Posted on 11/03/2006 2:10:47 PM PST by AnnaZ
It is vulgar, crude, offensive, and embarrassing.
That said, I haven't laughed that hard since Team America: World Police.
Yep. And the drunk frat-boy. Whaddajerk. I would've loved to slap him something hard. Egads.
In which of the two categories I set up would you place Candid Camera?
Hmmm... no. LOL.
It's as vulgar and gross as one can be, I suppose. Yet utterly hilarious. Could you stomach Team America ?
I could stomach Team America, but I'm not sure I'd want my 16 year old to see it. Was Borat at the same level? Thanks.
Dont take a 16 yr old...though I imagine your 16 yr old will eventually see it somehow because I was 16 once.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15560972/site/newsweek/
Borat - The Man Behind the Character
Another article giving more insight to Cohen
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2006-10-26-borat-main_x.htm
If you catch this flick you'll notice an "extra" from Boomerang in it. LOL!I was going to wait for the DVD, but after this thread, I plan to see it NOW.
An "extra" from Boomerang, you say?
CLICK HERE for the discussion thread about that video
I see them as both in the same category. Throwing an unexpected or bizarre situation at people and filming their reactions.
Greetings from the land of fruits and nuts!
We still miss ya'll.
Finally talked Lady Di into letting me get a 50 in. HD.
I'll wait for it to come out on DVD.
Love Ya,
G
"I saw Alan Colmbs give Borat an interview, and I just didn't find Borat funny at all...But maybe the fact that the Crypt Keeper was sitting across from him ruined it for me."
Wife came up with a good point. If he had someone interviewing him who had even a hint of a personallity to play off of, he may have come off as funny.
The movie is as funny as any i've seen in years. Some of the PC police on here might not like it but its funny.
The CC of my childhood would have been the innocent, fun for "victim" variety, requiring the latter to give permission for use.
Do you have any evidence that the "victims" didn't give permission? In today's lawsuit-happy country, I'd be rather shocked if they hadn't gotten a release from everyone whose face has appeared onscreen.
Some of the PC police on here might not like it but its funny...From www.nypost.com:
"...Borat, a fixture on 'Da Ali G Show,' is not only unfamiliar with indoor plumbing and hotels - he mistakes an elevator for his room and takes a dump on the street - but he's unapologetically crude, sexist, homophobic and, probably most controversially, a raging anti-Semite.I can understand sex jokes, and bathroom humor, but antisemitism?The film opens with Borat gleefully introducing his village in Kazakhstan (actually filmed in Hungary), where he boasts his sister is the No. 4 prostitute, a neighbor is a rapist ('naughty, naughty') - and where he provides commentary for 'the running of the Jew,' an event in which giant papier-maché puppets are attacked, along with their offspring.
My jaw was hanging open the first time I saw this scene..."
"...Baron Cohen, an observant Jew whose committed performance as a gay French race-car driver in 'Talladega Nights' was so good it was like he was acting in a different movie than Will Ferrell, inhabits Borat like no actor in a comic role since Peter Sellers. He rates an Oscar nomination for Best Actor, at the very least.Sort of like Woody Allen?The star is also one of five credited writers on 'Borat'..."
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