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meh. It's Borat with a gay guy. The trailer told us so. I can never remember which cute redhead he's married to.

meh.

Worth it for the "two dildos" bit alone.

I'll see it. It'll be good for some chuckles and to learn dildo defence. The gays keep saying they're going to take over, I like to be prepared.

The original Bruno clips were much funnier, he interviewed "smart(er)" people and managed to get some sort of designer/fashion person to admit that we should send all bad dressing people to a camp, a concentration camp. he also interviewed some white supremacists as bruno - gutsy move. now it's just borat recycled. To quote rayliota - meh.

Either my blood sugar's low or I really am utterly lacking in taste, but that looked pretty darn good.

Sacha Baron Cohen should've killed of Borat and Bruno along with Ali-G.

A long time ago it seemed like a good idea, but then again so did "The Macarena".

Holy shit! Richard Bey is still around?!

Holy shit! Richard Bey is still around?!

Posted by: ernesto at April 2, 2009 5:10 PM

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Holy shit indeed that IS him, isn't it. The grandfather of trash talk shows in the flesh I remember that fucker when he did Nine Broadcast Plaza before it morphed into the Richard Bey Show on WWOR, New Jersey.

I agree with Anastasia Beaverhausen. Borat was funny, but it was a one viewing kind of thing. Maybe in a couple of years I'll watch it again, who knows. I also get embarrassed for characters on television and in movies so watching actual people being duped in Borat was unbearable at times. I don't see myself even renting Bruno.

And Isla Fischer is cuter than Amy Adams, says I! If I had a same sex five freebie list, Isla would be on it.

If I had a same sex five freebie list, Isla would be on it.

Now let's not start that again!

oh yeah, and I can't stand Meet The Parents either, but I dunno. Something about Borat and Bruno never made me feel really that embarrassed for them, it's purely shock value. Just like I never feel embarrassed for Mann Coulter. Though I would've loved to see Bruno attack her with a couple of dildos.

Oh fuck it. It made me laugh. I'm gonna see it. I know me. There's no way I won't see it, even if I protest to the contrary.

And yes, admin, we are coming. Just ask the Baptists.

Bruno sounds exactly like Edna Mote from The Incredibles. I couldn't get passed it and it totally took me right out of the trailer.

Hmmm, something weird happened to the end of my comment.

I was supposed to have said:

Amy > Isla in terms of talent

Note, though, that cuteness goes a long way in my book. And Isla reins supreme in that department.

All you "mehs" can fuck off. Looks pretty damn good.

oh this will be grand.

you must understand, i'll be seeing this in a theater in tulsa, oklahoma, surrounded by people who will not be on the knowing end of this.

i know, i know, you must be thinking tulsa must be so cool, what with gp and agent bedhead living there.

you'd be amazed.

There is no doubt that it is just Borat with a gay Autstrian but I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing. I thought Bruno was funny on Ali G. I don't know what this says about me but if I think something is really funny the first time, altering it in a way that supplements the repetition of that funny = still funny. Of course the funny has a half-life, it just degrades slower depending on how funny the original premise or act was. For example, Will Ferrell schtick didn't get old for me near as quickly as it did for many 'jibans. Unless I'm forgetting something, I think Semi-Pro was the first Ferrell-schtick movie that I really hated.
Jeez, I wish I was better at making these posts. They always sound better in my head then turn out all ramble-y.
Side note: Borat is definitely a one maybe two time viewing.

I fall into the catagory of people who crawled under their seats and hid through most of Meet the Parents. I also had to see Borat twice not because it was a modern comic triumph but I actually missed some good gags due to redfaced shoe-gazing during the key moments of hilarity.

For some reason I just simply cannot stand watching characters either inflicting embarassment or suffering it themselves. Even when I know its fictional, it doesn't matter. I think its because I empathize and put myself in their shoes, thinking only of what it would feel like for ME to have to suffer a similar fate.

So yeah. I'll see this, but it will be like standing in front of my graduating high school class naked for two hours while they heckle me.

Does that make me a sadist?

Hacksaw,

Originally, I was going for the Handel/handle thing so I guess that would be a coincidence but Mugato (sp?) is hysterical so, I can't say it bothers me. I think of wrestling everytime I see your handle. I'm guessing that is no coincidence.

On the topic of feeling embarrassed for people on TV and in movies, whether fictional or not: it takes a LOT for me to get all squirmy on their behalf and look away, but my husband absolutely cracks me up.

If he's watching TV in bed and something like that happens, he'll just really casually flick the sheet over his head. Not in a dramatic way at all, just like "Oh God, I can't even watch this." If he's not where he can do that, I've seen him just close his eyes.

None of us like the show, but the daughter and I will turn on early episodes of American Idol JUST to watch him close his eyes and eventually get up and leave the room because he simply can't handle the embarrassment. Or the sound.

Anastasia

Sounds like your better half and I are kindred spirits. I have a rep in the family of leaving the room when the embarassment gets too brutal. Actually as a tot, my dad would turn on shows he knew would scare/embarass me because he thought it was hilarious that I would actually get up, and toddle off until I couldn't see the screen any longer but was still within earshot. As soon as I knew they had cut to commercial, I would wander back in with a lame excuse of having to go find a toy.

This has continued into my adult life, except now, I simply have to turn away or leave the room. Being trapped in a crowded theater where I can't easily escape is akin to water-torture for me, yet I generally willingly submit to the experience.

I too saw Borat twice in the theaters. It was still out when I slid back home for a short visit before my brother shipped off to the Air Force. And what did we want as our last shared civilian experience for at least 6 years? Take Mom to see Borat.

I tell you, there are few moments as pleasing as seeing my one time Sunday school teacher and current church lady extraordinaire squirm in her seat trying to make heads or hairy anus of what she was watching. Our theatre was only half full, and soon she gave in to the protection of the dark.

Mom never mentioned that movie to either of us after the deep dish pizza and root beer we ate later that night. But we both know she was laughing.

Sentiments aside, I love this part-staged, mostly guerrilla-filmed pranking. True, Bruno is the weakest of Sacha's characters, but it should work. Looks funny to me.

Too bad it's not opening in May. I bet the bro, his new wife and I could've gotten my grandma to an evening at the ehhtheatre.

Groupthink central around here, huh?

Bruno was always the funniest of the three Baron Cohen characters, and I would expect this movie to be an improvement on Borat. It's too bad that he feels the need to include so many scripted scenes and "narrative" elements. The confrontational humor is what's funny, it should really be fine to just throw a bunch of unrelated scenes together.

I saw Borat. Twice. The second time, just to take my brother so I could watch his reactions. He laughed so hard and loud the people sitting in front of us actually moved. Which made us laugh harder.

It's all about allowing yourself to enjoy the experience of getting tickled. Just letting go. It feels pretty good.

Sascha Baron Cohen is pretty good at that. He sacrifices himself so that I may laugh. Really: when he falls out from backstage at the fashion show? I live to see shit like that: Uptight, self-important people focused on something so utterly unimportant as haute couture (although I love to indulge too), shocked and aghast at the interruption. Love it.

In conclusion: don't take things too seriously. Life is too short.

Final conclusion: I'll see this movie in the theaters. I might even buy myself a big frosty beer and some candy.

Roaddog and Anastasia: I as well can't handle embarassment, but I scamper off like a little girl.

I hated Borat. I also hated Napoleon Dynamite. And Nacho Libre. Then I wondered if I was losing my sense of humor. Finally I just decided that the people making movies got dumber.

I don't know, Bruno was always my favorite Sascha Baron Cohen character. And really, we all know this is the format that works for him. Remember Ali G Da Movie? He tried to do an actual movie instead of a mockumentary and it was universally thrashed, so I can't say I blame him for sticking with what won him awards.

Ever see the Frazier episode (kiss my ass, it had moments and I was a teenager) where Niles is trying to iron something, and he ends up passing out from the sight of his own blood? No dialogue for maybe 5 minutes, best 5 minutes of Frazier ever.

Yes, oh God yes, it was a Valentine's Day episode. Highlight of the series, for sho.

Hi, my name is Courtney and I suffer from second-hand embarrassment. Can't do it - have actually gotten out of my seat and left the room until whatever is happening on screen is over. Saw I Love You, Man this weekend and almost died, being confined to a theatre seat. There must be some deep-rooted psychological projection-thing about it, whatever the cause, watching Paul Rudd stammer and make an ass out of himself made me want to cry.