Nah, this movie would have been a bit much for people who have never been exposed to Borat/Ali G before. You'd be in too much in a state of shock and awe to laugh half the time. It is definitly best for people who are already fans of Borat.

[Edited on November 4, 2006 at 1:28 AM. Reason : :]

11/4/2006 1:27:59 AM

^ I just felt it was a little predictable what was going to happen in most of the interviews


it was still funny though

11/4/2006 2:04:32 AM

Apparently my friends enjoyed it, but all they would talk about was being disturbed by the hotel scene. They've obviously never been on here or 4chan Actually, they have, they just like playing up the "omg im too macho for a man's balls" thing.

I thought it was amazingly funny. KAZAKSTAN IS #1 EXPORTER OF POTASSIUM.

11/4/2006 2:18:54 AM

All other countries have inferior potassium

11/4/2006 2:37:06 AM

did anyone else feel like they'd already seen about 1/3 of the movie through clips/interviews on YouTube

11/4/2006 2:52:50 AM

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"From today's Hollywood Reporter: Uni wins 'Bruno' auction for $42.5 mil By Borys Kit Universal Pictures has won the intense bidding war for "Bruno," Sacha Baron Cohen's follow-up movie to "Borat." Sources said that Universal is paying $42.5 million, beating out such other contenders as DreamWorks, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. Pictures for the worldwide rights to the film (HR 10/27). The price includes the production budget of the film, rumored to be in the $20 million-$25 million range. Also included is a significant backend component, believed to be the 15% range. The price has raised eyebrows in Hollywood because Baron Cohen's much-hyped "Borat" has yet to open. Despite much advance praise for "Borat," distributor Fox scaled back its Friday opening to about 800 theaters because it is concerned that the movie wasn't registering high enough in audience-awareness tracking. With "Bruno," Baron Cohen is calling upon another of his comic alter egos, Bruno, a gay fashionista from Austria who fancies himself as "the voice of Austrian youth TV" and who sashayed from New York Fashion Week to Miami nightclubs in his previous appearance on HBO's "Da Ali G Show,"on which Baron Cohen also first introduced Borat to American audiences. As in the case of "Borat," Jay Roach would produce with Baron Cohen. No director is on board, though it has been reported that Baron Cohen wants to shoot the movie during the summer. Endeavor, which reps Baron Cohen, declined comment, as did Universal."

11/4/2006 3:10:22 AM

jesus fuck what a funny movie



Bringing the bag of shit back to the table.......... hilarious.

11/4/2006 10:09:38 AM

I will agree I did certainly feel like I'd seen 1/3 of the movie already. Even commented to my wife about that when I was driving home afterwards.

Quite a few of the clips I saw were from Da Ali G show, but I knew in advance about the feminists, the drivers ed scene, the bear, Pamela, the dinner party, the humor coach, his house/sister/wif etc. etc. I was a little spoiled by that since I knew a lot of what happened once the scenes started. Wish I hadn't been inundated with trailers and been researching clips on YouTube now.

I was fucking shocked by the hotel scene though. Completely taken by surprise there. I'm sure we will get a lot more happy times on the Unrated DVD when that is released.

11/4/2006 10:37:18 AM

There's a deleted scene on collegehumor.com, too

11/4/2006 10:41:53 AM

Can someone tell me if that Pamela Anderson part was for real or sorta set up?

It looked like it was real, but jesus H you gotta have some balls to pull that off.

11/4/2006 12:53:53 PM

I really have a hard time believeing that much of that movie was real. I mean, there was definitely some improv, but I honestly think a lot of those scenes were staged if you pay close attention to the camerawork. But that's just my opinion

11/4/2006 1:05:53 PM

the feminist scene was def real, i saw some article written by the lady that stormed off

11/4/2006 1:56:21 PM

i think pamela ran too much for it to be real

and theres no way he would have wrestled her on the ground then chased her that far without getting tackled

11/4/2006 3:39:10 PM

saw it for the second time today...

i recall reading an article online about a year or so ago, about Sacha Baron Cohen crashing a party Pam Anderson was having with PETA... something like by the beach, he showed up unanounced by boat, and ran up to her and threw her in the ocean. Shocked everyone because no one knew who he was.

I have a feeling like that was part of the movie, but Pam didn't agree with it, so they decided to do this mock kidnapping for the film. Just an idea.

11/4/2006 10:37:49 PM

Shit was funny. Only part I didnt agree with was the frat boys and the guy at the rodeo, way to make us all look like assholes.

11/4/2006 10:55:03 PM

i saw it today

it's amazing how crazy racist some people still are

11/4/2006 10:56:56 PM

what the whole frat thing about

[Edited on November 4, 2006 at 10:58 PM. Reason : pm me so people that aint seen it dont get all pissy]

11/4/2006 10:58:10 PM

Way to copy my post marko

11/4/2006 10:58:18 PM

^^^ Only a white person could think that.

[Edited on November 4, 2006 at 11:06 PM. Reason : ]

11/4/2006 11:05:59 PM

caught it at mission valley last night

fucking packed house, couldn't even sit with my peoples

it was hilarious, but like others have said, i kinda wish i had never been all over youtube watching the clips that ended up bein in the movie

11/4/2006 11:13:54 PM

I saw it for the second time today as well. Just as funny as the first time, plus I caught other things that were said in broken english that I missed.

I will look upon your things gypsy, is this understood?

[Edited on November 4, 2006 at 11:24 PM. Reason : ]

11/4/2006 11:22:46 PM

this movie was out of control funny

11/5/2006 12:16:16 AM

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"it's amazing how crazy racist some people still are"

ha, i no rite.

good thing South Carolina is low on my list of grad schools now

11/5/2006 12:35:32 AM

It was the best awkward silence EVER at mission valley last night when the gamecocks threw in that racist comment.

The theater had been howling nonstop up until then. Then utter silence for about 10 seconds.

11/5/2006 12:44:13 AM

Movie was funny as shit. But if you watched the thing on Comedy Central you saw a ton of the movie.

11/5/2006 2:16:26 AM

^^what was their racist comment, i can't seem to remember..

11/5/2006 2:17:22 AM

anyone go to the ten o' clock at mission valley tonight? I apologize for the obnoxious chick that laughed like fran drescher (sp?). My buddy brought some chick who brought that chick. Bitch almost ruined the movie for me. but yeah, the movie was super funny.

[Edited on November 5, 2006 at 2:24 AM. Reason : .]

11/5/2006 2:24:15 AM

^haha fucking awesome post

11/5/2006 2:26:44 AM

^^we had a game tonight. So nobody cares.

11/5/2006 2:29:29 AM

who said you had to care? just apologizing to the people who had to sit through her obnoxious cackling.

[Edited on November 5, 2006 at 2:31 AM. Reason : .]

11/5/2006 2:31:10 AM

i'd like to go on the record have having known a bitch that i use to have to have in my company every now and then that had such a high pitched laugh that i'd like just hope no one was looking cause it was anoying AS FUCK

11/5/2006 2:49:35 AM

^EXACTLY. I couldn't fully enjoy the movie becasue the bitch was so loud and annoying. It was bad.

11/5/2006 2:52:17 AM

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"It was the best awkward silence EVER at mission valley last night when the gamecocks threw in that racist comment. The theater had been howling nonstop up until then. Then utter silence for about 10 seconds."

Haha... try watching the movie IN Columbia, SC as a USC grad student. People clapped and cheered when it said "university of south carolina" but I got nervous as hell because I knew it wasn't going to be pretty. Then the entire theater went silent and stayed that way for a good 20 minutes. However, I do believe that there's just as good of a chance that NC State students (or numerous other schools in the South) would say something like that as USC students.

Any theories on how scripted/ unscripted that part was? It seems almost too "perfect" that the people who picked him up just happened to be USC Gamecocks students.

11/5/2006 10:16:51 AM

Thorsten was telling me he saw an interview with the college students and they were really nervous about the movie coming out because they didn't remember what they said or did.

it's also been mentioned about borat disrupting peta stuff with pamela.

i remember the news heading where borat was almost killed when he did the national anthem stunt at the rodeo. i think that most of these events were NOT staged, but just put together over time to build the storyline. i may be wrong, but i distinctly remember several news headings that never mentioned a movie and they played into the movie months and months later.

[Edited on November 5, 2006 at 11:46 AM. Reason : n]

11/5/2006 11:46:30 AM

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"did anyone else feel like they'd already seen about 1/3 of the movie through clips/interviews on YouTube"

Yeah, exactly. I think the movie would've been much funnier if I hadn't already seen most of the funny parts.

11/5/2006 11:53:31 AM

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/xp-16655

11/5/2006 12:25:55 PM

Saw it Friday night. It was a pretty damn funny movie. My only complaint is that there was way more bare hairy ass in that movie than I ever needed to see in a lifetime.

11/5/2006 12:30:22 PM

^^thanks...i guess that proves i wasn't too far off

11/5/2006 1:00:49 PM

i read something about borat disrupting pamela's dog's wedding...

deleted scenes?

11/5/2006 1:41:02 PM

In the movie trailer, it shows Borat being part of a civil-war reenactment. That would've been hilarious to see. It must've gotten cut from the final?

11/5/2006 1:55:22 PM

^doesn't it also show him taking a pic of a guy that's takin a piss or poopin? i seem to remember that when they have the lady saying "the cultural differences are... vast" dubbed over


i don't see why they'd take em out unless they were unfunny, the movie was only 84 minutes...

[Edited on November 5, 2006 at 1:59 PM. Reason : fhsd`]

11/5/2006 1:58:22 PM

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""I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards," he said, according to Brett Sharp of Star Country WSLC, who was also on stage that night as a media sponsor of the rodeo. An uneasy murmur ran through the crowd. "

didnt the crowd cheer after he said this?

11/5/2006 1:59:56 PM

not as much as they cheered for every thing else IIRC, like "may george bush drink the blood of...."

[Edited on November 5, 2006 at 2:01 PM. Reason : gfbx]

11/5/2006 2:01:04 PM

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"i don't see why they'd take em out unless they were unfunny, the movie was only 84 minutes"

or people wouldnt sign the releases to let the footage be used

11/5/2006 2:06:05 PM

so they can use them in the trailers but not the real movie...?

11/5/2006 2:25:33 PM

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"didnt the crowd cheer after he said this? "

if you watch this movie a couple of times, you will pick up on a lot of the editing tricks.

for example.. when he is at the rodeo, giving his speech, you constantly hear cheers, but if you look at the crowd in the background, no one is cheering, though you hear it.

just a thought.

bout to watch it for my third time

11/5/2006 7:21:45 PM

question about the rodeo, if this is real, which by all accounts seems to be the case, whats the deal with the horse falling in the background? i just cant see that really happening with that perfect timing.

11/5/2006 7:23:50 PM

staged

11/5/2006 8:00:16 PM

That has to be staged, along with the whole Pam Anderson bit. No way in hell he doesn't get taken out by big ole body guards when he starts getting creepy.

I liked the movie a lot, but I noticed some of the editing tricks too.

11/5/2006 8:02:59 PM

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/showthread.php?t=517895

i don't think as much of this is staged as you think...google borat on a news site and look at all the events that aren't tied to his show that led to this movie being made

11/5/2006 8:18:59 PM