I'd heard you liked Dick, I mean Richard.
Oh, Branston...
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Thought I saw Nero around here too. *looks*
Quote: EllieJP @ July 15 2009, 4:19 PM BSTGoing to see Harry Potter tonight!!!!
My friend is an extra in that, so the film must be generating a lot of money just from our lot going to see his brief moments!
Which bits is he in?
No clue, because I've not seen it. I'll ask someone who has when they rock up. 
Quote: EllieJP @ July 15 2009, 4:19 PM BSTGoing to see Harry Potter tonight!!!!
So we couldn't get in. All the showings were blocked up. So we went to Pizza Express.
Don't worry Dragon's Den is on now!! 
That looks quite funny!
NO SPOILERS.
Went to see Bruno last night. Was quite good, with the funny moments mostly visual in nature. Less impressive and well-structured than Borat. The problem with this film is really no-one comes out of it looking good. It's hard to carry a film starring a character with whom one can feel absolutely no sympathy. At least with Borat there was an implied naivity which granted the character more leeway. Here, the aim is to push people into quite reasonable positions of uncomfortability and offence: then try to imply that a reaction to an extreme provocation must be homophobic or prejudiced.
Yes, it's funny in places, yet there is no warmth. It feels far more stage-managed than Borat and very much more cobbled together. It follows a one-line plot which, to be fair, was all Borat ultimately did. However, Borat managed to be more than the sum of its parts. This isn't.
One of the problems that this type of comedy suffers (and this film far moreso than Sasha Baron-Cohen's previous efforts) is being on the big screen. The pace which a movie demands means that even spontaneous pieces seem more stage-managed. On TV, these set-ups work better because the time is available for the spoof character to interact with their victims for longer, thereby accentuating the realism of the encounters. This film is too busy cutting to the next gag, so that a lot of the unsuspecting people used by Bruno appear to be set-ups even if they were not. The context is lost.
It contains very few moments or jokes which one might call inspired. Its reliance of gay jokes becomes a little grating. As to the debate which was ongoing about whether this is a pro- or anti-gay film: it is neither. It is such juvenile humour that no-one with a pro- or anti-gay stance could reasonably say this offers anything profound or useful to the debate about homosexuality.
Interesting to hear that a 15-rated version is being released this week. This can only be a purely financially-driven idea. I'd anticipate a lot of cuts were already made for various reasons (time, taste & legal reasons) for the '18' release. Don't know how much of a film there will be left to achieve (what I would see as) a fair '15' certificate film.
I laughed quite a bit, so the film achieved its purpose, but didn't leave the cinema feeling any sort of buzz for the movie. It wasn't an "event".
Interesting review there, Tim. 
Mu husband and his friends loved Bruno, but they'd watch anything he was in.
A lot of that review you could apply to Borat for me Tim. Really enjoyed the character on TV, on film; pffft. Didn't work for me. Dull. A bit nasty in places. Boring too. I don't think I'll watch Bruno, maybe when it appears on TV at some point.
The trailers for both Borat and Bruno really had me laughing though, but I don't enjoy them as actual full length films.