The Cock-Sucking Motherfuckers.
I saw The Aristocrats tonight and ... good lord. I mean, you know going in that there's going to be incest and bestiality and scatalogical humor of the most disgusting kind, but when you're sitting there listening to it, it takes a while to get past the pure revulsion to the humor. Two people got up and left ten minutes in. I wonder about them. Like, did they not understand what movie they were going to see? Or did they think it was going to be a documentary explaining the joke the same way the newspaper reviews explained the joke -- that is, without explicitly referencing anything?
They should've stayed, because after about ten minutes or so the shock value of ANY word in the English language is entirely gone and the rest of the film is the funniest fucking thing ever. EVER. THERE IS A MIME. And a card-trick version. The South Park clip, which I'd seen well before this movie was released, was infinitely funnier in the context of the movie. Sarah Silverman was brilliant. Bob Saget had me in tears. Billy Connolly filled me with cognitive dissonance because the only prior context I had for him was Boondock Saints, and Pa McManus telling The Aristocrats is completely hilarious.
Aside from a few issues with some of the quick-cuts and camera angles, I thought it was *extremely* well structured. I was a little disappointed that they didn't show Chris Rock's version, and that they didn't really explore the issue he raised about black comedians being expected to be raunchier than white comedians.
Overall, though, I LOVED it. It made me laugh at Gilbert Godfried, for chrissakes.
They should've stayed, because after about ten minutes or so the shock value of ANY word in the English language is entirely gone and the rest of the film is the funniest fucking thing ever. EVER. THERE IS A MIME. And a card-trick version. The South Park clip, which I'd seen well before this movie was released, was infinitely funnier in the context of the movie. Sarah Silverman was brilliant. Bob Saget had me in tears. Billy Connolly filled me with cognitive dissonance because the only prior context I had for him was Boondock Saints, and Pa McManus telling The Aristocrats is completely hilarious.
Aside from a few issues with some of the quick-cuts and camera angles, I thought it was *extremely* well structured. I was a little disappointed that they didn't show Chris Rock's version, and that they didn't really explore the issue he raised about black comedians being expected to be raunchier than white comedians.
Overall, though, I LOVED it. It made me laugh at Gilbert Godfried, for chrissakes.