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It's too bad the movie's not good. One of my seatmates at the preview for the new film with Will Ferrell (which is FANTASTIC!) was going on about how it should have been at most 15 minutes long - it's not that it's not funny, it's that it would be a good SERIES of short comedy bits, but doesn't work as a film.

Posted by Will in Seattle | November 2, 2006 12:40 PM
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Hey Will: Have you seen the Borat movie, or are you just taking the word of an unnamed stranger in the seat next to you at a preview as fact?

Posted by David Schmader | November 2, 2006 12:43 PM
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The preview goers circuit is a pretty tight knit group of unemployed weirdos. They speak as one.

Posted by Doink | November 2, 2006 12:52 PM
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Hmmm ... handlebar mustache vs. soul-patch-within-a-square ...

Posted by SeattleExile | November 2, 2006 1:14 PM
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According to Rotten Tomatoes, 47 of 50 reviewers enjoyed Borat. Meanwhile a friend of well-known mental patient "Will in Seattle" did not. Clearly, the reviewers must be wrong.

...Well, the 47 reviewers, I mean. Obviously, those other three are right.

Posted by enlightened | November 2, 2006 1:23 PM
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I saw the movie in San Francisco. I laughed loud and hard at most of it, but in a few places, there seemed to be actors. His skits are funniest when he catches REAL PEOPLE unaware. The parts that seemed scripted or had actors made me sad....

Posted by KELLY O | November 2, 2006 1:26 PM
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I saw the movie last month. . and I laughed so hard I nearly vomited. It was great. Much better than that shit Ali G movie.

Posted by katie | November 2, 2006 1:30 PM
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in september, i attended a screening of borat in los angeles. i was surprised by the early level of excitement about this movie -- folks started lining up 12 hours before the film started. and it was hot as balls outside.

the hilarity lies in the unscripted moments. the story line is, as to be expected, weak. but, overall, borat is seriously some of the most cleverly offensive stuff i have ever seen on the big screen.

plus, you cannot deny a comedian that gets an ENTIRE COUNTRY to launch a PR campaign to save face. brilliant marketing.

Posted by kerri harrop | November 2, 2006 2:24 PM
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Unemployed? You obviously know little.

Posted by Will in Seattle | November 2, 2006 2:39 PM
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Let us review some of the obviously scripted parts:

Kazakhstan preview: Like a dunk in glacial runoff. OFFENSIVE. Hilarious.

Super-nice Jewish couple feed Borat sandwiches: Hilarious, and canny a priori refutation of Anti-Defamation press releases.

Fat hirsute naked assistant wrestling Borat: Hilarious.

Pamela Anderson being chased through parking lot? (I'm not positive this was scripted--anybody?): Hilarious.

The movie is, perhaps, about 15 minutes too long. But no more than that. And I can't really think of anything I would take out, except the humorless feminists, and that obviously says more about me than it does about Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

Posted by annie | November 2, 2006 2:47 PM
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Will in Seattle: "Unemployed? You obviously know little."

See? Will in Seattle's seatmate unemployed... NOT. Or maybe that's, Will in Seattle unemployed... NOT.

Well, I'm not exactly sure who's not currently unemployed (or what they're currently not unemployed at), but anyway, I can't think of any better evidence of just how lousy this "Borat" movie is.

Posted by enlightened | November 2, 2006 3:10 PM
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Regarding Borat, either to get him or you don't. Enlightened (sorry, but I can't help but think is a misnomer) obviously does not.

Posted by Madashell | November 4, 2006 1:11 PM
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Heh, good comment Madashell.

I loved the movie -- completely hilarious.

Anyone know if the Pamela scene at the end was scripted?

Posted by davedes | November 4, 2006 10:53 PM

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