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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 populationsmarter than me
Idiocracy works much better when it goes in on corporate branding rather than the HURR HURR LOOK AT THE DUMBS premise.
Quote from: The Walrus on December 26, 2014, 12:44:42 PMWell 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
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.
George W Bush had won reelection just two years before, for some added context.
Quote from: Esch on December 26, 2014, 01:31:27 PMQuote from: The Walrus on December 26, 2014, 12:44:42 PMWell 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 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.