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Topic	Board 8 Watches and Ranks Satire Films: The Ranking!
Suprak_the_Stud 03/21/23 2:34:10 PM #338:	AW YEAH BACK ON TOP I feel like I mentioned aging poorly several times in here already, but no movie aged worse for me that Borat. And it wasn't even Borat's fault. It's me! THE PHONE CALLS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE. When I say Borat aged bad, I don't mean in terms of outdated humor (although someone not from Kazahkstan doing a horrendously bad accent and sounding like someone recently thawed from when he was frozen in 1968 probably isn't the best look). I mean that humor just doesn't work for me any more because I am a cynical, pessimistic bastard. Oh, you went down south and found people saying eggregiously homophobic shit? Ok. You found a group of three frat bros that basically advocate rape? Yeah, that's sort of what they do. High school Suprak had a much higher view of people, so when I saw this I remember it being this incredible film that really challenged my perceptions of things. But now I'm like "what is this low hanging fruit and why should I be interested". I'm surprised they didn't say worse things, honestly. Stuff like the Daily Show or even Cohen's most recent work on HBO is far more interesting because they go further, point out hypocrisy, and challenge people in power. Here Cohen is just taking a microscope to the taint of America and we're supposed to be surprised when he finds shit. It was neither funny nor interesting to me, and his shtick got old pretty fast. And the scripted stuff is somehow even worse. This was hard to get through, as is any film featuring a fully nude 600 pound man running down a hotel hallway. Borat is barely a character, and is more so just an empty slate that exists so people are comfortable saying terrible things around him. I'm not at all interested in who he is or what he's doing, and his journey to kidnap Pamela Anderson because he's from Kazahkstan and that's how things supposedly work there would probably be offensive if I was interested enough to care. There are barely jokes in these portions and I feel like they were struggling to string the interview portions together. Like Life of Brain, this is another one I thought would be top 10 going in because of my old memories from when I saw it the first time. "Oops" --- Moops? "I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion." <cite>Suprak_the_Stud posted [p:972317669] in Board 8 Wa... [t:80364077]...</cite> <quote>AW YEAH BACK ON TOPI feel like I mentioned aging poorly several times in here already, but no movie aged worse for me that Borat. And it wasn't even Borat's fault. It's me! THE PHONE CALLS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE.When I say Borat aged bad, I don't mean in terms of outdated humor (although someone not from Kazahkstan doing a horrendously bad accent and sounding like someone recently thawed from when he was frozen in 1968 probably isn't the best look). I mean that humor just doesn't work for me any more because I am a cynical, pessimistic bastard. Oh, you went down south and found people saying eggregiously homophobic shit? Ok. You found a group of three frat bros that basically advocate rape? Yeah, that's sort of what they do. High school Suprak had a much higher view of people, so when I saw this I remember it being this incredible film that really challenged my perceptions of things. But now I'm like "what is this low hanging fruit and why should I be interested". I'm surprised they didn't say worse things, honestly. Stuff like the Daily Show or even Cohen's most recent work on HBO is far more interesting because they go further, point out hypocrisy, and challenge people in power. Here Cohen is just taking a microscope to the taint of America and we're supposed to be surprised when he finds shit. It was neither funny nor interesting to me, and his shtick got old pretty fast.And the scripted stuff is somehow even worse. This was hard to get through, as is any film featuring a fully nude 600 pound man running down a hotel hallway. Borat is barely a character, and is more so just an empty slate that exists so people are comfortable saying terrible things around him. I'm not at all interested in who he is or what he's doing, and his journey to kidnap Pamela Anderson because he's from Kazahkstan and that's how things supposedly work there would probably be offensive if I was interested enough to care. There are barely jokes in these portions and I feel like they were struggling to string the interview portions together.Like Life of Brain, this is another one I thought would be top 10 going in because of my old memories from when I saw it the first time. "Oops" --- Moops?"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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