From the guy's review:

Clearly, the agenda of the filmmakers here, including Cohen, is to get attention, and sell tickets, by being as outrageous and pornographic as they possibly can be. They also deliberately provoke other people, including virile heterosexual males and male Evangelical Christians, so that they, including Cohen, can show themselves to be superior and more "enlightened" than the people they are trying to provoke

First, we get that you're including Cohen. You don't have to keep repeating it. Second, I haven't seen Brüno yet, but is there a reason the nutjob reviewing it feels the need to include "virile"? Does that strike anyone else as a bit revealing regarding this guy's mindset?

Murphyr: First, we get that you're including Cohen.

Cohen probably set up the Cohen protest for the Cohen publicity for Cohen's movie.

/Cohen

Meh, if you are dumb enough to pay money to see that crap, no legislation can help you.

As soon as you see "A pro-family group" in an article, you know it's going to go downhill from there. Most of them actually aren't, they're more specifically pro-"their definition of a family" group.

"It's a pretty vile movie. The word I would use is perverse," said Ted Baehr, publisher of Movieguide, which reviews movies, videos and television shows from a biblical perspective.

Has this guy ever read the Bible? From what I have read, just about any movie is going to be tame in comparison.

"It's a little much," Phan said. "I wasn't offended; it was just a little too much. No other movie has taken it that far."

This guy has, apparently, been living in a monestary for all of his life and is thus totally oblivious to the entire history of movie making.

A pro-family group...

Oh you're pro family? That's awesome! Maybe you can help me with some family celebration etiquette.

See my cousin Ron is married to a man named Gerard who's West Indian and has these huuuuuuge family parties for every event. Well they just adopted a Guatemalan baby, and I'm not sure how my aunts- lovely ladies but as white bread New Englanders they're a bit gastronomically unevolved- are going to deal with the curried goat and chicken roti at the Christening, or how Gerald's family will deal with the green bean and jello casseroles.

How would you, as a "pro-family" group advise?

Should we all just get take out chinese?

spqr_ca:

"It's a little much," Phan said. "I wasn't offended; it was just a little too much. No other movie has taken it that far."

This guy has, apparently, been living in a monestary for all of his life and is thus totally oblivious to the entire history of movie making.

While hyperbolic, this statement is pretty true with respect to widely distributed, mainstream films. Take a few small black boxes out of Bruno and it is Pink Flamingos. Heck, it has an even more shocking "moving orifice" than PF that wasn't even blocked out.

I thought it was hysterical, but it is waaaay out there.

Abagadro: While hyperbolic, this statement is pretty true with respect to widely distributed, mainstream films.

I doubt that. It's gotten a lot of press, true, but press is substantially easier today than it used to be. Consider films like Secretary, it's not unusual and the rating is intended to reflect that.

what_now: Gerard

what_now: Gerald

As a pro family advocate I think you should work on deciding what this guy's name is.

Consider films like Secretary

Bruno is WAY more raunchy than Secretary.

Pro-family groups shouldn't take their children to r-rated movies nor should they decide for the anti-family groups.

Memo to people who don't like him: The only way you're getting rid of him is if everyone ignores him. So do your part, ignore him, change the channel when he comes on tv, adblock his ads, whatever you have to do. But protesting in the news only gives him more attention.

\always wondered, does he get tired of doing EVERYTHING in character while he's promoting a movie? I mean, he's not really a gay fashion plate, he's not really a Kazak weirdo, he's not Ali G, how do you separate that in your mind??

7of7: what_now: Gerard

what_now: Gerald

As a pro family advocate I think you should work on deciding what this guy's name is.

Steve. His name is Steve the Metaphor.

Abagadro: Bruno is WAY more raunchy than Secretary.

Have you seen Caligula? The guy is a nancy who went to see a film that didn't hide what it was about, stop defending him.

I'm not defending him. Just pointing out that it isn't all that outrageous of a statement. I agree you should know what you are going to see, act accordingly, and don't biatch if you see something you don't like.

And Caligula is rated-X porn, so it doesn't really fall into the category of "widely distributed, mainstream movies".

spqr_ca: As soon as you see "A pro-family group" in an article, you know it's going to go downhill from there. Most of them actually aren't, they're more specifically pro-"their definition of a family" group.

I think it's important to say that a family should be defined as the union of a man and a woman, with the optional addition of heterosexual children. We can't go around redefining words.

Abagadro: And Caligula is rated-X porn,

It was unrated, actually, and stars Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole and Helen Mirren and though it was later disowned, it was written by Gore Vidal. I've never seen it, but it did have a theatrical release, so it's not like it's some no-name porno.

The Fourth Karamazov: I think it's important to say that a family should be defined as the union of a man and a woman, with the optional addition of heterosexual children. We can't go around redefining words.

Oh no, it's a little farther than that with most of these groups, you forgot to specify the religion of choice that is also a core component of the definition of "family" for them.

Not a Texas group, subby.

From Movieguide's website (new window):

Offices: Movieguide®'s offices are located in Camarillo, Calif. just north of Los Angeles and in Atlanta, Georgia.

Big fat headline fail.

Abagadro: And Caligula is rated-X porn, so it doesn't really fall into the category of "widely distributed, mainstream movies".

Actually, it does. It even got reviewed by Ebert, well panned more specifically. Nevertheless, it was released to regular cinema.

Strangely enough, Wikipedia (new window) actually has a list of such movies.

Murphyr: Abagadro: And Caligula is rated-X porn,

It was unrated, actually, and stars Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole and Helen Mirren and though it was later disowned, it was written by Gore Vidal. I've never seen it, but it did have a theatrical release, so it's not like it's some no-name porno.


The story of that movie is pretty hilarious. Bob Guccione (i.e. Penthouse owner) basically hoodwinked a bunch of top actors into making it and then filmed all the hardcore porno parts using a different director in post-production (although even the original stuff was indeed pretty out there, just not flat our hardcore porn). It was X to the extent it couldn't get an R until 70 minutes were trimmed out of it. Both versions had a pretty limited release.

spqr_ca: Nevertheless, it was released to regular cinema.

Not widely distributed. This is kind of a pointless semantics argument, but Caligula (nor any of those other films) were released on 2800 screens like Bruno is. I just saw it tonight in a theater that refused to show Brokeback Mountain for hell's sake.

Abagadro:

but Caligula (nor any of those other films) were released on 2800 screens like Bruno is

Not sure that they could have, it's a different world now. Also, had Borat been a flop, I doubt Bruno would have screened like that.

I just saw it tonight in a theater that refused to show Brokeback Mountain for hell's sake.

Now that is truly bizarre...

"It's a little much," Phan said. "I wasn't offended; it was just a little too much. No other movie has taken it that far."

Hypocrite much? He wasn't offended by the movie, yet he doesn't want others to make up their own minds about whether they are offended by it?

Abagadro: spqr_ca: Nevertheless, it was released to regular cinema.

Not widely distributed. This is kind of a pointless semantics argument, but Caligula (nor any of those other films) were released on 2800 screens like Bruno is. I just saw it tonight in a theater that refused to show Brokeback Mountain for hell's sake.

Well, yeah, I guess if the line is "as widely distributed as Bruno" then most of those films don't make the cut (I remember Shortbus being pretty widely distributed, but then I live in a city, so it's possible that my perception's off). Still, that list is only of "mainstream" films that had unsimulated sex. Include movies that have simulated sex or actually consider violence (I'm actually going to have to go and look at movieguide's reviews of some random violent movie to see if he's anywhere near as offended) and I'm sure we could get a few more that approach Bruno, but, as I said, I haven't seen it yet, so I don't know.

I saw Bruno last night in Texas.

About 8 people got up and walked out at the same time and the 'older' couple sitting in front of us confused the shiat out of me. The guy covered his wife's eyes for almost the entire movie. Why are these people there? Why? So they can complain about it like this. Don't go see the farking movie if you don't like the subject matter. Plain and simple.

And the movie was fantastic. I loved watching it in a theater where 70% of the people in there are the butt of the joke on the screen and don't even realize it.

DD0: Why are these people there?

Yeah, I have to wonder what advertisement they saw that made them think, "Hey, yeah I'd like to pay $10 each to see that! Looks awesome!"

Murphyr: I haven't seen it yet, so I don't know.

Having seen the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated about the rating process, I'm actually shocked that this thing managed to make it out of the ratings board with an R.

Free publicity again!!! Faaaaaabulous



nice to see your Cambridge education is paying off, good job once again, Mr. Cohen

Wow, religious people trying to sanitise something so that their surroundings adhere their own personal small-world views. This is definitely a first.

I saw it on Friday and thought the movie was over the top and uncomfortably funny. The theater was packed and I didn't see anyone get up and leave. Of course, if they wanted to, they could. They're adults and didn't need other adults what they can and can't spend money.

Di Atribe: Not a Texas group, subby.

From Movieguide's website (new window):

Offices: Movieguide®'s offices are located in Camarillo, Calif. just north of Los Angeles and in Atlanta, Georgia.

Big fat headline fail.

Correct, neither Movieguide nor the Christian Film & Television Commission appear to have an office in the Metroplex, you know that most of Johnson and Ellis counties are infested with people that don't see a problem with banning this movie.

Yeah, because these holier than thou protest things are always detrimental to whatever the source of self-righteous outrage is. Good luck with that.

/will be seeing Bruno tomorrow
//in Texas

Murphyr: Abagadro: spqr_ca: Nevertheless, it was released to regular cinema.

Not widely distributed. This is kind of a pointless semantics argument, but Caligula (nor any of those other films) were released on 2800 screens like Bruno is. I just saw it tonight in a theater that refused to show Brokeback Mountain for hell's sake.

Well, yeah, I guess if the line is "as widely distributed as Bruno" then most of those films don't make the cut (I remember Shortbus being pretty widely distributed, but then I live in a city, so it's possible that my perception's off). Still, that list is only of "mainstream" films that had unsimulated sex. Include movies that have simulated sex or actually consider violence (I'm actually going to have to go and look at movieguide's reviews of some random violent movie to see if he's anywhere near as offended) and I'm sure we could get a few more that approach Bruno, but, as I said, I haven't seen it yet, so I don't know.

This thing was definitely raunchier than Shortbus. Shortbus didn't have a meatspin, although it did have autofellatio...

Salo was way raunchier, obviously, but I don't know if it had wide release exactly...

UNC_Samurai: Correct, neither Movieguide nor the Christian Film & Television Commission appear to have an office in the Metroplex, you know that most of Johnson and Ellis counties are infested with people that don't see a problem with banning this movie.

While that may be true, the headline called out the group as being out of Texas, which it is not. And it's not like Texas is home to the only people getting outraged over this. In fact, the article cited 3 Texas cities that reported zero complaints. The only thing this article has to do with Texas is that it's an article from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

I still have to wonder why anyone who might be offended by this would see an ad for this movie and think it'd be something they'd enjoy. All of the pictures, print ads, TV ads, everything just screams, "I am a dude acting like a gay guy who is going around being offensive."

Offensive and loaded with inappropriate sexual content? The more, the merrier. I'm all for that kind of stuff, but the previews I've seen make it look likes it's completely full of all the wrong kind of suck.

Think I'll pass.

spqr_ca: Strangely enough, Wikipedia (new window) actually has a list of such movies.

strangely enough? Strangely? It's strange something has a list on wiki? I thought it was strange when it didn't ;)

bobbette: Salo was way raunchier, obviously, but I don't know if it had wide release exactly...

It didn't. Hell Salo was banned in a bunch of places.

Came for Father Ted. Leaving happy....

/Careful now.
//Down with this sort of thing.

Dr. Rosenrosen: Came for Father Ted

So you're Catholic? ;)

FTFA: The film includes frontal nudity of men and woman - all too graphic for viewers Elmer Phan, 20, and Hien Nguyen, 20, both of North Richland Hills.

Have they never seen themselves naked? And if you want to see Kelly LaBrock's pubes, just rent The Woman In Red. Its PG-13.

Somacandra: Have they never seen themselves naked? And if you want to see Kelly LaBrock's pubes, just rent The Woman In Red. Its PG-13.

I like the man's name, Elmer Phan, almost certainly Vietnamese by the last name. I'd hate to think his parents named him after the first American whose name they knew. Imagine being named after Elmer Fudd. Though he does display Elmer's trademark smarts.

snuff3r: Wow, religious people trying to sanitise something so that their surroundings adhere their own personal small-world views. This is definitely a first.

But unfortunately not the last.

Not going to see it, just not my kind of humor.

But he is a funny guy when he is being himself.

I wonder how many adult bookstores, and adult theaters are in that same town?

It's a movie. Chrissakes. You'd think from the sound of some people that Sacha Baron Cohen personally comes and sodomizes you at the theater.

Cagey B: It's a movie. Chrissakes. You'd think from the sound of some people that Sacha Baron Cohen personally comes and sodomizes you at the theater.

He doesn't?
Screw that, I'm gonna go see Transformers then.

Someone needs to go into the propane business and marry someone named Peggy.

I saw the movie last night, and there were quite a few people who walked out. It's funny, especially if you understand German, but mostly the movie is just offensive.

But ban it? That's the kind of publicity that Cohen wants. What a bunch of idiots.

TommyymmoT: Cagey B: It's a movie. Chrissakes. You'd think from the sound of some people that Sacha Baron Cohen personally comes and sodomizes you at the theater.

He doesn't?
Screw that, I'm gonna go see Transformers then.

Hate to burst your, ahem, bubble there - but if you go and see Transformers, Megan Fox isn't showing up with a decepticon-shaped strap-on to sodomize you either..

Murphyr: From the guy's review:

Clearly, the agenda of the filmmakers here, including Cohen, is to get attention, and sell tickets, by being as outrageous and pornographic as they possibly can be. They also deliberately provoke other people, including virile heterosexual males and male Evangelical Christians, so that they, including Cohen, can show themselves to be superior and more "enlightened" than the people they are trying to provoke

First, we get that you're including Cohen. You don't have to keep repeating it. Second, I haven't seen Brüno yet, but is there a reason the nutjob reviewing it feels the need to include "virile"? Does that strike anyone else as a bit revealing regarding this guy's mindset?

He feels the need to distinguish the virile heterosexual males from the male Evangelical Christians. I'd bet that Ted Haggard's wife wishes she had done the same.

Danger Avoid Death: Clearly, the agenda of the filmmakers here, including Cohen, is to get attention, and sell tickets, by being as outrageous and pornographic as they possibly can be. They also deliberately provoke other people, including virile heterosexual males and male Evangelical Christians, so that they, including Cohen, can show themselves to be superior and more "enlightened" than the people they are trying to provoke

Sounds like a recipe to make money.

I am offended by this thing I had to go out of my way to find and pay for myself on my own free time that was rated R and every review made it very clear how raunchy it would be.

Offended!!!

moof: TommyymmoT: Cagey B: It's a movie. Chrissakes. You'd think from the sound of some people that Sacha Baron Cohen personally comes and sodomizes you at the theater.

He doesn't?
Screw that, I'm gonna go see Transformers then.

Hate to burst your, ahem, bubble there - but if you go and see Transformers, Megan Fox isn't showing up with a decepticon-shaped strap-on to sodomize you either..

Nice

basemetal: Meh, if you are dumb enough to pay money to see that crap, no legislation can help you.

Very much this!

moof: TommyymmoT: Cagey B: It's a movie. Chrissakes. You'd think from the sound of some people that Sacha Baron Cohen personally comes and sodomizes you at the theater.

He doesn't?
Screw that, I'm gonna go see Transformers then.

Hate to burst your, ahem, bubble there - but if you go and see Transformers, Megan Fox isn't showing up with a decepticon-shaped strap-on to sodomize you either..

God, what do you have to do to get sodomized around here?

I mean... ummm... Yeah, horrible movie. Shame on you, Cohen.

I saw Bruno. I laughed, especially at the end (the MMA crowd was hi-larry-ass). Some of the early stunts seemed staged though.

****Possible spoiler****

There was nothing in the movie more cringeworthy for me than the parents willing to do anything to make their kids famous.

Di Atribe: From Movieguide's website (new window):

Offices: Movieguide®'s offices are located in Camarillo, Calif. just north of Los Angeles and in Atlanta, Georgia.

Big fat headline fail.

I didn't know LA was south of Atlanta... Or that CA was just north of Georgia.

Born on the First of April: Di Atribe: From Movieguide's website (new window):

Offices: Movieguide®'s offices are located in Camarillo, Calif. just north of Los Angeles and in Atlanta, Georgia.

Big fat headline fail.

I didn't know LA was south of Atlanta... Or that CA was just north of Georgia.

Compreheading?

Born on the First of April: I didn't know LA was south of Atlanta... Or that CA was just north of Georgia.

Did you know you have fungus and mites in your eyebrows?

I saw it over the weekend.

I did not expect to see 'meat swing' on a screen that big.

I'm really surprised the gay community isn't up in arms against this movie. To me, a straight man being so stereotypically flaming and spreading all sorts of anti-gay animosity wherever he goes, is just as offensive as a white man putting on blackface and doing a Stepin Fetchit routine or a minstrel show. His stereotypical lisping "Oh hai, I'm Bruno!" is just as offensive to me as "Yes'm boss I's a comin' don' wip me massah."

Good for the people that walked out on it. I hope they got a refund.

Banned, no. Boycotted and protested, yes.

JonnyBGoode: I'm really surprised the gay community isn't up in arms against this movie. To me, a straight man being so stereotypically flaming and spreading all sorts of anti-gay animosity wherever he goes, is just as offensive as a white man putting on blackface and doing a Stepin Fetchit routine or a minstrel show. His stereotypical lisping "Oh hai, I'm Bruno!" is just as offensive to me as "Yes'm boss I's a comin' don' wip me massah."

Good for the people that walked out on it. I hope they got a refund.

Banned, no. Boycotted and protested, yes.

what if you never knew that Sacha Baron Cohen was a straight man?

would you feel the same way?

A question for those who have seen it (I have no intention of doing so): I've been watching commercials for the movie. It is marketed as a "comedy." I have yet to see anything remotely funny in a commercial. Is there actual funny stuff in the movie, or do the ads show the only parts that are suitable for TV?

A pro-family group

"It's a pretty vile movie. The word I would use is perverse," said Ted Baehr, publisher of Movieguide, which reviews movies, videos and television shows from a biblical perspective.

All I need to know. A (probably small) group of self appointed censors want to decide who can see what. It's not enough to control themselves and their families....They want to control EVERYBODY. If this sort of things offends you STAY AWAY!

/CENSORSHIP, now THAT'S offensive

CrossEyed: I have yet to see anything remotely funny in a commercial.

Which ones did you find to be unfunny? Do you like only serious commercials?

Sun God: Which ones did you find to be unfunny? Do you like only serious commercials?

a. All the commercials for Bruno.
b. I love funny commercials.

Meh, I'll wait for the DVD. I like Cohen, but not enough to pay the price of a ticket to go see it in the theater. On the other hand, it might be worth it just to see everyone else's reaction to it.

GLAAD IS offended by the movie, I've read. . . But then, GLAAD's raison d'etre is basically "Oh, we're offended by something. Send us money." You know, kinda like some of the "pro-family" groups.

I think Cohen's pretty damn funny. My boyfriend and I are going to see "Bruno" this afternoon, probably.

/Don't need anyone telling me what to be offended by.
/Thanks, though.

Cagey B: It's a movie. Chrissakes. You'd think from the sound of some people that Sacha Baron Cohen personally comes and sodomizes you at the theater.

So was House of the Dead and Bloodrayne. Both of them might as well have had Uwe Boll come and sodomize at the theater.

/didn't see Borat
//won't see Bruno
///has better taste in my debauchery.
////what ever happened to a good ol' parody
//slashies!!!//

spqr_ca: As soon as you see "A pro-family group" in an article, you know it's going to go downhill from there. Most of them actually aren't, they're more specifically pro-"their definition of a family" group.

"It's a pretty vile movie. The word I would use is perverse," said Ted Baehr, publisher of Movieguide, which reviews movies, videos and television shows from a biblical perspective.

Has this guy ever read the Bible? From what I have read, just about any movie is going to be tame in comparison.

"It's a little much," Phan said. "I wasn't offended; it was just a little too much. No other movie has taken it that far."

This guy has, apparently, been living in a monestary for all of his life and is thus totally oblivious to the entire history of movie making.

He has obviously never even read the goddamn bible, either.



Some morality, there!

nburghmatt: JonnyBGoode: I'm really surprised the gay community isn't up in arms against this movie. To me, a straight man being so stereotypically flaming and spreading all sorts of anti-gay animosity wherever he goes, is just as offensive as a white man putting on blackface and doing a Stepin Fetchit routine or a minstrel show. His stereotypical lisping "Oh hai, I'm Bruno!" is just as offensive to me as "Yes'm boss I's a comin' don' wip me massah."

Good for the people that walked out on it. I hope they got a refund.

Banned, no. Boycotted and protested, yes.

what if you never knew that Sacha Baron Cohen was a straight man?

would you feel the same way?

You mean he's not actually an anti-semite from Kazakhstan?

/steps out of, then throws away, his mankini in disgust..
//great, now I'm naked.
///and I was getting weird looks before.
////gawd i work in the worst funeral home...

JonnyBGoode: I'm really surprised the gay community isn't up in arms against this movie. To me, a straight man being so stereotypically flaming and spreading all sorts of anti-gay animosity wherever he goes, is just as offensive as a white man putting on blackface and doing a Stepin Fetchit routine or a minstrel show. His stereotypical lisping "Oh hai, I'm Bruno!" is just as offensive to me as "Yes'm boss I's a comin' don' wip me massah."

Good for the people that walked out on it. I hope they got a refund.

Banned, no. Boycotted and protested, yes.

All of the gays I know, myself included, thought it was "funny". And while I've never met someone as flaming as Bruno, I've met some who are close. And they're hilarious too. Only an ignorant person would group a whole section of society together based on a movie. Lighten up, Nancy.

CrossEyed: A question for those who have seen it (I have no intention of doing so): I've been watching commercials for the movie. It is marketed as a "comedy." I have yet to see anything remotely funny in a commercial. Is there actual funny stuff in the movie, or do the ads show the only parts that are suitable for TV?

I didn't think the commercials were funny at all, but I was laughing out loud in person. YMMV. It's over the top humor that I prefer. David Cross has a bit about his intense dislike of pop rock bands like Creed, Evanescence, P.O.D., and Staind-once saying in his act, "I would rather hear the death rattle of my only child than listen to that farkin' shiat". To some, that's "bad taste" and they're the type that would definitely dislike Bruno.

farking Texas...

but really, what if he was a gay guy parading around as a gayer guy?

I saw this movie a couple days ago and thought it was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. There were only three scenes that I can recall myself actually laughing about in Bruno, the rest were just painful embarrassing to watch. As you can imagine, most of the scenes involved him trying to elicit/provoke a reaction from someone, but for the most part, I thought the people were fairly tolerant and understanding of Bruno character. It got to the point where I was actually feeling sympathetic for the people he was interacting with in the movie.

I felt like Cohen just threw in all the scenes he filmed, whether they worked or not, and then added as many frontal shots/sex toys as he could, and hoped that people would be fooled and think the movie was edgy. Save your money, and if you must, watch this on DVD.

The Fourth Karamazov: spqr_ca: As soon as you see "A pro-family group" in an article, you know it's going to go downhill from there. Most of them actually aren't, they're more specifically pro-"their definition of a family" group.

I think it's important to say that a family should be defined as the union of a man and a woman, with the optional addition of heterosexual children. We can't go around redefining words.

Well, that's funny, except of course that the Talibangelicals want to control the meaning of the word Family as well as Family Values and so on.

In the late Eighties, when the Liberal Bashing Industry was defining the discourse, and labeling the hot-button issues, all the jargon was being created by Rush, et al. Now that someone else is dictating the terms of the discourse, the wackaloons are trying ever harder to regain control of the discourse

.

stpauler: I didn't think the commercials were funny at all, but I was laughing out loud in person. YMMV. It's over the top humor that I prefer. David Cross has a bit about his intense dislike of pop rock bands like Creed, Evanescence, P.O.D., and Staind-once saying in his act, "I would rather hear the death rattle of my only child than listen to that farkin' shiat". To some, that's "bad taste" and they're the type that would definitely dislike Bruno.

Huh, I would never group Evanescence with the other three..

Anyway, since I watch almost no TV, I've missed all the ads for the movie. But stories like this make me a bit curious.

JonnyBGoode: just as offensive as a white man putting on blackface and doing a Stepin Fetchit routine or a minstrel show. His stereotypical lisping "Oh hai, I'm Bruno!" is just as offensive to me as "Yes'm boss I's a comin' don' wip me massah."

How quickly do we forget...

*cough*Borat
*cough*Ali G

UNC_Samurai: most of Johnson and Ellis counties are infested with people that don't see a problem with banning this movie.

I'm from Ellis county, and couldn't care less.

/meh

youre an idiot if you get butthurt over his achtick , or see the movie

A pro-First Amendment group is calling on cities to ban Moveguide because it says the group is offensive and loaded with inappropriate intrusive agendas.

"It's a pretty vile group. The word I would use is perverse," said Vangor, hater of Moveguide, which reviews movies, videos and television shows while ignoring the destruction and divisiveness of a biblical perspective.

In Moveguide, Ted Baehr - soon to be famous for hiring a male prostitute - plays an utterly controlling pro-family group publisher who comes to Arlington to become "as obtrusive as you know who else." Many press releases depict a variety of domineering wants.

Vangor posted comments asking that officials read statements by the group and "determine whether it should be banned because it does not fit the constitutional standards in their nation, as defined by the Constitutional Convention which obviously wanted free thought and free exchange of ideas," according to a news release.

I imagine how far I could get with this.

JonnyBGoode: I'm really surprised the gay community isn't up in arms against this movie. To me, a straight man being so stereotypically flaming and spreading all sorts of anti-gay animosity wherever he goes, is just as offensive as a white man putting on blackface and doing a Stepin Fetchit routine or a minstrel show. His stereotypical lisping "Oh hai, I'm Bruno!" is just as offensive to me as "Yes'm boss I's a comin' don' wip me massah."

Good for the people that walked out on it. I hope they got a refund.

Banned, no. Boycotted and protested, yes.

Because part of its reason of existing is to mock people who are anti-gay. There's a big difference between 'blackface' and what Cohen does.

I really have no interest in seeing this movie and I really don't like Sacha Baron Cohen or any of his characters. That said, I'm thinking of buying a ticket to this movie just to boost its sales as a kind of protest to the idiocy of people like Ted Baehr.

I mean, it's one thing to try to inform people of what's in a movie to help them decide whether or not they want to avoid it. It's another thing entirely to try to get the movie declared obscene and banned from theaters.

As offensive as Cohen is both in this movie and in Borat--it is not the government's job to do a church's work for them. If you think that something is inappropiate, DON'T WATCH! and certainly don't do it.

FTA: "A pro-family group is calling on cities to ban screenings of Brüno because it says the movie is offensive and loaded with inappropriate sexual content."

So is a lot of other schitt that's on the big screen. So why is Bruno different? And that's coming from someone (me) who also has a distaste for off-color humor

I don't understand why some people like Bruno yet they despised Perez Hilton!!!

To me the character Bruno and Perez Hilton are the same.

I live in Dallas, so I'm getting a real kick...

I'm just so proud of my adopted state.

//tearing-up...

WTF_Are_You_Looking_At: I don't understand why some people like Bruno yet they despised Perez Hilton!!!

It could be that Brüno is a fictional character while Perez Hilton purports to be a genuine person.

You might as well have said that you don't understand how some people like Darth Vader yet despise Dick Cheney.

I, personally, don't like Sacha Baron Cohen and have yet to come across a single one of his characters that I find humorous or even remotely entertaining. I'm also not much of a Perez Hilton or Dick Cheney fan. Vader, though, I think is bad-ass.

BelKimi: I saw this movie a couple days ago and thought it was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. There were only three scenes that I can recall myself actually laughing about in Bruno, the rest were just painful embarrassing to watch. As you can imagine, most of the scenes involved him trying to elicit/provoke a reaction from someone, but for the most part, I thought the people were fairly tolerant and understanding of Bruno character. It got to the point where I was actually feeling sympathetic for the people he was interacting with in the movie.

I felt like Cohen just threw in all the scenes he filmed, whether they worked or not, and then added as many frontal shots/sex toys as he could, and hoped that people would be fooled and think the movie was edgy. Save your money, and if you must, watch this on DVD.

That's pretty much my thoughts on the film. The whole movie just screamed "Hey, look how over the top I am!" You already made that movie. What's new this time?

What made Borat funny was the main character was ignorant but well intentioned. Bruno was just an attention whore and a jerk.

CrossEyed: A question for those who have seen it (I have no intention of doing so): I've been watching commercials for the movie. It is marketed as a "comedy." I have yet to see anything remotely funny in a commercial. Is there actual funny stuff in the movie, or do the ads show the only parts that are suitable for TV?

I saw the previews {Comedy Central I think} for Borat and it looked so lame I wanted to avoid the movie at all cost. I have a pretty warped sense of humor, but I didn't see anything funny about it. Maybe it's the accent, but he reminds me of Yakov Smirnoff and I hate that guy.

More whiny fagatronics from the "pro-family" crowd...if they are so pro-family, why are they infested with meth-smoking homosexuals?

right wing nut jobs want to control what you and I see....not gonna happen. i'll see this movie just because the wingnuts are against it...great publilicity for it tho...If they care so much about morals then why don't they clean their own houses first...very easy to see the mote in my eye while they ignorem the log in their own...

Me thinks the tali-baptists are mad since Cohen made them look bad not once but twice in a half decade. In a different character, nontheless.
Didn't they learn the first time?

/waiting for video at the movie cube

Murphyr: It was unrated, actually, and stars Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole...

Peter O'Toole - the most obviously made-up porn name ever.

I found the snuff film about Jesus offensive. such graphic violence. Barbaric blood cultists.

basemetal: Meh, if you are dumb enough to pay money to see that crap, no legislation can help you.

Oooh. Your shtick is the One Liner Fallacy Troll.

Persknickity: What made Borat funny was the main character was ignorant but well intentioned. Bruno was just an attention whore and a jerk.

What made Bruno funny was that he was just an attention whore and a jerk.

/that was sort of the point.

Haven't seen the movie, but this clip (new window) of Bruno interviewing a "gay-converting" pastor on his HBO show is comedy gold.

Persnickety:
What made Borat funny was the main character was ignorant but well intentioned. Bruno was just an attention whore and a jerk.

You're just saying that because Bruno bought a clock radio you cannot afford

/great success
//Waiting for Bruno on DVD after the meatspin comment; that site was worse than 100 Rick Rolls

Brüno should be banned because it sucked harder than Lutz. Borat was a brazillion times better.

I didn't enjoy Borat; I enjoyed this. And I didn't find anything offensive about it. It was absurd, yes, but for those of us who are offended by a man's penis or two men kissing, it's honestly time to move on.

Zorya: There was nothing in the movie more cringeworthy for me than the parents willing to do anything to make their kids famous.

I bet that's one of the few things these folks don't have a problem with.

Exploiting kids? Just fine

Acting gay? WHARRGARBL!

Texas group

All you need to know right there! :-) (Mostly joking, have lots of friends and relatives around Hou, SA, etc.)

Seriously, though, legislating taste is anti-American. A film, show, song, book, poster, website, ..., might very well be crass, boorish, feeble-minded, infantile, formulaic crap. Then don't observe them if you don't like them. That's exactly what I plan to do with any Cohen release!

What's wrong with a group writing OP/ED's to educate others about it, even gathering like-minded people to threaten sponsors with boycots?

Let me guess...These folks are supposedly small-government, pro-responsibility Republicans; am I right or am I right?

"It is a rated-R film, so adults can choose to see it or not see it,"

So americans are forced see every movie that's not rated R? Well, finally all these outrages make sense!

Meh...

Humor is of course in the eyes of the beholder, but my wife and I went last night and we nearly died laughing. It wasn't as good as Borat and, just like Borat, almost certainly won't hold up to repeat viewing, but it made me laugh, and what else do I want from a comedy?

Oddly, as someone pointed out up thread, knowing at least some German makes the movie even funnier which is odd since so few audience members will know German.

I thought two of the funniest bits were the "interview" with Harrison Ford and the naming of the actors in "German".

/Wilhelm Schmidt
// Bradolf Pittler
/// Der Fuehrer

FTFA: "It is a rated-R film, so adults can choose to see it or not see it," he said.

You see, this line of thinking should trump everything. If your group is aiming to prevent individuals from, let's face it...thinking thinking something, then your organization should be outed for what it is. Anti-American. George Orwell would be proud of his foresight if these douchebags would gain massive amounts of legislative control. God forbid.

Now, if they'd just try to educate and encourage boycotts, I'd support them even if I didn't agree with their POV...

"It's this sort of thing that will give our youth the fagnasties."

Strike that extra 'thinking' from up there! :-p

I guess "pro-family" does not equal, or overlap, with "pro-American". I suppose these people do not celebrate the fourth of July, or reflect upon how lucky they are to live in a free country. Because they sure are in an awful hurry to censor something they don't agree with.

I hadn't particularly cared to see Bruno, but if these asshats get any traction towards banning it, I'll have to buy a ticket on principle.

SBC is at his best when he exposes other people as racist, sexist, anti-Semite, or what-have-you (as he did in the frat boy scene of Borat). He's less entertaining when he prods people who are not any of the above just to get a reaction, or behaves badly himself to make a point, as when Borat fled a bed and breakfast b/c he realized the owners were Jewish.

He's really more of a performance artist than a comedian.

Sir_Dude: Me thinks the tali-baptists are mad since Cohen made them look bad not once but twice in a half decade. In a different character, nontheless.
Didn't they learn the first time?

/waiting for video at the movie cube

I LOVE THAT!!! "Tali-baptists!" I grew up surrounded by these farkers.

"the biggest Austrian star since Hitler"

Priceless.
That alone is too hilarious.

Remember the utterly atrocious anti-Semitism from Borat?

I don't recall any Jewish groups boycotting that picture.
Maybe because they are smart enough to recognize blatant absurdity.

How about banning the movie because it looks terrible?

Oh gawd, it's just a funny movie...I saw it yesterday, theater was packed and nobody walked out. I see arthouse films all the time and people regularly walk out of those, so I don't know if that's a good metric to judge a film.

Anyway, people who hate gay people will hate this film. People uncomfortable with raunchy portrayals of sexuality or penises won't like this film. If you're not too uptight or a hardcore christian you will find this thing pretty funny.

Even if you don't like it, there's nothing to get offended about.

meehaw: Sir_Dude: Me thinks the tali-baptists are mad since Cohen made them look bad not once but twice in a half decade. In a different character, nontheless.
Didn't they learn the first time?

/waiting for video at the movie cube

I LOVE THAT!!! "Tali-baptists!" I grew up surrounded by these farkers.

I first heard that from Molly Ivins, I think she credited Jim Hightower. I miss Molly.

Somacandra: Have they never seen themselves naked? And if you want to see Kelly LaBrock's pubes, just rent The Woman In Red.

O RLY? Never saw that one, and my wife looks a lot like Kelly LaBrock...

/off to Netflix

Step 1. Make a movie that could offend someone
Step 2. Get free publicity from people trying to ban or boycott it
Step 3. Profit

I saw Brüno last night. It was the worst movie I've ever sat through. From beginning to end it was just a movie trying to push the envelope and piss people off, nothing more. It seemed like they forgot that they were trying to make a comedy while they were being assholes. It has it's funny moments (the Dominatrix scene comes to mind) but those are few and far between. He got the balance between shock value and comedy right with Borat, but he just tipped the scales too much here.

/Gayest movie I've ever seen

I saw it. Not as good as Borat, but okay. Wish the theater was more packed.

Archie Goodwin: "It's a little much," Phan said. "I wasn't offended; it was just a little too much. No other movie has taken it that far."

Hypocrite much? He wasn't offended by the movie, yet he doesn't want others to make up their own minds about whether they are offended by it?

Reading comprehension much? This isn't a dude described as a person leading the charge...he's just a guy who bought a ticket and didn't like what he saw. I missed the part in the story where he took to homemade signs and started a boycott march, or joined a letter writing campaign.

offensive and loaded with inappropriate sexual content

Did not have time to RTFA, but who they talking about?

The Republican Party?

Abagadro: Heck, it has an even more shocking "moving orifice" than PF that wasn't even blocked out.

I think the singing butthole in Pink Flamingos was more shocking.

I'm just amused that 4 people who went to see it walked out because they were offended- wtf were they expecting?

sweetmelissa31: I'm just amused that 4 people who went to see it walked out because they were offended- wtf were they expecting?

They were expecting that they would be offended, and then they could walk out and attention would finally be turned toward them for a few moments during their melodramatic gesture.

And they were right.

There definitely was some parts of Bruno i could do without

but a couple of scenes were just priceless

the hunting bit ... when he looks at the stars and says how it makes him think of all the hot guys and those poor fellers he was with just froze... damn they couldn't even look up from staring at the ground. all 3 just suddenly froze. couldn't . even . move.

the cage match, and of course the baby auditions

half of the movie i could do without, half was funny and the remaining half made it worth every penny.

R ratings don't mean the movie is offensive. R ratings just mean they put the word "motherfarker" in there two or three times so people would go see it, because nobody will go see a PG-13 movie.

/the sad thing is, this is really how many people think

DD0: I saw Bruno last night in Texas.

About 8 people got up and walked out at the same time and the 'older' couple sitting in front of us confused the shiat out of me. The guy covered his wife's eyes for almost the entire movie. Why are these people there? Why? So they can complain about it like this. Don't go see the farking movie if you don't like the subject matter. Plain and simple.

And the movie was fantastic. I loved watching it in a theater where 70% of the people in there are the butt of the joke on the screen and don't even realize it.

So you were in teh 30% who were the cock of the jokes and realized it?

/That move was farked up.
//laughed my pooper off the entire time.
///got in free. Sister manages the theater.
////actually haven't paid to see a movie in 25 years.
//slashies

Mister Peejay: R ratings don't mean the movie is offensive. R ratings just mean they put the word "motherfarker" in there two or three times so people would go see it, because nobody will go see a PG-13 movie.

/the sad thing is, this is really how many people think

Although I never saw Up, I wish they would have had Ed Asner say "motherfarker" a few times to bump the movie to an R-rating.

the wrestling team interview hooked me on Bruno the first time i saw it. stay with it through the first minute, it's worth it

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TheOther:

Cohen probably set up the Cohen protest for the Cohen publicity for Cohen's movie.

/Cohen

Bingo.

craigdamage: "the biggest Austrian star since Hitler"

Priceless.
That alone is too hilarious.

Remember the utterly atrocious anti-Semitism from Borat?

I don't recall any Jewish groups boycotting that picture.
Maybe because they are smart enough to recognize blatant absurdity.

Could help that he is a Cohen.

rathoth: basemetal: Meh, if you are dumb enough to pay money to see that crap, no legislation can help you.

Oooh. Your shtick is the One Liner Fallacy Troll.

You have no idea what my shtick it but you should fork over five bucks and find out, you would probably be very entertained.

The movie was terrible, but it had a lot of funny moments (eg the velcro suit). But with the things that were shown, it should definitely be rated NC-17.

No 10 year old kid who cons their parents into taking them should see a screen-sized cock bouncing around on the screen for 30 seconds.

/awful

Dextro: No 10 year old kid who cons their parents into taking them should see a screen-sized cock bouncing around on the screen for 30 seconds.

It's just a penis, half the population of the earth has one, what's the big farking deal?

A little hint to all the conservative groups protesting this movie-

you're doing just what Cohen wants you to do...

Dextro: No 10 year old kid who cons their parents into taking them should see a screen-sized cock bouncing around on the screen for 30 seconds.

so they shouldn't go see watchmen

Murphyr: Abagadro: And Caligula is rated-X porn,

It was unrated, actually, and stars Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole and Helen Mirren and though it was later disowned, it was written by Gore Vidal. I've never seen it, but it did have a theatrical release, so it's not like it's some no-name porno.

I saw it. It failed as a film and as porn.

Dextro: The movie was terrible, but it had a lot of funny moments (eg the velcro suit). But with the things that were shown, it should definitely be rated NC-17.

No 10 year old kid who cons their parents into taking them should see a screen-sized cock bouncing around on the screen for 30 seconds.

/awful

As the father of a 10-year old, no parent should be getting conned in to taking their kid to any film.

I don't like Sasha Baron Cohen, so I'm all for banning his movies.

/Keanu Reeves next please
//then Larry the Cable Guy

if it's not as good as Borat, I don't want to see it, because I only thought Borat was funny about half the time. The other half was embarrassing and cringe-inducing.

That said, I think SBC is a talented mofo. I just don't care for him making people look like idiots all the time. The idiots--fine. People who are being nice to him and trying to help him out--not funny. I've been sucked in by con artists before and if someone did something like this to me, I'd punch him in the face. Even SBC.

loonatic112358: Dextro: No 10 year old kid who cons their parents into taking them should see a screen-sized cock bouncing around on the screen for 30 seconds.

so they shouldn't go see watchmen

My five year old loved that movie.

Offended by a movie? Don't go see it. Don't like what's on TV? Change the f*cking channel. Banning movies/TV shows because you don't like them is wrong.

I saw Bruno and it was funny as hell. It is definitely not a movie for kids but hey, that's what the 'R' rating is for.

A few months back I got my first and only greenlight by posting an article from this exact same group who were trying to get "Watchmen" rated NC-17 and banned.

They are just a hardcore, nutjob evangelist group and things like this are why they are seeing their membership and influence drop faster than republican chances of a Palin presidency.

burning_bridge: I am offended by this thing I had to go out of my way to find and pay for myself on my own free time that was rated R and every review made it very clear how raunchy it would be.

Offended!!!

Thread win!

/flyover country right winger that LOL'd at
the movie last night

I've been watching the Ali-G/Borat/Bruno show since 2005, so im really getting a kick.

Dextro: No 10 year old kid who cons their parents into taking them should see a screen-sized cock bouncing around on the screen for 30 seconds.

Why not? It's not as if it would harm anybody.

/awful

You've never seen a penis before?

CrossEyed: Is there actual funny stuff in the movie, or do the ads show the only parts that are suitable for TV?

Funny is subjective.


Bigger Leftist Intarweb Schlong: farking Texas...

Read the farking article & thread, idiot. This group is not out of Texas.

REALLY? NO SHIAT!

bobbette: Murphyr: Abagadro: spqr_ca: Nevertheless, it was released to regular cinema.

Not widely distributed. This is kind of a pointless semantics argument, but Caligula (nor any of those other films) were released on 2800 screens like Bruno is. I just saw it tonight in a theater that refused to show Brokeback Mountain for hell's sake.

Well, yeah, I guess if the line is "as widely distributed as Bruno" then most of those films don't make the cut (I remember Shortbus being pretty widely distributed, but then I live in a city, so it's possible that my perception's off). Still, that list is only of "mainstream" films that had unsimulated sex. Include movies that have simulated sex or actually consider violence (I'm actually going to have to go and look at movieguide's reviews of some random violent movie to see if he's anywhere near as offended) and I'm sure we could get a few more that approach Bruno, but, as I said, I haven't seen it yet, so I don't know.

This thing was definitely raunchier than Shortbus. Shortbus didn't have a meatspin, although it did have autofellatio...

Salo was way raunchier, obviously, but I don't know if it had wide release exactly...

I have to say... as someone who went through a prominent art school in the NE, loved the dirtyness of Duchamp, has seen Karen Finley back in the day, seen John Waters at his best/worst (desperate living arguably) , read DeSade, Bataille, Apollinaire (ten thousand rods etc), watches porn and having a gf that likes porn and makes some beautifully peverse art...

pasolini's film is the only thing to ever scar me- call me a coward in the face of the potential brutality of the human spirit, but I had to leave the room during the feast scene...

Dextro: No 10 year old kid who cons their parents into taking them should see a screen-sized cock bouncing around on the screen for 30 seconds.

Yeah seriously. In fact, boys should have to wear some sort of permanent chastity belt so that they can't even look at their own penis until they're 18.

what_now: A pro-family group...

Oh you're pro family? That's awesome! Maybe you can help me with some family celebration etiquette.

See my cousin Ron is married to a man named Gerard who's West Indian and has these huuuuuuge family parties for every event. Well they just adopted a Guatemalan baby, and I'm not sure how my aunts- lovely ladies but as white bread New Englanders they're a bit gastronomically unevolved- are going to deal with the curried goat and chicken roti at the Christening, or how Gerald's family will deal with the green bean and jello casseroles.

How would you, as a "pro-family" group advise?

Should we all just get take out chinese?

Hey, that sounds like MY family get togethers. My father had very little family, but let's mix up my Mom's family here. How about 1 legal same sex marriage, American and Canadian, my mom and her siblings all Eurasians from India passing as Brits, 1 long term same sex partnership (my brother only speaks English and his partner only French), My sister and her buddies, some of whom eat Halal only, and who can make a terrific Tandoori Turkey for Thanksgiving. My other sister, who had a non-wedding (he left her at that altar) in full buckskin gear (she is Ojibwe). Her son, middle name "Whitecrow". Her older male roomie, with whom she is not romantically involved but who acts as a father to her son. My brother the classical violoist. My other brother, the lineman for Hydro. My other brother, who delivers furniture. For that matter, my Mom's husband, who is a former Jesuit priest.

Nice mix. I would like to be at that Christening - so would my Mom, I would think (yum roti!)

I am kind of a gayby so I am getting a kick.

My southern Baptist great-grandmother, who had never been to the cinema, took her young granddaughter to see Rosemary's Baby back when it originally ran. Based on the title alone she thought it would be a good family oriented film. My aunt (the granddaughter) barely remembered the movie but says they sat through the entire thing.

cryinoutloud: if it's not as good as Borat, I don't want to see it, because I only thought Borat was funny about half the time. The other half was embarrassing and cringe-inducing.

That said, I think SBC is a talented mofo. I just don't care for him making people look like idiots all the time. The idiots--fine. People who are being nice to him and trying to help him out--not funny. I've been sucked in by con artists before and if someone did something like this to me, I'd punch him in the face. Even SBC.

It happens.

Murphyr: First, we get that you're including Cohen. You don't have to keep repeating it. Second, I haven't seen Brüno yet, but is there a reason the nutjob reviewing it feels the need to include "virile"? Does that strike anyone else as a bit revealing regarding this guy's mindset?

He's just trying to emphasize that SBC is a dirty Jew.

sweetmelissa31: Murphyr: First, we get that you're including Cohen. You don't have to keep repeating it. Second, I haven't seen Brüno yet, but is there a reason the nutjob reviewing it feels the need to include "virile"? Does that strike anyone else as a bit revealing regarding this guy's mindset?

He's just trying to emphasize that SBC is a dirty Jew.

What does SBC being a Jew have anything to do with how 'virile' the movie is?

If you don't like it, don't go to see it.

pope183: There definitely was some parts of Bruno i could do without

but a couple of scenes were just priceless

the hunting bit ... when he looks at the stars and says how it makes him think of all the hot guys and those poor fellers he was with just froze... damn they couldn't even look up from staring at the ground. all 3 just suddenly froze. couldn't . even . move.

the cage match, and of course the baby auditions

half of the movie i could do without, half was funny and the remaining half made it worth every penny.

Personally, I was rolling on the floor when he was at the psychic.

/Milli Vanilli

crimsin23: What does SBC being a Jew have anything to do with how 'virile' the movie is?

I meant repeating "Cohen" which is a very popular Jewish last name.

Mongo cut wood: If you don't like it, don't go to see it.

Doesn't work that way for these folks. We're talking about virile heterosexual males, and they must be preserved at all costs. It's a temptation, after all, and temptations must be removed from their sight, lest their virility be disturbed or their heterosexuality doubted.

Why bring attention to it. Nobody was going to see it anyway.

All SBC's movies and shows are the same damn thing. Disguise self, insult strangers, the end.

In fact, "Bruno" is almost the same title as "Borat". Rearrange the letters to "Borun" and then change the "un" to "at". His next one will probably be called "Brout".

The guy can act, but his ideas are very limited. Who, exactly, is the audience for this lame "Oops! Have I unintentionally offended you?" crap, anyway?

ZeroCorpse: Nobody was going to see it anyway.

Are you sure?

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Looks as tarded as Borat

o5iiawah: I've been watching the Ali-G/Borat/Bruno show since 2005, so im really getting a kick.


since 2005? there isn't that many episodes... you must have them on a loop or something.

i was able to get through them all in a day or so. certainly didn't take me 4+ years to watch them.

or maybe you have a weird cognitive disorder where you can't process information in real-time... so you had to slow each episode down to last approximately 6 months each? yeah. that must be it. i look forward to your response in 6 weeks time.

basemetal: Meh, if you are dumb enough to pay money to see that crap, no legislation can help you.

Thread ender.

It's funny how many ignorant racist homophobes jump on the movie and attack its comedy in a thinly veiled attempt to make it about them not liking the comedy instead of their caveman-like prejudice.

Just saw the movie last night and it was great. The only things they should take out are all the gay parts which made me dry-heave, aside from that all's fair game and funny as hell.

This whole thing is one big troll. It's a publicity stunt.

Every movie that comes out now has some type of controversy surrounding it. This generates buzz and makes more people aware of the movie.

This is what happens when the entertainment industries take over all of the news outlets. The only news we seem to hear about any more always has something to do with the entertainment industry.

If you want to see the movie, see it. If your podunk little town bans it, go to the next town to see it. If you don't want to see it, then STFU and don't see it.

The Christian Taliban has every right to make their own movies. But BRUNO will still make more money than any movie made by the Christian Taliban people.

ZeroCorpse: Why bring attention to it. Nobody was going to see it anyway.

All SBC's movies and shows are the same damn thing. Disguise self, insult strangers, the end.

In fact, "Bruno" is almost the same title as "Borat". Rearrange the letters to "Borun" and then change the "un" to "at". His next one will probably be called "Brout".

The guy can act, but his ideas are very limited. Who, exactly, is the audience for this lame "Oops! Have I unintentionally offended you?" crap, anyway?

Someone never saw "Ali G Indahouse"

I would rater watch WaterWorld repeatedly before watching this turd.

He's made a movie for his 3 main characters already so I guess he'll have to come up with some new ones.

He was pretty good in Talledega nights too but that character was close to being a french version of bruno.

fritton: me group who were trying to get "Watchmen" rated NC-17 and banned.

They are just a hardcore, nutjob evangelist group and things like this are why they are seeing their membership and influence drop faster than republican chances of a Palin presidency.

I don't get the idea that sex is worse than violence. My daughter is probably going to see a penis in her lifetime. It might not be blue, or attached to a hairless body, but it's going to happen.

I hope she never sees, for example, someone use a circular saw to cut another man's arms off. Or dogs chewing on the severed leg of a child.

And yet, showing one a penis on screen in a comedic situation garners the same rating as acts of horrible violence.

I guess Ted Baehr is a big fan of teddy baehrs...

Being as that this is FARK, I can't believe nobody did a GIS on this guy. I even had to wait the mandatory 6 hours after signing up before I could post and still nobody found it. Maybe it's on an old thread and I'm just way behind, but if I don't see some gold spraypaint or Brüno's balls on this guy's chin here in a few days, I may lose my faith in FARK altogether.

/won't pay to see it in theatres
//First time poster, long time reader.

I saw it last night in Allen, TX (about 20 miles north of Dallas). The theatre was pretty packed but about 25 poeple walked out. What I couldn't understand though was the young kids there with their parents (like 10-15 years old). Who would honestly bring their kid to see that?

Overall I found most of it hilarious, although I did like Borat more. I find Cohen to be funny and like his style of humor. If he makes another movie I'll probably see it.

there their theyre: Who would honestly bring their kid to see that?

There was a six or seven year old at the showing of The Watchmen I went to. And they stayed through the whole movie.

Then there was the time I went to see Final Fantasy and some old woman brought her four year old granddaughter. They left once the dying started.

Here the fundies go again: trying to make choices for the rest of us. I can see a day when the nanny state left and the Bible thumpers on the right come together and decide what's best for us.

I personally don't like Sasha Cohen: I think he's about as funny as giving Amy Winehouse a PAP smear. But that's my decision to make, not some fundie asswipe who believes it's his/her perogative to turn this country into a theocracy. Don't like this guy's stuff? Don't go see the movie, that simple.

Murphyr: From the guy's review:

Clearly, the agenda of the filmmakers here, including Cohen, is to get attention, and sell tickets, by being as outrageous and pornographic as they possibly can be. They also deliberately provoke other people, including virile heterosexual males and male Evangelical Christians, so that they, including Cohen, can show themselves to be superior and more "enlightened" than the people they are trying to provoke

First, we get that you're including Cohen. You don't have to keep repeating it. Second, I haven't seen Brüno yet, but is there a reason the nutjob reviewing it feels the need to include "virile"? Does that strike anyone else as a bit revealing regarding this guy's mindset?

'I SAW A HOT GUY PARADING AROUND IN SHORT SHORTS, AND IT MADE ME HAVE BAD THOUGHTS IN MY NO-NO PLACE! PLEASE BABY JEEBUS, MAKE THIS MOVIE GO AWAY!' Something like that?

The Icelander: there their theyre: Who would honestly bring their kid to see that?

There was a six or seven year old at the showing of The Watchmen I went to. And they stayed through the whole movie.

Then there was the time I went to see Final Fantasy and some old woman brought her four year old granddaughter. They left once the dying started.

Reminds me of the four-year old who I saw with his parents in The Punisher with Thomas Jane back in '04. I wanted to tell them that it wasn't going to be like X-Men just because it was a Marvel movie.

They stayed through the whole thing.

Too late for Borat, too early for Brune.

numb3r5ev3n: Murphyr: From the guy's review:

Clearly, the agenda of the filmmakers here, including Cohen, is to get attention, and sell tickets, by being as outrageous and pornographic as they possibly can be. They also deliberately provoke other people, including virile heterosexual males and male Evangelical Christians, so that they, including Cohen, can show themselves to be superior and more "enlightened" than the people they are trying to provoke

First, we get that you're including Cohen. You don't have to keep repeating it. Second, I haven't seen Brüno yet, but is there a reason the nutjob reviewing it feels the need to include "virile"? Does that strike anyone else as a bit revealing regarding this guy's mindset?

'I SAW A HOT GUY PARADING AROUND IN SHORT SHORTS, AND IT MADE ME HAVE BAD THOUGHTS IN MY NO-NO PLACE! PLEASE BABY JEEBUS, MAKE THIS MOVIE GO AWAY!' Something like that?

Something like that. Or "How dare Sacha Baron Cohen mock and ridicule the upstanding Christian and the heterosexual, manly, muscle-bound, dripping with sweat and grease from tuning up a motorcycle farking ADONIS completely heterosexual not gay at all because that's wrong but sweet lord to feel the ripples of his flesh completely heterosexual men?"

there their theyre: I saw it last night in Allen, TX (about 20 miles north of Dallas). The theatre was pretty packed but about 25 poeple walked out. What I couldn't understand though was the young kids there with their parents (like 10-15 years old). Who would honestly bring their kid to see that?

We saw The Hangover a couple weeks after release and there was a full family there, down to the 10 & 7-ish year old looking kids.

Worst part was that they walked out with about ten minutes left. By that point, why bother?

Murphyr: numb3r5ev3n: Murphyr: From the guy's review:

Clearly, the agenda of the filmmakers here, including Cohen, is to get attention, and sell tickets, by being as outrageous and pornographic as they possibly can be. They also deliberately provoke other people, including virile heterosexual males and male Evangelical Christians, so that they, including Cohen, can show themselves to be superior and more "enlightened" than the people they are trying to provoke

First, we get that you're including Cohen. You don't have to keep repeating it. Second, I haven't seen Brüno yet, but is there a reason the nutjob reviewing it feels the need to include "virile"? Does that strike anyone else as a bit revealing regarding this guy's mindset?

'I SAW A HOT GUY PARADING AROUND IN SHORT SHORTS, AND IT MADE ME HAVE BAD THOUGHTS IN MY NO-NO PLACE! PLEASE BABY JEEBUS, MAKE THIS MOVIE GO AWAY!' Something like that?

Something like that. Or "How dare Sacha Baron Cohen mock and ridicule the upstanding Christian and the heterosexual, manly, muscle-bound, dripping with sweat and grease from tuning up a motorcycle farking ADONIS completely heterosexual not gay at all because that's wrong but sweet lord to feel the ripples of his flesh completely heterosexual men?"

This. Homophobia is just another word for 'closeted.'

Here, we need this tag!

The Icelander: fritton: me group who were trying to get "Watchmen" rated NC-17 and banned.

They are just a hardcore, nutjob evangelist group and things like this are why they are seeing their membership and influence drop faster than republican chances of a Palin presidency.

I don't get the idea that sex is worse than violence.

Not sure which fundies you've been following, but that's actually not an argument that any of them that I know have ever made.

For instance here's the review of Watchmen from Dobson's Focus on the Family:
http://www.pluggedinonline.com/movies/movies/a0004523.cfm

They make a much bigger deal about the violence an the idea of vigilantes than they do the blue penis. They aren't thrilled about the blue penis, but it's hardly the thing they hate the most about the film. Okay that's not accurate, it's more accurate to say that they don't like ANYTHING about the film.

I am a Christ follower. I have not yet seen it. I say "yet" because I intend to because I don't agree with Focus on the Family about much of anything, and I'm damn well going to try to like it.

Actually, they're just demainding equal time for steers

This movie should be rated RRR for Retarded. I mean, Really, Really Retarded.

demainding
demanding

That'll teach me to preview.

It's been done before, and better.





Not Impressed

o5iiawah:
The guy can act, but his ideas are very limited. Who, exactly, is the audience for this lame "Oops! Have I unintentionally offended you?" crap, anyway?

Someone never saw "Ali G Indahouse"

Of course I saw it. I'm still unimpressed. It's the same schtick with a different face. As I pointed out above, Andy Kaufman did it better, and even HE was annoying doing this sort of thing.

But hey, the brainless fratboys of the world need entertainment at their level, too, I guess. Since Tom Green stopped, and Andy Milonakis isn't really hot anymore, that leaves Sasha to fill the void of "Spaz who acts like a rude creep in order to get a cheap laugh out of dumb people."

/This sort of humor is about 1/2 step above "pull my finger".

So why aren't any movies showing screen-sized extreme close-ups of vaginas? Or ANY shots of vaginas? Nice double standard.

SBC is not really a comic, he's a performance artist. If you can appreciate the distinction you can really appreciate his work. Create a situation, populate it, and start playing with people to see their real behaviors come out.

That's why people sue him with clockwork regularity, he shows the world what they're really like. It's the Colbert formula taken to the next level due to the freedom of being a movie.

nburghmatt: JonnyBGoode: I'm really surprised the gay community isn't up in arms against this movie. To me, a straight man being so stereotypically flaming and spreading all sorts of anti-gay animosity wherever he goes, is just as offensive as a white man putting on blackface and doing a Stepin Fetchit routine or a minstrel show. His stereotypical lisping "Oh hai, I'm Bruno!" is just as offensive to me as "Yes'm boss I's a comin' don' wip me massah."

Good for the people that walked out on it. I hope they got a refund.

Banned, no. Boycotted and protested, yes.

what if you never knew that Sacha Baron Cohen was a straight man?

would you feel the same way?

Probably. In the same way that Blacks are uncomfortable with Stepin Fetchit and Amos and Andy and other Black people portraying negative stereotypes for laughs.

If these people believe "Bruno" is obscene, I'd hate to find out what their thoughts on the direct-to-DVD release "Pissing Teen Fist Farkers 14" are.

ZeroCorpse: It's been done before, and better.



Tony Clifton is Not Impressed

dead links fixed?

Day_Old_Dutchie: Some morality, there!

That graph would look even cooler if in scale!