Roger L. Simon: Stop Him Before He Reviews Again!

Yes, God, I have committed the sin of reviewing once again. Please forgive me. But I have done it on Pajamas, not on NRO. Does that make a difference? [No.-ed. I didn't ask you.] And I have given a rave review. Does that help? [To Borat? So has everybody.-ed.]

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I had no idea what Borat was about, other than it was making money. Now, as soon as I post this, I'll see where it is playing and make arrangements to see it today.

One thing I noticed in your post (and review) is that there is no link to the Borat website (I'm assuming there is a web page for the movie.) In your post, both links go to your review. Since there is only a couple of sentences between the links, I think that perhaps you had intended to use the "Borat" link to link to the Borat website?

So what is this apologizing about, Roger? Have you been abused by the critic class in the past?

Unlike reporting the news, reviews seem to bring out a rash of taste and humor cops. They are so intent on being offended that they miss a great movie. With all of the publicity, they knew what they were walking into. Naturally, someone forced them to go. They need a large swallow of Kazikstan's favorite drink.

After such a sitting. I want to seriously ask - Could it be possible that "Ali G" and "Borat" have something to say about how vulnerable we are? After reading the returns I think we should be more embarrassed than the real and the made believe Kasastinians claimed at the White House. Did the HW dismiss it as something less than a possible blab blab bla? - You tell me.
When people see a camera and a camera crew what happens to them? Is it possible that "telephone polls" are equally as mystifying?

Less than that. When will entertainment distract us away enough so that an election could be said to be a Nielsen failure?

Again comedy if comedy is about self preservation, it will be taken with the outmost seriousness. No?

Like I said before in this very venue. Laughter is an involuntary reaction to the miracle of being alive. Borat as far as it is funny to you, could be said to be a timely curse.

I have HBO on demand (little as it turns out).
After a (less than well spent) sitting of "Borat" a lot of it seemed familiar at the movie theater. Sure enough. I'm watching Da Ali G show - it as a full dress rehearsal for the movie.
I don't want to get my baseball wrong but - dejavue all over again would be understating it.

Justice is balance. You burned down my house and left me for dead. Consider us even.

from Batman Begins, characters by Bob Kane, story by David S. Goyer, screenplay by Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer

In answer to your second question, Roger, it does. See him with Jay Leno and Martha Stewart on Friday night?

There was a PBS POV program recently on the days leading up to the elections in Iraq. She filmed a private security firm (hired by us) to provide security at polling places (we didn't want polling places to be manned by military folk in full gear, it wouldn't look right in Peoria, so there we were)
Anyhow - this American business guy is doing his presentation during the course of witch he said something to the effect that "this is going to be Iraq's big show". He is doing a standard football coach speech and after a few more words a visibly disconcerted Iraqi asked "our big show?" to witch the American security consultant w/o missing a beat said "all the eyes of the world will be on you". It makes perfect sense to us here, but it was obvious that to the Iraqi a "big show" and an "election" somehow should not be in the same sentence.
Ali G & Borat is about that writ large.

Sorry if i'm posting too much but I just watched Ali G interview Butros Butros Gali while he was Sec. Gen. of the United Nations.

So, this guy character Borat has been with us a while, how long can the same joke keep running?

November 12, 2006: Stop Him Before He Reviews Again!

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