Let's be real - Could my thread get back on track anytime soon? =_='

Let's be real - Still, plenty of people will see Sacha Baron Cohen's next film, about.... a gay person? A fashion model?
Also, that scene where Borat goes to a rodeo is pretty funny. The audience cheers when Borat says he supports America's war of terror. Aha!

Let's be real - it didn't have a track when it started.

Let's be real - Could my thread get back on track anytime soon? =_='

Let's be real - "bitch" is a distasteful pejorative whether it's used to dehumanize women or feminize men.

(Let's be real - people love getting told stuff like this!)

Let's be real- cookies are good!

Let's be real - I love the word "pejorative".

Let's be real - I am an admitted sesquipedalianist.


P.S. Whether or not it makes anyone feel any better, my post which got everyone upset was meant only in a very "tongue in cheek" manner.

Let's be real - I can't remember ever being as angry as I became while watching Borat. (The scene where he's having dinner with 3 couples, and says to the husband's of two of the ladies, "In my country, they would go crazy for these two", then indicating the third says, "This one... not so much...".)

I loved Borat until the opening scene of the film, where he shows the audience around his village in Kazakhstan. The genius of Borat is not his ignorance, boorishness, misogyny and racism, but the way the people he encounters respond to these character traits. How they will accept any outlandish thing he says about his nation as truth. How they will agree with him as he compares women to slaves or animals. He held a mirror up to less savory parts of U.S. society in a way that was extremely clever and incisive. But with that first scene he crossed the line into stereotyping the Kazakhstani people themselves for a few cheap gags.

It's the same with Bruno. Or with Ali G. The characters are ridiculous, even cartoonish. The humor lies in the fact that despite their unbelievability, people take them at face value. But when Cohen loses track of that, he's no longer making clever satire but base, exploitative humor.

Let's be real - those who don't already know this should go watch the Back to the Future trilogy. If you don't, you're a chicken.

Edit: Or is it just "you're chicken"? "Your chicken" ? No, I prefer "You're a chicken".

I don't think he was very "clever" for proving our society has fault-lines larger than the Ring of Fire. Honestly, pick up any American History book or head over to Wikipedia. The info on our bullshit is kind of right there.