Another Gray Day

Due to an unfortunate series of events I’ve just watched what is certainly the new no. one in my top ten of the worst films of all time, Borat. No doubt I am asking for trouble, since the film seems to have been a critical success etc etc, and is of course deliberately and ironically offensive to almost everyone. I didn’t laugh, I cried at the waste of money which could have been spent making any number of other films. I’d even give the money to Woody Allen even although Match Point was my previous number one worst film.
Of course it’s seen as successful because people like me get annoyed about it. OK, no problem, but anyone who enjoyed this should be strapped to a chair and made to watch Klimov’s Come and see or Pasolini’s Salo until they repent. The most horrible thing about it is what it says about the mentality of the people who finance films. I just wish some of the punters who got annoyed on camera had actually kicked him (Baron Cohen) in the bollocks, which is less than he deserves and might actually have been funny.