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[Skudor]

I'm not sure if I'm brave enough to seee Bruno. I'm still mentally scarred by the naked wrestling in Borat.

[Vauxhall]

I'm not sure if I'm brave enough to seee Bruno. I'm still mentally scarred by the naked wrestling in Borat.

Admittedly that may be a problem for you bearing in mind that, if there's one way in which BRUNO surpasses BORAT, it's in terms of male nudity.

[Loomis]

True, but I don't recall any of the male nudity in BRUNO being especially injurious to the eye. Unlike Azamat's hairy buttcrack.

[dinovelvet]

Took in a viewing of Bruno today. Great stuff, funny as hell, though for some reason the first five minutes were completely flat and I thought it was going to suck. It picked up quickly though.

Someone walked out right after Bruno's dancing penis. The handful of brave souls left in the theatre guffawed all the way through. It was short, sure, but at the same time it didn't need to be any longer. Odd that some scenes were used in the tv spots that didn't make it into the film - Bruno telling a Sears employee that he's gay, Bruno und Lutz handcuffed together at the mall and a couple of others. My favorite line was when Bruno and Lutz were tied up in the motel room, and in the middle of the kerfuffle, Bruno casually tells an irate hotel clerk that he looks like a latino Paul Giamatti

I wonder if this film has actually exposed America's homophobia a little bit. It opened well, to $30 million, and is no doubt the first film to do so which features simulated hardcore gay sex, and then nosedived with a 75% dropoff the following weekend. Obviously once the word of mouth got out about the amount of cock on display in the film, people stayed away whilst the more "wholesome/All-American" japery of The Hangover and The Proposal did better. The much noted C+ Cinemascore reveals some disturbing/hilarious reactions. Was this Sacha's intention all along, I wonder.

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BTW in the UK or elsewhere, were there strategically placed black circles on the screen during er, certain "acts"...?

[Loomis]

I wonder if this film has actually exposed America's homophobia a little bit. It opened well, to $30 million, and is no doubt the first film to do so which features simulated hardcore gay sex, and then nosedived with a 75% dropoff the following weekend.

To be sure, it's not proving to be another BORAT at the box office. If memory serves, BORAT did absolutely incredible business, taking over $100 million in the States. I think it outgrossed the likes of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III. Can't be fagged to look up the stats, but it really was a genuine smash. BRUNO, by contrast, is merely a middling hit.

BTW in the UK or elsewhere, were there strategically placed black circles on the screen during er, certain "acts"...?

Yes. Otherwise the film could probably have qualified only for an R18 rating, meaning it could only be shown at pørno theatres or bought from sex shops.

[The Ghost Who Walks]

Just learned that Harrison Ford is in this for about five seconds, so I am now obliged to watch it.

[Safari Suit]

I wonder if this film has actually exposed America's homophobia a little bit. It opened well, to $30 million, and is no doubt the first film to do so which features simulated hardcore gay sex, and then nosedived with a 75% dropoff the following weekend. Obviously once the word of mouth got out about the amount of cock on display in the film, people stayed away whilst the more "wholesome/All-American" japery of The Hangover and The Proposal did better. The much noted C+ Cinemascore reveals some disturbing/hilarious reactions. Was this Sacha's intention all along, I wonder.

It's an interesting thought. Also noteworthy that almost half of the opening weekend's $30million was made on the first day.

[Captain Tightpants]

Wow. That was pretty much the same film as BORAT, but with different people. I mean come on, the fight with his boyfriend at the end? Exactly the same as the fight with the producer in BORAT.

[JimmyBond]

Now that we've had a Borat movie and a Bruno movie, could a big screen Ali G movie be next?

[dinovelvet]

Wow. That was pretty much the same film as BORAT, but with different people. I mean come on, the fight with his boyfriend at the end? Exactly the same as the fight with the producer in BORAT.

Yes, it is pretty much the same formula. Oddball foreigner comes to America with sidekick in tow, causes chaos wherever he goes, draws shocked/exasperated reactions wherever he goes, the two of them cavort nakedly in a hotel, then have a breakup, only to get back together later on.

Stranger still, for the final scene in which Borat returns home to his village, we are told it is "Eight months later". For (almost) the final scene in Bruno, the cage match, it takes place, yep, eight months after the previous scene.

Now that we've had a Borat movie and a Bruno movie, could a big screen Ali G movie be next?

Well I don't know if you know, but he already did. "Ali G in da house" was released in the UK and went straight to video in the states. It wasn't any good really, mainly because he did it as an actual comedy movie, not a documentary style effort like Borat and Bruno.

Anyway, yeah I would like to see him do an Ali G film. Just as Borat exposed America's xenophobia and ignorance of other cultures, and Bruno challenged America's homophobia, Ali G could explore racial attitudes in modern America.

[JimmyBond]

Yeah, I'm aware of the original Ali G film, in fact I really want to see it, just havent gotten around to it yet.

[Harmsway]

Yeah, I'm aware of the original Ali G film, in fact I really want to see it, just havent gotten around to it yet.

I've heard it's awful.

[Loomis]

It's pitiful. It's a scripted comedy story, not "real" like BORAT or BRUNO. What's more, it's completely unfunny and tedious.

Ali G only worked well in his original incarnation as a fake reporter conning the great and the good in five-minute spots (starting out on a 1998 British comedy series called THE 11 O'CLOCK SHOW, which launched the careers of Baron Cohen, Mackenzie Crook and Ricky Gervais). Here he is interviewing the well-known British educationalist and politician Sir Rhodes Boyson:



Now, imagine this sort of thing stretched out to 90 minutes, gaining a "plot" and losing the real and genuinely unaware interviewees (the latter being, surely, the whole point of Ali G, Borat and Bruno in the first place).

[DaveBond21]

Saw it on DVD over the weekend.

I loved it, but it's no Borat. Still love some of the snide comments on various notorious celebrities.

Love Mel Gibson's nickname!!

[Gabe Vieira]

Okay, I just spent nearly an hour typing out a essay, for all practical purposes, on why I feel Bruno is the worst film of the the year, and close to all time. It got very political and started talking about gay rights, and religion, and stereotypes, I really don't know how it got there, other than I was getting angry simply typing it. I almost posted it, then realized that I'd probably get banned, or close to it. So I deleated it. Eventhough I'm not giving you a comprehensive reason why I hated to film, other then it had the exact same "plot" at Borat, which I hated too, I'm just saying that I hated this film as much as my body would let me. And then some. I say to Sacha Baron Cohen the same thing that Harrison Ford said to Bruno, " off." And that was the only part of the movie I laughed at.

[Sark2.0]

Okay, I just spent nearly an hour typing out a essay, for all practical purposes, on why I feel Bruno is the worst film of the the year, and close to all time. It got very political and started talking about gay rights, and religion, and stereotypes, I really don't know how it got there, other than I was getting angry simply typing it. I almost posted it, then realized that I'd probably get banned, or close to it. So I deleated it. Eventhough I'm not giving you a comprehensive reason why I hated to film, other then it had the exact same "plot" at Borat, which I hated too, I'm just saying that I hated this film as much as my body would let me. And then some. I say to Sacha Baron Cohen the same thing that Harrison Ford said to Bruno, " off." And that was the only part of the movie I laughed at.

Tell us how you really feel. No really, what didn't you like about it (and/or Borat)? Was it that the apparent beliefs of Cohen on those topics differed from yours?

I still haven't seen it, but imagine I will at some point. That being said, anger isn't the worst feeling that a movie can inspire. Indifference would be far worse I imagine.
(I think you'd have to say something pretty offensive to get banned around here, FWIW)

[volante]

I enjoyed Bruno for the "sketch" it was. If you asked me would I watch it again?

Only after Borat and In Da House.

I love the line, delivered so sincerley by Charles Dance

"Why is there an obsurdly dressed half naked man chained to the railings being tossed off by an old blind council worker?"