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Eel O'Brian

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Re: Is Idiocracy actually good?
« Reply #60 on: December 24, 2014, 08:00:00 PM »
I didn't read that far

I belong in Idiocracy :(
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Re: Is Idiocracy actually good?
« Reply #61 on: December 24, 2014, 08:43:40 PM »
I love you, Eel!
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Trent Dole

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Re: Is Idiocracy actually good?
« Reply #62 on: December 25, 2014, 03:21:39 AM »
It's just a satirical dumb thing by the guy that made Beavis and Butt-head, you're all over thinking it WAY too much.
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Re: Is Idiocracy actually good?
« Reply #63 on: December 25, 2014, 10:06:05 AM »
If you're wondering how they eat and breathe and other science facts, just repeat to yourself "It's just a show, I should really just relax"
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Re: Is Idiocracy actually good?
« Reply #64 on: December 25, 2014, 12:04:29 PM »
Hah, I very nearly included those lines in my post. :-*
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EvilLore Killah

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Re: Is Idiocracy actually good?
« Reply #65 on: December 25, 2014, 03:58:05 PM »
Never knew so much people were butthurt over Idiocracy.

Movie must struck a nerve with them & they don't like the truth being told to them :/


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Re: Is Idiocracy actually good?
« Reply #66 on: December 26, 2014, 09:56:50 AM »
I found those opening minutes hilarious.

I'll just be blunt here and say that no one on The Bore is surprised by this revelation.
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Re: Is Idiocracy actually good?
« Reply #67 on: December 26, 2014, 10:54:05 AM »
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

the jokes on you, it's actually just america that's gotten dumber. everyone else just tolerates the big country of idiots like a cousin who wants to play bomberman so you give them a controller that isn't plugged in and tell them they're the blue guy.

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Re: Is Idiocracy actually good?
« Reply #68 on: December 26, 2014, 01:27:02 PM »
I've never seen this movie but did you just insult Mr Gundam? I can't fathom why anyone would be compelled to do that.

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Re: Is Idiocracy actually good?
« Reply #69 on: December 26, 2014, 01:33:14 PM »
Oh ok

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Re: Is Idiocracy actually good?
« Reply #70 on: December 27, 2014, 02:47:51 AM »
Idiocracy works much better when it goes in on corporate branding rather than the HURR HURR LOOK AT THE DUMBS premise.


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Re: Is Idiocracy actually good?
« Reply #71 on: December 27, 2014, 12:42:19 PM »
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

It's been a while since I've seen it, but wasn't it explained that robots were designed in previous centuries to handle industrial production?
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Olivia Wilde Homo

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Re: Is Idiocracy actually good?
« Reply #72 on: December 27, 2014, 08:39:06 PM »
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.
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Re: Is Idiocracy actually good?
« Reply #73 on: December 27, 2014, 08:49:56 PM »
haven't seen it
:smug

King Of The Hill is dope tho
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Re: Is Idiocracy actually good?
« Reply #74 on: December 28, 2014, 03:01:27 AM »
George W Bush had won reelection just two years before, for some added context.

I could not fucking believe it when the Shrub was re-elected. I was just dumbfounded, and felt utterly out of touch with my country.

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Re: Is Idiocracy actually good?
« Reply #75 on: December 28, 2014, 03:31:57 AM »
I felt then kinda like I have in the last six months of this year: that I'm surrounded by people with severely fucked-up worldviews who'll grab on to any excuse possible to not care about their neighbors. just scary and sad.
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Olivia Wilde Homo

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Re: Is Idiocracy actually good?
« Reply #76 on: January 24, 2015, 08:24:42 PM »


In case anyone still cares anymore, Marc Maron recently interviewed Mike Judge where he discussed how he came up with the idea for the movie.  It starts at 1:31:11 if it doesn't go right to that point from the link.

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.

I forgot to include V for Vendetta, which you could argue is peak fedora.  2006 was a big year for :smug
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Re: Is Idiocracy actually good?
« Reply #77 on: January 24, 2015, 09:13:51 PM »
The premise of the film falls apart at the first scene, implying the barren liberals who gave away their civilisation to beavis and butthead were the intelligent ones.

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Re: Is Idiocracy actually good?
« Reply #78 on: January 24, 2015, 09:16:27 PM »
We liberals are excellent at thinking ourselves out of relevancy.