Borat!

I'm enjoying all the insane ranting coming out of the Kazakh government about it. I think I'll go see it.

Looks like the Kazakh government is trying to make amends for their Borat hating. Just in time for the movie, no?

Hmm, an opportunity to gather footage for the sequel...

i love borat or any of his personalities. i plan on seeing it although im not sure it will have much to add over his show: does that kind oof stuff stay funny for 90 minutes on end?

His swimming gear is AWESOME.

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The sad thing is that it would be almost impossible to have a Borat follow up now, seeing that he will be well known globally after this movie.

Hopefully Cohen brings Bruno to the big screen next!

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Original post by Eelco i love borat or any of his personalities. i plan on seeing it although im not sure it will have much to add over his show: does that kind oof stuff stay funny for 90 minutes on end?

It slows down a little towards the end as the story line plays out but not in a way that destroys the movie. It plays more like a chance to catch your breath before the grand finally.

You can find a bunch of reviews of the film here.

I'll be seeing it for sure. I've had a Borat costume that I put together for a while now (me and two other friends would dress up as Ali G characters, get plastered, and heckle people in downtown Reno.) I managed to find a Borat swimsuit in time for the movie. It is nice, I like!

It still hasn't hit Bosnia :(
I can't wait for it, as I'm a big fan of Ali G Show and Borat is by far my favourite character.

I really want to see it, but unfortunately I'll be out of the country when it opens. Guess I'll have to wait for the DVD.

I can't wait! I have a Borat movie poster (him in his swimgear, socks and shoes with two fine ladies) and I keep looking up and seeing the date it's released and die a little inside, it's finally getting closer though :D

Englanders get free tickets here, yes. Special Code needed: 44593.

I only hope its better than the God-awful Ali G movie.

It's filmed in Romania too :) (only the Kazakh parts I presume) Since that South Park episode nobody make benefit cultural learning for us, so I have to see this. It'd be the first Borat show for me, but CNN articles on this issue always were hilarious.

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Kazakh officials have tried to respond to the outrageous descriptions. The Foreign Ministry recently ran ads on CNN, in The New York Times, and the International Herald Tribune citing laudable -- though slightly boring -- facts and figures on the nation's economic growth, civil liberties and cultural achievements.

Cohen is wickedly funny when he's playing off hypocrisy, shallowness, and prejudice, but there's too many times on his show where the joke falls flat because it hinges on tormenting an innocent or taking advantage of somebody's good nature. That's prank phone call territory, and I've never liked it.

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Original post by BerwynIrish Cohen is wickedly funny when he's playing off hypocrisy, shallowness, and prejudice, but there's too many times on his show where the joke falls flat because it hinges on tormenting an innocent or taking advantage of somebody's good nature. That's prank phone call territory, and I've never liked it.

Yeah, I feel the same way.

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Original post by LessBread It's offensive in many ways, but it's still hilarious.

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It's offensive in many ways, so it is hilarious.

anyone seen the deleted scenes? Check out the animal shelter one at least...

Yesterday the BBC published a behind the scenes look at the making of the film: How Borat hoaxed America.

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Spoof Kazakh reporter Borat - aka Ali G comedian Sacha Baron Cohen - is expected to score a box office hit by offending and humiliating real Americans in a new movie. When a gangly foreign reporter with broken English, bushy moustache and crumpled suit turned up at artist Linda Stein's New York studio, she thought she was helping spread the word about women's rights. Ms Stein, with two other members of Veteran Feminists of America, agreed to be filmed for what they thought was a documentary to help third world women. But then the reporter started talking about his wife's farm work ("she pulls the plough"), women walking three steps behind men ("it used to be 10 steps, my country is advancing") and asking how to contact Pamela Anderson. "I thought I was talking to an uneducated man, maybe from a tribal community," Ms Stein says. "I mean, that's how it seemed to me. ...

Making fun of intolerant rednecks is great.

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One person who is likely to regret the day he met Borat is Tennessee rodeo manager Bobby Rowe, who is cajoled by the comedian into making disparaging remarks about Muslims and homosexuals. Movie 'mess' A phone call to Mr Rowe and an enquiry about whether he is the person in the movie elicits a slow, painful reply: "Yeah, I'm the same one." But he says he has been stung by his experiences. "I got into this mess by someone calling me and telling me who they was and they weren't," he says. "And so I don't do any interviews over the dadgum phone any more. This phone rings 10-12 times a day. "That's what got me into this mess and I don't want to get in any deeper."

I didn't know 'dadgum' was a word real humans used.