Well hopefully they won't just reinforce stereotypes but actually have some normal issues as well as that kinda stuff. I bet it wont get good like that until at lest a few episodes into the season though. Remember the earliest episodes of king of the hill. That show has come a long way.
― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Not so sure about this, but I'll give Judge the benefit of the doubt...
http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/extract/
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 11 April 2009 10:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i predict lols. it's a pretty basic trailer.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Saturday, 11 April 2009 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link
is it an old-fashioned movie-thing to have the male romantic lead be 15 years older than the female?
― conrad, Saturday, 11 April 2009 11:31 (fifteen years ago) link
bateman is like four years older than wiig. isn't he supposed to be older than mila kunis. like, she is a significantly younger woman, in the film, and that's a thing.
whereas in (say) wedding crashers, nobody mentions it.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Saturday, 11 April 2009 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, the story isn't clear in the trailer - just wondered after they were both kind of flirting w/ one another
is it an old-fashioned movie-thing to have the male romantic lead totally understandably and romantically pursue the much younger female in his employment because he and his wife have some problems w/ their sex life that neither of them will discuss?
― conrad, Saturday, 11 April 2009 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link
well, the sweatpants gag was pretty good anyway
― Zero Transfats Waller (Oilyrags), Saturday, 11 April 2009 13:01 (fifteen years ago) link
looks good.
― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Saturday, 11 April 2009 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
especially after idiocracy :(
bateman is like four years older than wiig.
Read this as "batman is like four years older than wiig" and was like, huh?
― OK, fine, yes, I Goggled it (Pancakes Hackman), Saturday, 11 April 2009 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2253574/
― conrad, Saturday, 11 April 2009 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I liked Idiocracy but yeah mostly cos it made shots at the anti-intellectual pro-materialist America that I grew up in and have come to loath. After the first half hour it starts going downhill, cos the plot itself takes over, and the plot is pretty mind-numbingly stupid.
― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 12 April 2009 00:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Goode Family premiere tonight. Anyone else watch?
(in short, rather promising for a pilot episode despite obvious unintentional KOTH/Beavis & Butthead flashbacks)
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 28 May 2009 06:36 (fourteen years ago) link
How long should it take the characters to build for a proper show?
― kingfish, Thursday, 28 May 2009 07:41 (fourteen years ago) link
that show looks horrible. is there any joke beyond LOL LIBERALS?
― brian krakow has a posse (bug), Thursday, 28 May 2009 07:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i didn't watch it. i guess i'm hoping it'll be more than lol-liberals in the same way king of the hill is more than lol-texans. but i don't know.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 28 May 2009 13:24 (fourteen years ago) link
watching clips on youtube and this shit is just lethal
― da croupier, Friday, 29 May 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
What could be funnier than an indictment of Mr. Van Driessen.
― da croupier, Friday, 29 May 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Following this and the movie about how only the stupid mongrel poor are breeding, I can't say I'm anticipating his new movie about a factory owner whose employees are exploiting him.
― da croupier, Friday, 29 May 2009 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
that show is pretty obviously getting burned off over the summer.
― akm, Friday, 29 May 2009 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1225822/
"Extract"
Joel, the owner of an Extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him.
Mila Kunis, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, J.k. Simmons, Kristen Wiig, and imdb doesn't list if David Herman will be in this or not.
Had no idea this was coming until it popped up as a sidebar advert on facebook.
― kingfish, Friday, 7 August 2009 08:55 (fourteen years ago) link
http://s3.amazonaws.com/hitfix/assets/21/extract_movie_poster.jpg
― kingfish, Friday, 7 August 2009 08:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Idiocracy was so bad! Such an elitist/classist story, and there weren't even that many good jokes. The only funny bits where the TV shows the dude was watching.
― Tuomas, Friday, 7 August 2009 08:59 (fourteen years ago) link
canNOT get a read on this movie. the concept/trailer are baffling and unfunny.
― sean gramophone, Friday, 7 August 2009 13:07 (fourteen years ago) link
there's a lot of catharsis in watching Idiocracy, elitist or not (i dont think it is, even if it is in the tradition of decline of the West types like Spengler or Heidegger).
― ryan, Friday, 7 August 2009 13:14 (fourteen years ago) link
poor ppl are the most disgusting savages in all the world imo
― galumphing lummox (bug), Friday, 7 August 2009 13:35 (fourteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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