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Borat? OK, the joke was funny the first couple of times but he's been doing the same routine for years on the TV here in the UK for years, first as Ali G and then as Borat. I don't doubt that Sacha Baron Cohen is talented and allows people to make a fool of themselves it's just that it's all been done before.Did anyone else see it? It only had a limited release nationwide.
I went opening night and thought it was absolutely hilarious. Genius, even.
If it's playing anywhere near you -- go see it!
ROFL, that's the funniest part in the whole movie! He starts mumbling all that jibberish and the pastors are like "That's the Holy Spirit!" Certified nutcases those people are!I liked it a lot, I especially loved the part where he goes to the church and shows the lunatics.
Wow. Am I the only one on the planet who is ashamed to have seen the movie? Seriously, a waste of time and some of the crudest humor ever.
Christians, we have a higher calling than this.
~Witness
ScottyL said:Your calling has nothing to do with what movies you watch.
From what I have read about the movie, virtually everyone agrees that it is crude at best.
The crude humor will definitely appeal to many viewers; however, it is the cruel humor that makes the movie unacceptable. For example, in one scene, Borat is apparently invited to dinner. “Borat decides it would be polite to compliment two of the women at the dinner party, while he insults the third woman, the pastor’s wife, for being plain.” He goes to the bathroom and then returns with a plastic bag of his own feces.
In another scene, he goes to a Pentecostal church. “The worshipers scream in tongues and place their hands on Borat’s head, and he decides to respond in turn-- wiggling his tongue out and making ridiculous noises mimicking the worshipers.” Although the scene is a blatant mockery of the beliefs of the Pentecostal Church, I suspect that most of us will agree that this is a not-so-subtle mockery of the beliefs of all Christians.
The above quotes are from http://www.themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/borat.html .
Lets do what Einstein used to call a thought experiment. (Although popularized by Einstein, the term was originally used by Hans Christian Ørsted. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_experiment .)It's not mocking anything. The character has no idea what they're doing, so he decides to copy them.
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