I mean, does anyone not know about borat? I think this sort of shit has always been a large part of his repertoire. I can't say for sure if it's intended to be bigoted or racist. Ali G is targeted at the chavs of Britain and london IIRC. Honestly I don't think anyone is immune to the portrayals that he does. Whether or not they're in good taste. Which yeah generally they're not.

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Borat, bruno, ali g, the great dictator, ... All of them were pissing off a big amount of people hehe

Now the uk ban of this movie is what kinda triggers me tbh

[–] m4xie@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Great Dictator was Charlie Chaplin. His was only The Dictator.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah it wasn't so great

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The movie had a very Aladeen response from the public

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 2 points 2 days ago

Lol true. But it was memorable enough I instantly knew what you're talking about. That way it was definitely among the worst Anna Faris vehicles. And she did The House Bunny and Chris Pratt.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I had to look that one up. Wow, even my student film got higher reviews on rotten tomatoes (because no one else has found it on rotten tomatoes except my crew and we all gave it thumbs up. That counts, right?)

(shut up)

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 1 points 2 days ago

It literally derailed sbc's career trajectory. Even if it was tongue in cheek. It portrayed a lot of what is fantasized about now in the chauvinist manosphere bigot space iirc. It was somehow even in poorer taste than his standard fare.