Why is "Bruno" tanking? Too gay, too homophobic, or just not funny?

Nothing says not worth my time like an incredible outpouring of bad reviews after the month long beating-of-a-dead-horse that was the promotion for the movie, and with the new Harry Potter movie coming out.... it didn't have a chance. In short, I have not seen it, and I assume others have not simply b/c people keep saying its not funny enough and the jokes were not "fresh" enough. It's for this same reason I haven't yet seen the sequel to Not Another Gay Movie.

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I was bored mostly throughout the movie. The movie does revive homophobic sentiment in people; 2 comments I read from people on a forum I frequently visit is "too gay" and "I couldn't help but relate with his 'victims'". This film does nothing but stir up forgotten stereotypes and gay panic humor on people.

 

As a gay man, I also felt upset after watching the movie, because I don't like to be reminded of just how widespread homophobia is. The show with African Americans outright booing him when he said he was looking for "Mr. Right" even before Bruno had started behaving badly. The Alabama cage fight scene, where even the women were throwing objects.

 

And the only scene I truly found funny were very short. The faces of people watching him take the baby out of the box in the airport. The crazy dominatrix bitch.

 

The rest was just mediocre and didn't help to improve notions among heterosexuals about our sexual lives. I saw people laughing more out of sympathy for the victims, because they were put through awkward gay shit. Not because they were dumb homophobes.

 

And I do agree with the charges of minstrelsy. As a supposed satire, this film just didn't deliver.

I couldn't help but feel I had already seen the best parts of the movie long before it came out.  When I first heard about it, I was somewhat excited about it.  But, after the months of over-the-top hype, I just didn't care anymore.  I felt Bruno Overload even before it came out.

Then when the reviews started pouring in, I knew there were much better ways to spend my $10.  I'll put it on my Blockbuster list, but still not at the very top.

The moive had it's moments, but as a whole it just wasn't all that funy, I knida saw it as just trying be another Borat. All through out the moive I kept asking myself, didn't I see this before? 

 It's was just like Borat, but where Borat was funny and new, Bruno was just the samething just with a gay guy! 

what a waste of money, I hated borat and I would not waste my time watching this as well,this movie will put us back a good 10 if not 20 years with this BS. We got it bad enough with the crap going on now and this does not even help at all.

... you can't really say it's TANKED. Well... you can say it but it wouldn't be true. It more than made it's money back. The studio and producers are happy. Then there will be the DVD sales.

It's ok. Just ok. I paid $6 for the early show. If I had paid full price I might feel a bit cheated. It's more miss than hit. There's a lot of good laughs but, after 'Borat,' this seems more scripted and less spontaneous. I'd even suggest to wait and rent it. I am glad I saw it opening day. He can never do one of these again. It's too expected.

I can see why iit's drooping now at the boxoffice... but it didn't tank. 

 

I was curious and wanted to see it when I first heard about it, but then came the non-stop appearances on talk shows, the hype, then the overhype and barrage of commercials. It was just too much. It killed any interest I had in seeing it. If Sacha Baron Cohen had appeared on talk shows as himself rather than his character, then I would have still been curious as too what was waiting for me in the theater. But appearing as Bruno was overkill. How many other actors appear as their character in public? Would Meryl Streep appear as Julia Child to promote her movie? About the only other actors who would stoop so low would be Jim Carrey, Dana Carvey and Will Farrell. Look at how well, or how badly, Land of the Lost succeeded at the box office after Farrell's onslaught of appearances before it opened.

I think the only person responsible for the failure of Bruno the movie, is Bruno himself. 

Bruno has done reasonably good business outside of the US. Mind you, outside of the US it's seen as much a satire on America as on homophobia/gayness/etc.

By the time TV sales and DVD sales are taken into account, it'll have turned a healthy profit worldwide.

It will have a life on video.

 

But in the lst analysis there just isn't a hige audience for this sort of sophomoric "Oh I've got a gay joke that will gross you out" sort of enterprise.

I thought it was pretty good...more or less on par with Borat. But then again I'm easy to please and don't feel the need to complain about every little thing. The only thing I would say that sometimes it was very vulgar...too vulgar. The whole shaking his penis around was just not needed, along with that swinger woman showing her bits off all over the place. But then again I am all no sex please, I'm British about these things. I can see exactly what Cohen was trying to do...it was pretty much summed up in the last line of the film when Snoop Dogg was like 'He's gay...but that's ok'. However, it did reinforce stereotypes and there are people are there who are too stupid to understand the difference.

Hopefully one of those was funny and less cringeworthy. I have a sense of humor but i didn't laugh once throughout the entire movie. Plus,i'm not a fan of this "gonzo,guerilla,"Jackass""-type this movie or tv show which is why rarely(if ever)watch so-called reality tv. I hated "Borat" for this very reason.

Perhaps,as i've suggested before,S.B.C. should write a movie starring himself,just not one of his "characters".

 

 

 

to let their teenagers go see this because it has lots and lots of penis and anal sex.  It lost the teen date market.

 Also, my black friends refused to see it because the ads made it appear to make fun of blacks, which I don't think it did, but the ads did make it look as if Bruno was ridiculing the black audience at the Richard Bey Show.  So it lost the black market.

 

I think that sums it up. It fails, therefore, to find any target audience.

Kind of the worse combination you could think of.

 

 

I didn't go see it because it seemed to anti gay to me and i've read some message boards and seen some youtube videos were young guys are saying that the film has to much penis for them and that it 's too gay for them as well.

 

 

Society now is just as homophobic as it used  to be it's just not as acceptable to be so publically.

I think the movie tried too hard to cross boundaries but forgot to have some coherence! It was a lot of sex and ignorant people skits thrown together. It needed more things like those two ditzy blondes or the crazy parents willing to let their children do anything....