"Untitled Mike Judge Comedy"?

Yeah, this is pretty fucking fishy.

this still lists the wider opening as TBA

Los Angeles
Chicago
Dallas
Houston
Austin
Atlanta
Toronto

are the cities.

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!

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 fanboy
and
b - 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.

i also agree with milo about the defangedness of the satire. hardly what one would call hard-hitting.

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!"

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.

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.

onion liked it

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.

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?

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.

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/

noooo

http://www.tv.com/video/14181/the-goode-family?o=tv&tag=video;watchbtn;0

Good grief.

*96 tears*

oh awesome, finally somebody's really gonna stick it to those vegans

They don't know their place.

royal tenenbaums what

still haven't seen it, is it like this

I don't know. But I wouldn't bother getting all defensive before the pilot's even leaked

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.

I mean if anything I'm just glad the dude is laying off the yokels for once.

if I can't say "this is gonna suck" on the internet any more I don't wanna live in this world

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000008L6L.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

The panda pitching something into a recycle bin in the deep background of the wiki image made me laugh.

If anything I almost get the feeling he's trying pull a Seth McFarlane, which seems wrong.

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.

if they are relentlessly whiny and awful and helpless then it might be good. if it tries to 'say something' then fuck it.

"You know, I 've learned something today..."

already dreading the bemused avuncular mccainite neighbor

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).

poor ppl are the most disgusting savages in all the world imo

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.)

<3 Idiocracy, F y'all

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.)

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

and will definitely go see Extract

extract was really good.

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

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".

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.

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.

Ha, Silicon. But I bet Judge could make a funny Silicone Valley, too.

surprised there's no talk of Tales From the Tourbus around here, non-stop awesomeness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPTT6Kp3Ob8

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)

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 :/

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.

Yeah I get more of a libertarian vibe

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)