Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Peer review/Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Article has received Good Article status, but I am interested in possibly getting this to A-class or Featured status. I know there's a fact tag, I added it in a rewrite to add some information without being accused of anti-Semitism. --Lenin and McCarthy |  (Complain here) 12:54, 7 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Why don't you put it on film peer review, where you'll get more informed critiques? Daniel Case 17:44, 7 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I thought I had. --Lenin and McCarthy |  (Complain here) 18:15, 7 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Sorry, missed that. Daniel Case 18:26, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Daniel Case
Some comments based on a quick perusal. And a disclosure that, long ago, I added the material about "Everbody's Talkin'" and "Born To Be Wild" as allusions to Midnight Cowboy and Easy Rider, so I have some small claim to authorship. But it is so little that I can review this impartially.


 * First, get rid of all the international release dates save those for English-speaking countries. It makes the infobox go on way too long. This is the English Wikipedia and that's the primary audience. Release dates for non-English speaking nations can be mentioned in the article if need be. Take a look at what I did in another article under review, The Devil Wears Prada.


 * Maybe you could subdivide that section on participants' responses a little? It's a bit long even if it is thematically unified.

More later. Daniel Case 19:50, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

OK. I'm sitting down going through a hard copy with a red pen to catch all the usual copy errors and I'll do a copy edit later. I would add:


 * Move the endspoiler tag to the end of the production section. You have spoilers there, too.


 * "By reviewers" and "At the box office" should be renamed "Critical" and "Commercial" as the equivalent subsections in other film articles are.


 * "...the 41st best opening week earnings in the UK at that time." Is that really notable? Only if it were in the top ten, IMO.


 * The German comedy award is perhaps not relevant on the English Wikipedia.


 * You don't need to mention, much less link, Midnight Cowboy and "Everybody's Talkin'" twice in the same sentence.


 * OK, I've gone through, did my copyedit and even made some of these changes. I have left some things to you to defend (the German comedy award, the 41st best opening week in Britain). But two more suggestions:


 * I think you could replace the table on the week-by-week gross (not really encylopedic info) with Infobox movie certificates (the film ratings in each country where that info is available).


 * You could probably do more with the criticism of the movie as anti-American. A lot of conservative commentators sounded off on this one; David Brooks and John Tierney put it on the New York Times op-ed page, and Christopher Hitchens has this interesting take at Slate if you can't or don't want to get behind the Times registration firewall.


 * Daniel Case 16:40, 8 March 2007 (UTC)