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“Will you put that stupid Dilbert book away!” - Wife Number One, on our honeymoon
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*not actual nephew I learned something this past weekend that disturbs me. My four year old nephew Joey has a big schlong. It's so big that it gets talked about. …
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Recently, I entered my wife and I into a "Couple's Best" contest where you submit a 200 word story of how you met and people vote on the best story. …
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Kids nowadays, they got it made. When I say kids, I mean little humans under the age of seven. The ones who are excited about going to school because homework…
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There are two kinds of toilet paper: the good stuff and the other stuff. The good stuff is fluffy and squeezably soft while the other stuff is scratchy and noticably…
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Diet Mountain DewThe biggest moment in my life wasn't my sixteenth birthday. It wasn't the junior or senior prom. It wasn't the day of my weddings (nor my divorces). It…
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Growing up, I had what I affectionately called "Fat Boy Asthma." Whenever I would play sports, I had trouble breathing. I never experienced an attack for no reason like most…
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I'm beginning my Life 3.0 and this weekend was one of mile"stones" for me. I bought a car, a 2004 Pontiac Aztek. It's ugly, I know ... it's so ugly…
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If Jesus came back today, I bet he could dunk a basketball. With that whole water-to-wine, healing-the-blind, walking-on-water thing, you know dunking would be a walk in the park. Think…
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The First Knuckle Method.You've seen these people. We all have. The people that engage in some good old fashioned public booger mining.
That's my politically correct term for nose…
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The Impervious Baseball RainNovember is finally kicking into full swing and the cold is upon us. After a month of teasing us with relatively mild temperatures, Autumn has turned the…
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Written by Ross Cavins
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Monday, 13 August 2007 07:10 |
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I finally saw the Borat movie a few weeks ago and although I laughed pretty hard at parts of it, I must confess that it wasn't a great movie. I'm pretty much a movie snob, flicks like Fargo and The Fisher King and Memento are what turn me on. But occasionally, I love a good action flick or a miraculous sports movie or a stupid funny movie, some mindless drivel that plays with your emotions or makes you laugh for the sake of laughing.
 Borat, unabashed and unashamed.
Mockumentaries can be great. Look at Best In Show and Drop Dead Gorgeous, not to mention the classic This Is Spinal Tap. But this one didn't have that polished feel, which is actually what Cohen seemed to be going for. In my case, though, it just didn't work. Borat was almost a mockumentary with a Jackass kinda feel to it.
Where it did succeed was the cringe factor. I give it a ten here. The poop-in-a-bag presentation was jaw-dropping. The naked-balls-in-the-face scene made me pee my pants, literally. I had to stop the movie and change into some Depends. And even they weren't adequate enough.
Borat would've been great as a cable pay-TV special, Cohen is the king of his own brand of comedy. And there's no doubt he's developed a very loyal following. The man is funny. And he's good as what he does.
But he's not a movie writer, he's a skit writer. As long as you know what you're getting when you watch his stuff, there's no problem. When I sat down to watch Borat, I was expecting a movie and I didn't get one. I got a collection of skits cobbled together with the weak plot of Borat trying to meet Pamela Anderson so that he could marry her. In turn, that led to this poorly written blog review that wandered aimlessly, just like the movie. Made my point yet?
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