Idiocracy - new Mike Judge movie in superlimited release

Worst of all, when I called Moviefone to find out what time the movie is playing at the Arclight here in L.A., they couldn't find an "Idiocracy" playing at the theater. Only after I listened to their list of titles currently running did I find it, listed under "Untitled Mike Judge Comedy"!! (Call (323) 777-FILM and hear it for yourself).

question does not compute

any 30 seconds of king of the hill > idiocracy

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

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.

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.

I thought he was referring to President Sean Camacho!

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

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

Make America 'Bate Again

wow this was a very terrible movie

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

Yeah but electrolytes

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".

an old theme, at least in science fiction

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

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.

^ this.

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

that's what i say about southland tales

I would vote for President Camacho

uhh i like money

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

35mm with Judge:

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

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

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.

it does look really cheap, doesn't it?

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

Especially not when Southland Tales exists