I loved "Da Ali G Show," and loved "Borat" the first time I saw it. On second viewing, I was disturbed by Cohen's taking cheap shots at easy targets. Last year, he came through Dallas filming his upcoming movie "Bruno," about a riotously gay fashionista character, and pulled an ugly stunt tricking a local audience of Christians. It struck me as more cheap-shot theatrics. Now, in today's Daily Beast, Sharon Waxman, following on "Bruno"'s NC-17 rating, asks if the film is too raunchy? Excerpt:
Among the objectionable scenes is one in which two naked men attempt oral sex in a hot tub, while one of them holds a baby. In another, Bruno--a gay Austrian fashionista played by Baron Cohen--appears to have anal sex with a man on camera. In another, the actor goes on a hunting trip and sneaks naked into the tent of one of the fellow hunters, an unsuspecting non-actor.
I'm sure that if I watched "Bruno," I'd laugh at a lot of it. I'm not sure that I should.
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Borat was so unwatchable I had to turn it off maybe 20 minutes into the film. What you describe in this "Bruno" film absolutely guarantees I will not even rent it to see what it's like. I can't imagine anyone finding that kind of stuff funny.
Borat had some funny bits, esp. since I have an Eastern European friend and we could tease him about being from Borat-land, but by the end I pretty much wanted to gouge my eyes out.
No desire to see anything else from SBC in that vein.
"Borat" was undoubtedly crude, but I couldn't help thinking there was something oddly exhilarating in the way Sascha Baron Cohen skewered the vicious antisemitism still alive in so many places. Humor is a powerful way of exposing ugliness in the world, and even if he goes too far in other ways, he did at least strike that powerful blow. Did anyone else who saw the film think that as well?
Borat was disgusting and infuriating. Congrats to those who walked out. Those of us who sat it through are now saddled forever with those mental images.
I thinks he very funny...Come o americas sense of homour please ha ha ha..
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