Idiocracy - new Mike Judge movie in superlimited release

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I watched this on Sunday night. Some nice concepts, but that narration is goddawful (if you're gonna bury the movie why the fuck not just let it be a director's cut?!?!?!) and I'd rather have watched Owen Wilson admit that fucking, shooting guns and being a total dumbass can be really fun rather than see Luke Wilson wimpily grimace every time somebody belched.

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Owen ideally would have ranged in reaction from giddy enthusiasm to angry frustration, which would have been a LOT more fun than Luke's milquetoast.

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Also why the fuck did there have to be a hooker in this movie? A hooker played by Maya Rudolph?

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

"Go Away. 'Batin'."

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

This movie was bad and disappointing. It had some amusing moments but for the most part I wanted my money back.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

I just realized how much this movie would have rocked as Harold & Kumar Go To The Future.

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Or rather, Harold & Kumar's Bogus Journey

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Also why the fuck did there have to be a hooker in this movie? A hooker played by Maya Rudolph?

question does not compute

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

What, are you not able to think of 90 actresses who would make a better female lead in this film than Maya Rudolph as a confused hooker who gradually falls for Luke Wilson?

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Did you think the constant references to her pimp surviving for 500 years to kick her ass were comic gold?

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

this was, unfortunately, really painfully bad.

any 30 seconds of king of the hill > idiocracy

― Jimmy_tango (Jimmy_tango), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

her pimp surviving for 500 years

Played by Scarface from the Geto Boys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Worst movie of last year. I'd rather sit through a straight-to-video Tara Reid flick than see this again.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know, I just wasn't bothered by the hooker stuff at all, and the pimp sequence at the beginning with the army dude made up for it.

anyway, movie was funny, really funny in a few parts, and missed the mark or went on too long in others. it was alright. it was certainly better than Anchorman. also, good to see mike judge basically play butthead for an hour and a half.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was hilarious. 'BECAUSE it's got what plants CRAVE." And the McDonald's style intake menu in the St. God's Hospital. And and and. FUNNY.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

"Carl's Jr. believes no children should go hungry. You are an unfit mother."

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

The court drawings completely cracked my shit up, too.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

"Rita, you have to keep painting. The world needs it."

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

"I'd sure like a Starbucks." "We don't have TIME for handjobs."

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

I can't see it becoming a Comedy Central staple what w/the giant BUTTFUCKERS constantly & all. Just a DVD hit methinks.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

"You cared whose ass it was, and why it was farting."

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

also, I'm not so sure the narration was some studio thing; i think this is the director's cut.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

and the funniest thing in the movie: "go away. 'batin'"

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

No, apparently the director's cut is to come in the future.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

i thought it was pretty funny. it's really sad though when the president in this movie is preferable to the real-life one!

― latebloomer aka freedom williams sr (latebloomer), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

i was also expecting it to be choppier and less coherent than it turned out to be.

― latebloomer aka freedom williams sr (latebloomer), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

On the way from Netflix tomorrow.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Maybe the worst movie I've ever seen. Lame, cheezy, unfunny and at least passively racist.

― the new sincerity (Pye Poudre), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

racist?

I liked it okay, but it def. has some problems. Seemed pointless as live action, would've been more fun as a cartoon. And its basically one really looooooooong joke, very one note.

Scarface's appearance cracked me up.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Shakey OTM

― J (Jay), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know if I agree, but it's not hard to see how some might see the pimp stuff as racially questionable.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

wtf he appears in a bunch of snapshots that might as well be Geto Boys promo shots.

I thought he was referring to President Sean Camacho!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

There were a lot of jokes in this movie that were actually very funny, only I didn't feel compelled to actually laugh at them. It was somehow both too long and too short simultaneous. It did make me really want a handjob though.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

"racially questionable" is a good way to put it. there were certain snidely classist jabs all over the place, too.

― max (maxreax), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

uh, the whole thing is pretty much one mean-spirited class joke.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Mean-spirited class joke? Mike Judge? You don't say!

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

Actually no let me take that back, Mike Judge's humor has never exactly been mean-spirited (even here), but this just seems...rushed...or something, in a way that could be easily seen as mean-spirited.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

mike judge's work isn't typically mean-spirited. 'king of the hill' definitely isn't, for one.

― roger goodell (gear), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

"You see, a pimp's love is very different from that of a square."

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

When I call it "at least passively racist," I'm looking at the film in the context of Mike's other work. Office Space, King of the Hill and Beavis and Butthead all take place in almost entirely white universes. In Office Space and B&B, this isn't really an issue: feels like a natural result of the situations portrayed.

But King of the Hill's avoidance of race seems more than a little forced and dishonest. I mean, race isn't exactly a non-issue in East Texas, and the show's timidity in this respect is hard to parse.

Idiocracy is Mike's first work to really deal with and incorporate non-white America. And in it, signifiers of non-white race, lower-class poverty and stupidity-to-the-point-of-retardation are all mixed together, as though they were essentially the same thing.

Didn't kill the movie for me (the lack of good jokes did that), but I found it more than a little off-putting.

― the new sincerity (Pye Poudre), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

King of the Hill definitely does not take place in an "almost entirely white universe"!! Lots of Asians and Mexicans, Chris Rock guest spot, etc.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but it does. The central cast is entirely white, except for a couple secondary characters: an Native American man (a ridiculously exaggerated stereotype) and an Asian family (even more absurdly cartoonish).

While there have been occasional minor/guest characters of other races, it's a basically white universe. And the profound race issues (including outright racism) that are such an essential part of the real-world landscape the show supposedly mirrors are almost entirely sidestepped.

― the new sincerity (Pye Poudre), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

I hadn't watched "King of the Hill" in eons, but the other night Peggy unknowingly befriended a drag queen, and said in the dressing room of a club to a Diana Ross double "If she wasn't dead, I'd swear you were her." I ROFL'd.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

its not occasional, its constant - trip to Japan, trip to Mexico, Hank's latino coworker with wife troubles, Peggy's visit with Mexican soap actor, there are literally dozens of episodes dealing with awkward racial interactions and stereotypes. Now, BLACK people in particular are few and far between, but uh, black people are not the only non-white people you know.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

ban adam beales

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

neither the native american dude nor the asian family are cartoonish or stereotypical!

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

other than in the sense that they are literally, you know, cartoons

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, I wasn't aware that having an asian character who routinely calls all his white neighbors "hillbillies" constituted "sidestepping" race.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

everyone was white but they all had latino last names

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

i think john redcorn is a pretty complex and touching character.

― roger goodell (gear), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

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

― da croupier, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 18:54 (twelve years ago)

which makes him kind of ideal for this type of movie

― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:05 (twelve years ago)

an undercooked commercial failure? well yeah

― da croupier, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:07 (twelve years ago)

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

― da croupier, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:18 (twelve years ago)

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

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:40 (twelve years ago)

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

― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:51 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

What logos crave: behind-the-scenes with the logos in Idiocracy

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 08:11 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

Make America 'Bate Again

― Neanderthal, Sunday, 24 July 2016 01:50 (nine years ago)

six months pass...

wow this was a very terrible movie

― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 29 January 2017 04:41 (nine years ago)

like it is so condescending and elitist and super classist and also low-key pro-eugenics??

― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 29 January 2017 04:42 (nine years ago)

Yeah but electrolytes

― El Tomboto, Sunday, 29 January 2017 04:46 (nine years ago)

I watched this a couple of years ago and was not impressed by the quality of the satire, which was predicated on similar ideas to those long held by racists, except "The Yellow/Brown Peril and Destruction of the White Race" was replaced by "The Proletarian Peril and Destruction of the Educated Elites".

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 29 January 2017 05:14 (nine years ago)

an old theme, at least in science fiction

https://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/kornbluth-littleblack/kornbluth-littleblack-00-h.html

― the late great, Sunday, 29 January 2017 05:17 (nine years ago)

It's a terrifyingly prescient and occasionally very funny film ruined for many people because of a totally unnecessary Eugenics 101 sequence that they stuck at the beginning as if society's decline required a theory.

― El Tomboto, Sunday, 29 January 2017 05:53 (nine years ago)

^ this.

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Sunday, 29 January 2017 09:06 (nine years ago)

anybody else have friends that think it's so hilarious to say "little did we know at the time this was a DOCUMENTARY"

― Neanderthal, Sunday, 29 January 2017 15:29 (nine years ago)

that's what i say about southland tales

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Sunday, 29 January 2017 15:45 (nine years ago)

I would vote for President Camacho

― voodoo chili, Sunday, 29 January 2017 17:22 (nine years ago)

uhh i like money

― flappy bird, Sunday, 29 January 2017 17:36 (nine years ago)

I love the way theyre all wearing Crocs. Big ups to the costume designer(s)

― pointless rock guitar (Michael B), Sunday, 29 January 2017 17:46 (nine years ago)

three months pass...

35mm with Judge:

https://www.musicboxtheatre.com/films/idiocracy-on-35mm-with-mike-judge

― to pimp a barfly (Eazy), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 23:11 (nine years ago)

my hatred of this movie has grown tenfold since I first watched it 4 months ago

― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 23:16 (nine years ago)

six years pass...

I just saw this movie for the first time since it was in theaters. Some of it has aged well, some of it has aged terribly, but it remains by and large a borderline disaster, like a self-funded pilot that never got picked up.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 20:17 (two years ago)

it does look really cheap, doesn't it?

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 21:15 (two years ago)

Pretty sure I won't be going back to rescreen this one

― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 21:26 (two years ago)

Especially not when Southland Tales exists

― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 21:27 (two years ago)

one year passes...

In retrospect this film was a little bit farfetched. There's no way cryogenic tech could have worked that well in 2005

― the wedding preset (dog latin), Friday, 31 January 2025 14:23 (one year ago)

so uh, this thing where Trump just wasted millions of gallons of water for no reason because he thinks the "faucets aren't turned on"

― frogbs, Saturday, 1 February 2025 04:59 (one year ago)

^ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/us/trump-water-california-central-valley.html

― nous sommes perdus dans le supermarché (sic), Saturday, 1 February 2025 05:57 (one year ago)

three months pass...

Watching Britain’s Got Talent and one of the acts shtick is launching a bowling ball at a guys balls.

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 24 May 2025 19:15 (one year ago)

Predictably, the crowd love it.

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 24 May 2025 19:16 (one year ago)

six months pass...

life imitates art?

― Minty Gum (Latham Green), Monday, 1 December 2025 14:25 (six months ago)

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