Idiocracy - new Mike Judge movie in superlimited release

This movie makes me think about electrolytes all the time.

his Fresh Air interview made this seem like something I wanted to see, but reading this thread has me doubtful.

This movie makes me think about electrolytes all the time.

― Your body is a spiderland (polyphonic), Saturday, February 13, 2010 10:54 AM (1 hour ago)

I enjoyed the Fresh Air interview for the fence-building story and him highlighting the diff bet/w Mr Anderson's and Hank Hill's voices by doing both in the same segment.

I loved the fence-building story, too. Biggest thing that hit me while listening to him tell stories about people is that he is good at finding humor in people's mannerisms and conveying what's so funny about them. A lot of his movies are too bogged down by plot. Almost makes me wish he had a writing partner who could handle the main story or something.

wow i just came here to quote the stoned doctor but yall are on the race issue. i genuinely thought the majority of ppl in the movie were supposed to be "mixed race" and that this was a p genius and subtle representation of the future. it doesnt have to be viewed as CAUSAL

This movie makes me think about electrolytes all the time.

― Your body is a spiderland (polyphonic), Saturday, February 13, 2010 10:54 AM (1 hour ago)

― sarahel, Saturday, February 13, 2010 12:11 PM (1 year ago)

Still true for me too!

it bolsters my antipathy toward vitamin water

"looks like a peanut"

HOWS IT HANG ESSE

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http://www.avclub.com/articles/fuck-there-are-a-lot-of-fucking-new-tv-shows-with,88495/

still awaiting the release of "Ass"

we seem to be experimenting some technological differences

This movie just gets more and more otm every year...

Yep.

yup

we used to care whose ass it was, and why it was farting

i still crack up thinking of the purple dildo-like thing that was on Joe's car in the demolition derby. in fact I haven't seen this movie in years and I still think of it any time someone mentions "Costco", "Carl's Jr.", "H&R Block" or "tattoo".

actually now that I think about it, it's really similar to Office Space and Beavis and Butthead do America, it's more a collection of great scenes than it is an actual movie with a plot and all that

Yeah, Judge is a composer of uncannily well-observed tableaux that are only mildly tweaked for comedic effect. Plot shmot.

we used to care whose ass it was, and why it was farting

otm

speak for yourself, i still care

kinda hate this movie as an easy snide reference, the overarching attitude and tone of superiority is gross.

It's basically ILX politics threads: the movie

yeah it's a bit '30 years from now a child won't be able to kick a ball on the street'

I love how this movie is totally a mess, and was most likely completed in a highly compromised form, perhaps edited against judges wishes or maybe without his input. At least, that's how it plays. Yet even as a mess it is funnier and more otm than most comedies. Certainly significantly better than Extract.

yeah it was a relief that a cult following didn't form around Extract out of force of habit

30 years from now a child won't be able to kick a man in the nuts without someone laughing

― some dude, Saturday, 17 November 2012 15:30 (14 minutes ago) Permalink

Almost every time I see a water fountain I think of the nations water supply being replaced with gatorade.

extract is good!

Eh, it's really not. It's just a little well intentioned but pretty shallow and pointless lark.

Extract felt like it was written and filmed in a week or so.

the scene where he gets diagnosed has one of my favorite line-deliveries ever. "Don't mean to be a dick or nothin', but says on your chart...you're fucked up."

beef supreme for president

It started off boring and slow, with Not Sure trying to bullshit everyone with a bunch of smart talk: 'Blah blah blah. You gotta believe me!' That part of the trial sucked! But then the Chief J. just went off. He said, 'Man, whatever! The guy's guilty as shit, we all know that!'

one day I hope to order an EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES

I hear there's this new restaurant open in Times Square...

this movie is ok but its perspective is so reflective of how most people on the internet view other people as total moron sheeple while they are brilliant and incisive that it's made the movie reprehensible to me in hindsight

it even reflects the derisive patois of like "gub'mint" and "'murrca" which is so disgusting

kinda hate this movie as an easy snide reference, the overarching attitude and tone of superiority is gross.

― congratulations (n/a), Saturday, November 17, 2012 8:28 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's basically ILX politics threads: the movie

― congratulations (n/a), Saturday, November 17, 2012 8:32 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

n/a otm

glad i'll be dead b4 entire film comes true

The emphasis on "entire" can be assumed?

that's all well and good but I really do not feel like this movie was intended to be any kind of serious social commentary. like on one hand maybe there's something to making an American Gladitor the President in an era when people were seriously asking if Schwarzenegger could make a White House run, on the other there's the fact that Terry Crews as President is fucking hilarious.

people tried to criticize Office Space along similar lines, but again I always felt like Judge was just doing something funny rather than something insightful. hence the way Peter is constantly painted as being lazy and kind of a whiner. KotH, same thing...it makes fun of good ol' boys and Southeners and also sorta extolls their values. I don't think that Judge is trying to do cutting edge satire here.

Even if you ignore all political subtext, Luke Wilson is a fucking drip of a lead

which makes him kind of ideal for this type of movie

an undercooked commercial failure? well yeah

first half of judge's career so far
Beavis and Butthead
a sympathetic take on a red state family
a movie about what wage slaves have to put up with

second half of judge's career so far
a movie about what CEOs have to put up with
an unsympathetic take on a blue state family
Beavis and Butthead

with a movie about what happens when the mongrel hordes are allowed outbreed the educated class at half-time

frogbs are you seriously saying that idiocracy is not a satire?

oh sure it is to some degree but I saw it as being a lot more absurd than derisive. In my opinion "I didn't like its entitled tone" is a lot less important than whether or not you found it funny