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Mike Judge's Idiocracy
« on: January 12, 2007, 10:53:33 PM »
I just spent $20 to buy this movie last night. (My fiance wanted to see if the first Season of Beauty and the Geek was on DVD yet, and it's not, but I might start another thread for that)

I thought to myself "Self, you liked both Office Space and King of the Hill. Mike Judge seems like a pretty cool guy. You should buy this movie, because it looks funny!"

I was wrong.

The story is this: A completely average guy in the army is frozen in an army experiment. Turns out his superior was trying to start a prostitution ring on the side, so the army base is closed, and the experiment is forgotten about.

So this average guy sleeps for 500 years. In that 500 years, a trend continues that people have noticed even in our time. The example in the movie is this uptight and brilliant married couple who wait to have children, and end up never reproducing. By contrast, a trailer trash couple have 16 kids because they can't figure out how to stop getting pregnant. This also includes neighbors, so this one guy manages to have something like 40 kids total.

Multiply this by 500 years, and you have a nation full of dumbasses. Intelligence was almost purposefully bred out of humanity, and even the scientists were too busy trying to cure baldness and make people have erections longer, so there was no time for the big problems, like the pollution and trash of 500 years worth of consumer culture and morons.

Anyway, this guy wakes up, wanders around the future, and everyone is morons. They're starving, because the powerade of the future is used for everything- including watering plants, because it has 'electrolytes.' So the salt in those drinks kills the plants.

It almost looks like it was meant to be a biting social commentary, but... I have no idea who it was aimed at. Aside from the intelligent start that I just described to you, the rest of the movie was fart jokes, jokes about whores, and stupidity magified.

Essentially, if you would have enjoyed the biting social commentary, you probably wouldn't have liked the movie because of all the dick and fart jokes. And if you liked all the dick and fart jokes, you probably wouldn't have gotten what the movie was about.

I give this movie the lowest possible rating: .5 Bobs.

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Re:Mike Judge's Idiocracy
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2007, 05:06:48 AM »
I thought the lowest possible rating was "Too stupid for Bob to even WANT to eat your brain."

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Re:Mike Judge's Idiocracy
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2007, 04:57:44 PM »
Who's/What's Bob?
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Re:Mike Judge's Idiocracy
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2007, 05:29:15 PM »
Bob is our resident zombie and movie expert.

Movies are rated in :bob:s, which are measured out of five.

I gave this the lowest rating I thought possible (.5 bobs) which Gabe said wasn't hte lowest, because if it deserves no credit, it gets no bobs.

So, 0/5  :bob:

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Re:Mike Judge's Idiocracy
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2007, 05:03:57 AM »
Bob was also the insperation for our best T-Shirt idea that we were never able to get decent graphics for. :'(

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Re:Mike Judge's Idiocracy
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2007, 10:26:38 AM »
What was the t-shirt idea?
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Re: Mike Judge's Idiocracy
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2008, 10:12:51 AM »
I finally saw this movie - I thought it was a horror film.  I can see this happening. The dumming down of society scares the shit out of me.  There's a classic pulp scifi story called The March of the Morons.  I suggest that over this but I still think its a horror flick  :P
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Re: Mike Judge's Idiocracy
« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2008, 04:53:29 AM »
glad I never heard of it. it sounds stupid
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Re: Mike Judge's Idiocracy
« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2008, 07:23:48 AM »
It is stupid, but that is kinda the point
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Re: Mike Judge's Idiocracy
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2008, 10:20:54 PM »
I am told that I have no standards, as I have difficulty disliking anything. (If I'm devoting time of my life to something, I may as well be happy about it. . .) That said, I enjoyed the movie. Your mileage may vary.

The review is accurate; satire and bathroom humor. I see this film both as a prediction of things to come, and as a status report on the present, and yet, I can laugh at humanity for accelerating it's downward spiral. . .

It could have been better with a little work, but worth a rent, I'd say. 1.5 Bobs.
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