Borat: Cultural Learnings of America ...

[Gil galad]

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I cant wait to see this!!

[Cail]

Saw the preview when I saw SoaP, looked hillarious.

[Holsety]

Wow, Ali G's alterego (well, one of them) is getting his own film. Nice.

[Phantasm]

Am I the only person in the World that thinks Sacha Baron Cohen isn't funny?

[CovenantJr]

He was funny when Ali G did short interview slots on The Eleven O'Clock Show, but give him more than three minutes and the humour goes utterly stale, IMO.

[Avatar]

I hear that Cj. Well, to be fair, I did enjoy the first series. (Although never Borat). Even the 2nd wasn't too bad.

But it got more and more strained and painful as time went by.

By the time the American version (Ali in the USA?) went on air, I stopped watching. Even he looked like he wasn't having fun anymore. (And the routines were identical to the early British ones. *shakes head*)

I definitely won't be watching this.

--A

[Cail]

Borat's funny, but upon further review, I doubt he can sustain a whole film. The Ali G movie was dreadful.

[Avatar]

It sure was.

--A

[Usivius]

Am I the only person in the World that thinks Sacha Baron Cohen isn't funny?

nope.

[Sunbaneglasses]

I must disagree, I thought Borat was hilarious.

[Avatar]

Oh gods, it sucked man. Cringe cringe cringe. Like hidden camera shows, the humour wore off long ago. (And anyway, I suspect he (Cohen) isn't enjoying it anymore anyway, which makes a big difference.)

--A

[Zarathustra]

I tried to watch this twice. I couldn't get past 30 minutes. Not one single laugh.

The way I see it, the ONLY way people can think this movie is funny is if they believed everyone in it was actually being fooled--that no one was in on the joke. I just couldn't suspend disbelief that a bellhop, for instance, would actually think that Borat mistook the elevator for his room. I mean, there's a camera man right there in the elevator with him, filming everything he's doing. Does the bellhop really believe that there's no connection between making a movie and this ridiculous behavior? He really thinks this is some stupid foreigner who has never seen a hotel before? Right.

I'm beginning to think that all those "controversies" before the movie (lawsuits, etc.) were actually fabricated to give the movie a sense of authenticity, to pretend that people were actually fooled by this idiot, and pissed enough to sue him. Did any of those lawsuits ever go anywhere?

I'm sorry. They were paid extras. Actors. Ain't no way anyone in this film was actually fooled. Except the viewers, that is.

But not this one.

[Cagliostro]

I may be wrong, but I think a few things in the film were genuine. Maybe I'm dupe. There are some clear stagings, and I suspect the hotel thing was probably one of them. Certainly the bit with Pamela Anderson.

[Zarathustra]

Cag, you may be right. Like I said, i didn't see the whole film, so my judgement is limited to the first 30 minutes. It's certainly possible that there was a mix of both real and staged.

[Cail]

I may try it again, but I thought it was terrible. Walk-out-of-the-theater terrible.

[Avatar]

It won't be any better next time.

--A

[Cagliostro]

Yeah, I laughed occasionally, but sparingly. With everyone hopping up and down about this flick, I expected it to be better. Then again, after the whole Napoleon Dynamite thing, I should have known better.

[Waddley]

It WAS a mix of both real and staged. Pamela Anderson, for example- staged. Racist college frat boys? Real. They got away with it because Borat/Cohen was saying he was filming for his country's news program.

[Zarathustra]

Waddely, how do you know they were real?

[stonemaybe]

I heard they were trying to sue the film company. Not that THAT couldn't be staged as well I suppose....