Borat - what more can I say?

[ffolkes]

my brother saw this at a screening in Toronto's film festival... he said it was insane, the audience was howling with laughter and he was in tears. i think there was a standing ovation too, ppl are actually calling "borat" a masterpiece.

right now the movie has a staggering 9.4 average score on imdb. granted it has only 500 votes so far, but if it keeps going like this after 5000 votes it'd be the highest rated movie in imdb, taking down godfather and shawshank.

which in itself would be pretty funny

[ffolkes]

apparently it didn't go down flawlessly either:

"Sasha Baron Cohen was booed by audiences at the Toronto Film Festival on Thursday night after a film projector broke 30 minutes into his new film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. British funnyman Cohen attempted to calm the crowd by going onstage as his character Borat, saying, "If you don't give these people money back, I crush you!" But the audience were furious after the screening was cancelled following an hour of waiting for the projector to be fixed and continued to boo the star. One audience member said, "It was complete madness."

this was obviously an earlier screening than the one my brother attended yesterday.

[grady]

Here is some video from the Toronto festivities.

[Tania]

I personally CANNOT wait to see this movie! The previews are hilarious!

[GoatSucker]

From http://www.cinematical.com/2006/09/1...loves-myspace/ :

One of the Toronto International Film Festival's most buzzed-about films will be hitting the internet next Wednesday, but only for those who are members of the MySpace community. As part of the site's brand new Black Carpet screening series, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (which has to be one of the longest, most absurd titles in the history of film) will be made available to folks in 20 U.S. cities, as well as Canada, Germany, Ireland, the U.K. and Australia.

The film, which follows Sacha Baron Cohen's fictional anti-semitic Borat character around the United States while he stumbles over his words and pisses everyone off, has come under fire as of late from the very real government of Kazakhstan who feel the pic and the character are, well, not a very fair representation of their country. While that may be true, audiences everywhere are eating up Cohen's shtick and by screening it on MySpace, the word of mouth could provide Borat with some decent box office numbers once it finally hits theaters on November 3.

Was expecting to have to wait till November for this, but I know where I'll be on Wednesday

Edit: Direct link is http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndid=107888674

[Dirty0900]

The trailer is hilarious i cant wait for it to come out, now they need to make a Bruno movie from the Ali G character spin off's.