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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
Sure. Let’s not pretend there is an election within 2 weeks and a guy with a platform and an opinion spoke up in his own way. At this time. And your view is that he is just in it for a laugh? ####ing kidding me?
Some people put magic marker to Bristol board...
I think this is the first time I have considered asking how daft someone is here.
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For not liking or your perceived "not getting"
Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm? That's needlessly harsh.
A lot of us "get" what the character and film is: an outrageous character stereotyped as the backwards foreigner obliviously holding up a mirror to western culture in an awkward and hilarious way. A lot of us get the context of the creator's motivations and are well aware of his history. A lot of us get the context of the current socio-cultural and political environment. The film was marketed on the "gotcha" moment with Rudy Giuliani.
I had all of that figured out before I started watching the film, and I stopped watching 30 minutes in because I knew exactly where it was going and how it was choosing to get there. That route, to my taste, was lazy writing, old jokes, worn out stereotypes and tropes, and a recycle of a character that just doesn't have the same impact in this context as it did in 2006.
It's not hard to figure out the satire and critique because Cohen constantly slams it into your face with a Hulk sized fist. I didn't find it clever, I didn't find it funny, I didn't find it biting, or new, or a fresh take on the current political climate. I wasn't entertained and it wasn't making me see anything I don't already know about what's going on, and I wasn't spending another hour letting it fail to get there. I would argue a large appeal of Borat is the humour which I don't believe it delivered enough of to keep me interested.
Jon Stewart referenced it best about his own
Daily Show, but if people are looking to Borat for ethical and political cues we're in real trouble. And I don't think it makes you remotely daft for thinking it's a poor film on its own merits.