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After Watching It a Second Time...

posted 15 years ago by rlippman11
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I counted the days until Bruno came out when I first heard about it over a year before. I couldn't sleep just thinking about it. Borat was so eye opening to me, how something could be so funny yet so moving at the same time. I got to learn exactly how some sick, evil people feel.

When I first saw Bruno, I was overwhelmed. I had seen so much. Bruno had twice as many awkward moments in Borat, not all good. The movie sort of felt like getting raped in the brain to me. I thought I liked it, but then I thought of how unfunny and just awkward parts of the movie were...

Particularly the first half. The first half is awful. Hitler jokes every other second (not that I'm sensitive, these were just bad Hitler jokes!), the gay sex scenes that were not funny and just unnecessary, the Medium part.

But watching it again, I can see how I feel about it more clearly. I am extremely liberal, but I felt the Ron Paul scene was just too mean and ended up with most people (I assume) just feeling bad for Ron. He's an old man, and was surprisingly well collected. It's not as if Bruno said "I'm gay" and Paul sprinted out. Bruno took off his pants, called him cute, and started dancing to stripper music.

But some parts shown out beautifully and hilariously. As a matter of fact, the Straight Dave scene at the end may just be the most ingenious, hilarious scene of all time. And it had some great quotes too.

Harder. Better. Faster. Stronger.

[–] Blue_Jaunte 15 years ago

"The movie sort of felt like getting raped in the brain to me."
Haha, that's awesome. I felt the same way, but I actually enjoyed it. There must be something wrong with me.

"I am extremely liberal, but I felt the Ron Paul scene was just too mean and ended up with most people (I assume) just feeling bad for Ron."
Yeah, I think that was the general consensus. One person said Ron Paul was just a "scared old man", and I think that about sums it up. It's disappointing because it seems like a missed opportunity. There are SO many better targets for that gag. Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Mike Huckabee...too bad.

[–] joaoiria2 15 years ago

Ru paul lol that's why Ron Paul was chosen because of Ru Paul. It was because he made a stupid mistake :P

[–] rlippman11 15 years ago

Exactly!
Instead of picking someone hateful like Glenn Beck, Rush, Cheney!!!, they picked sweet old Ron Paul!

Harder. Better. Faster. Stronger.

[–] startlepoint 15 years ago

Ron Paul was running for President at the time. If he were forced to deal with a North Korean dictator and assorted terrorists, why wouldn't he be able to handle Bruno? After all, Paul used the word "q"-word to express his outrage; had Bruno been black and Paul used the "n"-word, would you be as sympathetic?

[–] Tales-from-the-Goondocks 15 years ago

What can a black person do to deserve to be called the "n" word???? But with what Bruno was doing... well I think it was really frustrating. As some other poster said, he wasnt called "queer" just for being gay. He took his pants off an shyt!

[–] CAS3343 15 years ago

"The movie sort of felt like getting raped in the brain to me"
I agree, except after the movie I didn't know what to think. It was actually more like gang rape, because I was so confused after the experience that I was speechless.

That being said, I also agree; the Hitler jokes and some of the other things were a bit much, but as it developed I appreciated it more. To date, the Straight Dave part is one of the funniest scenes I've ever watched. The music and "eloquence" of the entire thing was just too good. Same for when they took OJ away, but Straight Dave was just amazing.

I'm gonna try to make my girlfriend watch it this weekend. I expect to be single shortly after.

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[–] stevengc 15 years ago

I also gave it a second try after first seeing in the theatre. The first time i hated it. I felt it was an unfunny parody and mockery of him being gay.

But after viewing it a second time on cable, AND getting past the still unfunny stuff at the beginning of the movie (which included the sex scenes with his pygmy lover) I started to see the set ups that made Borat so funny. Putting people in strange awkward interview situations or performances and getting reactions from them. Those parts of the film were funny. The scenes where he is just mocking his own character were not that funny in my mind and actually kind of demeaning in a way.

Anyway just my thoughts.

[–] Dr_RoButtnik 15 years ago

I liked this movie, but I thought the scene with the men in the woods was over the top. It just wasn't funny, and it crossed a line. If Sacha Baron Cohen had walked into a woman's tent he'd be arrested.
Nothing else about the movie bothered me, and I thought it was fair... but he basically sexually assaulted the man in the tent and that shows a double-standard. "Look at this homophobic guy!!" That would be on-par of saying "Look at this prude man-hater" if it was a girl in the tent.

"Weirdness was all he cared about. Weirdness and sex and plenty to drink."

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[–] moveny 15 years ago

"I hate old people"? You shouldn't. They are the same *beep*, just different age.

[–] Hoffman390 14 years ago

I agree with alot you said. I couldn't wait, thought I liked it, got it on DVD, didn't like it too much. I saw it again on Blu-Ray at my cousins house. Quality was sh!t, and it was so awful I just said I wanted to go to bed when I was wide awake. Borat is genius, Bruno is just, I dunno.

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[–] BostonDave1 14 years ago

"Old people" have "been there, done that" and are not fascinated, mystified and as giddy about things as "young people" are. Also, they've usually grown up in a different era and been ingrained with rules and mores that aren't around today. So when attention starved younger people engage in bombastic behaviors (usually stuff they think is fresh and progressive but had already been done over and over to the point of redundant cliche) and then get surprised that some people don't give a shyt or actually react the way the person intended, don't blame the "old people". Also, if Bruno (Cohen) started doing something unusual like lighting his hair on fire or crawling around barking like a dog, Ron Paul could have called him a queer as the original meaning of the word is strange or unusual behavior.

[–] chrisvo 14 years ago

This movie is just funny when you can understand the German language... It's so funny to hear Bruno speak with a very bad german accent.
I wonder how they showed this in Germany because they don't use the English version overthere.

greetings from the Netherlands...

[–] on3gin 11 years ago

You watched this movie a SECOND time?