Miscellaneous Movie Musings

Bornieo: Fully Loaded · 11-12-2006, 09:16 PM

Borat! LMFAO.

8 Bornieo's out of 10!

Snowflake · 11-12-2006, 09:37 PM

Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies was on TCM and I caught it tonight. What a grave and shattering piece of anime this was. Very moving film, I wept.

Alex · 11-12-2006, 09:40 PM

I must admit I laughed a lot during Borat. But like iSm I am uncomfortable at people getting punked and made to look like fools. So I was pleasantly suprised that very few of the real people encounters resulted in them coming off looking like idiots. Yes, there was the racist guy and drunk frat boys making themselves look like fools.

But overall I think people responded to Borat within reason and generally with suprising patience. The southern society dinner had to be pushed pretty damn far (he called a prostitute over to dinner) before they kicked him out and based on the sudden turn of attitude between one cut and another I wonder if they realized they were being scammed or he did something provocative not shown.

But the funniest stuff was in the staged portions of the movie, or so I thought. I assumed that the opening and closing in the "Kazakh village" were scripted and staged but now I see that the Romanian village where they filmed it are claiming that they were tricked into acting like idiots and paid very little.

So, yes, it is a very, very funny movie. But I feel like a dirtbag for it.

I'm assuming that Pamela Anderson at least was in on the part that involved her.

11-12-2006, 09:16 PM	#1
Bornieo: Fully Loaded Lego Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Disneyland, USA Posts: 3,704	Borat! LMFAO. 8 Bornieo's out of 10!
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11-12-2006, 09:37 PM	#2
Snowflake lost in the fog Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: San Francisco Posts: 7,831	Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies was on TCM and I caught it tonight. What a grave and shattering piece of anime this was. Very moving film, I wept. __________________ Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde
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11-12-2006, 09:40 PM	#3
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	I must admit I laughed a lot during Borat. But like iSm I am uncomfortable at people getting punked and made to look like fools. So I was pleasantly suprised that very few of the real people encounters resulted in them coming off looking like idiots. Yes, there was the racist guy and drunk frat boys making themselves look like fools. But overall I think people responded to Borat within reason and generally with suprising patience. The southern society dinner had to be pushed pretty damn far (he called a prostitute over to dinner) before they kicked him out and based on the sudden turn of attitude between one cut and another I wonder if they realized they were being scammed or he did something provocative not shown. But the funniest stuff was in the staged portions of the movie, or so I thought. I assumed that the opening and closing in the "Kazakh village" were scripted and staged but now I see that the Romanian village where they filmed it are claiming that they were tricked into acting like idiots and paid very little. So, yes, it is a very, very funny movie. But I feel like a dirtbag for it. I'm assuming that Pamela Anderson at least was in on the part that involved her.
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