Idiocracy...

[Bigmack]

In a thread yesterday on GD,

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=201093#201371

somebody mentioned the DVD “Idiocracy”.

I think we need a thread dedicated totally to the film.

I watched it last night... Netflix. I was stunned by how funny, relevant, crude, elitiest, accurate, satirical (I’m running out of words here) it was. I got a beer, then started watching the PBS Frontline program about the death of journalism. Shiiiiiit!!! Dumber and Dumberer.

Everybody needs to see this flic, then we need to talk about it. Is it a satire, or is it a fucking documentary. After Dumya’s press conference this AM.... I’m voting the latter.

There’s a great - but spoiling - review at http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-et-idiocracy4sep04,0,3328767.story?coll=cl-mreview

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'Idiocracy'
Are things bad now? "Idiocracy" imagines a future in which people are, well, take a guess. Its satire is spot-on.
 
By Carina Chocano, Times Staff Writer

What does Mike Judge have to do to get a movie released and marketed? He could stop making satires as merciless and spot-on as this one, for one thing. His second film in seven years, "Idiocracy," was completed nearly two years ago and dumped on Friday, reviewless and unmarketed, in six markets not including New York and San Francisco. It's this sort of vote of no-confidence that gets people wondering — just how bad could it be? Which raises the issue of what "bad" means to the studio that unleashed "Date Movie" and "Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties" on an unsuspecting populace.

Judge has a gift for delivering brutal satire in the trappings of low comedy and for making heroes out of ordinary people whose humanity makes them suspect in a world where every inch of space, including mental, is mediated. The movie would be worth seeing for its skewering of the health system alone — in the future, hospitals will resemble a cross between a chain auto-diagnostic center and a Carl's Jr., powered by Help Me technology — even if its opening thesis on the moment in history (roughly now) that evolution tipped into devolution weren't so clear-eyed.

"Idiocracy" is Judge's pitch-black, bleakly hilarious vision of an American future so bespoiled by rapacious corporations and so dumbed-down by junk culture that the president of the United States is a three-time "Smackdown!" champion and former super porn-star.

[keepCAblue]

1. It's in my Netflix queue. Looking forward to seeing it. n/t

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. K&R

[d_b]

3. I keep telling my friends to get this film

It's hilarious! So many great lines. "The English language had deteriorated into a hybrid of Hillbilly, Valley Girl, Inner-city slang, and various grunts. Joe was able to understand THEM, but when HE spoke, in an ordinary voice, he sounded pompous, and faggy to them."

:rofl:

[Beelzebud]

4. Idiocracy is as brilliant as Office Space. Mike Judge rules.

[skipos]

5. good movie. nt

[Bucky]

6. Hilarious and dead on devastating for a Jerry Springered America

Yes, I recommend it.

[Horseradish]

7. LOVED it!!

I've even gotten into the bad habit of ending many sentences with "... brought to you by Carl's Jr."

Loved towards the end when character says, "Why are you trying to read that word? Are you a faggot?"

HA!!!

(Watched it 5 times so far ... seems like every time a friend stops by, I make them watch it with me!)

FYI - There are sneak peaks on Youtube.

[Horseradish]

8. Gotta Kick This ...

I'm being kinda selfish, but Bigmac started it by saying he thinks there should be as thread devoted to this movie.

Idiocracy, as a movie, got so little support from its distributor, and it deserves more (typical Mike Judge movie; no support: total cult hit) ... it's a funny movie about serious social realities and I want to make sure that people see it ... if this thread helps, then ya-hoo ...

Seriously, go to Youtube and watch some of the snippets ... just search for "Idiocracy" and watch some of them. It's highly entertaining to the mind that understands the downward spiral of the intellect of American culture.

Or maybe not ... I don't know ... I just loved it. Check it out ...

[marions ghost]

9. brilliant

makes you want to laugh & cry at the same time. Spooky how close it is to our worst fears about the future. :scared:

Dreamed about drowning in garbage after this. Imagined all the fast food containers and exploding garbage bags on the sides of the roads becoming an avalanche. We really are mired down in our own waste.

Yes, everybody should see this movie. Thanx for posting.

[Greyhound]

10. This picture makes an excellent gage of where one fits on a bell curve. n/t

[quiet.american]

11. Thanks for bringing this up. Will definitely check this out. n/t

[Tin Man]

12. LMAO... "President is a three-time Smackdown! champion and former porn-star."

:rofl:

[devilgrrl]

13. An excellent movie!

I got it in the mail Tuesday!



Water has been replaced with a sportsdrink called BRAWNO! That's why the plants won't grow.




Meet the Prezident!

[TransitJohn]

14. BRAWNO!! IT'S GOT WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!!

IT'S GOT ELECTROLYTES!

I watched it for the first time like last Tuesday. I've been thinking the same thing for a looooong time, just in my normal everyday interactions.