Idiocracy - new Mike Judge movie in superlimited release

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