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