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HIGH FIVE! The Borat Thread
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:30 pm
by A Gunslinger
I saw Borat this weekend. Man was it great!!!! It was the best comedy (and most intellectually challenging) I have seen in years!!!
It was like watching a super-raucous episode of "All in the Family". But with no Michael Stivic to counter the un PC stuff on the screen. The AUDIENCE has to play that role, and decide what they think.
It is ground breaking, bold stuff. A must see! What do you think, y'all?
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:39 pm
by Lorelei
My brother, boyfriend and I all saw it this weekend....I thought I was going to pee myself. I haven't laughed that hard...EVER! It really makes you think too!
Bravo Sacha!
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:41 pm
by A Gunslinger
I was in absolute tears and groans throughout. If we can't laugh at ourselves and see where true bigotry resides... what hope do we have to eliminate it, right?
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:48 pm
by Worm of Despite
www.rottentomatoes.com/m/borat/
Wow. Lots of critical praise for this film.
I think I'll try to watch this one Friday with my friend Seth. We'll laugh our arses off.
*grumbles* Still gotta see
The Departed too!
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:54 pm
by Warmark
Yup its brilliant, some parts i could not stop lauging at.
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:40 pm
by Waddley
Brilliant, wonderful, funny movie.
Except the parts where my countrymen made me die a little inside....
/sigh
But best movie I've seen all year, hands down.
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:07 pm
by sgt.null
umm. didn't look good to me and julie. guess we have diferent ideas about it.
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:16 am
by drew
Apparantly the country of Kazakhstan havn't found it overly amusing.
If David Spade were still around, he'd say, "Yeah, I liked it fifteen years ago...when it ws called 'What A Country.'"
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:23 pm
by Queeaqueg
I remember when no one had even heard of Borat. He was a guy from Kazakhstan going around Britain to teach the people of Kazakhstanabout Britian(best one was when he went to Cambridge Uni). Just an add-on to was a great Ali-Gi show. I found him funny and so did many but not many people knew about him. Now he is really popular. I am sure I will see the movie.
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 1:27 pm
by A Gunslinger
Queeaqueg wrote:I remember when no one had even heard of Borat. He was a guy from Kazakhstan going around Britain to teach the people of Kazakhstanabout Britian(best one was when he went to Cambridge Uni). Just an add-on to was a great Ali-Gi show. I found him funny and so did many but not many people knew about him. Now he is really popular. I am sure I will see the movie.
Give it a shot Queegy! You won't be disappointed!
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:44 pm
by Lord Mhoram
Huge fan of Da Ali G Show. I've always liked Ali G more than Borat, but jeeze, Borat is outrageously funny. "In Kazakhstan, hobbies include disco dancing, archery, rape, and table tennis."
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:38 am
by A Gunslinger
rape....hahahahah!
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:16 am
by ur-monkey
He also added in a recent interview that in recent times,
archery has become less popular a pastime because his country was 'moving into the modern era'
loved the film.
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:44 am
by Damelon
I won't say it was the best comedy I ever have seen,
Young Frankenstein and
History of the World: Part I to me were better, but it was very good.
There were classic moments:
The look on Bob Barr's face when he was told what the cheese was made from. The pictures from home. The fate of the bear.
Looking back, I was amazed as much at the patience that a lot of people showed with him, well maybe not a lot of New Yorkers did, but most others. Sure, a few looked like fools, but I was suprised as much by those he didn't get a rise out of:
He didn't get much out of Alan Keyes; and the car salesman, though he knew what Borat was looking for by the term he used, wouldn't use the term himself. And the Pentacostals came off looking pretty good. They accepted him for what he was.
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:55 am
by hierachy
This film is great. Just... great.
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:50 am
by CovenantJr
A Gunslinger wrote:rape....hahahahah!
Now that's a sentence I never expected to read!
On topic...I hate Sacha Baron Cohen. He annoys me to the point of inducing indigestion and irregularity of the bowel.
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:24 pm
by A Gunslinger
CovenantJr wrote:A Gunslinger wrote:rape....hahahahah!
Now that's a sentence I never expected to read!
On topic...I hate Sacha Baron Cohen. He annoys me to the point of inducing indigestion and irregularity of the bowel.
I figured we are in an SRD community... why not embrace it?
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:38 pm
by Waddley
Damelon wrote:And the Pentacostals came off looking pretty good. They accepted him for what he was.
Were they the ones he was having the dinner party with? Cause they sure weren't accepting of the lady he brought over. Really now... for as much patience as they showed Borat, you'd think they could handle a hooker.
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:41 pm
by Lorelei
Waddley Hasselhoff wrote:Damelon wrote:And the Pentacostals came off looking pretty good. They accepted him for what he was.
Were they the ones he was having the dinner party with? Cause they sure weren't accepting of the lady he brought over. Really now... for as much patience as they showed Borat, you'd think they could handle a hooker.
No the Pentecostals were at the Church.
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 4:05 pm
by Waddley
Duh, my bad!
Yeah, they were pretty good to him... saving his soul and such. Despite me going "ewww" the whole time, it was still kinda sweet of them.
What really bugged me, even more than naked hairy men, was the RV full of frat boys... they made me sad. Or maybe all frat boys just become bigots when they're drunk? I dunno.... Anyway, it was sad and I'm glad Borat got off the RV when he did.