Borat

Josh Smith

My girlfriend and I saw the movie 'Borat' last night. It was hilarious! If you aren't offended by completely vulgar/vile/disgusting/racist/sexist/un-PC remarks, but find them funny, then that movie is for you. If you are offended by them, sucks to be you! ;P

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peterchen

So "funny, but tasteless" is right?

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Ashley van Gerven

Yeah.. the one scene where they're fighting in the hotel made me laugh so hard I could barely catch my breath! :laugh:

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Josh Smith

Yes, assuming that taste has something to do with being politically correct.

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Josh Smith

Ashley van Gerven wrote:

Yeah.. the one scene where they're fighting in the hotel made me laugh so hard I could barely catch my breath!

Me too! Especially when they ended up in the Mortgage Broker convention! :laugh:

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Ashley van Gerven

peterchen wrote:

So "funny, but tasteless" is right?

Brussel sprouts are tasteless. The movie is just making fun of modern society and rural society - but totally exagerated of course :)

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peterchen

I see "political correctness" as a futile attempt of people with no taste to understand taste.

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Michael A Barnhart

What I find offensive is the deliberate and intentional deceit they used to entrap those being filmed. It really shows no character or ethics on the actors or producers part. I will not support it.

Josh Smith

peterchen wrote:

I see "political correctness" as a futile attempt of people with no taste to understand taste.

It's that, and a productive way of avoiding litigation! :laugh:

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Josh Smith

Michael A. Barnhart wrote:

I will not support it.

Ok, good to know. Thanks ;P

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brianwelsch

Ashley van Gerven wrote:

Brussel sprouts are tasteless.

Oh, I beg to differ. They have plenty of taste, it just not good taste.

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brianwelsch

Some friends of mine are going tomorrow night. Still on the fence with this one. Just doesn't seem like there's enough there for 2 hours. It didn't get old after 30-45 minutes?

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Jeremy Falcon

Michael A. Barnhart wrote:

I will not support it.

I don't know anything about this movie, so as it stands currently I'm pretty neutral on this. But, I voted you a 5 to try and counter balance the idiots abusing the voting system when all you did was express your opinion on the matter. [edit] Looks like I upset one of them "idiots" I reckon. Man, I just can't live with the guilt. :rolleyes: [/edit]

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Gary Kirkham

yet more counter balance :-D

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Orcrist

I agree wholeheartedly. I dont have any big problem with pushing the boundaries of political correctness. In general I think people need to get a thicker skin. However deliberate and intentional deceipt (as you described it) which ridicules well intending people (even if they aren't the sharpest tools in the shed) is classless exploitation. Candid camera is similar in some ways except that the intent is jest whereas what I have seen on clips, and what I've heard, is that Borat exploits these individuals wih a degree of cruelty. David

Jeremy Falcon

Gary Kirkham wrote:

yet more counter balance

Thanks. I just irks me when people want to whine just because someone doesn't agree with them. Talk about babies. His post wasn't annoying or tasteless, and yet they do that.

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Michael A Barnhart

Orcrist wrote:

the intent is jest

Agree and with Candid Camera or shows like COPS, the filmed individual knows what the filming is for. They are not being told this is a documentary on American Culture. If you like satirical humor then fine, people need to laugh at themselves more often. Just be honest about the motives, is my point.

Alsvha

Perhaps not "understand" taste, as much as control it within a given framework to avoid exposing the lack of it :)

Alsvha

I wouldn't say "entrap" as most of the situations are so extreme that most rational people would think something fishy is going on. And the fact that "Borat", in the movie, then proceeds to show the "entrapped" people's bias or behavior so clearly makes it fine in my book. For instance how the crowd cheers on when he "salutes" the American effort in Iraq but then turns on him when he butchers the American national anthem and sings that Kazakhstan is the most superior nation on earth.... fun for the family. Or the upper class dinner party which throws him out when his "friend" (fat black prostitute) appears, but not when he hands the hostess his "left overs" because he does not know how to use the toilet. It's merely candid camera with bias and prejudiced instead of slapstick comedy in my opinion.

Alsvha

It doesn't last 2 hours ... think it was 80 minutes.