:kobeyuck Rethinking my fondness for this movie now
Maybe andrex is a bigger psycho than I thought.
:ohhh
Since you already took my most used line from the movie. "Which he spells thusly. With two D's as he says for a double dose of his pimping."spoiler (click to show/hide)Besides, the opening couple minutes have one of my favorite lines of any movie ever... "You see, a pimp's love is very different from that of a square..."[close]
I enjoyed it overall. My biggest problem was that some things didn't make any sense. If no one in the future is smarter than the main character, how were corporations like Brawndo operating? And who were the business folk who were paying everyone?They kinda explained it as the corporations and stuff had all pretty much automated near everything at some point which is why throughout the entire movie Not-Sure is shoved into machines and the "idiots" just do whatever it says. But maintenance is poor as every place is dirty and the system easily thwarted by the semi-competent.
It was a funny movie. If you're trying to find deep and meaningful societal commentary from the guy who made Beavis & Butthead, you're probably fucking stupid.Judge and other KOTH alum like Greg Daniels (Parks and Rec) are better at subtle little pokes at common absurdities, rather than laying out some kind of grand treatise, something South Park was once more adept at doing.
it's Atlas Shrugged for liberals
The only reason it was paraded around the internet as a classic is because it resonated with the "truly euphoric" subsets for so long.Plus the way Fox treated it.
I love Beavis and Butthead, but I think King Of The Hill is his best work.:mynicca
It was a funny movie. If you're trying to find deep and meaningful societal commentary from the guy who made Beavis & Butthead, you're probably fucking stupid.
That's kind of hard to avoid when the beginning of the movie sets itself up as a societal parody, not to mention it being praised as much by it's fans.
I find it to be a misstep on Judge's part. Overall, I love the rest of his work. So I don't really care about Idiocracy in the grand scheme of things, it was what it was.
Quote from: Death Ghidorah [/quoteIt was a funny movie. If you're trying to find deep and meaningful societal commentary from the guy who made Beavis & Butthead, you're probably fucking stupid.
That's kind of hard to avoid when the beginning of the movie sets itself up as a societal parody, not to mention it being praised as much by it's fans.
I find it to be a misstep on Judge's part. Overall, I love the rest of his work. So I don't really care about Idiocracy in the grand scheme of things, it was what it was.
It's not hard to avoid. It's a comedy. Comedy trades on absurdity. Once again, the people who look at a comedy and then extrapolate deep, serious meaning from absurd situations that are designed to elicit laughs are really, truly, deeply fucking dumb. Just pants-on-head-stupid. There is a difference between laughing and thinking "Wow, that sort of has a point" and the legion of fuckwits who probably still struggle with remembering to breath who think "Oh, my god, this is so deep. Yes, society really is getting dumberer."
These are the same sort of dipshits who bug Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert to run for public office.
You're kind of going in hard on this one. All I said was I don't find it that funny and I find a lot of where the comedy comes from to be eye rolling. That's hardly calling it horrible or one of the worst movies ever. Yeah, I guess you can avoid the ridiculous cult fan base the movie has, but that doesn't change the fact that you can find a lot of it annoyingly pretentious either way.
Sorry that a personal opinion got you angry. I didn't think it was funny and the absurdity in it wasn't some thing I enjoyed.
breh, all the mouthbreathing rednecks living in their dirt huts will eat our soft city bodies as an appetizer when the comets strike.
Except mine of course, since I will gladly offer up my orifices as a fuck/piss/shit/fist/foothole to stay alive. :-*
It was a funny movie.
It wasn't really though. A lot of the humor is just lame back patting 'look at how dumb these people are' peoplewatch fare.
There are some moments (everything involving Brawndo or the president for example) but a lot of it falls flat. Not just because of the fedora content but the delivery is rarely great either.
I liked Extract better :yeshrug
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/idiocracy.png)for maximum special fellowhttp://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Talk:603:_Idiocracy[close]
Here's the problem with Idiocracy:
Someone still makes cars. Designs them, builds them, ships them. Someone still designs stores and buildings, and runs the factories that fill the stores and buildings with products. Someone still designs and makes clothing. Someone still creates and produces television shows and movies. On and on, etc, etc. Now, they may do all these things poorly, but they still do them. I don't know about you, but I can't do any of that, even poorly.
So in this futuristic world populated entirely by mouth-breathing morons, there are still vast amounts of the population
smarter than me
I found those opening minutes hilarious.
Here's the problem with Idiocracy:
Someone still makes cars. Designs them, builds them, ships them. Someone still designs stores and buildings, and runs the factories that fill the stores and buildings with products. Someone still designs and makes clothing. Someone still creates and produces television shows and movies. On and on, etc, etc. Now, they may do all these things poorly, but they still do them. I don't know about you, but I can't do any of that, even poorly.
So in this futuristic world populated entirely by mouth-breathing morons, there are still vast amounts of the population
smarter than me
Idiocracy works much better when it goes in on corporate branding rather than the HURR HURR LOOK AT THE DUMBS premise.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf2JVIdh2eU
Here's the problem with Idiocracy:
Someone still makes cars. Designs them, builds them, ships them. Someone still designs stores and buildings, and runs the factories that fill the stores and buildings with products. Someone still designs and makes clothing. Someone still creates and produces television shows and movies. On and on, etc, etc. Now, they may do all these things poorly, but they still do them. I don't know about you, but I can't do any of that, even poorly.
So in this futuristic world populated entirely by mouth-breathing morons, there are still vast amounts of the population
smarter than me
Well I don't believe it takes any special talent to find that scene funny. I kind of think it takes a special effort not to find the rapidly multiplying rednecks and the plight of the professional couple hilarious. I'm guessing Esch knows some rednecks like that and got offended on a personal level, or he just hates fun like terrisus or Mr Gundam.
Or perhaps I find it a ::) ::) ::) ::) worthy blend of fedora elitism and bitchmade nebulous pearl clutching :yeshrug
George W Bush had won reelection just two years before, for some added context.
Well I don't believe it takes any special talent to find that scene funny. I kind of think it takes a special effort not to find the rapidly multiplying rednecks and the plight of the professional couple hilarious. I'm guessing Esch knows some rednecks like that and got offended on a personal level, or he just hates fun like terrisus or Mr Gundam.
Or perhaps I find it a ::) ::) ::) ::) worthy blend of fedora elitism and bitchmade nebulous pearl clutching :yeshrug
To be fair, Idiocracy is a pretty good zeitgeist of what was going on. 2006 was the year when The God Delusion came out, An Inconvenient Truth came out, anti-gay Republicans kept getting busted for doing gay things, Ted Haggard got busted for using meth and seeking "companionship" with gay hookers, and it seemed like Richard Dawkins was running around everywhere. It was a pretty big year for reddit/fedora style atheism and generally being a smug prick about things. Naturally, Idiocracy wasn't just whipped up for this occasion, everything seemed to have coincided with this particular year for some reason.