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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Trailer Time! Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator

Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:44 AM

Soooooo... Sacha Baron Cohen, who has historically been wildly hilarious, has a new movie coming out this summer called The Dictator, supposedly based on the Saddam Hussein-penned romance novel, Zabibah and the King—though to me it just looks like flat out racism. ("And yet Borat wasn't racist?" I hear my brain scream at me. STOP SCREAMING AT ME, BRAIN!! Let's let the more-ethical-than-thou residents of Blogtown solve this quandary. Sheesh!) Watch this.

 

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That sloppy joe sounded too tasty to not vote for it. That's the problem with putting up polls right before lunch time.
Posted by ($8239f8h248cerfehjf23@&*@ebdjhb23f237OCDBO#BD*(# on December 14, 2011 at 11:57 AM · Report
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Where's the option for "Borat was one of the worst movies I've ever had the misfortune to watch"?
Posted by Stu on December 14, 2011 at 12:08 PM · Report
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Yeah, no.
Posted by cat & beard on December 14, 2011 at 12:15 PM · Report
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where was the Sloopy Joes scene? I never miss out on a Joe.
Posted by Leaky on December 14, 2011 at 12:42 PM · Report
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I FOUND IT RACIST BECAUSE I HATE WHITE PEOPLE, JUST LIKE DAMOSA.
Posted by Graham on December 14, 2011 at 1:01 PM · Report
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when did Sacha Baron Cohen turn into Adam Sandler?
Posted by * on December 14, 2011 at 1:05 PM · Report
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I lasted a good 15 seconds on the preview. Better than most.
Posted by Ñ on December 14, 2011 at 1:09 PM · Report
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Calling this racist is actually kinda racist.
Posted by Suburban Porn King on December 14, 2011 at 1:11 PM · Report
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SPK saying calling this racist is actually kinda racist is actually pretty racist.
Posted by ($8239f8h248cerfehjf23@&*@ebdjhb23f237OCDBO#BD*(# on December 14, 2011 at 1:22 PM · Report
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damn vegans.
Posted by Chester Copperpot on December 14, 2011 at 1:47 PM · Report
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I'll see your racist and raise you two politically incorrects.
Posted by Suburban Porn King on December 14, 2011 at 2:35 PM · Report
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I'll raise your two politically incorrects and raise you 1000 squid.
Posted by sacklash on December 14, 2011 at 3:20 PM · Report
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Goddammit... I don't have enough squid! I fold. :(
Posted by Wm. Steven Humphrey on December 14, 2011 at 3:45 PM · Report
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I can lend you some squid, Steve, but you'll have to give me your cardboard Bieber cutout as collateral. And not the office one, either. I want the one from your basement with the can of vegetable shortening duct-taped to the back.
Posted by ($8239f8h248cerfehjf23@&*@ebdjhb23f237OCDBO#BD*(# on December 14, 2011 at 4:21 PM · Report
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On a real note, with a Sacha Baron Cohen movie you know there will be no significant content, no substance, not even ridiculous satire which potentially has some deeper, intelligent message. His movies are not gonna win any Oscars. They're sort of just...there and I normally don't look twice. But this particular movie, hmm. It's essentially a white guy dressing up like an Arab/Muslim and showcasing the hell out of the worst possible stereotypes of these people for his tired, cheap, try-hard "comedy" and that's where, for once, I'll actually take a moment of my life to comment on a movie of his.

Let's look at it from another angle. Let's say he were to...oh, idk, dress up like a black person, yup blackface and all, and do a movie indulging all the offensive black stereotypes, once again, for his "comedy." Or dress up like a Native American? Mexican? Or any other people of color? Would you laugh? If he were a Asian, Black, Hispanic, etc. and making stereotypical cheap jokes about Arabs (or any POC of which he is not), I may also comment on how that's kinda messed up. But because he is a very privileged, white male/person who in NO way is apart of/or represents the Arab/Muslim community (bc if he was we could maybe see it as a person mocking the stereotypes he and his own community face), THAT is what makes it kinda really messed up, in my opinion. We need to see these real and troubling aspects of the media and not write it off as a joke or else we'll become immune to them.
Posted by sunny22 on April 27, 2012 at 8:53 PM · Report

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