this still lists the wider opening as TBA
― kingfish high command (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 3 September 2006 09:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish high command (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 3 September 2006 09:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Los Angeles Chicago Dallas Houston Austin Atlanta Toronto
are the cities.
― kingfish high command (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 3 September 2006 09:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish high command (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 3 September 2006 09:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Sunday, 3 September 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― señor citizen (eman), Sunday, 3 September 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― el borracho (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 3 September 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― señor citizen (eman), Sunday, 3 September 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Sunday, 3 September 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― el borracho (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 3 September 2006 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link
I think it has more to do with some really nasty satire of some really big companies.That's crazy talk. This is the most de-fanged satire of all time. Ghetto people talk funny! Americans are stupid and obsessed with violence! Starbucks handjobs! Poor/stupid people breed like rabbits!
― milo z (mlp), Monday, 4 September 2006 02:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― señor citizen (eman), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, well, it's definitely a flawed picture. Sorry you didn't like it more. I'm willing to concede that
a - I am a total Mike Judge fanboyandb - Going after some of my favorite targets (dumb tv, anti-intellectualism, corporate overlording) may have influenced me to be kinder to it than deserved.
On the other hand, I really did laugh a LOT.
― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:46 (seventeen years ago) link
i also agree with milo about the defangedness of the satire. hardly what one would call hard-hitting.
― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 02:07 (seventeen years ago) link
but i defy anyoe to watch this in suburbia and not feel a bit of painful recognition upon leaving the theater and coming out into the world again. it's not so much a feeling of elitisim i get, but just an exhaustion with the relentlessness of modern culture's attack on your intelligence and senses, ie "I'm eating! fuck you!"
― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 04:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 10:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Picnics and Pixie Stix (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Watching the President was just as grating and senses-dulling as watching an actual WWE affair - none of the satire was sharp enough to rise above the base material.
― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link
this is sort of opposite to, say, Talledega Nights, where everyone is pretty stupid, but it makes stupid look funny, and fun, whereas here it's just soul crushing.
― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― golana murcalumis (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 06:37 (seventeen years ago) link
onion liked it
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link
I checked the paper this morning, and it is indeed playing at 10-12 theatres in and around town. However, only a handful are showing more than once a day. The majority are tossing it it out once at odd times like 1:10 in the afternoon or 11:40 at night.
― Picnics and Pixie Stix (Charles McCain), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Friday, 8 September 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Case in point: the scene where the cops pull over Joe, Frito, and Rita, shoot the hell out of the car, blow up the car, shoot guns in the air, shoot down a passing airplane, and start rioting. Is the scene a commentary on violence, or is it just fun to blow shit up?
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 8 September 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm not sure he thought too much about funny, sadly, and certainly not about sharp satire. The only thing this movie has going for it is gallons of bile, if you're into that sort of thing. I agree with whoever said it's depressing.
― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Sunday, 10 September 2006 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 11 September 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link
ugrgrgrhughghh mike judge u know i <3 u boo but wtf is this shit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goode_Family
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1183569/
― and what, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 03:47 (fifteen years ago) link
noooo
http://www.tv.com/video/14181/the-goode-family?o=tv&tag=video;watchbtn;0
― and what, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 03:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Good grief.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 03:58 (fifteen years ago) link
*96 tears*
― Abbott, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 04:01 (fifteen years ago) link
oh awesome, finally somebody's really gonna stick it to those vegans
― J0hn D., Wednesday, 6 August 2008 04:05 (fifteen years ago) link
They don't know their place.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 04:07 (fifteen years ago) link
royal tenenbaums what
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 04:08 (fifteen years ago) link
still haven't seen it, is it like this
― J0hn D., Wednesday, 6 August 2008 04:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't know. But I wouldn't bother getting all defensive before the pilot's even leaked
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 04:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I can't imagine that King Of The Hill would've looked promising if presented with the same kind of advance promotional materials and descriptions, so I don't really understand what y'all are so bummed about already.
― some dude, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 04:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean if anything I'm just glad the dude is laying off the yokels for once.
― some dude, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 04:11 (fifteen years ago) link
if I can't say "this is gonna suck" on the internet any more I don't wanna live in this world
― J0hn D., Wednesday, 6 August 2008 04:13 (fifteen years ago) link
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000008L6L.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 04:21 (fifteen years ago) link
The panda pitching something into a recycle bin in the deep background of the wiki image made me laugh.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 04:24 (fifteen years ago) link
If anything I almost get the feeling he's trying pull a Seth McFarlane, which seems wrong.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 04:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I like double joke of the main character shares his name with a Swahili word and a certain linux ubuntu.
I dunno; the various pandas and the dolphin jumping thru a rainbow gives me the idea that this might a total pisstake(not sure of whom, yet). I guess we'll see.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 05:00 (fifteen years ago) link
if they are relentlessly whiny and awful and helpless then it might be good. if it tries to 'say something' then fuck it.
― goole, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 05:09 (fifteen years ago) link
"You know, I 've learned something today..."
― kingfish, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 05:10 (fifteen years ago) link
already dreading the bemused avuncular mccainite neighbor
― goole, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 05:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Is The Leftersons really such a rich vein of comedy?
― Dan I., Wednesday, 6 August 2008 05:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh Christ, I'd forgotten about them. They used to grace our BSRW op-ed threads years ago. It's like Mission Hill(or even the Oblongs?) gone all wrong.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 05:39 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe im giving it too much credit but i took its target to be more the lowest common denominator drives of capitalism or the mass media. (this is probably some creative misreading on my part, I'll admit.)
― ryan, Friday, 7 August 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 Idiocracy, F y'all
― °⌉ 3⊥∀N (╓abies), Friday, 7 August 2009 13:57 (fourteen years ago) link
no i definitely think that was Judge's intent. it seemed like he got half way into it, realized the classist, potentially objectionable angles he was working and started pulling his punches (or losing interest altogether). the result managed to be both toothless and kind of offensive.
but i totally lol'd at the opening 3-4 minutes so I'm basically the most disgusting of savages in the world etc
― ^prizes the praise of the media, and the Europeans (will), Friday, 7 August 2009 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
and will definitely go see Extract
― ^prizes the praise of the media, and the Europeans (will), Friday, 7 August 2009 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
extract was really good.
― akm, Thursday, 10 June 2010 05:56 (fourteen years ago) link
i didn't think there was a single good thing about extract, and i am honestly baffled when people say they liked it. my whole family dug it and i'm more of a fan of both mike judge and jason bateman than any of them tbh
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 10 June 2010 08:47 (fourteen years ago) link
it was funny? it was kind of sweet and understated too. also ben affleck: "xanax is good for everything. i take it for a common head cold. codeine cough syrup is good." "good for what?" "it's just good".
― akm, Friday, 11 June 2010 04:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I watched Extract this weekend. It wasn't terrible but I think I only laughed once. I think Judge might have been going more for 'good natured' than 'hilarious'. There were some fairly well-observed character types (which is one of his greatest strengths, imo). But ultimately it was pretty much just an episode of a half-decent sitcom stretched out to three times the normal length. I don't really get why this had to be a movie.
Probably the first and last time I'll ever say this but: Ben Affleck was the best thing in this movie.
― maybe my clam is just more toxic (Old Lunch), Monday, 22 February 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
Extract, iirc, was a big nothing. Like they cranked out a first draft, asked Judge if he wanted to work on it some more, and he just sort of shrugged and said "eh." As opposed to "Idiocracy," which is a great idea and was packed with jokes but clearly came off compromised by studio interference and Judge's lack of interest in salvaging a project for the same people that screwed him over.
I keep forgetting "Silicone Valley" is Judge.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 February 2016 19:21 (eight years ago) link
Ha, Silicon. But I bet Judge could make a funny Silicone Valley, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 February 2016 19:22 (eight years ago) link
surprised there's no talk of Tales From the Tourbus around here, non-stop awesomeness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPTT6Kp3Ob8
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 June 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
season 2 pretty great - covering George, Bootsy and James Brown means certain things get repeated a bit, which is annoying, but whatever. More than a few anecdotes that were totally new to me (like Kush putting James Brown in a headlock the night of the JBs inaugural gig)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 December 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link
pretty clear that Judge leans conservative but finding out he's a fucking Ben Shapiro stan ("liking" his dipshit tweets going back months) kinda bums me out :/
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Sunday, 6 January 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link
Maybe the same sort of libertarianism that the South Park guys espouse. Wikipedia entry links to a report that Judge was at one point prepared to produce a series of anti Trump ads in the vein of Idiocracy for what that's worth.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 January 2019 23:04 (five years ago) link
Yeah I get more of a libertarian vibe
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 6 January 2019 23:11 (five years ago) link
like i get that Shapiro's touted as this big "free speech" guy and i'm sure that appeals to someone like Judge. but he's also an unrepentant trans & homophobe, generally emblematic of Ted Cruz's millennial fan base (insofar as one exists)
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Sunday, 6 January 2019 23:11 (five years ago) link