Am I the only person in the world who actually hates this film ?

omg. I know. the fight scene brought on such a mixute of emotions: disgust, hilarity.... I was laughing really hard while screaming "ewww eww"

I laughed my ass off watching it, but I think at the end of day it was just shock humour and cheap laughs to the extreme. I wouldn't say I hated it, but I didn't love it either.

This movie does address some pretty important issues, however. Everyone knows that hatred/intolerance/ignorance exists in the USA; but it still was frightening to actually see it brought out of people with such ease. Also, the general apathy toward and incomprehesion of anything foreign is just so SAD. It's good that he was able to show all of this with humour, but sometimes its easier to just not deal with such brutal reality.

The scariest thing in the entire movie, to me, was the Pentecostalist church service. I'm truly shocked that such a religion even exists.

Do you live in the South?

To bad you have to face such nonsense.

Borat did good in US of A. He earned $26 million. Nice. Not bad considering the film is playing in less that 900 theaters.

So if its not near you now, it will be as they plan to expand it to 2000 theaters next weekend.

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Ouch!

www.myspace.com/borat

borat takes over myspace!
cool music on his page haha.

I think the scariest thing for me were the frat boys. I know I know guys like that are out there, but they were pretty ick.

Overall, I enjoyed the movie. You can't go to that movie and be dissapointed because it is exactly what it claims to be in all its publicity.
I laughed, and I loved Borat the man.

I think you're making the point yourself that it isn't just "shock humour and cheap laughs"...he's actually very subversive and his humour works on a number of levels.

I wouldn't throw this Jew down the well!!

amen sister friend. he is HOT.

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Sorry, I shouldn't have said it was "just" shock humour and cheap laughs. I was trying to say that's where most of the laughs came from.

Don't get me wrong, I liked it for the most part, but I can't say I "loved it" because something about the delivery just bugged me and I can't exactly put my finger on it. Maybe it's the humiliation aspect - and the portrayal of foreigners.

And I know that he's trying to make a point with that (portrayal of foreigners): In bringing out America's perception of foreigners as boorish/unrefined, he was able to show the ugly and dark side of America (etiquette group, cattle ranchers, gun-store owner, frat boys).

I guess I'm not totally convinced that he realizes (or cares) himself how offensive he's being with the manner he is misrepresenting them.

Personally, I prefer the way people like Rick Mercer and Stephen Colbert do subversive.

that was my favorite part. soooo funny....

that and bagging pamela to get her anad her vaaaagine.... haha

is pamela anderson actually in the movie??

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I saw this film yesterday, what can I say. It was disturbing! especially the fight between him & Azamat- OMG I screamed in horror. But it was hilarious at the same time.....it's not about how outrageous the Borat persona can be, but how he EXPOSES consistently people's blatant and not-so blatant prejudices & misconceptions. For example, yes he brings his shit in a bag to the dinner table at a "high-class" southerners dinner, which was quite a base act, but it clearly demonstrates the PERVASIVE IGNORANCE of the Southerners attending the dinner that they accept that fact that someone (supposedly) from Kazakistan would not know how to operate a toilet. Just because he is not american and from somewhere they've never heard of.

The Borat character slyly exposes people's biases, by appearing to be biased himself. It's brilliant, but also disheartening because nearly everyone he encounters demonstrates they have a fucked worldview, be it homophobic, anti-semitic, misogynistic, even murderous, or just plain fucking ignorant & stupid. Those sickening frat boys made me cringe for America. Their attitude is not rare. I've heard a criticism of the Borat film, in that "how dare he expose America in the twilight of it's reign as a dying world superpower". And I say why the fuck not, us bloodthirsty warmongering insular yanks deserve the coming dark age ahead. That's the subtext of the Borat film.

I can't wait for the DVD so I can see all the extras, deleted scenes, etc.

Very nice!

Yeah totally Rick Mercer = genius.