7 Replies to “Thoughts after seeing a movie, coincidentally in five words [A post by Beck]”

1. Joe says:

   November 12, 2006 at 10:28 am

   It is very good.  It is not the best movie of all time or even the top ten.  I can’t imagine watching Borat over and over again like you can with Caddyshack or Animal House or Monty Python.  But it definitely has some laughs, is very well done (it mixes a bunch of comedy styles together to make something original) but it also drags a little in spots.  Sasha Cohen is a great actor and he saves jokes and bits that would basically be Jackass material and makes them even funnier (although Jackass can occasionally be pretty funny).  I would give it three stars out of four.

2. PC14 says:

   November 12, 2006 at 1:58 pm

   “It will be interesting to see how it plays in the red states as they’re not usually up for this type of comedy”–Ian Drew, West Coast editor of US Magazine.

   Well I live in a red county in a blue state and I was up for it.

3. gahrie says:

   November 12, 2006 at 3:05 pm

   weeelll, us’in out hearh doun trust no new fangled talkin’ peechers…you hearh?

4. RiverCocytus says:

   November 12, 2006 at 5:41 pm

   note to self: never read Ian Drew.

   He’d probably say that the popularity of South Park is a surprise too.

   “All that makin’ fun of Jesus? Man. Can’t see how the Red Staters could like it.”

5. Joe says:

   November 12, 2006 at 8:47 pm

   Borat is nice, but greatest movie of all time. . . NOT.  It is not even the greatest mockumentary–those honors go to This Is Spinal Tap and that sleeper, An Inconvienant Truth. 

   Borat will play ok around the country and should make decent money.  Funny is funny and frankly the competition out there right now sucks.  Come on, Brokeback made $83 million and it was considered a hit and Borat was cheaper to make and already half way there (of course Borat has a real gay sex scene as opposed to the implied ones in Brokeback). 

   I am blown away finding out yesterday reading Peter Bart’s review of Gibson’s latest (he thinks Apocalyso is going to be great but probably ignored by Hollywood) that The Devil Wears Prada is a runaway mega hit (apparently it made $125 million domestic and $ 152 million foreign).  I remember it coming out but I did not know anybody who saw it (or admitted to seeing it).

6. gahrie says:

   November 12, 2006 at 9:18 pm

   I saw The Devil Wears Prada. (and I’ve had a serious boot fetish ever since….thigh high (or at least kne high) leather boots and a short mini skirt…….)

7. Joe says:

   November 13, 2006 at 12:08 am

   I did not see The Devil Wears Prada, but I saw Brokeback.  If anything shows being gay is something ingrained or genetic is Anne Hathoway’s character not turning Jake Gyllenhaal’s character straight again.  His loss.  She is a hottie! 

   http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/5372/Events/5372/AnneHathaw_Mazur_11312893_400.jpg.html?path=pgallery&path_key=Hathaway,%20Anne%20(I)

   Here are Hathaway and Johansson together (two hotties):

   http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/2395/AnneHathaw_Cohen_2099014_400.jpg.html?path=pgallery&path_key=Hathaway,%20Anne%20(I)&seq=76

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