Comments on: Bruno Takes A 73% Plunge At Box Office In 2nd Weekend

By: Kalladin

Kalladin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:45:22 +0000

i think the reason why it dropped so much is that the people who saw it didn’t realize the inherent values it offers our society and those who haven’t seen it are simply too insecure to challenge themselves. the movie is meant to create references from which to build from. the messages are clear:

1)gay people aren’t sexual deviants

2)gay people aren’t pedophiles

3)we are conditioned to see the human body in an unhealthy way

4)the real sick people are sick because of their irrational, misguided superstitions

5)the heterosexual mindset can be to corrupt and abuse our future (our children)

6)celebrity and fame worship can be analogous to a disease

there are many more of course. Cohen is a genius and this movie moves our society forward unlike most can. the real tragedy and shock is that most people have missed this opportunity to expand upon their consciousness and thus help to create a more equitable and balanced world.

By: idalis de leon

idalis de leon — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:05:29 +0000

Its a shame that such a brilliant comedian does not get, that his clean jokes are the funniest.

Bruno pushed the envelope so much it became the comedians worst nightmare..um..unfunny.

Some of the stuff was hilarious, some was outrageiously embarrassing, but that does not mean its clever or funny, just means your going for the cheap jokes.

We expect more from a comedian thats been campared to Andy Kaufman.

He excluded teens and kids and basically any families from seeing the movie which alienates 40% of his audience since he is a silly silly guy.
He can have a super loyal teen and family audience that enjoys edgy comedy besides the adults that love him. There was no reedeming message of any value whatsoever in the movie, where he had ample opporuntity.

Its hard when you set the bar so high with Borat.
30 million dollar opening weekend still is fantastic considering he is entertaining us all by himself and its nearly rated X material.

He is an amazing talent that I hoped learned from this, he is funniest when he is just a goof ball, not vulgar, but edgy, not outrageous, but unique.
there is a difference.

By: Peita

Peita — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:30:46 +0000

Perhaps I am approaching this simplistically, but my only reason for not seeing Bruno was that after all the publicity stunts all over the world and somewhat funny interview spots on various talk shows I felt like there was every chance I had already seen what Bruno had to offer.

Obvious humour like this can be oversold, and it looks like others felt the same way?

By: AARON

AARON — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:21:39 +0000

Wasn’t that shocking to me. I mean some parts were but overall nah. I think I said this beofre, but I really thought the film would suck when it started with “Vassup, I’m Bruno, hehehehe” I mean come on Cohen! Again, I actually liked it but keep in min,d I only thought it was a little better than ok….

(Btw, Borat was far Superior)

By: AARON

AARON — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:19:20 +0000

I think the stuff that was funny only works for the first time. If I were to watch again, I guarantee I’d laugh 50% less.

By: AARON

AARON — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:15:31 +0000

Because cohen made the EXACT SAME MOVIE twice

By: SlashBeast

SlashBeast — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:09:06 +0000

I think it dropped because most people are still uncomfortable with outright homosexuality. The film is shocking, moreso than Borat and I think that ultimately alienated it’s audience.

However, I agree with a comment above. Bruno will most likely become a cult film.

By: Shane Hero

Shane Hero — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:30:12 +0000

I think you could probably just put it down to bad word of mouth because it’s just not a very good movie. I loved Borat. This seemed like it was a cheap rip-off of Borat made by someone who missed the entire point of Borat.

It wasn’t funny. Unless you find dicks or the mention of dicks, utterly hilarious; in which case I guess it was.

I didn’t find myself outraged by how homophobic people are like some people claim the film shows. Would that TV pilot test audience have liked the pilot if that was a heterosexual dick spinning at them? Would those beer drinking red necks expecting a cage fight have cheered with approval if a woman ran out instead, like a scene from a chick flick? Would a woman pantomiming graphic sex acts have left that guy sitting there feeling really comfortable? Would people be okay with a straight person endangering a child? The homosexual element was not what upset the people involved. It was all just crude behaviour with no purpose, intended to shock the audience because it was crude.

I wasn’t offended in the slightest, neither was anyone I know who saw it. Maybe the target audience isn’t as homophobic or prudish as some people like to think, which makes Bruno a pretty boring film. I know what a dick looks like, and I know gay people exist… So it doesn’t work as “shock” humor to simply show a dick and draw my attention to the fact gay people exist. Sadly that was about all the substance there was to Bruno.

By: spiderfreak182

spiderfreak182 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:19:33 +0000

I laughed alot watching this film. so i was very entertained. but i have no interest watching it again. might be a reason it didnt do too well its second weekend…

By: Ty

Ty — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:03:42 +0000

Wow, I totally butchered that comment, sorry. In the first sentence, I was simply saying that the two movies target different audiences…but that the teens who saw the HP movies also ended up seeing Borat.

Also, in another sentence I meant “..follow something they’d been following for years (plural)…”

And one last thing…They would choose HP over Bruno because Borat set the bar for public shock value…but now that kinda thing is so overdone that Bruno was just another guy trolling the streets.

I’m totally sorry for making that more confusing than it needed to be. It’s late over here. My bad.