Posted on 07/11/2009 7:40:05 AM PDT by rvoitier
Oh, big city critics loved them some “Borat,” which spent 95% if its screen time manipulating, editing and boiling down average, working class, not-bothering-anyone Americans (and Romanian peasants) into the worst possible caricature imaginable. How they laughed and found genius and insight into the machinated savaging of everyday folks just minding their own business. But listen to some of them squeal and squawk now that the satire is turned on someone other than us.
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I want to know what idiot mother rented out their kid to be used in a role that will probably haunt them well into adulthood...
I would but “Bruno” more as parody than satire. Frankly after Borat I thought that a parody would be the only thing that would salvage Cohen’s long term career. I don’t think it long and we will see Hollywood’s satire of white working class run of the mill folks to be seen in the same light as “Blackface” (the middle east ping list can name the actors there) and the hideous crap put out about the jews by the reich.
We went to see Borat when it came out. At first it seemed funny, but as it went on it emerged as more and more disgusting. What especially disgusted me was his abuse of hospitality—traditionally one of the most despicable of crimes.
He would accept hospitality from nice people anxious to help a stranger, and then he would use the opportunity to mock and make fun of them.
I wouldn’t see another movie by that jerk on a bet. I don’t care what this one does. He is just plain nasty and despicable, under the guise of political correctness.
Interesting proposition, that only a gay can make fun of a gay. Same goes for Christian, Southerner and Conservative too, right?
7/10/2009 San Francisco Chronicle review of Borat:
It's so inventive, so rich with comic moments, so outrageous, so shocking and unexpected, and so willing to be offensive that it consistently leaves viewers off balance -- and howling. This is a film by an original and significant comic intelligence.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/11/03/DDGRCM45V31.DTL&type=movies
11/3/2006 San Francisco Chronicle review of Brüno:
Imagine if a white comedian went into the Deep South, disguised in a very convincing blackface and started acting like Stepin Fetchit.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/10/MVHK18KGPJ.DTL
My problem with it was that it was politically unbalanced. At the beginning of the movie he spent almost no time making fun of New York feminists/yuppies and then spent the rest of the movie making fun of traditionalists.
I don’t think it was a violation of hospitality. He didn’t directly hurt anyone though it may worsen the hosts’ opinion of Eastern Europeans. However, there was that incident when it resulted in serious problems for an etiquette business.
The next movie seems to be far more exploitative. Especially with the black child. This is not good. Not good at all.
Are the dates backwards on those reviews?
I watched about 10 minutes of it and switched channels.Borat is a bore.
The results speak for themselves. No society benefits from people like him- in the long run.
Having been lured into watching Borat by some dufus reviewer comparing it to Monty Python, I deemed it to be total crap.
So, if this film is twice as good as Borat, then it’s only half crap.
When we get to maybe 1/4 crap, or 1/8th crap, I may see another of his films.
“I have to admit I laughed when Borat humiliated M&M during a recent awards ceremony. He flew down on a cable dressed as an angel in a diaper, and ended up flipping upside down with his but in M&M’s face. M&M left in disgust. “
You are aware that the scene was choreographed and staged with all the participants in on the “joke”
Danny Passmore is a karate teacher in central Texas. I haven't seen him for years, but worked out with him when he was a kid (green belt in Tae Kwan Do.) When filming Borat, Cohen made an appointment with Passmore, and started asking stuff like "What attacks would be effective against Jews?" Passmore is a nice guy, and refused to fall into the trap. According to the reports I've read, Cohen and his film crew got increasingly aggressive and belligerent when Passmore wouldn't even give them some quotes they could cut into half sentences to make him look like a redneck bigot. Cohen's never made any money off of me, and never will.
I object to his manipulation and abuse of average people. He is the epitome of what I hate about the movie industry.
exactly and with a self serving hard on for antisemitism that is often self invented or imagined or goaded
a prime example of a self righteous preener who has never had to let his ass cash the check that big mouth writes
you want funny Jews, rent the old stuff....Rickles....the best
Cohen is just another meterolib wanker....hot girlfriend though who I'm sure is with him for his beauty
bump...where can we find him and kick his ass and give him something real and unimagined to cry about
oops... was trying to be thorough and going back and forth between the reviews, FR, the link posted, and rottentomatoes. oh well.
The gist was: Borat was funny and exposed the rednecks, but Bruno is at least borderline homophobic and offensive.
But isn't that the way it is with a lot of creepy phenomena?
At first it's funny, because the joke's on somebody else.
Then it hits home and people take offense.
“You are aware that the scene was choreographed and staged with all the participants in on the “joke””
Yup!
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