Brüno

[Alienwho]

Originally posted by: SirChadwick
I'm heading out to see this tonight, but feeling a little weird about it.

I loved Borat and so did my friends, but I'm going to see this one w/ my wife and 2 buds.

Is the dick stuff over the top? What's up w/ hollywood comedies all showing the wang nowadays... I see enough in my daily pr0n search.

Think about the most over the top dick stuff that you can imagine. Now times that by 10. I'm talking close up, macro zoom, spin and swirl, front to back swing action for what feels like 10 minutes.

 

[Liet]

Originally posted by: gorcorps

Originally posted by: Liet

Originally posted by: breakit23
A conscience made the country western bar crowd sing "throw the jew down the well - So my country can be free" .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3IMTJjzfo

I didn't find this funny - I found it disgusting and depressing. Kinda like the people who think Cartman is funny for all the Jewish jokes., without realizing he's a parody of Midwestern ignorance.

You know, there are people who think it's funny while seeing the parody.

Wow, I didn't check this thread for a while and didn't realize so many Midwesterners took offense, or that they'd be stupid enough to think I meant ALL Midwesterners. But then again, this is the internet. I should explain that I'm a New Yorker, so anything West of me qualifies as the Midwest unless it's Seattle of California.

gocorps, maybe I just don't get the parody. So he made some racists and anti-semites sing a song. Great. Instead of being funny, it just remind me how many times I've heard "Jew" and "great person" thrown around as an insult on the internet by suburban white kids. It also reminds me that the same kind of people who think Cartman is cool are the ones who crack black kids over the head with baseball bats for daring to enter Howard Beach. Just sad.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: Liet

Originally posted by: gorcorps

Originally posted by: Liet

Originally posted by: breakit23
A conscience made the country western bar crowd sing "throw the jew down the well - So my country can be free" .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3IMTJjzfo

I didn't find this funny - I found it disgusting and depressing. Kinda like the people who think Cartman is funny for all the Jewish jokes., without realizing he's a parody of Midwestern ignorance.

You know, there are people who think it's funny while seeing the parody.

Wow, I didn't check this thread for a while and didn't realize so many Midwesterners took offense, or that they'd be stupid enough to think I meant ALL Midwesterners. But then again, this is the internet. I should explain that I'm a New Yorker, so anything West of me qualifies as the Midwest unless it's Seattle of California.

gocorps, maybe I just don't get the parody. So he made some racists and anti-semites sing a song. Great. Instead of being funny, it just remind me how many times I've heard "Jew" and "great person" thrown around as an insult on the internet by suburban white kids. It also reminds me that the same kind of people who think Cartman is cool are the ones who crack black kids over the head with baseball bats for daring to enter Howard Beach. Just sad.

Oddly enough in my many years on this planet the people I have met most likely to toss around epithets like the ones you cite come from places like Boston, NYC, LA, etc. When I was in the Navy a guy from Dedham, MA was tossing around terms for blacks and jews that I never heard of growing up in a southern state. That is one of the reasons I get such a kick out of the stereotypical ATOT response that bigots and racists exist only outside of major urban areas or that it is confined to just white Americans of European heritage.

 

[Liet]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Oddly enough in my many years on this planet the people I have met most likely to toss around epithets like the ones you cite come from places like Boston, NYC, LA, etc. When I was in the Navy a guy from Dedham, MA was tossing around terms for blacks and jews that I never heard of growing up in a southern state. That is one of the reasons I get such a kick out of the stereotypical ATOT response that bigots and racists exist only outside of major urban areas or that it is confined to just white Americans of European heritage.

Eh, there are sick people everywhere. Claiming some regions in the US are worse than others is usually pretty pointless.

 

[panipoori]

Originally posted by: Platypus

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: loki8481
I loved Borat and I really want to not be offended by this movie, but every clip I've seen from it feels like he's doing the gay version of blackface while hiding behind a "satire" mask.

Yeah, he's basically making fun of gays and getting rich doing it.

SBC's intent is to bring out the racism/bigotry in others by presenting them with a situation where they think they're free to act how they really feel. The comedy is exposing these people for what they are. Of course he's doing up the stereotype to the fullest extent possible.

To that end, he's not making fun of gays at all. In Borat he was supposed to be ultra anti-semite but most of the language he's speaking in the dialogue is Yiddish and he himself is Jewish.

yep. All these people who say its childish humor dont understand what he is trying to do

 

[p2daall]

I just got back from watching Bruno. Overall it was 7/10. It was very funny because there were parts that were hilarious but there were parts where I wanted to rip my eyes out. But overall, the funny parts outweighed the penis parts. I think he just enjoys showing the audience penises. The movie had a lot of funny interviews and thought provoking social commentary. The nudity really took away from the movie. But I guess you have to take the good with the bad. I would suggest that people see it if they have a strong stomach.

 

[RaiderJ]

Man, I just watched and I don't know if I'll admit it to people! Borat was great, but I also think Borat is just a better character than Bruno. Where Borat can get reactions from people by simply showing his "naiveness", Bruno gets reactions by being over the top flamboyantly gay. The scenes in the movie that were the most entertaining were the ones that weren't sexual, such as the talk show where he is talking to a mostly black audience.

 

[Safeway]

I also just saw Bruno. Watching the movie made me feel uncomfortable -- the situations were so embarrassing. I don't see how Cohen does it.

 

[sohcrates]

saw it this weekend. 3 people walked out of the theater. i mean really? what were you expecting?

a couple in front of us had their 10 year old daughter with them. i mean seriously??

anyway, movie was quite over the top. pretty funny, but i would rank it below borat

 

[Chiropteran]

I thought it was awesome. The penis shots were the best part!

Not really, but they serve as an excellent filter to let you know who was at the movie for the laughs, and who was at the movie because they are homophobic and thought it was a movie making fun of gay people.

 

[K1052]

I saw it Saturday and I haven't laughed that hard in a theater for years.

 

[KeithTalent]

I saw it and thought it was pretty funny. I loved the part when he was going over the wall chart of celebrities and naming them all and he gets to Mel Gibson..."Der Fuhrer?". Laughed my ass off at that.

KT

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: weflyhigh
Just got home a few minutes ago from seeing a screening of the movie

I thought some parts were HILARIOUS, like the reality show part, the swingers party, and everything else related to the baby

other parts were humorous and really funny inside but not laugh-out-loud funny

I'd be willing to see it again if friends wanted to go, but I wouldn't go out of my way to see it twice+


The Hangover was TONS funnier overall, but there were 30 second portions in Brüno that were better than any small scenes like that in the Hangover

EDIT:
Oh and by the way there is a TON of dick in the movie (meatspin for a good 10 seconds... I'm not kidding and even an improvised meatspin v2) and almost no boobs... only one set of boobs and they are nasty hooker fake boobs

There was one 10 second shot of "penis puppetry" and that it, and one pair of ugly super fake chest globes and a glimpse or so of vagoo.

 

[caivoma]

Originally posted by: sohcrates
saw it this weekend. 3 people walked out of the theater. i mean really? what were you expecting?

a couple in front of us had their 10 year old daughter with them. i mean seriously??

anyway, movie was quite over the top. pretty funny, but i would rank it below borat

I overheard a couple college dudes said "that wasn't what i expected" at the end.

I think the black baby part is the best, too bad that part has been shown on the internet already.

 

[zerocool84]

I give it a 7/10 cus the damn trailer spoiled almost all the funniest parts. It was still funny and I love dumb funny movies. Borat was infinitely better but it was still funny.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: panipoori

Originally posted by: Platypus

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: loki8481
I loved Borat and I really want to not be offended by this movie, but every clip I've seen from it feels like he's doing the gay version of blackface while hiding behind a "satire" mask.

Yeah, he's basically making fun of gays and getting rich doing it.

SBC's intent is to bring out the racism/bigotry in others by presenting them with a situation where they think they're free to act how they really feel. The comedy is exposing these people for what they are. Of course he's doing up the stereotype to the fullest extent possible.

To that end, he's not making fun of gays at all. In Borat he was supposed to be ultra anti-semite but most of the language he's speaking in the dialogue is Yiddish and he himself is Jewish.

yep. All these people who say its childish humor dont understand what he is trying to do

I get what he's saying he's trying to do.

but what I see is a movie where the vast majority of the humor seems to come from SBC portraying a flamboyant homosexual stereotype.

 

[Regs]

Spaceman is Ali G.

 

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: panipoori

Originally posted by: Platypus

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: loki8481
I loved Borat and I really want to not be offended by this movie, but every clip I've seen from it feels like he's doing the gay version of blackface while hiding behind a "satire" mask.

Yeah, he's basically making fun of gays and getting rich doing it.

SBC's intent is to bring out the racism/bigotry in others by presenting them with a situation where they think they're free to act how they really feel. The comedy is exposing these people for what they are. Of course he's doing up the stereotype to the fullest extent possible.

To that end, he's not making fun of gays at all. In Borat he was supposed to be ultra anti-semite but most of the language he's speaking in the dialogue is Yiddish and he himself is Jewish.

yep. All these people who say its childish humor dont understand what he is trying to do

I get what he's saying he's trying to do.

but what I see is a movie where the vast majority of the humor seems to come from SBC portraying a flamboyant homosexual stereotype.

So??? He does it to show how homophobic/racist we are. Look at the part when he brings the baby out in the all black crowd. Even before they see how "bad" of a father he is, they gawk at the fact that he has a black baby. Also he's just showing all the homophobia in America. I see no problem with what he's doing. He likes pointing out how ridiculous we are as a society, what we do, and how we react to gay people/racism and a lot of the stupid things celebrities do. It's just one large psychology experiment.

Look at those guys that turn gay people straight. He makes fun of stupid things like that.

 

[JohnnyGage]

Saw it this weekend with the wife. Borat and The Hangover were funnier, but this one had it's moments. Had a couple of people walk out. Wait for video.

 

[coloumb]

Originally posted by: RaiderJ
Man, I just watched and I don't know if I'll admit it to people! Borat was great, but I also think Borat is just a better character than Bruno. Where Borat can get reactions from people by simply showing his "naiveness", Bruno gets reactions by being over the top flamboyantly gay. The scenes in the movie that were the most entertaining were the ones that weren't sexual, such as the talk show where he is talking to a mostly black audience.

That's his style - to get a reaction out of people.

Reminds me of Andy Kaufman's humor....

 

[0roo0roo]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/mar...9/07/bruno_100709.html