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Borat.
Supposedly it's a comedy, but it's completely devoid of humor.
I'm not gonna downvote you because unpopular opinions is what this thread is about, but it's just plain factually incorrect to say it's devoid of humor. You may not personally find it funny, but there are a zillion jokes per second in this movie, and many people find it hilarious. It isn't devoid of humor, it's devoid of your type of humor
Yeah, I remember laughing out loud in the theater many, many times. But I was a 19-year-old dude in 2006, and was 20 when Superbad came out, and so that brand of humor hit me square in the funny bone.
That being said, comedy is very subjective, I'll agree, but to call Borat unfunny is objectively wrong.
I know this is the sequel, but remember when they filmed Rudy Giulani trying to have sex with a woman he thought was 14, put it on TV, and that didn't warrant any investigation at all despite millions of people seeing the evidence?
Borat isn't my favorite of the genre but I love those kinds of movies that mix fictional plot line with interactions of real strangers. I wish there was more love for those kinds of projects.
Borat (and SBC in general) is known for treating those real strangers like shit and leaving the places they film in worse off than when they got there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borat check under controversies.
Tbf, some of the people in Borat deserved it. I laughed seeing Ted Cruz get punked
Giuliani scene was incredible in Borat 2
True, but as funny as tricking him into a To Catch A Predator like situation, then streaming it across America for all to see..
Is no one else concerned that the President at the time's lawyer was filmed trying to have sex with someone he thought was 14, that millions of people saw the footage, and it didn't lead to any investigation being launched? Or really anything at all?
I mean I am, but I'm not American so I think that's expected. From my perspective it seems like a third of Americans get off on fascism and abusing power.
Well yeah, because he exposed those areas for having garbage people living there. He didn't make the area worse by damaging honorable people, all he did was hand a spotlight to people and let them show who they are. They very obviously were aware they were on camera the entire time
Yeah.... The part where they tricked the town into thinking it was a real movie and gave them scripts reflecting as such, then just put the jokes the studio ACTUALLY wanted in the subtitles was really low of them to do. I don't see how that's at all removed from just doing "Kazakhstan: The Minstrel Show"
I will say I liked the movie a lot better before I knew that. When I first saw it I was a highschooler who had assumed Kazakhstan was a fictional place made to be a stand-in for Eastern European countries. Even when I learned it was a real place, I thought surely they just made a set or something.
Because only a monster would actually fly to a third world country, say you're going to bring in a lot of money for a town that desprately needs it, pay them far less than they were promised, and blatantly lie and say that it's a film about a guy going off on a big fantasy adventure instead of some white guy doing brown face to show how backwards and evil not only the town, but the nation as a whole is....
Listen lady...
Maybe you Used to be good on plow, before having such an opinion, but now your vagine is like sleeve of wizard.