Sacha Baron Cohen

mrcozdude wrote: Deathrabbit wrote: Cohen can be a little juvenile at times, but ultimately his humor is about destroying this perception people have of us living in an enlightened age. He's proving that deep down, were still the same dim-witted cavemen we were 50000 years ago. And that to me, is the biggest joke of all. All this technology and modern society; it's like letting a chimpanzee play with a handgun. Well said.

I think predominantly I just thought Ali G's catchphrases were a great mockery of teenage gang culture in England, but now I look more into it, all three completely humiliate the people that are a bit stuck up and show out their true colours. I don't think many people can pull that off well these days.

Grab a camera, make a fool of yourself, be rude and gross... and people will love it...

Sasha is crap...

DId you see Shatner reading her resignation speech. Hilarious! On a second note a guy on one site had a theory that she was a dadaist because her speeches are so incomprehensible. Now that I think about it, I can totally see the Captain belting out some Palin.

Edited by Slartibartfast - July 30 2009 at 13:09

The Pessimist wrote: Dunno where abouts because it's practically in the middle of nowhere Just coming down to visit a friend as you do... Are they hot on folk music down there? Cos I like a bit of folk me

Not really.unfortunately  I just heard it was a stereotype round Cornwall and Devon to see folk bands.Down here we still have the same crap cover bands as I expect the rest of England does.I want to to even this post out with some positivity about Devon but I can't think of any.Ah ha!The country side is good.......muddy.....but good.

And speaking of Cohen the chavs,hoodys etc here are exceptionaly funny.Exactly like the ones in hot fuzz.you've never seen something as funny as someone for Devon speaking like X zibit.

The T wrote: JJLehto wrote: Well I dont think ANYone, (who is sane) actually expects Cohen movies to change anyones viewpoints. Those that enjoy them, (generally) will already be open minded about such topics. People who hate gays well, of course they'll hate the movie but they wouldn't like it anyway. His work is not for everyone, that's for sure.   True. Now, we established he will not change people's minds, so his work doesn't really have any redeeming value from that side. As a display of story-telling art, is garbage. What is it, then? A desire to shock, to impress by disgust, in a society where every day it's easier to impress people just by being rude and un-civil. The destruction of cinema. Stories are gone.

It is satire. And don't even give me the BS that is too obvious or not subtle enough. Also, the point is too make people look stupid. If it's not your thing then cool, but I enjoy seeing people looking like fools.
I will admit, Bruno was a bit too out there. There was NO subtlety to it, it was more shock value.

But as I've said it's my least favorite.
Borat was some great satire in my opinion, and I ALMOST felt bad for some of the fools in that movie and he did it without, well being shock oriented, (entirely).
And Ali G was making fun of wannabe gangsta's. What's not to enjoy.

Anyway, enough with this thread. People will hate/misunderstand/be weirded out but I like Cohen very much.
Bruno was meh....but his other 2 persona's were great!
Besides the more controversy he causes, whether it is on a global level or here on PA, it all just feeds the troll of Mr. Cohen.
He is win.

Exactly.
I know we're proggers so EVERYTHING must be intelligent but seriously....sometimes dumb funny is, well funny.
Gotta have some things simple.

The T wrote: JJLehto wrote: Well I dont think ANYone, (who is sane) actually expects Cohen movies to change anyones viewpoints. Those that enjoy them, (generally) will already be open minded about such topics. People who hate gays well, of course they'll hate the movie but they wouldn't like it anyway. His work is not for everyone, that's for sure.   True. Now, we established he will not change people's minds, so his work doesn't really have any redeeming value from that side. As a display of story-telling art, is garbage. What is it, then? A desire to shock, to impress by disgust, in a society where every day it's easier to impress people just by being rude and un-civil. The destruction of cinema. Stories are gone.

Please, cinema will be destroyed by meat head sh*t like Crank and Fast and Furious and stupid slasher movies like TCM or The Unborn (seriously, movie with creepy kid that kills ppl, that never happens) long before it's threatened by the likes of Cohen. In fact I'd venture to say his stuff has more of a plot than the aforementioned genres.

JJLehto wrote: Thank you! Yeah, this is just the T  being his usual self.