Bruno: What Did You Think?

This movie does not live up to Borat at all. Bruno was trying so hard to be funny that it made some parts of the movie just not funny at all. When I saw it people in the theater felt awkward and didn't know whether to laugh or be offended. I have a review at my site. http://bit.ly/11kYhK

It was really gay. So I liked it alot..

I like it and I think it's better than Borat. The talking penis sequence got the most laughs from me, but I feel that the trailers ruined some parts of the film. The Ron Paul scene is just delicious. The film also provides a great example of how the southern US is. It's a place full of the moronic, bigoted assholes shown: Confederate flags everywhere and people scared of homosexuals and think that they will have sex with them. It's sickening. And you got to love the moronic fundie in the film. Being gay is a choice! You can't listen to this type of music because the people who made it are gay!

You do realize you sound as ignorant as the people on the film, right?

I'm from the South, from one of the most conservative states in the U.S. Yes, there is some of what you mentioned here (someone from my state's university was proudly wearing his shirt in the cage fight scene), but this gross over-generalization is rather offensive. There are some wonderfully kind people in the south, just as there are some wonderfully ignorant people in the south.

And before you go toting the North as a Mecca for tolerance, read up about MLK's marches in Chicago. He found racism there when he too thought it was isolated in the South. How about the swimming pool in the north east that, a few days ago, kicked out all the black kids because they were changing the 'complexion' of the pool?

Fuck that, man. How dare you stereotype an entire region, while exposing some of the most intense hypocrisy I've seen since, well, since I saw Bruno.

I'm from Oklahoma. Those douche bags with the OU shirts? Yeah, that's an accurate portrayal of the denizens of my state.

So am I. You've been hanging out with the wrong people.

I'm not saying they don't exist, and I won't claim there aren't more of them here than elsewhere. But they aren't a majority, we aren't all "moronic, bigoted assholes."

I've talked to a lot of people who have that perception of Oklahoma. They're always surprised at how "normal" i am. Then they come here and realize it's full of genuinely nice people.

The cage fight scene is not an honest depiction of what happened. Word on the street is that the audience was promised a real cage fight at Xpm and when they showed up they were sold $1 Beers for like 4 hours with NO cage fight going on. They had to sit and wait and drink. Then the movie crew threw anti-gay t-shirts into the crowd as prizes. Then, once they were drunk and angry, did the gay cage match start.

Interesting. But that doesn't completely excuse their behavior. Yes they can be mad that they were not getting a cage fight, but they didn't have to WEAR the T-shirts given to them.

I think we have to point out a major problem here: not that they were mad that they weren't seeing a cage fight and rather seeing two dudes grope each other, but why were they at a cage fight to begin with? Who the fuck goes to those things?

Just kidding cage fight lovers...

I'm never going to say this movie doesn't show some bigotry, but I get angry (as i did after Borat) when I knew people would assume everybody who lives in the South demonstrates the exact same views as those on screen.

Talking dancing penis was brilliant. Eight people walked out of my theater.

Hum let's see. I saw 5 sets of people (some with little children) leave the theatre after two really inane points in the movie. The elderly couple in front of me looked stiff as hell while their children and grandchildren cackled and bellowed. The entire theatre was full of absorbed laughter and I felt a little gay after leaving the theatre.

I thought it was funny. I enjoyed watching it. I found this second Docu-Comedy of Choen's to be more story driven than faux-documentary driven like he presented with Borat. It felt like we were just watching Bruno being Bruno and not Bruno acknowledging he is Bruno in front of the cameras. I found it interesting how the interviews with real/probably staged individuals weren't always introduced. The movie just dove into those situations with the aid of Bruno's V.O. The material got bawdy to the nth degree. I just want to know if that bike contraption scene at the beginning was real... Actually, you know what, I'm better off not knowing.