Is Idiocracy actually good?

[Eschaton]

Been wondering if I should give it a go

[Great Rumbler]

It has its moments.

[Joe Molotov]

Are you a privileged white male that likes laughing at your moral/intellectual inferiors? 

[octopushover]

If you're willing to suspend your disbelief that Maya Rudolph is a prostitute.

[toku]

No. Just like everything else.

[Human Snorenado]

It has some good ideas and funny lines but ultimately the execution is not all there, sadly.

Worth it for President Camacho, tho

[team filler]

it's actually a horror movie

[StealthFan]

college feggits that go to indie shows love it. It's for fucktards. Maya Rudolph actually looks good in this tho, and the "It's what plants crave" was funny.

[archie4208]

Do you have a fedora you can tip?

[Tasty]

Is this a real question?

Edit- It's not amazing or anything but it still has a lot of great moments.

[dkdk]

nah but it's dumb as fuck in a good way

[Cheddahz]

[jakefromstatefarm]

welcome to Costco...I love you

[headwalk]

it's one of those films that you'll enjoy a lot more if you just watch it instead of reading about it on the internet.

[chronovore]

JUST WATCH IT.

It’s 90 minutes of hit-or-miss, with the hits having some decent resonance.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Windows Fedora Foundation

[StealthFan]

but but but its just like real life those dumb fucking jocks ya know LOLAMIRITE

[Human Snorenado]

Sorry, I buy it. People continue to get dumber. Maybe it's delivered ham-handedly but it's a solid enough premise. Go out and interact with fucking humanity for a day and tell me you DIDN'T want to commit fucking murder. I don't buy it.

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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..."

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[Human Snorenado]

Yeah, let's just be all touchy feely up with people kumbaya up in here and ignore that the world is full of people who have problems pouring piss out of a boot if the directions were on the heel, brehs



I stick by everything I've ever said about kids, too. They're gross, and the act of bringing a child into this world is one of the more selfish things you can do. Adopt if it's that important to you. Overpopulation is a thing, just saying.

[Human Snorenado]

I have and always will cop to being what I describe as "an abstract humanist and a concrete psychopath." Basically, I am all for policies and programs that will benefit the most people, especially those most disadvantaged in society... but in my personal life, if you can't fucking do everything right I will tire of you within five minutes and sit there and imagine you being fed into a wood chipper. I feel that way towards about 95% of people I have to interact with, including family members and significant others.

Yeah, I should probably get that looked at.

[Tasty]

Rethinking my fondness for this movie now

[Human Snorenado]

Rethinking my fondness for this movie now

Woodchipper is FULL of Nintendo fans, Andy

[Tasty]

Maybe andrex is a bigger psycho than I thought.

That reminds me of my favorite movie ever, Fight Club. That movie was so right about corporate America and rabid consumerism. Fight the system brehs!

[Trent Dole]

Idiocracy is worth seeing
...brought to you buy Carl's Jr.

[recursivelyenumerable]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

[king of the internet]

It's got some really funny parts. Just watch it.

[benjipwns]

Extract is the better movie, there I said it. (And The Goode Family was epic, butthurt over it from people who watched ten minutes was glorious. Especially since the show, like KOTH, was ultimately sympathetic to its characters while poking at their ways and views.)

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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..."

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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."

(That whole presentation and slideshow is maybe the best full scene of the movie.)

Second most used is probably: "And the UN, UN-Nazied the world. Forever." (I like gags about the past/present in future-set things, like Futurama's many versions of it.)

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Plus Upgrayedd did come after Rita, like she said he would.

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[Oblivion]

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?

Aside from that, it was pretty funny. I disagree with Esch about that opening part. In fact, almost all scenes involving the narrator were great, imo.

"And the number one movie in the country was called 'Ass'. And that's all it was. For 90 minutes. It won 8 Oscars that year.  Including best screenplay."

Also, the lead chick has a great rack.

[WanderingWind]

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.

[benjipwns]

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.

You see that when after they switch the plants to water, the Brawndo CEO calls in freaking out because the company has lost its marketshare and the computers automatically laid off half the country or something. And he can't do shit about it.

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.

I think Idiocracy was in some ways just using the "theory" to setup the premise to sell all their jokes. Office Space is similar. Even Beavis and Butthead and Silicon Valley are like this.

Extract suffers in terms of cult popularity because it doesn't have any broad premises (people are idiots, meaningless jobs suck, propane rules, etc.) for anyone to latch onto. And all the main characters aren't exactly sympathetic let alone champions not even the workers.

[mormapope]

Beavis and Butthead will always be Mike Judge's best work.

[Eric P]

it's Atlas Shrugged for liberals

[Oblivion]

it's Atlas Shrugged for liberals

 

[benjipwns]

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.

[WanderingWind]

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.

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.

[WanderingWind]

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.

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.

Uh. Who cares if you find it unfunny/funny? I thought it had some laughs, but I'm talking about the weird little cultists that sprung up around the movie. Nobody's mad, chief. Stow that shit.

[Eric P]

for maximum special fellow

http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Talk:603:_Idiocracy

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[Great Rumbler]

That feel when you realize you just used an XKCD comic to decry smug superiority.

[Rufus]

XKCD guy always comes off pretty genuine to me.

[Eric P]

Yeah I'd say painfully earnest more so than smugly superior

[Steve Youngblood]

It's got some good bits, but it's certainly not a great movie. Worth a watch if you stumble upon it and are in the mood for a silly comedy, but not something I'd recommend someone go out of their way to watch.

[nudemacusers]

as others have said, the premise is neat but also kinda fedora-y (especially in retrospect), but the movie just kinda flatlines and is just another comedy film that comprised of skit-length ideas mashed into a narrative.


also king of the hill is his best all around work. silicon valley might be up there but time will tell.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

My personal theory on Idiocracy is that Mike Judge had a bunch of funny ideas about the downfall of society but had no idea how to execute them in movie form.  If he were to make the execution better, he probably would have had to change or remove a bunch of shit and he wasn't willing to do that either.  So he kind of said "fuck it."

A lot of funny premises but the movie is kind of weak overall.  Three fedoras out of five.

[Steve Contra]

Problematic movie with some really good bits and visual gags.  Welcome to 2006, we've had this discussion before.

[Tasty]

Yeah, King of the Hill is easily their best. Ended at a good point too.

[Trent Dole]

People that like King of the Hill best are wrong.
Or maybe just southern.

[Human Snorenado]

You're going at this all wrong- don't make it a punitive thing. We need to try INCENTIVE BASED EUGENICS.

"Hey buddy, how'd you like... to go CROSSBOW HUNTING WITH TED NUGENT??? Alls ya gotta do is let us cut your balls off."

[Steve Contra]

Idiocracy works much better when it goes in on corporate branding rather than the HURR HURR LOOK AT THE DUMBS premise.

[Human Snorenado]

Agreed. I still feel bad for people in movies when they're being made fun of, even if they're comically stupid.

I kind of wish that a movie would examine the idea that technology allowing so many billions of people to be alive at once is kind of, you know, ultimately bad.

[Steve Contra]

Also real talk, the movie belongs to Terry Crews.  One of the best comedic performances ever.

[Human Snorenado]

Don't come crying to me when the water riots start and there's too many people for not enough resources

[Tasty]

Water riots

The world isn't going to turn into Mad Max yo

[Steve Contra]

Yeah with sea lever rise it'll be more like Waterworld

[nudemacusers]

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. 

[king of the internet]

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. 

We won't need you to be alive for that. 

[WanderingWind]

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

I dunno. Nothing to really argue with except for "I laughed." Everybody in the movie is dumb ass hell and things like Dumb & Dumber and this make me giggle. It's not highbrow humor like Stranglove or even smart dumb like Lebowski, but it was funny.

[Tasty]

[Oblivion]

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for maximum special fellow

http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Talk:603:_Idiocracy

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"Eric P tried to dissuade the denizens of Evilbore from thinking Idiocracy was anything more than a mediocre film. Although he was able to understand them, when he tried to speak to them by posting high-brow web comics, he came off as pompous and faggy."

[Eel O'Brian]

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

[Oblivion]

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

Yes, this is exactly what I meant. benji explained a few things, but other stuff like this is still unanswered.