Last week just was not up to my standards, and I apologize. Work has been brutal. I was going to show The Man Who Came to Dinner this week, but I saw The Dictator was available on Pluto. I rewatched it about 2:00 in the morning as I busted tail for work. Damn this is a great film. Probably the best film Sacha Baron Cohen has done. If you are only used to his films where he tries to interact with real people while performing as one of his characters, you are in for a different kind of movie altogether. This is much better, and well focused. To me it is his best effort and a total departure from what he did in the past. He absolutely rips into liberal western culture, Arab culture, and politics. Seems like the perfect movie to to post, given all the tensions in Iran!
So what is it about? IMDB says it best:
The heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
I have no doubt that left-leaning people will be offended by this, so feel free to show it to your lefty relatives. Sacha did repeat this kind of success later with The Brothers Grimsby, and I wish he would make more like these two films in the future. His creativity should not get tied down to Borat for the rest of his life.
In addition to Sacha Baron Cohen, this film also has Anna Faris as the love interest. She is unrecognizable in this, except for her voice.
Even if you hated Borat, will you trust me on this one? Give it a shot. This is completely different. So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! Next week, we will resume our regularly scheduled programming with The Man Who Came to Dinner!
“Last week just was not up to my standards, and I apologize.”
It’s OK. I just thought the picture quality was too deliberately awful. I could barely see what was going on.
Just overall I did not spend enough time verifying it was a quality pick.
Outside his role as the lemur king I never found him funny. /shrug
There is a king of the lemurs?
Yes.
Yes, and he likes to move it, move it.
Even if you hated Borat, will you trust me on this one? Give it a shot.
I liked Borat until it settled into my mind what it was I just saw. Then I hated it.
I’ll give this a shot. Diving in!
I thought it was amusing in my twenties. Now I find him to be an asshole.
He’s a funny asshole.
I’m a fan of stupid physically absurd comedy if that’s the right take on it. The scene where he and his fat sidekick are naked running around a hotel fighting or whatever it was is fucking funny to me. I know it’s hot highbrow or anything resembling it, but it was fucking funny.
I saw this and didn’t like it much. I’ve seen Borat (which has Ron Paul) and Ali G Indahouse (not sure if I saw a Bruno movie), but I think the best movie he was in was Talladega Nights. Sad Michael Clarke Duncan died.
Ricky: No one plays jazz here at The Pit Stop!
Jean: Then why is the song on the jukebox?
Bartender: We keep it on there for profiling purposes. We also got the Pet Shop Boys and Seal.
RJ, have you ever Seen ‘FAQ About Time Travel” ? The long title is ‘Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel‘ naturally.
Sorry, I can’t remember.
I have not seen it. I will add that to the list.
ToG and I are going to see Mickey Dolenz tonight but Ill watch this one for sure,
Cheers!
I think you shared the poster for that. Looks amazing!
Nah, that was a thousand piece jigsaw puzzle, still pretty groovy Daddio!
Anna Faris is adorable, but Smiley Face was predictably stupid, and I’m a fan of Greg Aracki. Any of his movies on Tubi?
Well, it didn’t work when I tried searching for “Greg Aracki.”
Woops, it’s Greg Araki. Stupid English.
Now several things came up:
https://tubitv.com/search/greg%20araki
Holy crap, what a terrible search engine. There are pages of stuff that has nothing to do with him.
I entered a bunch of movie titles. Looks like Splendor is the only one.
Now Apocalypse was directed by him.
Yes, that’s a TV show, not a movie.
I couldn’t find Kaboom or any of his Doom trilogy. All four are about the end of the world.
Anna Faris was great in House Bunny.
Was that after she got her tits done?
Yes.
Scary Movie, tho…
I’ve seen most of his earlier stuff, before he started claiming to be “bi” or “hetero” or whateverthehell it is. Doom Generation is amazing.
In other news, I’ve been attacked by water demons. The water turned brown because of a water main break. Then the kitchen sink clogged, which fucked up the hose to the dishwater. Then a toilet broke.
Oh Good Lord. Have you at least some clean liquor in bottles to drink?
Well, the city fixed the water main, so water stopped being brown, but I’ll have to uninstall and re-install the dishwasher tomorrow, and then snake the drain. This place has three toilets. Right now I’m drinking bacardi and cranberry.
Everything is going to be OK
*eyes wide* Those are some powerful, well-coordinated demons. Best of luck to you, sir.
Thanks, not having a kitchen sink sucks.
Sorry.
Thanks. I’ll be OK. Tomorrow I’ll be wet and swearing profusely, with maybe a few minor lacerations. I’m great at electrical, but I hate plumbing.
Hawt.
I’ve had a different ‘fluid’ problem. Tuesday I was so dizzy when I got to work that I had to leave and go to a walk-in clinic, they didn’t have the equipment to diagnose me and sent me to the emergency room. Besides the dizziness I was also having muscle spasms in my right leg and arm. The emergency room doc thought it might be stroke so I had to stay the night for observation after a CAT scan. Their eventual theory was fluid in the rear sinus throwing off my equilibrium. They didn’t address the muscle spasms as they never happened when a doc was watching. So now I’m on antibiotics and nasal spray after I got released. It seems to be working. I think the muscle spasms were just my already fucked up nervous system not being able to handle the un-equilibrium.
Sorry. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Yikes! Sorry. Glad you got it sorted.
Also, electrolyte imbalances can cause muscle spasms.
As much as they’re venerated, my experience has been that most physicians are retards. Keep an eye on yourself.
I’ve got a followup with my regular doc tomorrow. The spasms are gone and only 1 bout of bad dizziness today, but took the day off to be sure.
Woah. Sorry ya had to do the overnight. But fantastic it wasn’t a stroke.
Are you in D.C?
Nope.
You on Venus?
He sent an ambassador.
Hrm, I’d never heard of this. Not familiar with too much Ali G, but Borat and Bruno (to a lesser extent, IIRC) are fantastic, ballsy, good funny-fun. *Am* I missing out with Ali G? I can see it both ways, him learning the craft or him being too annoying for me making fun of a culture I don’t really get? (Yes.) I’m good about separating someone from their work. When their assholishness bleeds into their work, tho? Then there’s trouble.
The Running of the Jew, alone. *mwah*
Ali G wears thin, quick. His comedy improved and became less repetitive when he made this and The Brothers Grimsby. Then started making more Borat junk again.
I think his show (on HBO??) worked because it was only a half hour at time.
I’m not sure what to make of this.
Uh oh.
Oh this is an interesting twist.
Huh, never heard of this movie.
https://tubitv.com/movies/385501/cyborg-2
Interesting. That was a popular plot in 60s spy films.
Have we ever done any Matt Helm movies?
No, I should do some. And In Like Flint.
Yes, I’ll watch anything with James Coburn.
The grocery store bit was amusing.
“I thought you were a little boy” is a great line.
He was also very good as the lead in “The Spy” on Netflix. It is a French mini-series bio of Israel’s top spy in Syria.
Sacha Barren Cohen lost me when he bulked up post-divorce. I get it – he was on the market, just lost a bunch of money and wanted to play the field. But name me one guy who hits the gym who is funny. You start lifting weights, you lose your comedy chops in my book.
Firsting by comparison is 90% a mental sport. Most people overlook this and think raw speed and power are the key to success. They give you more thrusting power. But that’s just malarkey.
This is a movie I feel like I did watch. May have been drunk years ago and did it. Don’t remember much. May turn it on later.
It’s been so long since Hollywood made a comedy I had any interest in. An entire genre of movies killed by progressive political infestation and there are STILL people out there who miss the fucking plot on why people talk about woke Hollywood and get lost in the weeds of arguing whether this or that movie is truly “woke” because the shit they see on screen is relatively benign politically.
The wokeness infests the entire process of making movies these days. From whether something gets greenlit or not for being politically correct to the “casting” of even people behind the camera for diversity’s sake alone. You have people completely unqualified to make big budget movies handed these positions solely because of their skin color or other retarded characteristics besides merit.
Ugh, another one?
I already thought he was a douche.
Toys used to be really interesting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0wQbexQlq4M
Comic for DEG:
https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2026/02/12/dwarven-technology-comic/#more-389252