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?

Link (new window)

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!