The official Borat Movie Thread

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Saw the Borat movie last night, Borat himself came on stage to present the film before starting. The crowd was really lame, his jokes were falling semi-flat, probably because the audience was filled with art-house intellectual types who are two cool to whoop it up. Borat's jokes were exactly the same from the NY Observer article about the Canadian Film Festival, such as his admiration for our President Bush and his father Barbara Bush. Sasha Cohen is really tall and skinny, I'd guess he is probably 6'5", so he towered over the crowd like an awkward basketball player.

The movie was fantastic, it was more like Jackass than I expected, with some of the skits really pushing the edge of social behavior to the limit. My favorites were the running of the Jew (its safe to say this because you won't believe it until you see it - its not a spoiler), the subway, and almost any scene involving his producer who was absolutely brilliant as his sidekick. I think there were quite a few times when Cohen was in significant danger of getting his ass kicked in real life, its amazing what this man is willing to do for a laugh. As we left the theater they gave us pre-release versions of the movie soundtrack, buttons, and really cool I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Kazakhstan stickers that had me cracking up. All in all it was actually as good if not better than I expected, a brilliant piece of gorilla cinema that we will be talking about for many years... Its one of a kind.

Since the movie will finally be released in the next two days, who is going to see it on the first day of release? What was your favorite scene?

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<font color="white"> The Pamela Anderson scene with the wedding sack, was that staged? It looked too real to be staged, when Borat was taken down by the security guards he looked like he was really hurt!
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