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
― frogbs, Saturday, 17 November 2012 08:53 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, Judge is a composer of uncannily well-observed tableaux that are only mildly tweaked for comedic effect. Plot shmot.
― Come Into My Layer (Old Lunch), Saturday, 17 November 2012 13:08 (eleven years ago) link
we used to care whose ass it was, and why it was farting
otm
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 17 November 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
speak for yourself, i still care
― some dude, Saturday, 17 November 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
kinda hate this movie as an easy snide reference, the overarching attitude and tone of superiority is gross.
― congratulations (n/a), Saturday, 17 November 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
It's basically ILX politics threads: the movie
― congratulations (n/a), Saturday, 17 November 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's a bit '30 years from now a child won't be able to kick a ball on the street'
― some dude, Saturday, 17 November 2012 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 November 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it was a relief that a cult following didn't form around Extract out of force of habit
― some dude, Saturday, 17 November 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
30 years from now a child won't be able to kick a man in the nuts without someone laughing
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― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 17 November 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
Almost every time I see a water fountain I think of the nations water supply being replaced with gatorade.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 November 2012 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
extract is good!
― akm, Saturday, 17 November 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
Eh, it's really not. It's just a little well intentioned but pretty shallow and pointless lark.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 November 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
Extract felt like it was written and filmed in a week or so.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 November 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
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."
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 17 November 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
beef supreme for president
― under minnesota shakedown (mh), Saturday, 17 November 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
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!'
― frogbs, Saturday, 17 November 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
one day I hope to order an EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES
― frogbs, Saturday, 17 November 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
I hear there's this new restaurant open in Times Square...
― pplains, Saturday, 17 November 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
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
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
it even reflects the derisive patois of like "gub'mint" and "'murrca" which is so disgusting
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
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n/a otm
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
glad i'll be dead b4 entire film comes true
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
The emphasis on "entire" can be assumed?
― hashtag sizzler (Phil D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
Even if you ignore all political subtext, Luke Wilson is a fucking drip of a lead
― da croupier, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
which makes him kind of ideal for this type of movie
― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
an undercooked commercial failure? well yeah
― da croupier, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
first half of judge's career so farBeavis and Buttheada sympathetic take on a red state familya movie about what wage slaves have to put up with
second half of judge's career so fara movie about what CEOs have to put up withan unsympathetic take on a blue state familyBeavis 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 (eleven years ago) link
frogbs are you seriously saying that idiocracy is not a satire?
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
What logos crave: behind-the-scenes with the logos in Idiocracy
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 08:11 (nine years ago) link
Make America 'Bate Again
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 24 July 2016 01:50 (seven years ago) link
wow this was a very terrible movie
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 29 January 2017 04:41 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
Yeah but electrolytes
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 29 January 2017 04:46 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
^ this.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Sunday, 29 January 2017 09:06 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
that's what i say about southland tales
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Sunday, 29 January 2017 15:45 (seven years ago) link
I would vote for President Camacho
― voodoo chili, Sunday, 29 January 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link
uhh i like money
― flappy bird, Sunday, 29 January 2017 17:36 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
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 (nine months ago) link
it does look really cheap, doesn't it?
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 21:15 (nine months ago) link
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 (nine months ago) link