Critical Reation to exclusive "Brüno" footage

20 minutes from Sacha Baron Cohen's new film Brüno, opening this summer, was screened to a select group of filmgoers at SXSW, including members of the press. Christopher Kelly from Texas Monthly and Scott Weinberg from Cinematical gives us their take on the 3 clips.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Brüno
• Sacha
• Baron
• Cohen
• SXSW
• Bruno

[agillespie]

That bald guy is real annoying. Its so lame to be at SXSW with your little Film blog scouting out the cool newestnewestnewest movies.

UGLY AMERICAN= to think you are a Hollywood insider with your Press Pass at an industry event because you write some ignorable blog about pointless cinema bullshit.... These are the sorts of people perpetuating our culture of garbage.

GET A LIFE... and enjoy that Scion gift bag they are handing out this year with all your heart!

[coletv]

scott's "little" film blog includes a massive log of reviews on a few of the biggest film site's on the net

[xysmachine78]

Sacha Baron Cohen is the Andy Kaufman of this age. The comedy is not only in the idiocy of the characters he portrays but more in the audience reaction and inside joke that Andy also did. Very commited to the characters he plays and that's what makes his comedy work very well. His improv and method acting ability to stay in character off camera is priceless. Not even the best Hollywood actors can keep the high level of commitment.

[ebalvsehvrot]

i pee from my balcony at the 9-th floor

[HighCastle10]

Great critique by Scott Weinburg.

[CVargas]

He wasn't in Oklahoma in the cage scene. He was in Arkansas.

[goldragon988]

Scott Weinberg was spot on.

[Hold423]

neither of those responses were critical

[JadedTrojan]

Yep, pretty much agree with your there.

I think most anti-USA media have their own nationalist agenda, so directing negative reports towards Americans fulfills their purpose somewhat. It's the same with a lot of media in the US, too.

Still think that the southern states have a pretty primitive mindset, though. I don't live there, so I don't know why exactly they haven't progressed along with the rest of North America (that's a general statement, though. Not all people in the north are good.)

[seraphx20033]

this title is misleading

[TheRockbag]

cole's absolutely right... couldn't have said it better

[nadrealist1]

Smart man!!