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Film: Borat - The Movie
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His Name Is Frank
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I had mixed feelings about this movie. Very funny in some parts,but as a whole,not so much. Sasha Baron Cohen is a damn funny man and a genius. To have a movie so hated by critics and a big majority of the viewers gross over $260,000,000.00. You've gotta respect that.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mkRGlNNqmqk
(How the movie should have ended.)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mkRGlNNqmqk
(How the movie should have ended.)
Jasonxnsxx13
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More then half of the Movie was recorded and air on the Ali G Show. Can't believe the movie got so much good press before it was released.
captainballs
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tend to agree. ali g, the gay guy, and borat are all funny characters but i think the jokes translate better on television. then again, a movie that is funny to apparently everyone will almost rarely be funny to me. watching this with people makes me feel like i'm the only person in the room who isn't drunk at a party.
captainballs
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It's a blanket statement that could be applied to everything from SNL characters to Ali G. These characters are genius on television partly because of the structure of their situations (simplistic and one dimensional in the case of television comedy skit characters). As soon as someone takes the reign and shows everything from where this person sleeps and shits to what it was like growing up as a kid, things just get mundane.
Look at the Ali G movie, for instance. There is nothing funnier than Ali G on television, but as soon as directors sit down with a pen and pad and figure out hypothetically what every portion of this person's life is like and allow the standardized Ali G brand of humor to permeate into every facet of that reality, it comes across as something you might find in some 12 year old's Fan Fiction. Borat is slightly different: directors really didn't come up with any new aspects of this character, but nonetheless are guilty of squeezing two straight hours out of a character that works best in short bursts.
It's a blanket statement that could be applied to everything from SNL characters to Ali G. These characters are genius on television partly because of the structure of their situations (simplistic and one dimensional in the case of television comedy skit characters). As soon as someone takes the reign and shows everything from where this person sleeps and shits to what it was like growing up as a kid, things just get mundane.
Look at the Ali G movie, for instance. There is nothing funnier than Ali G on television, but as soon as directors sit down with a pen and pad and figure out hypothetically what every portion of this person's life is like and allow the standardized Ali G brand of humor to permeate into every facet of that reality, it comes across as something you might find in some 12 year old's Fan Fiction. Borat is slightly different: directors really didn't come up with any new aspects of this character, but nonetheless are guilty of squeezing two straight hours out of a character that works best in short bursts.
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JerryBlunted
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i think the ali g show (and movie) were not very funny at all. i found borat (the movie) to be hilarious, on the other hand. but thats the exception to the rule, i think.
you look at the SNL movies and see how the vast majority of them were totally shit and i can see what you mean in regards to how most t.v. comedy characters don't translate to the big screen.
you look at the SNL movies and see how the vast majority of them were totally shit and i can see what you mean in regards to how most t.v. comedy characters don't translate to the big screen.