YO..so funny
i saw it last night...i really think everyone should see it.
I laughed so hard..
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YO..so funny
i saw it last night...i really think everyone should see it.
I laughed so hard..
There is a Cam out
Borat.CAM.VCD-CAMERA
Watched the movie yesterday. It is great! Its hillarious!!! Everyone should watch it :)
still not available to download yet??
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this is crazy:
http://movies.ign.com/articles/744/744206p1.html
Borat is #1, and it played in 837 theaters, and number 2 is santa claus 3, but it played in 3458 theaters...
Yeah movies have taken a downturn of late. I mean the #1 movie made 26 mill?Quote:
Originally Posted by colt45joe
Cartoons are the easy moneymakers though and Santa Clause 3 ain't a cartoon. Flushed Away did worse than Santa Clause so that was weird.
If it was Disney it'd probably have been different.
How much would it have made if it had been opened at the 2000 theatres it was originally planned for though?Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman™Yeah movies have taken a downturn of late. I mean the #1 movie made 26 mill?Quote:
Originally Posted by colt45joe
Idiots...Quote:
Scaled-back U.S. release
In late October, less than two weeks before the film's debut, Twentieth Century Fox scaled back its American release from 2,000 to 800 cinemas after marketing-survey data showed unexpectedly poor levels of audience awareness, with only 27% of respondents being aware of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan compared with percentages as high as 81% for the film's opening-weekend competitors. The move surprised industry professionals, who could not recall such a move being made so close to a film's release.
The film is excellent, I was never that big a fan of Sacha Baron Cohen as Ali G on the 11 O'Clock Show (preferred Gervais on that tbh) but Borat is pants-wettingly funny.Quote:
Box office
Audiences embraced the film, which played to sell-out crowds in many of its U.S. showings on its opening night. This led to a largely unexpected first-day gross of $9,050,000[8], wildly surpassing its competition despite having been shown on only 837 screens, far fewer than the competition which is shown on over 3,000 screens.
Over the opening weekend of the film, it unexpectedly got to No. 1 on the weekend with a total of $26.9 million, beating its competitors, Flushed Away and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. The film's opening weekend's theatre average was an estimated $31,511, topping over Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith yet behind Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Spider-Man.
just back from seeing it at the movies. the funniest comedy since the original american pie.
It's hilarious, but its nearly all embarassment/cringe comedy so a part of me always wanted it to be over.
Spoiler: Show
i pmsl about the scene with the jewish bed & breakfast though
Aahh they've shapeshifted! Give them money to make them go away
tnx.
love alig so funny lol.
excellent movie :thumbsup:
Jagshemas! :D
What does Borat get right and wrong about Kazakhstan?
By Eric Weiner
Updated Friday, Nov. 3, 2006, at 4:57 PM ET
Language
Let's start with the man himself. Borat is not a Kazakh name (though there is a name Bolat). No one in Kazakhstan greets you with "Jagzhemash," which is most likely gibberish or mangled Polish. The official language in Kazakhstan is, not surprisingly, Kazakh, although Russian is widely spoken. Among the country's large ethnic Russian population, Russian is the only language they speak. And, oh yes, khrum is not the word for testicles, in either Russian or Kazakh.
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Appearance
Ethnic Kazakhs are related to the Mongols, and are direct descendants of the most famous Mongol, Genghis Khan. Kazakhs look Asian. Those in Borat's home village, however, look as if they are Eastern European. This can probably be explained by the fact that they are Eastern European. The opening scene was filmed in a village in Romania, not Kazakhstan.
Anti-Semitism
Borat is a raving anti-Semite, fond of such Kazakh traditions as "The Running of the Jew." This is the characterization that most rankles the Kazakhs, and for good reason. When it comes to religion, Kazakhstan, a majority Muslim nation, is remarkably open and tolerant. Kazakhstan has several synagogues and diplomatic relations with Israel. Here's what the National Conference on Soviet Jewry has to say about the country:Anti-Semitism is not prevalent in Kazakhstan and rare incidents are reported in the press. None have been reported in the last two years.And, for the record, there is no such event as "The Running of the Jew" in Kazakhstan.
Prostitution
In Borat's Kazakhstan, nearly every woman is for sale. Borat's own sister was voted "number four prostitute in all of Kazakhstan," a fact of which he is evidently proud. Borat's portrayal is, of course, wildly exaggerated, but prostitution is a real problem there. In the 1990s, Kazakhstan was a big exporter of prostitutes, and human trafficking was a problem. Now, given wealth amassed from the oil boom, prostitutes are even more popular, and the country is importing them, as well. Every evening, one street in Almaty is packed with prostitutes looking for customers, and newspapers devote pages of classified ads to "massage girls."
Women's Rights
Borat portrays a country where women cannot vote or drive and are treated like property. In the real Kazakhstan, women, unlike horses, do vote and drive. They also run ministries and corporations, though they enjoy less equality than women in, say, Sweden.
Sports
In Borat's Kazakhstan, popular sports include cow punching and "shurik, where we take dogs, shoot them in a field and then have a party." In reality, Kazakhs, like most of the world, prefer soccer. But they also like horsemanship, wrestling, and, occasionally, buzkashi (literally "grabbing the dead goat"). In this popular game (a precursor to polo), players on horseback try to control the "ball"—the headless carcass of a goat or sheep. Then they have a party.
Food and Beverages
Borat claims that traditional Kazakh wine is made from fermented horse urine. I have tried Kazakh wine, and I can tell you it is definitely not made from fermented horse urine. It just tastes that way. However, Kazakhs, a nomadic people, do have a fondness for horse products. A popular dish is kazy, or smoked horsemeat sausage. Kazakhs like to drink kumyss, fermented mare's milk, which can supposedly cure anything from a cold to tuberculosis. In the country's vast steppes, people also drink shubat, fermented camel's milk. My Lonely Planet guide finds the camel's milk "less salty," but most Westerners find both drinks—how you say?—disgusting. They have the same reaction to mypalau, which is made from sheep's brain and served, eyeballs and all, to "honored" guests.
Relations With Its Neighbors
Borat takes several jabs at "assholes Uzbekistan." At one point in the film, he refers to Uzbeks as "nosy people with a bone in the middle of their brains." Disparaging comments aside, Borat is right that many Kazakhs dislike the Uzbeks, and the two nations have squabbled over territory in the past.
Economy
Borat, in an interview with the Guardian newspaper, claimed that Kazakhstan's major exports are potassium, apples, and young boys to Michael Jackson's ranch. Not true. At least about the potassium and Michael Jackson. Kazakh apples are famous, and, in fact, the name of the country's commercial capital, Almaty, literally means "place with apples." Kazakhstan's main export, accounting for about half of all foreign earnings, is oil. The Tengiz oil field is one of the largest in the world.
So, what is an obscure Central Asian nation to do when faced with a satirical onslaught, not to mention a worldwide publicity campaign? At first, Kazakh officials responded the old-fashioned, Soviet way: with paranoia and thinly veiled threats, shutting down Borat's Kazakh Web site and intimating that lawyers would call. Lately, though, they've taken a more measured approach, taking out pricey ads, touting the nation as an attractive investment and a land of religious tolerance. And in the there-is-no-thing-as-bad-publicity department, a Kazakh travel company has started running tours called "Jagzhemash!!! See the Real Kazakhstan."
What will I tell people, post-Borat, when they ask me where my daughter is from? I will proudly say she is from Kazakhstan. It is niiiiice. Big country, people good. People big enough to laugh at themselves. I like. You like?
it looks really funny but all the bloody cinemas in town decided not to show it.
LMFAO this movie was sooo funny
US students sue over Borat film
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Two US students are suing a film studio claiming they were duped into appearing in spoof movie Borat starring Sacha Baron Cohen as a Kazakh journalist.
The unknown plaintiffs are seen making sexist and racist remarks in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
Legal papers said the two men "engaged in behaviour that they otherwise would not have engaged in".
Spokesman for 20th Century Fox Gregg Brilliant said the case "has no merit".
The men are identified in the film as two fraternity members from a South Carolina university.
'Humiliation'
They are not named in the case "to protect themselves from any additional and unnecessary embarrassment".
According to legal documents, a production crew took the pair to a bar to drink and "loosen up" before taking part in a documentary they were told would be shown outside the US.
The film "made plaintiffs the object of ridicule, humiliation, mental anguish and emotional and physical distress, loss of reputation, goodwill and standing in the community," the papers stated.
British comedian Cohen appears in the film as an apparently naive reporter whose enthusiastic offensiveness either leaves his US interviewees in shock, or persuades them to reveal a little too much of their own prejudices.
As well as Fox, the two men are also suing three other production companies.
The film is currently at the top of the box office charts in North America and the UK.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6136944.stm
A 'Got-To-See'
This film very nice.
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saw the trailer last week, looks really funny
thx
gonna watch it next week, see what the fuss is all about :)
Borat is a great movie. :)
You go look on it - if not success he be execute!!! Definitely! Or not?
Very funny.
i really want to watch this but after reading comments around, i hear they are crappy qualities. patience i guess. i hope i dont expect too much when i do see it though.
i could not stop laughing and when i was in the theater this old man i swear he sound like he brought a pig in which made it even more funny i love this guy .
Im waiting for this one.
Movie is hilarious, but you have to have watched his show before to truly understand everything
The whole time I was watching the movie I was on the edge of my seat expecting it to not go as far as it did. Then, it went even farther. Sheesh that movie was ridiculously funny.
I hurt from laughing so much when i went to see this.
thx
that's a very good movie everyone would like.
Actually I'm from kazakhstan here. it's very funny to find out smth'n new about my native land!
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Even though most of it was filmed in Romania!
I like to think there's a little Borat in all of us...:w00t:
very weird film... funny - yes, yet shocking at some points.. :lol:
in fact, when he speaks to his Kazakh helper (Azmat), in supposed Kazakh, he is actually speaking pretty good Hebrew..
in fact, after the naked wrestling with Azmat, when Borat runs after him, he throws a hilarious swear at him in Hebrew. "Kus ahot-ha ha-tsolaat" which literally means "goddamn your crippled sisters pussy", which yeah, in English sounds crap, but its a widely used swear in Hebrew, which made the whole cinema burst out laughing.. :lol:
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I don't know where he got the swearing from though :idunno:
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:lol: never knew he was at Rosh Hanikra.. thats like 25 minutes away from me...
and just cos he was born into an Orthodox family doesn't necessarily mean he would be taught Hebrew..
anyways, interesting info
He's a talented guy...Cambridge educated, hot wife (Isla Fisher) and can laugh at himself and smile about his own religion.
Got a huge cock as well, i saw him in his thong-otard.
I want to be him....
Saw it. The movie is hilarious!
so funny!!