BORAT The Number One Movie In America!!!

[THUNDER HANDS]

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/huge-borat-matinees-today/

All the box office guru predictions for this weekend went wrong. I'm told Fox's Borat, though playing in just 837 theaters, shocked the experts and became the No. 1 movie in the U.S. Friday. HBO cable funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen's spoof took in a staggering $8.9 million for what should be an opening weekend of as much as $25 million. (And some are starting to predict $30 mil!) Based on the anecdotal evidence pouring in to me about long lines at the box office, sold-out screenings, people sneaking out of work early just to see the movie, and fans driving more than an hour to find a theater showing the pic, I believe Borat was standing room only. I think the moviegoers weren't just rolling in the aisles, they were sitting in the aisles, for the film to make this much money.

I'm seeing this Monday, I can't freakin' wait.

:bounce:

[WindRavenX]

1. It truly was amazing.

:thumbsup:

[Radio_Lady]

2. Portland Oregonian's Shawn Levy had to give it high marks, in spite

of himself! He was laughing too hard to do anything else!

One crazy Kazakh
Friday, November 03, 2006

SHAWN LEVY

"Borat," or, more properly, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," could actually kill you.

I can imagine someone putting a fistful of popcorn into his or her mouth at the wrong moment and having a kernel go down the wrong pipe, only to struggle in helpless peril because everyone else in the theater is deafened and blinded with laughter and unaware of the fate of their fellow filmgoer.

"Borat" is that funny. It's not well made, nor does it tell an especially memorable story, nor is its humor always (as if this mattered) fair or grown-up, but it's nevertheless howlingly, painfully, gaspingly funny. I normally place great weight on the craft of a film, but when a movie makes me laugh so hard that I fear I might have organ failure, I can forgive its technical sloppiness. Indeed, I can even see how the ineptitude of the filmmaking might be part of the joke. God help me, I may have found an actual instance of the badness of a movie being part of its goodness.

The film is an account of the misadventures of Borat Sagdiyev, a television commentator from Kazakhstan sent to the United States to share impressions of its wealth and glory with viewers back home. Along with his producer/agent, Azamat Bagatov, Borat flies to New York, where he discovers the wonders of "Baywatch" and determines to meet and woo Pamela Anderson. Borat and Azamat hit the road to find her, stopping along the way to film segments about various aspects of American life and manners.

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[Lethe]

3. Great Success!

One of my fav scenes is when he driving a beat-up icecream truck and he turns the speaker on that does the jingle. The kids come running up and the bear pops out of the window and growls. (they bought a bear for protection)

[smirkymonkey]

9. That was my favorite scene too!

There were a few laughs, but I thought it was a little overrated. It just wasn't as clever as it could have been and seemed geared toward an adolescent audience.

[tinfoil tiaras]

4. w00t

i saw it today and it was amazing...:rofl:

i was freaking laughing the whole way through, even at the parts no one else in the theater laughed at... :blush: :P

[William Bloode]

5. Going Monday myself.

I wanted to got tonight. I got stuck home with kids while the ladies went out. I can go Monday though when the kids are in school/daycare, and the ladies are working.

[jobycom]

6. I've tried to see it twice. Sold out both times. nt

[Anarcho-Socialist]

7. Great success! It means Borat not be execute (sic)

[FredScuttle]

8. Two words

"inferior potassium"

freakin hilarious

[judaspriestess]

10. This movie is the BEST

saw an advanced screeing of it two weeks ago!! I can't wait to go watch it again.


I love you Sacha!!!

[rockymountaindem]

11. I thought it was overrated

I understand what Cohen is trying to do, but I think I got the wrong idea about the movie. Too much of it was staged and focused on the character of Borat, like all the stuff that happened between him and the producer. Don't get me wrong, some of that was pretty funny, but it was scripted. I thought the whole movie was going to be a mockumentary style means of getting people to reveal more about themselves than they might like to. Too much of it was scripted, in my view.

[GOPisEvil]

12. I think the interview subjects were not scripted though.

That stuff was funny and rather scary in some parts. I mean, I share a country with those fuckers?

[rockymountaindem]

13. *spoiler*

I think that was not scripted, although I think to some extent the encounter with the Jewish bed-and-breakfast people in Georgia was. I mean, come on... Borat goes to this place that's just covered with Judaica, run by an old bubby and zaidy etc. and then roaches convienently show up so Borat can make a joke about shape-shifting Jewish demons? That's a total setup. I, for one, don't think two roaches just convienently crawled under the door like that, nor do I think such a place would be run in what looked like the middle of nowhere like that.

[GOPisEvil]

14. I'll agree with that. *more spoilers*

But the Pentecostals, Bob Barr, the Rodeo, Alan Keyes... The look on Barr's face is priceless.

[rockymountaindem]

16. Yeah, that was.

I'm not saying it's a bad film, just that it's not really the way it's been billed. It's really about Borat, not Americans. You just need to watch it in that context is all I'm saying.

[GOPisEvil]

17. I'll buy that argument.

But there were still parts of this movie that had me doubled over laughing.

[TheBaldyMan]

15. Do freepers still think it's a documentary? n/t