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We saw this yesterday, and although it did contain a few good laughs, it was a disappointment. Baron-Cohen's joke is wearing really, really thin, these days. I was surprised at how little originality he could manage. Like Harry Enfield before him, the man is running out out steam.
 
I try and not rate anything 10/10, no matter how good it is... As that would mean that nothing could ever top it. I remember a magazine rating a computer game 100% once and that was well over 10 years ago. So, that's better than anything today? I think not.

SounRAB like this film is very much a 'Marmite' one. You either love it or hate it. I thought it was great though... :)
 
That means that at the time it was 10/10 - it was better than anything else.

Just like just now i'd say Bruno and HP6 are definitely 10/10 films. However, there is nothing to say that in 4 months time there won't be another movie that is 10/10 for totally different reasons.
 
The DVD will be an 18, because anyone under it can just get older people to buy it for them. I look forward to the DVD cause I imagine theres a lot of cut bits!!
 
They will probably do the same as what Sony did with the 'Pineapple Express' DVD release. By which i mean release both versions, but it'll probably end up being the 18 rated version being the 2 disc special edition while the 15 rated cut is just the edited film and no extras.

I highly doubt they'd not release the 18 rated version in favour of just releasing the edited cut.
 
Have you people been watching the same film as me? What the hell is wrong with you miserable lot?!

I watched it two days ago and I can honestly say that I never once stopped laughing from start to finish, it's the funniest film I have ever seen, probably funnier than Borat, certainly more slickly made. Yeah some of it was definitely staged, for example the swinger who is whipping him, and then he falls out the window, she is a known porn star and was hired for the shoot. However, the other swingers are real, also the terrorist leader was real, and Sacha was in some danger. Also the cage match scenes were filmed twice, the first time was unusable as it caused a mini riot and the crew weren't able to leave for an hour because of the stand-off.
The magic is that it's very difficult to tell what is and isn't real, Sacha never shows his hand and the production and editing is tight and seamless. Only with the hunters does Bruno come off looking like a tit, the hunters were being quite civil and tolerant despite his baiting, and having a naked stranger trying to climb into your tent is obviously going to wind you up, regardless of your personal views on sexuality. That for me was the only real poor part of the film. And the most shocking part was the mum who was trying to basically pimp her daughter for the baby shoot, you could see the wild desperation in her eyes to get the gig, maybe she had serious money troubles or something because to me she looked half-crazed, I wouldn't be surprised if she got reported to social services when people who knew her saw the film.

P.S. oi oi, 100th post, sweet!
 
I'm off to see this tommorow - i can't wait!! :D

I'd never actually heard of Bruno before this film (:o) because i've never seen any of SBCs TV shows but i absolutely loved Borat.
 
So if the first shots were unusable and had to shoot it again, don't you think the majority of people would have known what was going to happen and if they got in different 'real' people I'm sure a lot of them would have found out what was happening?? takes away from the scene.


Also, for a film, don't all the 'real' people who appear on the screen have to sign something so that the film makers have permission to show it in the film? - I am actually interested in knowing this.
 
yeah actually when I wrote that - that occurred to me - in that sense it is good to see it in the cinema - but I don't think it's must see at the cinema film ( a la matrix or dark knight kind of thing)



because a lot of it seemed so false - i found it hard to get my head round that scene - it was tho undeniably funny on any level - really unbelivable
 
Saw it today! Hilarious! Although the reactions perhaps weren't as funny as Borat.

I especially loved
Him being an extra! Pah!
The hyperactive guy at the boxing match --- what a joke!
Those mothers who would have their baby lose 10 pounRAB!! :eek:
That long, long, long painful silence during camping. Hysterical.

Oh and of course

the gay converter! :eek:
"They're likely to come at you from behind!!Anybody friendly s likely to be homosexual."
Bloody hilarious.
 
I saw it just now.... bit MEH about it tbh...

Yes, very funny bits, the dick bit that has been mentioned...

But I felt the plot was basically the same as Borat, it was more obviously contrived, the humour was simply shock humour, very crude without any meaning/intelligence behind it. And Bruno was no Borat. Borat had some charm- Bruno had none.....

Its all well and good exposing peoples prejudices but the thing is this: Bruno is just OTT and ANNOYING!!!

His behaviour would not be acceptable in ANY environment, gay, straight whatever. I think in the company of gay people his behaviour would have resulted in the same reactions as those of the people in the film... because he was sooo annoying, OTT and IRRITATING!!

I hear some members of the gay community are not amused by this film...
 
The swinger woman was definitely in on it, I'm not sure she was even at the swingers party, she seemed to just be spliced into the swingers party footage, and she was uncensored, unlike the others. his escape was far too contrived too

On the whole I thought it was dissapointing, some funny segments, but mostly trying far too hard to be shocking and forgetting to actually be funny at the same time

The cage fight ending was genius though, a guaranteed audience of people who hate gays, with the cage protecting them from getting attacked
 
There were two cage matches, filmed in two completely different hick towns, so the audience members weren't the same. I'm guessing part of the entrance conditions would have been signing release forms, they would have just told them they were filming the event for broadcast or a dvd or something.
 
Ive found one word in a review which sums up the films problem... thats the word INNOCENCE...

Borat had it and it made him more human and therefore the ignorance he faced more pognant and shocking...

Bruno is not remotely innocent and in some cases its almost as if the targets are being AMBUSHED... crudely provoked into an extreme reaction (see Ron Paul) just to get laughs. Borats more subtle tone worked better IMO...

The martial arts scene was also EXTREMELY evocative of a MOnty Python sketch as well...
 
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