The Dictator

[Divide by Zero]

I got to see a blurry copy of this movie courtesy of a friend.

It wasn't too good overall. The timing is bad with the Iran situation, especially knowing that Sacha Baron Cohen is a Zionist.

However one part got me cracking up:

From a movie review:
"Aladeen argues a dictatorship is preferable to a democracy like the U.S. where leaders lie to get the country into war, torture people, rig elections, hold blacks in prison and the one percent rule over the 99 percent."

 

[knowledge_of_self]

I will never watch this movie. I think a lot of this movie (from what I've seen in the previews) is making fun of Gadaffi. The way he dresses when he's a dictator clearly indicates it. And in light of what happened to Gadaffi (murdered in a heinous way and the aftermath) I find it all to be very distasteful.

Sacha Baron Cohen's movies usually don't interest me at all, but the only one I actually enjoyed with him in it was Hugo and that wasn't really his movie, he just acted in it. It's very disappointing when someone has talent and uses it in such horrible fashion most of the time.

Just my thoughts..

 

[Divide by Zero]

The speech he made that was hilarious:

 

[melatonin]

I would say the timing is perfect to release a film like this. Nice subtle way of dis-crediting and moking leaders of the middle-east hidden behind poor humour.
And if its anything like Cohens recent movies, it wont even be funny, so basically its near enough war propganda.
Its amazing that mainstream films like this can be released with zero sensitivity to things that have, and are happening in the middle east.
Thats in itself speaks a million words.

 

[engagedinattempting]

I haven't seen The Dictator but will do so based on what little I've seen of the man's previous efforts.

His 2009 Bruno character had me laughing so hard I was incapable of any movement beyond struggling to get another breath so I could laugh some more; what I remember most vividly was his Straight Dave the wrestler bit:

[...]Eight months later, a now-heterosexual Brüno, under the alias "Straight Dave", hosts a cage-fight match in Arkansas, "Straight Dave's Man Slammin' Maxout". Lutz appears at the event and calls Brüno a faggot. The two fight, only to rekindle their love, making out and stripping in front of the shocked spectators who throw objects into the cage.[...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%BCno

Describing the spectators as "shocked" is wildly understated; the poor crackers appeared so threatened by these doings that they were literally howling with rage. Maybe I was fooled in a different manner than the crowd, but it seemed to me that Cohen must have been in some degree of danger to perform as he did in such an unsympathetic venue.

Perhaps his whack-job stretching of reality doesn't really expand anyone's consciousness by helping them see how silly and reactionary they are, but the opportunity is there.

That's my opinion; with it and, what, 2 bucks maybe, I can get a bad cup of coffee.

 

[Cosmos]

yes I found Bruno kind of funny too but from what I have seen from this new movie
well I refuse to watch this propaganda BS !

sorry I can't feel comfortable to watch anything like this knowing what I know!
I simple can't laugh about those kind of things knowing that many people died and still die because of this kind of mind manipulations.
It's kind of sick when I think about it.....