{"id":2612,"date":"2012-12-26T03:03:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T08:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2012-12-26T03:03:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T08:03:40","slug":"the-dictator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/12\/26\/the-dictator","title":{"rendered":"The Dictator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had Christmas indoors (Merry Christmas) as pretty much everything is closed in London for a bank holiday. As part of the festivities, we watched:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005LAIHGI\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=colincharles-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B005LAIHGI\">The Dictator<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=colincharles-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B005LAIHGI\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000MMMT9G\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=colincharles-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B000MMMT9G\">Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=colincharles-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000MMMT9G\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> or anything from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=colincharles-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;rh=n%3A2625373011%2Ck%3Asacha%20baron%20cohen&amp;field-keywords=sacha%20baron%20cohen&amp;url=search-alias%3Dmovies-tv\" target=\"_blank\">Sacha Baron Cohen<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=colincharles-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> you&#8217;ve got to watch this show. We caught it on pay-per-view, since as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ichotelsgroup.com\/intercontinental\/hotels\/gb\/en\/ambassador\">Royal Ambassador<\/a> we get one free movie per stay. And what better place to watch it than at the newly opened <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ichotelsgroup.com\/intercontinental\/hotels\/gb\/en\/london\/lonwm\/hoteldetail?cm_mmc=mdpr-_-GoogleMapsGB-_-ic-_-lonwm\">InterContinental London Westminster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So back to The Dictator. It is a funny show, will take about 80 minutes of your time, and its well worth watching. Some may describe the jokes as crude, but those one-liners are truly memorable. I&#8217;m going to endeavor to watch the unrated version as I&#8217;m told its about 15 minutes longer with a lot more <em>scenes<\/em>\u00a0of comedy!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20The%20Dictator&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2012%2F12%2F26%2Fthe-dictator&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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