There was no one in the Quick newsroom more excited about the Sacha Cohen's Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan than I was.
Then the glorious day came, and I arrived at the Cinemark theater a full hour early, and I saw it, and it was ... OK.
But even though the movie disappointed me, now I have something new to be excited about: a plethora of fallout!
But more is coming every day! Look at this -- an article from ABC News suggests that Borat is making impressionable young people act sexist and anti-Semitic.
Is Borat the new Jackass? Yes. Except with Kazakh accents.
Posted by Alex Kanakis @ 3:59 PM Tue, Nov 14, 2006
For defending of newsman Borat against slanders of Americans stoopid
Isn't pop culture precisely about the wacked-out downward spiral of culture?
I'm thinking that a particular descent is fun for everyone, i.e., the Borat flick, except for those who take offense. And there's always someone or some group ready, willing and able to take offense at the slightest slight. That's part of pop culture, too.
Pop culture can't have it both ways. Amongst the people who take offense at Borat are ready and willing to enjoy culture's downward spiral elsewhere.
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For defending of newsman Borat against slanders of Americans stoopid
Isn't pop culture precisely about the wacked-out downward spiral of culture?
I'm thinking that a particular descent is fun for everyone, i.e., the Borat flick, except for those who take offense. And there's always someone or some group ready, willing and able to take offense at the slightest slight. That's part of pop culture, too.
Pop culture can't have it both ways. Amongst the people who take offense at Borat are ready and willing to enjoy culture's downward spiral elsewhere.