re: 'Borat 2' Tomatometer - 89% and Spoilers Thread

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People who can't laugh at themselves are the worst.

"Trump fans" should laugh at this as well.

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Except it isn't funny to video someone in the bedroom and then run in and pretend they're doing something they're not. It's also not funny to then misrepresent that interaction to make it look worse than it actually was.

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And you guys say everyone else in the country has gone soft

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That much is true, but I'm not sure what that has to do with things that clearly aren't funny.

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Rudy must've agreed to something...I mean he's the POTUS attorney...I mean he took on the Mafia.

If he signed some bullshite release and got duped

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I mean he signed to do an interview (that’s the “duped” part, not vetting who was interviewing him)

the chick “flirting” with him with cameras rolling and then untucking his shirt is just a setup

taking that one still screenshot and putting it in a Tweet with the implications they did (Rudy inappropriately touched himself in front of a 15 year old girl) is pretty fricked up

I don’t see how Rudy really did much wrong in the situation other than agree to an interview with a fake reporter.

Seriously compare the difference in these tweets. The Zac tweet is what everyone took off with

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Rudy W. Giuliani

(1) The Borat video is a complete fabrication. I was tucking in my shirt after taking off the recording equipment.

At no time before, during, or after the interview was I ever inappropriate. If Sacha Baron Cohen implies otherwise he is a stone-cold liar.

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(2) In fact, the NY Post today reports "it looks to me like an exaggeration through editing."

As soon as I realized it was a set up I called the police, which has been noted in THR article on July 8th.

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(3) This is an effort to blunt my relentless exposure of the criminality and depravity of Joe Biden and his entire family.

Deadline Hollywood reports CAA had a distribution screening in September where there was no mention of the scene holding any importance.

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(4) We are preparing much bigger dumps off of the hard drive from hell, of which Joe Biden will be unable to defend or hide from. I have the receipts.

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the content at some of those antifa protests alone would be great comedy. A bernie rally? Same.

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these dudes crashed the women’s march a few years ago by pretending it was a race and it was pretty funny

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no one really tries to crash or make fun of liberal causes these days, probably fear or getting canceled or labeled some “-ist” or “-phobe”

I’ll wait to see it before forming my own opinion, but several other people that have viewed said his hand was down his pants moving around for several seconds - longer time than would be necessary to tick a shift in.

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$262M for an R rated comedy in 2006 with no real plot and an actor mainly known from his Ali G skits and no one else is pretty insane. It finished 15th in box office that year, the highest grossing comedy. Like it or not, the movie was extremely relevant

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Your conclusion doesn't match your facts.

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So would you say that basically all of the r rated comedies of the 2000s weren’t relevant? The Hangover being the only exception?

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Relevant at the box office is not the same as culturally relevant. I would say Borat had no effect on the culture of our nation whatsoever.

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oh, it's making fun of Trump and Republicans? Geeee, I wonder how the critics will respond to it

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If it's funny, who cares.

I haven't hardly seen one funny skit about Trump since he took office though(SNL, Late Night hosts, etc.). So we'll see.

Didn't think this would work with him being so recognizable but recently read that it's Borat going under cover so I imagine it will be similarly authentic to the first (i hope).