounters with people who become Baron Cohen's unsuspecting foils.

The scene at issue in the lawsuit depicts Borat getting drunk with three frat boys in a motor home while they watch a sex tape and make racist remarks about slavery and minorities in the United States.

20th Century Fox is a unit of News Corp.

MysticCat · #11 12-12-2006, 03:01 PM

And:

Official Chi Psi Statement on "Borat".

(Sorry if this was already linked. I looked and didn't see a link, but I may have missed one.)

Xylochick216 · #12 12-12-2006, 11:17 PM

I finally saw Borat last weekend. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. I think both my husband and I could have done without the hotel scene, but other than that, I was cracking up the whole time. The rodeo scene was in the town next to mine. I remember when they were filming about a year and a half ago or so and the news show I was working on ran a story about Sacha Baron Cohen tricking people at the rodeo for his TV show. We didn't know it would be part of the movie

One of my coworkers knew some of the people in the scene.

AlexMack · #13 11-05-2006, 03:03 AM

What's more hilarious than anything else is the reaction from Kazakhistan. Google just that country's name and you will produce the latest uproar in the media over Borat. I almost peed myself laughing when I saw their tourist commercial.

RU OX Alum · #14 11-05-2006, 04:51 PM

i'm going to see it tomorrow after work.

Taualumna · #15 11-05-2006, 07:03 PM

Mr. Tau and I tried to see it last night, but it was sold out at every theatre we attempted to go to. We were dumb not to buy tickets online. We ended up seeing it this afternoon.

I think the Chi Psi guys were playing along. I have a hard time believing they don't know about Sacha Baron Cohen/Ali G/Borat/etc.