Sascha Baron Cohen's Brüno - coming July 10, 2009

[moegolden]

I'd be blown away if he can even come close to topping Borat. Mostly because I think the flamboyant gay character has been well-covered in show business, certainly compared to the archetype of a hilariously bigoted foreigner.



http://www.variety.com/VR1117987606.html

Universal sets a date for 'Bruno'
Cohen comedy to open on May 15, 2009
By PAMELA MCCLINTOCK
Sacha Baron Cohen's "Bruno" is ready for summer heat.

Universal will release the film on May 15, 2009. So far, there are no other R-rated comedies near that date.

Like Borat, the title character of the 2006 box office hit, Bruno is one of a trio of characters created and played by Cohen in TV skein "Da Ali G Show."

As Bruno, Cohen pretends be a flamboyant fashion and celebrity journalist from Austria who interviews unwitting members of the public who believe Bruno is a real person.

Twentieth Century Fox's "Borat" was a box office hit, grossing $128.5 million domestically in an early November release.

U believes "Borat" made Cohen enough of a household name to open "Bruno" in the high-profile summer sesh.

Already set to open on May 15 is Sony's "The Da Vinci Code" sequel "Angels & Demons"; a week later, on May 22, Warner Bros. opens "Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins," while Fox unspools family comedy "Night at the Museum II: Escape From the Smithsonian."

The first "Night at the Museum," released over Christmas in 2006, grossed $250.9 million domestically and $323.2 million overseas.

[DR. Jimcy M.E.]

I'm going to see it but I'm sure there will be scenes that make the naked wrestling scene from Borat look straight. I love when the southern people and jocks get pissed at him from the TV show so it will prob be good.

[moegolden]

I guess this should qualify as spoiler worthy....already it sounds like it will have some great moments....

Borat's alter ego dupes a former Mossad agent
Jul. 4, 2008
David Brinn , THE JERUSALEM POST

It's unclear whether his Mossad retirement benefit card will be confiscated, but former spy and current political analyst Yossi Alpher is certainly feeling sheepish after being fooled by actor Sacha Baron Cohen, aka Borat.

Cohen was in Jerusalem two weeks ago filming scenes for his next movie, Bruno, based on a character the British comedian played in his Da Ali G Show. In that show, Cohen played Bruno as a flamboyant Austrian fashion and celebrity journalist, regularly interviewing unwitting members of the public who weren't aware he wasn't a real person.

Cohen's producers contacted Alpher, a writer on Israel-related strategic issues and co-editor of the Israeli-Palestinian political Web site Bitterlemons, and asked him to be interviewed along with a Palestinian for a documentary that would explain the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the youth of the world.

"The producers explained that our interviewer, a German rock star, was the perfect person to establish strong communication with our audience," Alpher wrote in a column that appeared in The Forward.

Alpher - who served in the Israel Defense Forces as an intelligence officer, followed by 12 years' service in the Mossad and senior positions at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University and the American Jewish Committee's Israel/Middle East office - realized something might not be quite kosher when the "rock star" interviewee brought up Hamas:

"Vait, vait. Vat's zee connection between a political movement and food? Vy humous?" asked the interviewer in heavily accented English, echoing the obsession with the chickpea spread shared by Adam Sandler's Zohan. "Yesterday I had to throw away my pita bread because it vas dripping humous. Unt it's too high in carbohydrates."

The absurd Hamas-humous confusion went on for several minutes, and Alpher began to smell a rat, but stuck with the interview nonetheless - thus joining the long list of prominent figures down the years who have sought to maintain their gravitas while being tricked by one of Cohen's ridiculous personas.

It got worse, Alpher acknowledged: "Then the interviewer declared, 'Your conflict is not so bad. Jennifer-Angelina is worse.'"

Alpher and his Palestinian partner exchanged puzzled glances at the comparison of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie fighting over Brad Pitt, but because they had both received a fee for their appearance, and still hadn't completely internalized that their interviewer was not exactly who he seemed, they soldiered on.

"We played it straight and square... We smiled at the idiotic questions and answered them patiently... We knew something ludicrous was happening but couldn't quite figure it out," Alpher wrote. "Our rock-star host concluded with a mind-boggling song about the epic Middle East conflict between 'Jews and Hindus.' At the crescendo, he grabbed our hands and joined them with his."

Only after the completion of the interview did Alpher realize he'd been had, and that Cohen in the guise of Bruno had struck again.

Alpher had signed a release form before being filmed for the movie, due to be released in May 2009, so he won't likely be filing a lawsuit against Cohen like some of the comedian's patsies in 2006's smash hit Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

Trying to make the best of the experience, Alpher asserted, "We ourselves were not being ridiculed - only the conflict that occupies and preoccupies us."

[BeerBelly]

I'm going to see it but I'm sure there will be scenes that make the naked wrestling scene from Borat look straight. I love when the southern people and jocks get pissed at him from the TV show so it will prob be good.

and the asshole newyorker not not wanting his face touched
along with the little bitch running and screaming "get away
from me !" was very funny too

[moegolden]

Oh shit much more info is starting to leak.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0708081bruno1.html


Fake Ark. bouts showing men kissing draw suspicion

By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press Writer Tue Jul 8, 6:13 AM ET

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others' clothes off and kissing — a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of "Borat" fame.
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"We had a contract for cage fighting. We were deceived," said Dwight Duncan, president and CEO of Four States Fair Grounds in Texarkana, where the first of two Arkansas fights raised suspicions last month.

Matt Labov, a Los Angeles-based publicist for Baron Cohen, said he had no comment Monday about the faked fights. One of Baron Cohen's movies is due out next year.

The day after the June 5 Texarkana bout, Fort Smith's convention center hosted "Blue Collar Brawlin.'" Fort Smith police Sgt. Adam Holland said organizers told him a character named "Straight Dave" would goad a planted audience member into the ring for a fight.

The two men would then wrestle, rip away some of their clothes and share a brief kiss reminiscent of one between Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell in the film "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby."

Producers said "there would be a romantic embrace," Holland said. "They said it was kind of to essentially make fun, poke fun at wrestling — two guys rolling around on the floor, all sweaty."

An elaborate array of mounted and handheld video cameras caught the crowd of 1,600's reaction as the two men "went right up to the line" of the city's morality laws, Holland said. The two men stripped down to their underwear, kissed and rubbed on each other, the sergeant said.

The audience, as well as local fighters drawn to take part in the show, became enraged. "It set the crowd off lobbing beers," Holland said. "They had beers in plastic cups. Those things can get some distance on them actually."

Holland said it took officers about 45 minutes to clear the convention center, as the two actors sprinted away through a specially set-aside tunnel.

Those in attendance were told by several signs on display that they'd be filmed, Holland said, and signed waivers before the event. Convention center sales director Karin Hobbs declined to name the event's sponsor Monday.

Baron Cohen became a national celebrity after his 2006 hit movie "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," in which he played a bumbling reporter from the Central Asia nation.

News of the faked cage fights comes as Baron Cohen is in production of a movie titled "Bruno," named after the gay Austrian fashion reporter he developed for "Da Ali G Show." Baron Cohen, in the guise of Bruno, often interviewed hapless subjects in the South.

If the cage match visits came from Baron Cohen, it wouldn't be the first time Arkansas fell for a practical joke. In 2000, then-Gov. Mike Huckabee fell for a prank and congratulated Canada for preserving its icebound Parliament, calling it a "national igloo."

[WhiteHonkyDevil]

Wow, maybe they'll get Cohen in the studio so he can do nothing but keep repeating the same hack lines over and over again.

Cutting edge.

[moegolden]

this poster makes me want to see the movie right now....

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/graphics/art4/0708081bruno1.jpg

[Arc Lite]

I'm sorry but that's pretty funny. The smoking gun article has the "alleged" title:

Brüno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt.

[moegolden]

Wow, maybe they'll get Cohen in the studio so he can do nothing but keep repeating the same hack lines over and over again.

Cutting edge.

come on....you're only jaded because you see him make all of the appearances on all of these shows at different times and do some of these rehearsed bits in character the same way.

i don't associate him with the word hack, even if he may be hacking his own bits. Creating Borat was impressive enough on any level. at some point, the jaded audience folk has got to cut the guy some slack.

in the old days of show business (vaudeville, borscht belt, casinos, etc), a guy could live on the same 20-minute act for 10 years. then came TV.
Carlin changed our expectations as to how much new material we could ever want or expect out of a guy. read louis ck's carlin entry. http://www.louisck.net/2008/06/goodbye-george-carlin.html

i'm thankful that we're not in pre-tv age anymore, but i'd just suggest you not watch any of cohen's talk show appearances as Bruno if you want to keep the element of suprise for this.

like i said, i think bruno would probably be tougher to pull off than borat, because there is so much gay-oriented comedy out there.

[moegolden]

I'm sorry but that's pretty funny. The smoking gun article has the "alleged" title:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_(film)
sez that title was merely a suggestion from a blog.

[WhiteHonkyDevil]

come on....you're only jaded because you see him make all of the appearances on all of these shows at different times and do some of these rehearsed bits in character the same way.

i don't associate him with the word hack, even if he may be hacking his own bits. Creating Borat was impressive enough on any level. at some point, the jaded audience folk has got to cut the guy some slack.

in the old days of show business (vaudeville, borscht belt, casinos, etc), a guy could live on the same 20-minute act for 10 years. then came TV.
Carlin changed our expectations as to how much new material we could ever want or expect out of a guy. read louis ck's carlin entry. http://www.louisck.net/2008/06/goodbye-george-carlin.html

i'm thankful that we're not in pre-tv age anymore, but i'd just suggest you not watch any of cohen's talk show appearances as Bruno if you want to keep the element of suprise for this.

like i said, i think bruno would probably be tougher to pull off than borat, because there is so much gay-oriented comedy out there.

I'm only jaded because I never found him funny, and when he was on O&A promoting the show, he did the same routine he did YEARS before when he was on a local station here in Detroit promoting Da Ali G show premiering on HBO

[ShooterMcGavin]

Trailer?

[moegolden]

VIDEO: Sacha Baron Cohen held by police after outrageous stunt on Milan catwalk
Last updated at 7:45 PM on 26th September 2008

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1062374/VIDEO-Sacha-Baron-Cohen-held-police-outrageous-stunt-Milan-catwalk.html

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/26/article-1062374-02CF430D00000578-489_468x520.jpg

[moegolden]

title said to be
"Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Male."

[moegolden]

Sacha Baron Cohen crashes LA rally as 'Bruno'
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9476G4O0&show_article=1

[weakside]

I have been looking forward to this.

[moegolden]

I have a feeling he's gonna go for the record for full frontal male nudity in a mainstream film.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/12/sacha-baron-cohen-hires-p_n_143189.html

[Jables2002]

This just in:

http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=27231
In the upcoming BRUNO, Sacha Baron Cohen as the titular gay fashion reporter talks to LaToya Jackson and, of course, asks snide questions about her controversial brother. With the shocking death of Michael Jackson, however, Cohen, BRUNO director Larry Charles and Universal felt it was best to cut the scene from the film before its LA premiere. As for when the film premieres nationally on July 10th? Charles had this to say, "We decided to take it out for tonight, and we'll reassess before the release whether to keep it out." Cutting the scene from every print could prove to be a tough and expensive process but keeping it in could also affect its box office performance with people being understandably put off by it in the wake of what's happened.

[Chimp Pembry]

Yeah, now that he's dead we have to pretend he was better than he was.

[George Costanza]

Yeah, now that he's dead we have to pretend he was better than he was.

Were you alive in the 80's? That music still stands up. He collaborated with legends and had 7 top ten hits on thriller. He was beyond awesome and the pedo stuff taints a great artist.

[icculus1284]

He was beyond awesome and the pedo stuff taints a great artist.

Same thing can be said about Pete Townshend as well. Once you get accused of something such as **** or pedophilia, it pretty much ruins your reputation whether you're acquitted or not.

Anyway, I think it's probably a good idea for the director to pull that clip. After all, he's most likely doing it for the money anyhow.

[Chimp Pembry]

Were you alive in the 80's? That music still stands up. He collaborated with legends and had 7 top ten hits on thriller. He was beyond awesome and the pedo stuff taints a great artist.

Yes, he WAS awesome, over twenty years ago. He more recently was a pedophilic creep who contributed jack shit. A thousand Thrillers are not going to undo the damage of molesting a kid.

[George Costanza]

A thousand Thrillers are not going to undo the damage of molesting a kid.

I beg to differ no evidence broski. Thriller ruled a thousand thrillers would cause a supernova.

[Chimp Pembry]

Remember when OJ was framed?

[kloraferm]

I beg to differ no evidence broski. Thriller ruled a thousand thrillers would cause a supernova.
I would retire happily if I ever wrote an album half that good

[THE FEZ MAN]

im going to pass

[kloraferm]

I'll most likely wait for the video

[lockjaaaaww]

I think I'd actually go to see it.

[DJ Evel Ed]

Same thing can be said about Pete Townshend as well. Once you get accused of something such as **** or pedophilia, it pretty much ruins your reputation whether you're acquitted or not.

Anyway, I think it's probably a good idea for the director to pull that clip. After all, he's most likely doing it for the money anyhow.

I don't think Pete Townshend's rep was ruined. He was received warmly at the show I saw him at last year. He did all the talking between songs and had madd jokes. NJ crowd loved him.

Maybe he's just more manly than Jackson.

[jpc165]

Did u see him on Conan the other night? He did a nice dance on Conan's lap. I thing he liked it.

[lockjaaaaww]

I think these reality comedys are the funniest movies but have close to no re-watch value. The first time I saw a movie like jackass or Borat, it was histerical. There old and not nearly as funny around the 3rd time.

[icculus1284]

I don't think Pete Townshend's rep was ruined. He was received warmly at the show I saw him at last year. He did all the talking between songs and had madd jokes. NJ crowd loved him.

Maybe he's just more manly than Jackson.

Any time Townshend referenced on a comedy show(including O&A) they bring up the whole "pedophile" angle.

I don't expect people/true fans at a concert to boo him when he appears onstage.

[VMS]

I just don't get it. I mean, I get the jokes and the set-ups, but it just doesn't work for me.

Cohen is our modern-day Andy Kaufman, when Kaufman was doing his more avant-garde shit, and that just never worked for me. It's not the "future of comedy"- you're not going to see a shitload of people doing this sort of thing (Jackass isn't the same thing- Jackass is just stupid stunts that are funny. It's more reality-meets-Three-Stooges than Borat or Bruno).

I like my comedy as fucking comedy. I like it to be clever and I like it to be smart. Borat and what I've seen of Cohen's other work is more about being a dick to people who aren't in on the joke. It's for people who have a need to look at a bunch of rednecks and laugh, "Hey, look at the dumb fucking rednecks!!!" Which is fine. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, just as I don't think there's anything wrong with Larry the Cable Guy or Dane Cook- it's just that Cohen's stuff doesn't work for me any more than LtCG or Dane do.

[icculus1284]

The actual Ali G show is far more funnier than the spinoff movies.

Only reason I appreciate these spinoff movies is because I'm very fond of the original HBO series.

[Motor Head]

I beg to differ no evidence broski. Thriller ruled a thousand thrillers would cause a supernova.
You don't pay somebody $20,000,000 to go away if your innocent. Sorry that is proof alone.

[CousinDave]

You don't pay somebody $20,000,000 to go away if your innocent. Sorry that is proof alone.



But you have to put that amount into perspective
Remember when Michael Jordan was gambling on golf and it was huge amounts of money, but to him it was always a nominal amount.

lawyers call this paying the 'nuisance value'

[Chimp Pembry]

Was the $400 million debt hole also nominal?

[SOS]

I hope that Bruno shows up in studio.

[DocSavage]

I hope that Bruno shows up in studio.

X100
The Borat interview was absolutely fantastic and one of the highlights of O&A.
Borat the movie was genius work. He should have gotten an oscar. I will be going to see Bruno because I trust Mr. Cohen...even though...he is...A jew. ;)

[TeenBungle]

Just got back from seeing the movie. I went to a midnight screening with some friends. All three screenings were just about packed the ticket guy told me. I was even ID'ed and I'm clearly not 17 or under. I'm fucking 24. Anyhoo, once I saw the movie it all made sense with the ID'ing. I never knew you could show that much cock and have it be anything but a NC17 haha. THe movie was hilarious but it was a very interesting viewing experience. It was amazing to see three or four ppl walk out in disgust, to hear ppl actually call Sascha a "Fucking faggot" and watch the many of the white people not laugh hard at the black baby shit because roughly around the time that scene started a group of large black guys came into the theater. THey were laughing their asses off so the uptight whites finally calmed down.

I've never seen an audience squirm, laugh as hard, and be appalled like this movie. This is not a movie for frat boys or the jockish type. They may have loved Borat but this will push many of their buttons. Your best bet is to go in an check any negative feelings about homosexuality at the door because this movie throws a lot of shit in your face. Some of it was hilarious and some just seemed like it was trying to be shocking and they forgot that it's supposed to be humorous.

Spoilers below:

Best scenes: Bruno screening his new tv pilot to a test audience (where they are subjected to a long scene of a penis swinging and finally it stops, becomes erect, and the dickhole mouthes "Bruno", Bruno meeting a head of a terrorist group and trying to bring together the palestinians and israelis, The scene at the swinger's party, the scene with the rednecks he is hunting with (great looooooong moment of awkward silence), the absurd sex scene Bruno has with his asian lover, mexican people chairs, and how to fight off an attacker with dildo's. OH FUCK!!! The Ron Paul scene is great as well. "This guy is queer crazy!" LOL

[Dre]

Just got back from seeing the movie. I went to a midnight screening with some friends. All three screenings were just about packed the ticket guy told me. I was even ID'ed and I'm clearly not 17 or under. I'm fucking 24. Anyhoo, once I saw the movie it all made sense with the ID'ing. I never knew you could show that much cock and have it be anything but a NC17 haha. THe movie was hilarious but it was a very interesting viewing experience. It was amazing to see three or four ppl walk out in disgust, to hear ppl actually call Sascha a "Fucking faggot" and watch the many of the white people not laugh hard at the black baby shit because roughly around the time that scene started a group of large black guys came into the theater. THey were laughing their asses off so the uptight whites finally calmed down.

I've never seen an audience squirm, laugh as hard, and be appalled like this movie. This is not a movie for frat boys or the jockish type. They may have loved Borat but this will push many of their buttons. Your best bet is to go in an check any negative feelings about homosexuality at the door because this movie throws a lot of shit in your face. Some of it was hilarious and some just seemed like it was trying to be shocking and they forgot that it's supposed to be humorous.

Spoilers below:

Best scenes: Bruno screening his new tv pilot to a test audience (where they are subjected to a long scene of a penis swinging and finally it stops, becomes erect, and the dickhole mouthes "Bruno", Bruno meeting a head of a terrorist group and trying to bring together the palestinians and israelis, The scene at the swinger's party, the scene with the rednecks he is hunting with (great looooooong moment of awkward silence), the absurd sex scene Bruno has with his asian lover, mexican people chairs, and how to fight off an attacker with dildo's. OH FUCK!!! The Ron Paul scene is great as well. "This guy is queer crazy!" LOL

I just got back from seeing it and this pretty much epitomizes my feelings on the film. I thought it was hysterically funny and eye-opening. By eye-opening I mean in terms of how it exposed some of the REAL imbeciles that inhabit this country. I found that I laughed harder at Borat, but thought this was better at getting the message across in terms of satirizing the people in this country, (i.e. a gay person hits people on a totally different level than a foreigner), yet did go very heavy on the shock humor, (which I wasn't opposed to, it was hysterical). Overall a really funny experience, that I highly recommend checking out if you're fan of Borat or Sacha Baron Cohen. I loved some of the people in the audience that were scared to laugh at certain things. What a bunch of pussies the media in this country has turned us into. I thought it was genius. Also, Bungle, in terms of the best scenes in the film, I think you forgot to add, (and what I say isn't going to spoil anything if people reading this haven't seen the film yet), the scene where he interviews the parents of the children at the photography studio. I was crying laughing in that scene.

[Larz]

It seemed a bit disjointed, in total not as many laughs as Borat but there are many more shock moments. The scene with Ron Paul was pure off the charts cringe. His middle east excursion was probably the best part of the movie but way too short. If you speak German his gobbledygook conversations are pretty fucking funny as its mostly just random or made up words strung together.

[TeenBungle]

I just got back from seeing it and this pretty much epitomizes my feelings on the film. I thought it was hysterically funny and eye-opening. By eye-opening I mean in terms of how it exposed some of the REAL imbeciles that inhabit this country. I found that I laughed harder at Borat, but thought this was better at getting the message across in terms of satirizing the people in this country, (i.e. a gay person hits people on a totally different level than a foreigner), yet did go very heavy on the shock humor, (which I wasn't opposed to, it was hysterical). Overall a really funny experience, that I highly recommend checking out if you're fan of Borat or Sacha Baron Cohen. I loved some of the people in the audience that were scared to laugh at certain things. What a bunch of pussies the media in this country has turned us into. I thought it was genius. Also, Bungle, in terms of the best scenes in the film, I think you forgot to add, (and what I say isn't going to spoil anything if people reading this haven't seen the film yet), the scene where he interviews the parents of the children at the photography studio. I was crying laughing in that scene.

Holy shit, I left that one out. Liposuction for a infant hahaha.

Did you have anyone leave the theater? My friend told me that like half the row behind her got up and left.

When he interviews the terrorist it was so cringy. You can tell that shit was for real because of how quick the whole middle east part of the movie was. He clearly wasn't sticking around for long.

[annoyinglee]

I enjoyed Bruno. The scene with Ron Paul was so cringe..... that Ron Paul didn't know what he was getting into.

[lockjaaaaww]

I'll probably be seeing it over the weekend. I said that about terminator salvation and didn't but logic hit me that the movie probably sucks.

[kloraferm]

Haven't seen it yet, but I'm guessing Borat's prolly funnier. Who knows, though?

[newfie_lover]

Saw it last night, fucking hysterical.

The wife thought Borat was slightly better.

I figure since most people have seen Borat, they kinda already know the "reality/story" formula. It's not as shocking, but just as funny.

[LiddyRules]

Although moments were more staged than in Borat, there are elements that work better as an actual movie but hurt some of the comedy. It was also funny though. I actually think I laughed more at this than The Hangover.

[Dre]

Although moments were more staged than in Borat, there are elements that work better as an actual movie but hurt some of the comedy. It was also funny though. I actually think I laughed more at this than The Hangover.

Agreed. There were certain scenes that just made me laugh hysterically, and although the laughs were more consistent in The Hangover, I definitely laughed at this more.

Also, how staged do you think the children's photography studio scene was? Because I was pissing myself in that scene but in retrospect those people seem almost too stupid, even by the standards of those "celebrity children" parents. That scene along with the screening of the pilot of his show to the TV execs, the swingers party, hunting in the woods, Ron Paul interview, and his travel to the the Middle East put this as one of the funniest movies of the year for me, along with The Hangover.

[lockjaaaaww]

The gayest movie I've ever seen, but also histerical, I was laughing my ass off at almost every gag they pulled.

[Falldog]

I was disappointed by the over all movie. Everything felt too staged, and even then, most of the reactions were lack luster. Like physic for example.

The only bit I know wasn't staged was the part at the MMA fight at the end. Despite that it was too obvious the work they did to push the crowd in the direction they wanted for the film.

[JonBenetRamsey]

went on a 2nd date to see this and it landed me a third. fucking hilarious movie as well.

[BusyChild04]

The first 30 minutes were hilarious...but at around the 35-45 minute mark the funny just completely stops...I found myself yawning a few times during the last 45 minutes or so. Very disappointed.

[Absolutely]

Seriously, how can you show that much Cock in a movie?
You couldn't show some chick's pussy for 2 minutes, could you? And if so, why aren't they...

I thought it was alright, there were some funny moments, but I wasn't blown away by it. Some of the "Bits" weren't really that funny at all, more cringe inducing - which is fine.

As far as a lot of it being staged, how do you think that works? I'm naive about that... For instance the hunting scenes, did they just ask 3 random guys to go hunting? Like what do they tell them their point is? Do they say they're shooting a movie or a documentary?

The showing I went to, I would guess that maybe 25% liked it. There was a lot of "That fucking sucked" one group said they're done watching anything he makes.

[Falldog]

one group said they're done watching anything he makes.

They must be a very special group of people.