Every so often the best looking man in the Retired Orangemen
Fantasy Football League goes to the movies (yes, just like the
rest of you). Sometimes I go with one of my many lady friends.
Still other times I go with fellow ROFFL members. After viewing
these movies, I form an opinion. Here in a new column, exclusive
to retiredorangemen.com, is Five Second Stare at the Movies.
There are 5 ratings:
HANDSOME
GOOD-LOOKING
DECENT
IF I HAD A FEW DRINKS IN ME
GROSS
Fantasy Football League goes to the movies (yes, just like the
rest of you). Sometimes I go with one of my many lady friends.
Still other times I go with fellow ROFFL members. After viewing
these movies, I form an opinion. Here in a new column, exclusive
to retiredorangemen.com, is Five Second Stare at the Movies.
There are 5 ratings:
HANDSOME
GOOD-LOOKING
DECENT
IF I HAD A FEW DRINKS IN ME
GROSS
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Um…. What can be said about “Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for
Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” that hasn’t already been
said? If you don’t know, I will sum it up for you in one brief sentence. You
will not see a more bizarre, ruthless, and funny satire with full frontal male
nudity in your entire life. And yes, I mean that.
Borat, is one of three characters Sacha Baron Cohen created when he
started “Da Ali G” show, which originally aired in the UK and was brought
to the states in ’02. If you haven't seen “Da Ali G” show, I am heavily
recommending that as well. Borat has a good soul, and would be the
nicest man in the world if he wasn’t so heavily misguided. Apparently, in
Kazakhstan (played by Romania in the film) women are fifth on the totem
pole behind horses, dogs, and little rodents and instead of the Running
of the Bulls, they have the Running of the Jew, until the female Jew lays
an egg and the Kazakh children start mercifully beating it before it
hatches.
Borat and his obese producer, Azamat (Ken Davitian), are flown to
America to learn our cultural which will no doubt make great benefit to
Kazakhstan and that is when the movie really takes off. The best parts of
the film are when Borat is dealing with unsuspecting American citizens.
He asks a car dealer how fast a Hummer has to go to kill a gypsy. The
dealer answers honestly. Borat speaks with a man in charge of a Rodeo
in the south and the two agree that all homosexuals should be hung.
When getting a ride from a few USC undergrads, the group has a
drunken conversation about how useless women are and why it’s a
shame slavery ended, seriously.
This is what “Borat” is about. That maybe, just maybe, America isn’t
always the greatest at everything and that maybe, just maybe, we can’t
make great benefit to glorious nations of wherever. It also shows us that
we got a lot more learning to do. But it also shows that a man tea
bagging another man CAN be funny.
The film was directed by Larry Charles, who wrote many of the classic
Seinfeld episodes (including my favorite of all time, “not that there’s
anything wrong with that”) and has directed some “Curb Your
Enthusiasm” episodes. This is worth mentioning because of the way the
film is shot. It’s very verite (a documentary look to it), which makes
sense, because whenever Borat is dealing with an unsuspected
homophobe or anti-Semite, Sacha Baron Cohen is improvising.
The Jews (who are apparently shape shifters) take the biggest beating in
the movie (Cohen himself is Jewish); but honestly, every group, man,
woman and child will be offended at one point in the movie. And that’s
just what this country needs.
Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” that hasn’t already been
said? If you don’t know, I will sum it up for you in one brief sentence. You
will not see a more bizarre, ruthless, and funny satire with full frontal male
nudity in your entire life. And yes, I mean that.
Borat, is one of three characters Sacha Baron Cohen created when he
started “Da Ali G” show, which originally aired in the UK and was brought
to the states in ’02. If you haven't seen “Da Ali G” show, I am heavily
recommending that as well. Borat has a good soul, and would be the
nicest man in the world if he wasn’t so heavily misguided. Apparently, in
Kazakhstan (played by Romania in the film) women are fifth on the totem
pole behind horses, dogs, and little rodents and instead of the Running
of the Bulls, they have the Running of the Jew, until the female Jew lays
an egg and the Kazakh children start mercifully beating it before it
hatches.
Borat and his obese producer, Azamat (Ken Davitian), are flown to
America to learn our cultural which will no doubt make great benefit to
Kazakhstan and that is when the movie really takes off. The best parts of
the film are when Borat is dealing with unsuspecting American citizens.
He asks a car dealer how fast a Hummer has to go to kill a gypsy. The
dealer answers honestly. Borat speaks with a man in charge of a Rodeo
in the south and the two agree that all homosexuals should be hung.
When getting a ride from a few USC undergrads, the group has a
drunken conversation about how useless women are and why it’s a
shame slavery ended, seriously.
This is what “Borat” is about. That maybe, just maybe, America isn’t
always the greatest at everything and that maybe, just maybe, we can’t
make great benefit to glorious nations of wherever. It also shows us that
we got a lot more learning to do. But it also shows that a man tea
bagging another man CAN be funny.
The film was directed by Larry Charles, who wrote many of the classic
Seinfeld episodes (including my favorite of all time, “not that there’s
anything wrong with that”) and has directed some “Curb Your
Enthusiasm” episodes. This is worth mentioning because of the way the
film is shot. It’s very verite (a documentary look to it), which makes
sense, because whenever Borat is dealing with an unsuspected
homophobe or anti-Semite, Sacha Baron Cohen is improvising.
The Jews (who are apparently shape shifters) take the biggest beating in
the movie (Cohen himself is Jewish); but honestly, every group, man,
woman and child will be offended at one point in the movie. And that’s
just what this country needs.
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