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Did you people actually catch the social criticism?

posted 9 years ago by sackofwhine
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This movie is genius. The rating pretty much shows me that people just saw this movie as another gross comedy. When you really think about it, this movie is easily as good as borat. Most of the people who saw borat and loved it just enjoyed the movie as another stupid comedy with an idiot in the lead who bumps from one problem into another. In reality, both movies deal with two serious topics and show the social problems related to them. Brüno is really underappreciated. I think most americans were offended by the rawness and truth in some of those scenes.

The end fight scene was definitely a big turn off to most americans. I'm austrian and I have to say, this movie speaks for itself.

[–] Alexandra_Shulgin 9 years ago

Yes... in fact besides the infamous "penis scene," I thought this as a whole movie was brilliant, much more so than even Borat for that matter. This time, the main character IS the genius! I give it a 10, because at least 2/3rds of it is probably the only film that has ever made me laugh so hard even after continuous viewings.

When there is no more room on IMDB, the trolls shall wheel to 4chan.

[–] SillyGayBoy 8 years ago

I watched it again yesterday and I never laughed so much in a second viewing. Favorite comedy now.

[–] nightgaunts 9 years ago

most of the ratings are from U.S. users

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0889583/ratings?ref_=tt_ov_rt
US users 23787 6.0
Non-US users 66062 5.9

My two cents, bye

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[–] nerevar59 8 years ago

This movie was crap. Borat was crap, too. People have no taste.

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[–] Matt345 7 years ago

Most of it is objectively absent from well over 90% of the material and doesn't go anywhere. The cage fight was such a cheap set-up that it is just for its own sake (rather than any "intelligent" commentary). And the gay-therapist appears just kind of like a stuck-up guy, and that's it (the conversation with him is actually completely tame).

Bruno is Sascha Baron Cohen's most annoying and least funny character. If I remember correctly he chose that character because of an atrocious incest crime in Austria that had come out around that time, and he wanted to show a deeper degeneration of society (not hate of homosexuality, which seems counter-productive and ineffective anyway). But the result is just gross-out humour. And maybe it was just ironic PR talk (no different from mentioning Hitler etc.).

The best thing he can point toward is how some of the "straight" stuff that was recommended to him was pretty gross as well, but since this is embedded in him being pointlessly annoying and gross, even unfunny and uncreative in the interviews for the most time, this is not very telling.

In any case it takes a very impressionable person to see any clever "truths" in this movie.