Idiocracy - new Mike Judge movie in superlimited release

A watchable mess that finally turns into a film the idiocrats could've liked. Pretty splendid first half-hour tho.

I keep thinking about the eugenics/dysgenics philosophy underlying all this, which I've always found cruel, cynical and inaccurate IRL. But that theme was the funny factor for the movie. I just can't help feeling conflicted that it's an argument for such.

A watchable mess that finally turns into a film the idiocrats could've liked. Pretty splendid first half-hour tho.

Agreed. Mike Judge makes first half-hours with the best of them.

Luke Wilson was pretty boring in this... I'm sure they wanted him to play up the unremarkable/ vanilla guy, but what's-his-nuts in Office Space did it so much better.

but yeah, very much agreed on the first half-hour.

The more I think about this movie the less I like it. No mention of a corporate culture that profits from keeping America stupid, no. the problem is that america is increasingly over-run by fuck-crazy trash. I kinda hope Mike Judge is already embarassed by it.

No mention of a corporate culture that profits from keeping America stupid, no.

this was the main thing that bugged me too - the film focused exclusively on the demand side of the equation, and never gave any screentime to the supply side (ie, there has to be someone not-so-stupid around to make the TV shows, keep machines working, profit from everyone else's idiocy, etc.)

I'm worried that for him to go from King Of The Hill to this means some major loss of empathy for the classes he made his mint off of.

I think perhaps the idea is that all the engineers and manufacturers who keep America running are in other countries, while the US has become a subsistence agrarian state exporting little more than violent TV

and feet porn

if they had mentioned that they all moved to Canada, that would have been awesome!

I liked Maya Rudolph on what she 'paints': "People and fruit and shit."

Just watched this. The point about the weird class stuff is well taken. But: I actually think that with all the "particular individual" stuff Judge was trying to portray the stupidity of the future as a hideous hybrid of working-class stupidity (the cussing Carls Jr stuff) with middle-class bureaucratic Office Space style stupidity ("particular individuals") with upper-class corporate stupidity (Brawndo on the crops.) The problem is, the "you talk like a fag and your shit's retarded" stuff is by far the funniest, so that dominates your impression of what the movie's about, and it ends up reading as "fear the dopey masses, they breed."

Some of this film is going to come true well ahead of schedule.

movie half fails as satire and succeeds at being rly silly and fukken hilarious

Some of this film is going to come came true well ahead of schedule.

like 1984 in 1948

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!