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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-13 20:00:35 Reply

The movie was very funny on two levels.

The first level was it was raucous and silly. Most of the jokes and references you hear are like that. It definitely delivered on that level if you're able to tolerate the crassness of it all.

It also happened to be very clever in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. He acts as this incredibly racist middle eastern stereotype: ignorant, dirty, racist and homophobic, fanatically nationalist, sexist, whoremongering...and he goes through America as this character and through his interactions with Americans exposes these things in them.

So yeah I recommend it.


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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-13 20:03:16 Reply

I thought it was hilarious last time I watched it. I absolutely hated how much people quoted it though, and they still do it to this day.

Bruno however, was a pile of wank.

quite literally.
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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-13 20:12:29 Reply

The Ali G show is hilarious. The Borat movie is alright. It's weird because Borat very obviously is a cult movie but it almost doesn't feel like one.

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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-17 07:59:34 Reply

At 8/12/11 01:31 PM, 111122223138 wrote: I've watched that movie so many times now, Hoping something'd click and it'd be hilarious, but that never happened. Maybe it's just me, or was that film garbage?

... really? Why would you want to watch a movie so many times if you didn't enjoy it the first time?

Are you a sadist? Maybe watching a film like Hostel would give you some giggles.


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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-17 08:02:13 Reply

At 8/12/11 01:31 PM, 111122223138 wrote: garbage?

It's complete garbage.


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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-17 08:05:47 Reply

I never got into it, I just kept thinking 'this is fucking stupid'. And not funny stupid. I thought I'd love it, after everyone saying it was hilarious, but I was disappointed.


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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-17 08:10:59 Reply

I personally don't like when Americans try to interfere with Asian culture, by which they mostly create a false image of that culture, but I must say Borat made me lol few times.

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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-17 09:13:21 Reply

At 8/17/11 08:10 AM, Makakaov wrote: I personally don't like when Americans try to interfere with Asian culture, by which they mostly create a false image of that culture, but I must say Borat made me lol few times.

But he wasn't an American, he's British of Israeli descent...oh, yeah, I'm sure the Middle East LOVES that come to think of it...


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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-17 09:19:54 Reply

It was a great movie, but than again, all those things he exposed in america are in every country from varying degrees.


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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-17 09:22:57 Reply

At 8/17/11 09:15 AM, ScaryPicnic wrote: But then everyone thought they could do his voice and they can't and it just became insanely annoying.

thats the only bad of borat I find

good movie, hate the fans


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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-17 09:23:43 Reply

I've never watch more than to the part he "falls in love" with Pamela Andersson.


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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-17 10:14:24 Reply

It was on at a party once, and about halfway through the movie everyone agreed to turn it off because it was garbage.

That is my only experience with the film.


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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-17 10:16:49 Reply

At 8/17/11 09:13 AM, CorpseGrinderClock wrote:
At 8/17/11 08:10 AM, Makakaov wrote: I personally don't like when Americans try to interfere with Asian culture, by which they mostly create a false image of that culture, but I must say Borat made me lol few times.
But he wasn't an American, he's British of Israeli descent...oh, yeah, I'm sure the Middle East LOVES that come to think of it...

There is still a cultural difference which western nations mostly just don't understand.

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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-17 10:24:26 Reply

the gags are only funny the first time, but that's mainly because it's shock comedy. bruno was terrible aside the board room scene which i found funnier than anything in borat.

Sacha Baron Cohen is a cool guy though.


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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-17 10:54:14 Reply

Fuck yeah it was! Sacha's a genius!

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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-17 11:06:14 Reply

I hate Borat. NOT.


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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-17 11:09:44 Reply

Just watch Mama Jack. You won't get disappointed, I promise.


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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-17 12:36:35 Reply

sometimes just sometimes


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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-17 12:46:38 Reply

Found it funny before everyone started quoting him.


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Response to Was Borat funny? 2011-08-17 13:27:36 Reply

Never heard of it.

I'm not much of a movie person.