Lighthearted only if you look superficially at it. There is in fact much doom in it but you have to look at it beyond the comedy. It shows the danger we are heading for if we don't watch out.
It's a fun movie but Brave New World is more realistic. Gotta have a competent class of workers capable of maintaining the machinery and a class of elites to program the workers.
The part where he is getting the not sure tattoo is my second favorite scene. My favorite scene has to be where he unfolds fritos map to the time machine. "God damn it!"
This guy gets it. Although I must say it may be sooner than a few hundred years. Props to whoever chose this for the documentary and to the mods who cleared it.
Either you don't understand what the movie is about or you think people are comparing today's society to the movies society which is 500 years in the future.
Why are you being condescending? It's already been explained in the thread. The film is satire. Because of how society is today, 500 years in the future becomes what we see in the film. What we see in the film is not how society is today but how it can turn out to be because of what we do in the present. Examples being intelligent people having far less children than the unintelligent as well as idiots who do things that should have killed them get saved by technology which allows them to have more and more children thst carry their gene pool. Corporations consolidating so much so that only few remain and control essentially everything. Technology became so good and people became so dependent on it that they are incapable of solving basic problems on their own.
Dude, I know. My original comment was taken completely out of context, the tone was interpreted wrong. Of course I know what the movie was about, the comment was meant that it's staggering that we are looking at this movie as relevant to our real life. That's it. I'm on your side here guys.
Well, don't want to sound like a dick or nothin', but, ah... it says on your chart that you're fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded.
Im asking a question because Im seeking information. Im not making a statement of fact as if I were an authority. Do you understand the difference between a question and a statement?
You see, basically the people portrayed in that movie are unthinking people, people whose attitudes, behavior, thoughts, and reactions have all been programmed into them and who don't have actual thoughts of themselves, only immediate responses.
Either you're being clever because that's part of the plot of the film or you honestly don't love it. If you just honestly don't like the film you're entitled to your opinion. I'm guessing you didn't like starship troopers either? Or any satire for that matter?
How can anyone miss the satire? Why am I sitting here discussing this with someone who thinks anyone could? I stand by my initial assertion completely.
Welcome to the time masheen. We are going to take you back, first the year 1939 when Charlie Chaplin and his evil Nazi regime enslaved Europe and tried to take over the world. But then an even greater force emerged. The UN, and the UN un-nazied the world forever.
my sisters ex girlfriend was really into flavor of love and jersey shore. we were all roommates at an apartment and when I learned those shows existed I immediately thought the resemblance real life has to the movie idiocracy.
The idea that "Idiocracy" is "somehow a documentary" is 100% "mainstream narrative," why is this here?
There's no religion mentioned in "Idiocracy"-- you're telling me that this world is full of genuine 100% fucking moron idiots and NOT A ONE is doing religion?
He says "She's a pilot now" but if everyone is too stupid to repair a carnival ride, how do they have planes?
Who's making all the consumer products? Who programs all the devices?
I don't get who extracts the oil in the Idiocracy universe?
Wouldn't all the buildings have fallen down by then if everyone is too dumb to do math?
Wouldn't wildfires and plagues have destroyed all humanity-- people are too stupid to fight them?
The movie is fucking stupid, is not particularly deep, relies on absolutely Grade Z humor ("mostly testicles and zoo animals") and the action itself is a gossamer woven out of 85% plot hole.
AGAIN: The idea that "Idiocracy" is "somehow a documentary" is 100% "mainstream narrative."
I can't really watch this and enjoy it anymore although I loved it when I first saw it. It's as if Mike Judge didn't go far enough....people are already that stupid right now.
Technically, this has to do with self evaluation of competence rather than intelligence. Granted, the two are probably linked to some degree, but not tightly.
Classic example comes from medicine: the patient comes in with a printout from a Facebook post knowing all about their illness and utterly certain of it. Sitting across from them, the doctor is quietly wondering if the original diagnosis was in fact totally wrong, and trying to decide how far back to re-evaluate treatment.
Some people may be like that even now, but the vast majority isn't on the level portrayed by the movie. I mean we are talking about near cognitive disability levels of intelligence being portrayed here. Plus in the film, pretty much everyone is like that. While in our current society the majority might be ignorant (if for nothing else because of peer pressure and the fear of losing other's approval and being labeled "crazy" or something similar) sure, but they aren't retarded, as is pretty much the case for the majority in the movie.
It's a funny movie, but it's not a documentary and I personally seriously doubt our society would ever come to that level (which I think is going to be an unpopular opinion in this thread).
I think the greater problem is ignorance, not actual stupidity. People can be cognitively intelligent, yet lack in wisdom and awareness. The knowledge they are given can also be incorrect or used to further an agenda, so them having the ability and means to critically asess it and test it is crucial. They may also be quite easily fooled by others. This goes without even mentioning the biggest issue - they may be intelligent, yet they may have zero compassion and emotional intelligence. They may be horrific human beings, selfish and seeking out merely what is best for them. They may be sociopathic or psychopathic.
A physicist doing difficut and mentally extremely challenging research may be cognitively very intelligent, however he is likely ignorant of many other aspects of life and our society in general. He doesn't know (or rather it doesn't cross his mind, because he is ignorant of the greater picture) and sometimes doesn't even care (compassion, empathy and emotional intelligence will play an enormous role if we want to shift and better this world) that his research might be used for creating even more highly advanced and thus destructive military technology, as much as a highly skilled programmer's work on projects related to AI could be used to create more autonomous military technology.
Yes, it's important for people to advance their intelligence, to read, to learn. But that is just one part of the picture. I dare say cognitive intelligence, as measured by IQ is many times of even lesser importance than emotional intelligence and even physical intelligence and awareness of their body (the ability to use the body in various physical activities , most visible in highly athletic situations, is not the same for all humans).
In the end I must also touch the spiritual aspect which I think is of a very high and perhaps of the greatest importance (and I'm not talking about organized religion here of course). For most this aspect doesn't even exist, they are only aware of themselves as material shells, car-casses that live in an alien, barren Cosmos, with no real spark or life behind it. Life itself to them is reduced to chemical and physical reactions, thus taking all the essence and magic of it away and reducing it to a series of mathematical equation running for no reason whatsoever. Consciousness is thus seen as a result of these chemical reactions and not the inherent Life behind all phenomena.
In my experience, when the spiritual connection is deepened (via any practice you choose to partake in, from meditation, introspection, to even prayer...), a depth is found within and even without (as they are not separate) . Everything then is slowly seen as the ultimate expression of the Life, the Force that permeates the Cosmos, which can be experienced right here and now, by being present and letting go of the fog of illusions cast over your mind. The foundation of all is this inexplicable Life, this Source that is what organic life (and all else) fundamentally is, as it precedes, creates and contains it.
That then, is the return to the Magic of our reality
Well stated. It's also crucial that we not have a superiority complex but instead approach others in humbleness when trying to bring other points of perspective onto the table for them to consider.
Some people may be like that even now, but the vast majority isn't on the level portrayed by the movie. I mean we are talking about near cognitive disability levels of intelligence being portrayed here.
I would basically put today's sports fans in that category, plus those who are trying to fit in through social media.
People will always be stupid, and always have been. The point of the movie isn't to feel smug about how you aren't that dumb, it's pointing out that you are the problem for not doing anything.
Mike Judge knocked it out of the park with this one.
Sad that it never got the chance to succeed in American theatres due to the studio limiting its slated wide release and allowing a minimal advertising campaign.
Only a fraction of movies at any given time in a theater have a huge star or an all-star cast. That's just an excuse. Go look at the movies playing in your local theater(s) right now, only 1 or 2 have anyone that you'd really recognize. Plus the lead was a pretty fucking famous comedian who's been making comedies since the 1980's. Also... Terry Crews. Yeah, not a big name at all and totally not on reddit's TOP5 most beloved people list.
I just heard an arrogant, idiot millennial today talk about how he doesn't want to have children.
“I felt like putting a bullet between the
eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its
species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers
and smother all the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted
to breathe smoke.”
Chuck Palahniuk
Humanity gets stupider by the day. Everywhere you go people are glued to a screen that has Google ads and other things all based off of spying on your activity. You are literally attached to a screen trying to sell you things or make you do things based off if research into your history.
Just look at what people (most of them) are using Facebook and other social media for. The nonsense, the hubris, the stupid selfies and videos - videos about themselves beating other people up, or getting drunk and causing mayhem or whatever.
As stupid as everyone in Idiocracy was, they eventually elected the smartest person in their country. I think there's more to read into that film than "we're devolving."
Consider the opening scene about how "the dumb" people breed a lot more and that why everyone is "so dumb." Do you know what happens with more people? More votes.
"The stupid" people seem very close to the typical Republicans, "the smart" people like the typical Democrats.
Now this one side of politics (the dumb people) vote in their leaders and they make all these bad decisions. I mean, all their decisions are so obviously dumb (at least from someone else's point of view.)
Well eventually we have this outsider from this group. He's "the smartest person in the world" and he's voted in. Oh, sure, he can solve some things like Braundo ... I mean pick out the dumbest thing "those people" are doing and do the correct thing, and it fixes things, right? Well after that one miracle idea "the smartest person in the world" -- who let's remember, even from the military's perspective is completely average, maybe a little below -- he's obviously going to be able to solve all the problems in the world, right? It's all going to be as easy as Braundo, right?
I mean, if it wasn't for all those other dumb people screwing up and voting bad, the other side would come in, and just magically fix the whole world, right? It's so easy just some average guy could do it, those dumb people.
I mean, if we just had a Democratic President, House, Senate, and Supreme Court, they could just make all the necessary changes and the world would then be perfect, right?
Feel free to flip that from Republicans to Democrats. I feel the movie is from the perspective of making fun of the Democrats who think this. However, in that, it's also making fun of anyone who thinks there side would do that.
The more to read into is that average people need to actually do something, instead of sitting idly and watching the world fall apart. In the movie Joe says: “I think maybe the world got like this because of people like me”
He's exactly right, people like him. Consider that in what I said. What cause the world to be this way are the people thinking all the problems are the other side's fault, and they're so smart that if given the chance to be president the world would be utopia ... that's the problem with both sides, that's how the world got this way.
People actually doing something is what needs to happen, and it's spelled out in the movie. In the end everyone comes together and solves their problems collectively.
No matter which average-to-shitty candidate is in charge, blaming it on the other side isn't going to help, we need to work together to fix it.
If you quote this movie or believe it to be anything other a low budget, low quality comedy with few laughs, then congratulations, you are the exact type of moron it is attempting to ridicule.
Did you know the guy behind it, Mike Judge, also made such hit comedies as King of the Hill, Beavis and Butthead, and Silicon Valley. Additionally, he actually worked as a computer programmer many years ago.
It is an acerbic view on today's society, that's what it is. It can be taken as a warning for the future.
If you don't see this... then if we are the type of morons it is attempting to ridicule (which is patently wrong as anyone with half a brain can see), what are you?
I never thought I'd see the day where Baseketball and Idiocracy became documentaries. Hell, we're getting to the point where The Running Man could be as well.
Man, no one actually gets the moral of this movie.
At one point Joe says that the world got the way it did because people like him, average people, did nothing and let it happen.
Everyone just walks away from it feeling so smug and thinking how the world is filled with idiots, but not them! Well they're the fucking problem, not the idiots.
First of all, as they say, all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing (I think that was a quote from Einstein, I could be wrong).
And secondly, feeling intellectually superior to others is a recipe for disaster. The vast majority of us here and throughout this planet are ignorant on various topics related to ourselves, life, our society, reality. ... yet we often smugly assume we know it all. Often we prefer to be right in our minds, even when we know we might be wrong. We'd rather feel we are right than actually be right! I have seen this pattern in myself and others. We all need to develop more humility and let go of our intellectual ego that feels it knows all and allow ourselves to be more open to simply being wrong and/or simply not knowing.
Adaptability can also be a lethal trait. You need conservation of successful behavior patterns even when they stop working (for a while) because the change may only be temporary.
It is necessary to have both adaptability as well as conservation of patterns.
And secondly, feeling intellectually superior to others is a recipe for disaster. The vast majority of us here and throughout this planet are ignorant on various topics related to ourselves, life, our society, reality.
Also. And it's something we are all guilty of many times, because of our ego driven perception. Superiority and it's opposite inferiority are like patterns built within us that limit us, whether it's intellectual, moral, even physcial. If we can transcend them, we can be far freer and gain far greater compassion for the perceived other.
It's not like some people aren't smarter or more morally aware, it's just that making that into an ego game and thinking you are better than someone because of it is a great limitation. Everyone has their distinct qualities and plenty of untapped potential in my opinion and no one quality trumps another, it is usually based on the circumstances in which those qualities/talents are used. Not to mention that no matter how smart, moral, physically able..,you are, there is always likely someone better than you. So thinking of yourself as this king on a throne will limit you and make you see others as less then you, less than human even.
Seeing the other as a being is the optimal way to see they have inherent value and uniqueness, as well as incredible untapped potential. Letting go of superiority and inferiority is best in my opinion, as well as realizing that we are all "guilty" of indulging in it many times due to the structure of ourselves and our society. Awareness is key.
Any feeling of superiority over others is wildly dangerous.
Which is interesting, because some people ARE intellectually or morally superior to others. Yet if you allow that truth to color your perceptions of the world and how you interact with others, well, that's how fascism happens. The old kind, that kills millions of people.
So how do we live?
Simple. You have to understand that being intellectually or morally superior does not make you a better person. It means you have gifts that others don't have. You therefore have an obligation to use those gifts in service of others, and furthermore to understand that other people have gifts that you missed and that each of us is deserving of honor and respect as individuals.
Guess where you find all those smug people? Mostly on the small number of social media which, between them, have succeeded in corraling almost the complete world population.
And you're superior and smarter to all of them! It's not like the film has a major and very literal opening scene where it shows you the smarter people letting it all happen and literally saying they don't want to have kids and want to focus on their careers while the dumb people multiply like rabbits. No, you figured it out all by yourself. The movie didn't have a huge exposition dump explaining it ao that even the dumbest viewer would get it...
The openinf scene literally shows AND tells you all of that in no uncertain terms, it's impossible to miss. You are not smarter than anyone else and you just think no one else "gets it" even though the movie is so fuckinf on-the-nose and has the characters say word for word they're "not having kids because they're too smart and want to focus on their careers" while cutting to dumb trailer trash humping like rabbits and fighting. It's not subtle at all.
Think about it as a dictatorial desire to fix the world's problems because you know best and they're all so simple, and the other people are just dumb mouth breathers. Then add to it this sort of "Scoring the home run at the bottom of the ninth" fantasy, when they recognize your brilliance and make you their president. It's the story of the armchair politician, the completely average man, thinking he could solve all the problems if it wasn't for the other people -- combined with not realizing that's pretty much a dictatorial agenda, instead everyone realizes he's right and democratically crowns him their savior.
Mike Judge is a brilliant satirist. If you empathize with or think any of his characters are the "good guys" / "not being made fun of," then you lack self-awareness, which is conflated by Mike Judge's empathy for all.
Please don't take me the wrong way - I watched it all the way through, and enjoyed it a lot. l do however feel that a fair degree of irony is at work here.
The movie is about the dumbing down of society, and it's consequences.
So as 'featured documentary' we have a um goofball comedy.
This is great. Anyone who hasn't seen this movie needs to watch it. It really captures society and the materialistic, short-term pleasure seeking idiots that are becoming the norm rather than the exception. Probably one of my favorite movies.
Actually this movie should be one of the great "awakeners" tailored for today's public, IMO. It is not just a comedy, providing some brainless fun in the style of (to mention one) "Norbit".
It's a fun movie but Brave New World is more realistic. Gotta have a competent class of workers capable of maintaining the machinery and a class of elites to program the workers.
He's exactly right, people like him. Consider that in what I said. What cause the world to be this way are the people thinking all the problems are the other side's fault, and they're so smart that if given the chance to be president the world would be utopia ... that's the problem with both sides, that's how the world got this way.
People actually doing something is what needs to happen, and it's spelled out in the movie. In the end everyone comes together and solves their problems collectively.
No matter which average-to-shitty candidate is in charge, blaming it on the other side isn't going to help, we need to work together to fix it.
Well stated. It's also crucial that we not have a superiority complex but instead approach others in humbleness when trying to bring other points of perspective onto the table for them to consider.
Some people may be like that even now, but the vast majority isn't on the level portrayed by the movie. I mean we are talking about near cognitive disability levels of intelligence being portrayed here.
I would basically put today's sports fans in that category, plus those who are trying to fit in through social media.
Technically, this has to do with self evaluation of competence rather than intelligence. Granted, the two are probably linked to some degree, but not tightly.
Classic example comes from medicine: the patient comes in with a printout from a Facebook post knowing all about their illness and utterly certain of it. Sitting across from them, the doctor is quietly wondering if the original diagnosis was in fact totally wrong, and trying to decide how far back to re-evaluate treatment.
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1 User_Name13 2018-05-17
Haha, this is a refreshingly lighthearted pick.
I love this movie.
Monsanto = Brondo
It's got electrolytes.
1 Maxwyfe 2018-05-17
What are electrolytes?
1 Monksbane102 2018-05-17
It's what plants crave.
1 WoodenCyborg 2018-05-17
It's what they use to make brondo
1 zobicus 2018-05-17
Water? Like toilet water?
1 SAMSON_AITE 2018-05-17
Water? Like out the toilet!?!
1 LambOfLiberty 2018-05-17
They’re what plants crave
1 morecomplete 2018-05-17
They mutilate thirst.
1 TurkeyLerg 2018-05-17
*Brawndo
1 no1113 2018-05-17
Lighthearted? Really?
It's not lighthearted at all when you realize the extent it is unfortunately accurate.
1 Disrupturous 2018-05-17
Plants actually crave the inability to reproduce.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
Lighthearted only if you look superficially at it. There is in fact much doom in it but you have to look at it beyond the comedy. It shows the danger we are heading for if we don't watch out.
1 WarSanchez 2018-05-17
I think we're par for the course to be in that exact situation in the near future.
Nice pick lol.
1 fizzy511 2018-05-17
It's a fun movie but Brave New World is more realistic. Gotta have a competent class of workers capable of maintaining the machinery and a class of elites to program the workers.
1 Capt_Irk 2018-05-17
Not Sure
1 prolix 2018-05-17
The part where he is getting the not sure tattoo is my second favorite scene. My favorite scene has to be where he unfolds fritos map to the time machine. "God damn it!"
1 prolix 2018-05-17
Welcome to cost co, I love you.
1 tfqn 2018-05-17
Warning! Warning! Costco has detected a dangerous fugitive in aisle 16702.
1 op-return 2018-05-17
Time for a hot late?
1 LurkMcGurck 2018-05-17
A but to latte for that.
1 Disrupturous 2018-05-17
Starbucks girls live in fear of being latte.
1 LurkMcGurck 2018-05-17
That couldn't have bean more lazy. Learn how to espresso yourself better, you'll get mocha talls all dark roast
1 B_ILL 2018-05-17
Brought to you by Carls JR.
1 GuitaroCigaro 2018-05-17
F*ck you, I'm eating.
1 throwaway50955932 2018-05-17
You talk like a fag and your shit’s all retarded.
1 GuitaroCigaro 2018-05-17
Don’t worry scro, lots of tarded people live good lives.
1 dizzyhobo 2018-05-17
Look at my ex wife, she's a tad and she's a pilot.
1 AngryD09 2018-05-17
If I could suck dick like your ex-wife the world would be my oyester.
1 troy_caster 2018-05-17
Messed up the quote. "There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick-ass lives!"
Really adds an extra kick to the sauce.
1 ledankmememan 2018-05-17
"Why are you tryin' to read that? Are you a fag?"
"Fag your face!"
1 almostiskiller 2018-05-17
Go away, I'm batein'!
1 BlackhawkBolly 2018-05-17
People who act like this is some intelligent reference as to how we are today need to take a step back lmao.
1 Justsaguy12345 2018-05-17
The world stage is turning into that more everyday. Making fun of the general public and "their choices."
1 prolix 2018-05-17
It's not about today.. it's about hundreds of years in the future because of how we are today.
1 janklepeterson 2018-05-17
This guy gets it. Although I must say it may be sooner than a few hundred years. Props to whoever chose this for the documentary and to the mods who cleared it.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
It's already here, that's the point. Idiocracy is already part of today's society.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
The point is not the future. The future in this movie is just a gimmick used to make us aware of how we are today.
1 prolix 2018-05-17
That's pretty much exactly what I said here.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
It is not to me. You did say "it's about hundreds of years in the future...". It's not.
1 prolix 2018-05-17
You're lost then I guess.
1 tokinjedi 2018-05-17
"Carl's Jr., Fuck you, I'm eating!"
1 Entropick 2018-05-17
The fact that we're taking this comedy as realistic interpretation of the current condition is staggering.
1 prolix 2018-05-17
Either you don't understand what the movie is about or you think people are comparing today's society to the movies society which is 500 years in the future.
1 Entropick 2018-05-17
Is this not why the documentary is featured?
1 prolix 2018-05-17
No.
1 Entropick 2018-05-17
Fair enough. Do tell then, as I am clearly lacking the interpretive ability you so cunningly posses.
1 prolix 2018-05-17
Why are you being condescending? It's already been explained in the thread. The film is satire. Because of how society is today, 500 years in the future becomes what we see in the film. What we see in the film is not how society is today but how it can turn out to be because of what we do in the present. Examples being intelligent people having far less children than the unintelligent as well as idiots who do things that should have killed them get saved by technology which allows them to have more and more children thst carry their gene pool. Corporations consolidating so much so that only few remain and control essentially everything. Technology became so good and people became so dependent on it that they are incapable of solving basic problems on their own.
Tldr: Look, you really should watch the film.
1 millymills0804 2018-05-17
This guy gets it.
1 Slab_Happy 2018-05-17
BIG ASS FRIES !
1 Ieuan1996 2018-05-17
Sorry to go all Stannis on you, but... *fewer.
Otherwise, great comment.
1 no1113 2018-05-17
What's staggering is that you apparently don't understand the extent to which it is indeed accurate.
1 Halo462 2018-05-17
..is it though?
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
It's not meant to be realistic! It's satire. It's a critique of society through satire, which uses exaggeration to convey its message.
1 Entropick 2018-05-17
Dude, I know. My original comment was taken completely out of context, the tone was interpreted wrong. Of course I know what the movie was about, the comment was meant that it's staggering that we are looking at this movie as relevant to our real life. That's it. I'm on your side here guys.
1 usernamerer 2018-05-17
Water? Like from a toilet?
1 wingbatwu 2018-05-17
Well, don't want to sound like a dick or nothin', but, ah... it says on your chart that you're fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded.
1 svenmullet 2018-05-17
WHY COME YOU DON'T HAVE A TATTOO?!
1 zhanli 2018-05-17
"Go away I'm baitin'!"
1 Willie_Balljacker 2018-05-17
My first wife was 'tarded. She's a pilot now.
1 Step2TheJep 2018-05-17
One of the best lines of the film. Genuine lol.
1 TrevWestbrook 2018-05-17
Joe could understand them, but when he spoke to them in an ordinary voice, he sounded pompeous and faggy.
1 flavorO-town 2018-05-17
Last time I got extra drunk I just get repeating this for an hour. It's the funniest, sadly true movie quote of all time.
1 adamdsch 2018-05-17
They would not be able to make that movie in today society. So Sad
1 zkantalope 2018-05-17
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho!!!
1 zobicus 2018-05-17
All of our State of the Unions should start out with "Shit."
1 sayswhat 2018-05-17
Burrito covers.
1 thedscx 2018-05-17
Elizondo ... hmm...
1 KoofyKoof 2018-05-17
CAMACHO - NOT SURE
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-05-17
What a horrible selection. Idiocracy is an inane film whose sole purpose is to make dumb people feel smart
1 Zap_Powerz 2018-05-17
do you feel smart for saying that?
1 Ieuan1996 2018-05-17
Fuckin' burn
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-05-17
Do you?
1 Zap_Powerz 2018-05-17
Im asking a question because Im seeking information. Im not making a statement of fact as if I were an authority. Do you understand the difference between a question and a statement?
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-05-17
Funny how people get so defensive and overcome with denial when they first realize they aren't very bright.
1 Zap_Powerz 2018-05-17
You dont appear to understand how behind you are in this conversation.
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-05-17
You'll get there. Some people are just slower than others.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
It's smugness getting in the way.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
You see, basically the people portrayed in that movie are unthinking people, people whose attitudes, behavior, thoughts, and reactions have all been programmed into them and who don't have actual thoughts of themselves, only immediate responses.
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-05-17
Do you?
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
Your efforrts at trolling are pathetic.
1 prolix 2018-05-17
Either you're being clever because that's part of the plot of the film or you honestly don't love it. If you just honestly don't like the film you're entitled to your opinion. I'm guessing you didn't like starship troopers either? Or any satire for that matter?
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-05-17
I honestly didn't like it and thought it was dumb.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
Taken as humor is was not very subtle, this is why you may have mistaken it for something just dumb.
But you appear to have missed the satire.
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-05-17
How can anyone miss the satire? Why am I sitting here discussing this with someone who thinks anyone could? I stand by my initial assertion completely.
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-05-17
What satire? Aside from what other humor? Please do explain it to me because I don't see how anyone could miss anything in that claptrap.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
I don't have too much time on my hands, sorry.
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-05-17
Just as I thought.
1 DrugstoreCowboy69 2018-05-17
Congratulations. You’re the smartest man on earth. Here’s your lawyer Frito Bendeho
1 brelkor 2018-05-17
Did you .. did you type that with a straight face?
1 ConspiracyAccount 2018-05-17
What's so difficult to understand?
1 Nintendo-or-Nothing 2018-05-17
One of the best movies every made. Unfortunately it is also very accurate. There's a couple hundred of the doctor Lexus types here on Reddit.
1 Zap_Powerz 2018-05-17
the end of that movie was not encouraging. shit was still going to be retarded and all fucked up.
1 vezokpiraka 2018-05-17
Bitch better have my money.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
This was probably the movie's message. The thing we should remember.
1 Chief_Dork74 2018-05-17
Medical diagnosis: You talk like a fag, and your shits all retarded!
1 RecoveringGrace 2018-05-17
Rules 1 and 10
1 Deezburgerwithnutz 2018-05-17
“Private” and “easily the most intelligent person alive” really do not belong in the same sentence
1 OptimalDelusion 2018-05-17
Documentary. Hehe...
1 expletivdeleted 2018-05-17
anyone got a Gatorade watering guide for household plants? can't find mine.
1 TurkeyLerg 2018-05-17
Idiocracy is more of a prophecy than documentary.
1 AceValentine 2018-05-17
Exactly, it is our future.
1 Slab_Happy 2018-05-17
So where's my disposable clothing covered with advertisements?
1 throwawaytreez 2018-05-17
It's a warning to average people to do something
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
Unlikely, average people wouldn't be too interested or really sensitive to the message anyway.
I think it's more a warning to thinking people.
1 lf11 2018-05-17
Most of whom seem to deliberately ignore the warning.
1 -chipped- 2018-05-17
you see, a pimps love is very different then that of a square..
1 CantPullOverAnyMore 2018-05-17
Two Ds for a double dose of his pimpin'
1 wishbackjumpsta 2018-05-17
this thread in incredible!
1 -chipped- 2018-05-17
Welcome to the time masheen. We are going to take you back, first the year 1939 when Charlie Chaplin and his evil Nazi regime enslaved Europe and tried to take over the world. But then an even greater force emerged. The UN, and the UN un-nazied the world forever.
1 CommaHorror 2018-05-17
This movie gets more and more accurate every year.
It is hilarious but it is also kind, of scary.
1 felixlivesagain 2018-05-17
my sisters ex girlfriend was really into flavor of love and jersey shore. we were all roommates at an apartment and when I learned those shows existed I immediately thought the resemblance real life has to the movie idiocracy.
1 throwawaytreez 2018-05-17
The scary part is we are just sitting here letting it happen
1 personalcheesecake 2018-05-17
https://i.imgur.com/jrGQLyP.jpg
1 pig_killer 2018-05-17
The idea that "Idiocracy" is "somehow a documentary" is 100% "mainstream narrative," why is this here?
There's no religion mentioned in "Idiocracy"-- you're telling me that this world is full of genuine 100% fucking moron idiots and NOT A ONE is doing religion?
He says "She's a pilot now" but if everyone is too stupid to repair a carnival ride, how do they have planes?
Who's making all the consumer products? Who programs all the devices?
I don't get who extracts the oil in the Idiocracy universe?
Wouldn't all the buildings have fallen down by then if everyone is too dumb to do math?
Wouldn't wildfires and plagues have destroyed all humanity-- people are too stupid to fight them?
The movie is fucking stupid, is not particularly deep, relies on absolutely Grade Z humor ("mostly testicles and zoo animals") and the action itself is a gossamer woven out of 85% plot hole.
AGAIN: The idea that "Idiocracy" is "somehow a documentary" is 100% "mainstream narrative."
1 purplepippin 2018-05-17
"funbags here is the attorney general"
1 PravdaEst 2018-05-17
I watched this followed by “Children of Men” and got really depressed about our future.
1 Vigte 2018-05-17
Now just watch the Netflix Original "Anon" - has Clive Owen in it, so it feels like pre-Children of Men - just as shitty, even more likely :(
1 PravdaEst 2018-05-17
I will check that out, thanks
1 Dougalishere 2018-05-17
is it any good? I looked at it but didn't give it a watch.
1 Vigte 2018-05-17
I enjoyed it! Kind of Black Mirror feel, but there's something more to it... I can't quite place my finger on it.
1 Dougalishere 2018-05-17
I'll give it a watch, I am very into my oppressive governments/resistance type shows at the moment :)
1 troy_caster 2018-05-17
It's written and directed same guy as the Truman show and gattaca.
1 bookofcookies 2018-05-17
Good guy wins, that's the diffrence.
1 KeLLyKapowski420 2018-05-17
That shit was good
1 thisissparta7963 2018-05-17
i feel ur pain!
1 KeLLyKapowski420 2018-05-17
Damn.
I fucking bet!
1 kvetaak 2018-05-17
Glaring omission of the idiotic behaviour in public that smartphones would bring to the world.
1 no1113 2018-05-17
Great point, but I don't think Mike Judge was that prescient. That would have been absolutely insane if he would have included that detail. Holy shit.
1 kvetaak 2018-05-17
Haha exactly - who could have a mind that deranged to predict that shown in the picture?
1 nice_halibut 2018-05-17
I can't really watch this and enjoy it anymore although I loved it when I first saw it. It's as if Mike Judge didn't go far enough....people are already that stupid right now.
1 i_am_a_t_rex 2018-05-17
We are just too stupid to realize it.
1 a2a2a2a2a2a2a2a2a2a2 2018-05-17
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
1 Disrupturous 2018-05-17
Yeah. But if I think I'm stupid doesn't that mean I'm... wait I can't find the word I'm looking for.
1 lf11 2018-05-17
It means you have introspection. Or you are smart. But I suspect the latter option is unknowable once you learn about the Dunning-Kroger effect.
1 lf11 2018-05-17
Technically, this has to do with self evaluation of competence rather than intelligence. Granted, the two are probably linked to some degree, but not tightly.
Classic example comes from medicine: the patient comes in with a printout from a Facebook post knowing all about their illness and utterly certain of it. Sitting across from them, the doctor is quietly wondering if the original diagnosis was in fact totally wrong, and trying to decide how far back to re-evaluate treatment.
1 Vault32 2018-05-17
Yep. Should've been fifty years and not 500. At the end they should've discovered his sleep chamber readout of 500 years was glitched off by a zero
1 Disrupturous 2018-05-17
Two zeroes. The iPhone was a huge success.
1 VTFC 2018-05-17
the problem is that both sides think you're talking about the other side when you say that
1 LurkPro3000 2018-05-17
Nobody is talking about sides here.
1 vampireweekend20 2018-05-17
I think the side that elected a game show host is much more fitting
1 SizzleChestBrahh 2018-05-17
Trebek 2020!
1 Slab_Happy 2018-05-17
IDIOCRACY IS HERE
1 Smiley_Iris 2018-05-17
Lay the smack down on all these candy-asses.
1 Jac0b777 2018-05-17
I mean I wouldn't go that far.
Some people may be like that even now, but the vast majority isn't on the level portrayed by the movie. I mean we are talking about near cognitive disability levels of intelligence being portrayed here. Plus in the film, pretty much everyone is like that. While in our current society the majority might be ignorant (if for nothing else because of peer pressure and the fear of losing other's approval and being labeled "crazy" or something similar) sure, but they aren't retarded, as is pretty much the case for the majority in the movie.
It's a funny movie, but it's not a documentary and I personally seriously doubt our society would ever come to that level (which I think is going to be an unpopular opinion in this thread).
I think the greater problem is ignorance, not actual stupidity. People can be cognitively intelligent, yet lack in wisdom and awareness. The knowledge they are given can also be incorrect or used to further an agenda, so them having the ability and means to critically asess it and test it is crucial. They may also be quite easily fooled by others. This goes without even mentioning the biggest issue - they may be intelligent, yet they may have zero compassion and emotional intelligence. They may be horrific human beings, selfish and seeking out merely what is best for them. They may be sociopathic or psychopathic.
A physicist doing difficut and mentally extremely challenging research may be cognitively very intelligent, however he is likely ignorant of many other aspects of life and our society in general. He doesn't know (or rather it doesn't cross his mind, because he is ignorant of the greater picture) and sometimes doesn't even care (compassion, empathy and emotional intelligence will play an enormous role if we want to shift and better this world) that his research might be used for creating even more highly advanced and thus destructive military technology, as much as a highly skilled programmer's work on projects related to AI could be used to create more autonomous military technology.
Yes, it's important for people to advance their intelligence, to read, to learn. But that is just one part of the picture. I dare say cognitive intelligence, as measured by IQ is many times of even lesser importance than emotional intelligence and even physical intelligence and awareness of their body (the ability to use the body in various physical activities , most visible in highly athletic situations, is not the same for all humans).
In the end I must also touch the spiritual aspect which I think is of a very high and perhaps of the greatest importance (and I'm not talking about organized religion here of course). For most this aspect doesn't even exist, they are only aware of themselves as material shells, car-casses that live in an alien, barren Cosmos, with no real spark or life behind it. Life itself to them is reduced to chemical and physical reactions, thus taking all the essence and magic of it away and reducing it to a series of mathematical equation running for no reason whatsoever. Consciousness is thus seen as a result of these chemical reactions and not the inherent Life behind all phenomena.
In my experience, when the spiritual connection is deepened (via any practice you choose to partake in, from meditation, introspection, to even prayer...), a depth is found within and even without (as they are not separate) . Everything then is slowly seen as the ultimate expression of the Life, the Force that permeates the Cosmos, which can be experienced right here and now, by being present and letting go of the fog of illusions cast over your mind. The foundation of all is this inexplicable Life, this Source that is what organic life (and all else) fundamentally is, as it precedes, creates and contains it.
That then, is the return to the Magic of our reality
1 Disrupturous 2018-05-17
We didn't get where we are today by not having emotions and compassion being pathologized.
1 Step2TheJep 2018-05-17
What makes you say that?
I see retards guzzling down sports drinks all the time.
A guy I live with drinks litres of the shit every week. He honestly believes it is good for him.
Most guys I know jerk off daily. Again, they honestly believe this is good for them.
And look at most peoples diets. These people are zombies.
1 Smiley_Iris 2018-05-17
You know the masturbation routine of most guys you know?
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
Exactly. You see those people all the time. Those are the idiocracy. They will mindlessly follow society's dictates.
1 Jukecrim7 2018-05-17
Well stated. It's also crucial that we not have a superiority complex but instead approach others in humbleness when trying to bring other points of perspective onto the table for them to consider.
1 Jac0b777 2018-05-17
Yes! Very important and very true.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
I would basically put today's sports fans in that category, plus those who are trying to fit in through social media.
1 azazel0821 2018-05-17
You sound tarded and faggy/s
Sorry I couldn't resist, but seriously your take on this is spot on.
1 lf11 2018-05-17
I feel like you would find a list of average IQ by country to be both interesting and deeply unsettling.
1 throwawaytreez 2018-05-17
People will always be stupid, and always have been. The point of the movie isn't to feel smug about how you aren't that dumb, it's pointing out that you are the problem for not doing anything.
1 da_clig 2018-05-17
funny how reality caught up with the movie so quickly....
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
EXACTLY.
1 theguysmiley 2018-05-17
Go away. Bate'n.
Love this documentary.
1 bobevanzz 2018-05-17
Where is the closest ButtFuckers?
1 Joe_Sapien 2018-05-17
I never saw it.
1 tragicallyludicrous 2018-05-17
Mike Judge knocked it out of the park with this one.
Sad that it never got the chance to succeed in American theatres due to the studio limiting its slated wide release and allowing a minimal advertising campaign.
1 Space__Stuff 2018-05-17
Wonder why that could be...
1 Disrupturous 2018-05-17
Yeah. I want an answer on that one. It had two B list folks a C Lister, and an incipient B lister as the president. All the makings of a good comedy.
1 pancakeshakenbake 2018-05-17
It wasn't advertiser friendly, and advertisers sell movies. They say any press is good press, but I doubt Fudruckers paid for that product placement.
1 dharmabird67 2018-05-17
'Welcome to Costco, I love you.'
1 samout 2018-05-17
Only a fraction of movies at any given time in a theater have a huge star or an all-star cast. That's just an excuse. Go look at the movies playing in your local theater(s) right now, only 1 or 2 have anyone that you'd really recognize. Plus the lead was a pretty fucking famous comedian who's been making comedies since the 1980's. Also... Terry Crews. Yeah, not a big name at all and totally not on reddit's TOP5 most beloved people list.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
And you could be right.
1 daemon-electricity 2018-05-17
Shhh... they like Rupert Murdoch and totalitarianism now.
1 GodPoopsToo 2018-05-17
Is that true? I could swear every other time I turned on comedy Central during the middle of the day Idiocracy would be playing.
1 PattyMakesCakes 2018-05-17
That has nothing to do with being in theatres....
1 GodPoopsToo 2018-05-17
I was commenting on the minimal advertising campaign considering it advertised itself simply via play time.
1 overslope 2018-05-17
Go away, baitin!
1 3attheelephant 2018-05-17
Shouldn't featured documentaries be....documentaries?
1 no1113 2018-05-17
This one is...unfortunately.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
No, it's not. Idiocracy is not a documentary.
Do you know what a documentary is?
1 no1113 2018-05-17
Do you know what critical thinking and the application of dystopian paradigms is?
1 formulated 2018-05-17
"They Live" will be the next feature
1 TheRandomArtist 2018-05-17
ITT the entire script for the movie, in non sequential order.
1 Ieuan1996 2018-05-17
Why come no tattoo?
1 2lab 2018-05-17
Massive props to /u/Orangutan, I Don't even.
1 WooTs_67 2018-05-17
hahah nice
1 papagaioloiro 2018-05-17
Great choice. Very entertaining, made me laugh and it's right on the money.
1 Orangutan 2018-05-17
Mike Judge - "The Beavis & Butt-Head, King of the Hill, Office Space, Idiocracy, Silicon Valley guy."
1 twinkiac 2018-05-17
@MikeJudge's latest tweet
@MikeJudge on Twitter
I am a bot | feedback
1 filmfiend999 2018-05-17
Aka the Trump Years
1 tokinjedi 2018-05-17
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho 2020
1 Halo462 2018-05-17
...It's got electrolytes.
1 DaleCooper_FBI 2018-05-17
Oh man, excellent choice!
1 Habbadacter 2018-05-17
Brawndo, it's what plants crave! Fucking love that movie.
1 fakelarrybird 2018-05-17
I just heard an arrogant, idiot millennial today talk about how he doesn't want to have children.
“I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted to breathe smoke.” Chuck Palahniuk
1 GodEmperorScorch 2018-05-17
Humanity gets stupider by the day. Everywhere you go people are glued to a screen that has Google ads and other things all based off of spying on your activity. You are literally attached to a screen trying to sell you things or make you do things based off if research into your history.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
Just look at what people (most of them) are using Facebook and other social media for. The nonsense, the hubris, the stupid selfies and videos - videos about themselves beating other people up, or getting drunk and causing mayhem or whatever.
1 gaslightlinux 2018-05-17
As stupid as everyone in Idiocracy was, they eventually elected the smartest person in their country. I think there's more to read into that film than "we're devolving."
Consider the opening scene about how "the dumb" people breed a lot more and that why everyone is "so dumb." Do you know what happens with more people? More votes.
"The stupid" people seem very close to the typical Republicans, "the smart" people like the typical Democrats.
Now this one side of politics (the dumb people) vote in their leaders and they make all these bad decisions. I mean, all their decisions are so obviously dumb (at least from someone else's point of view.)
Well eventually we have this outsider from this group. He's "the smartest person in the world" and he's voted in. Oh, sure, he can solve some things like Braundo ... I mean pick out the dumbest thing "those people" are doing and do the correct thing, and it fixes things, right? Well after that one miracle idea "the smartest person in the world" -- who let's remember, even from the military's perspective is completely average, maybe a little below -- he's obviously going to be able to solve all the problems in the world, right? It's all going to be as easy as Braundo, right?
I mean, if it wasn't for all those other dumb people screwing up and voting bad, the other side would come in, and just magically fix the whole world, right? It's so easy just some average guy could do it, those dumb people.
I mean, if we just had a Democratic President, House, Senate, and Supreme Court, they could just make all the necessary changes and the world would then be perfect, right?
Feel free to flip that from Republicans to Democrats. I feel the movie is from the perspective of making fun of the Democrats who think this. However, in that, it's also making fun of anyone who thinks there side would do that.
1 throwawaytreez 2018-05-17
The more to read into is that average people need to actually do something, instead of sitting idly and watching the world fall apart. In the movie Joe says: “I think maybe the world got like this because of people like me”
1 gaslightlinux 2018-05-17
He's exactly right, people like him. Consider that in what I said. What cause the world to be this way are the people thinking all the problems are the other side's fault, and they're so smart that if given the chance to be president the world would be utopia ... that's the problem with both sides, that's how the world got this way.
People actually doing something is what needs to happen, and it's spelled out in the movie. In the end everyone comes together and solves their problems collectively.
No matter which average-to-shitty candidate is in charge, blaming it on the other side isn't going to help, we need to work together to fix it.
1 Othlan 2018-05-17
If you quote this movie or believe it to be anything other a low budget, low quality comedy with few laughs, then congratulations, you are the exact type of moron it is attempting to ridicule.
1 Step2TheJep 2018-05-17
Let me guess: you drink sports drinks because you believe they are good for you.
1 Toon_tony 2018-05-17
but they have electrolytes, they are good for you...
1 Othlan 2018-05-17
Nice memes.
Got any thouhghts of your own?
1 Gibbbbb 2018-05-17
Did you know the guy behind it, Mike Judge, also made such hit comedies as King of the Hill, Beavis and Butthead, and Silicon Valley. Additionally, he actually worked as a computer programmer many years ago.
1 prolix 2018-05-17
Beg the question much?
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
It is an acerbic view on today's society, that's what it is. It can be taken as a warning for the future.
If you don't see this... then if we are the type of morons it is attempting to ridicule (which is patently wrong as anyone with half a brain can see), what are you?
1 dj10show 2018-05-17
I never thought I'd see the day where Baseketball and Idiocracy became documentaries. Hell, we're getting to the point where The Running Man could be as well.
1 Step2TheJep 2018-05-17
Don't forget Wall-E. See pic related.
1 throwawaytreez 2018-05-17
Man, no one actually gets the moral of this movie.
At one point Joe says that the world got the way it did because people like him, average people, did nothing and let it happen.
Everyone just walks away from it feeling so smug and thinking how the world is filled with idiots, but not them! Well they're the fucking problem, not the idiots.
1 Jac0b777 2018-05-17
Wonderfully put on both points!
First of all, as they say, all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing (I think that was a quote from Einstein, I could be wrong).
And secondly, feeling intellectually superior to others is a recipe for disaster. The vast majority of us here and throughout this planet are ignorant on various topics related to ourselves, life, our society, reality. ... yet we often smugly assume we know it all. Often we prefer to be right in our minds, even when we know we might be wrong. We'd rather feel we are right than actually be right! I have seen this pattern in myself and others. We all need to develop more humility and let go of our intellectual ego that feels it knows all and allow ourselves to be more open to simply being wrong and/or simply not knowing.
1 Step2TheJep 2018-05-17
The truth can be very confronting.
Ego is a defense mechanism against change.
Want an example? See this. Try not to let your ego do your thinking for you.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
That's putting it too simply. There is more to the Ego.
The ability to adapt to change is highly prized in organisms which have survived for a long time. Why would there be a defense mechanism against it?
Moreover, there is a spiritual dimension to the human Ego. It is one of the elements which make up the human individual.
1 lf11 2018-05-17
Adaptability can also be a lethal trait. You need conservation of successful behavior patterns even when they stop working (for a while) because the change may only be temporary.
It is necessary to have both adaptability as well as conservation of patterns.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
And what about feeling morally superior?
1 Jac0b777 2018-05-17
Also. And it's something we are all guilty of many times, because of our ego driven perception. Superiority and it's opposite inferiority are like patterns built within us that limit us, whether it's intellectual, moral, even physcial. If we can transcend them, we can be far freer and gain far greater compassion for the perceived other.
It's not like some people aren't smarter or more morally aware, it's just that making that into an ego game and thinking you are better than someone because of it is a great limitation. Everyone has their distinct qualities and plenty of untapped potential in my opinion and no one quality trumps another, it is usually based on the circumstances in which those qualities/talents are used. Not to mention that no matter how smart, moral, physically able..,you are, there is always likely someone better than you. So thinking of yourself as this king on a throne will limit you and make you see others as less then you, less than human even.
Seeing the other as a being is the optimal way to see they have inherent value and uniqueness, as well as incredible untapped potential. Letting go of superiority and inferiority is best in my opinion, as well as realizing that we are all "guilty" of indulging in it many times due to the structure of ourselves and our society. Awareness is key.
1 lf11 2018-05-17
Any feeling of superiority over others is wildly dangerous.
Which is interesting, because some people ARE intellectually or morally superior to others. Yet if you allow that truth to color your perceptions of the world and how you interact with others, well, that's how fascism happens. The old kind, that kills millions of people.
So how do we live?
Simple. You have to understand that being intellectually or morally superior does not make you a better person. It means you have gifts that others don't have. You therefore have an obligation to use those gifts in service of others, and furthermore to understand that other people have gifts that you missed and that each of us is deserving of honor and respect as individuals.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
Guess where you find all those smug people? Mostly on the small number of social media which, between them, have succeeded in corraling almost the complete world population.
1 samout 2018-05-17
And you're superior and smarter to all of them! It's not like the film has a major and very literal opening scene where it shows you the smarter people letting it all happen and literally saying they don't want to have kids and want to focus on their careers while the dumb people multiply like rabbits. No, you figured it out all by yourself. The movie didn't have a huge exposition dump explaining it ao that even the dumbest viewer would get it...
1 samout 2018-05-17
The openinf scene literally shows AND tells you all of that in no uncertain terms, it's impossible to miss. You are not smarter than anyone else and you just think no one else "gets it" even though the movie is so fuckinf on-the-nose and has the characters say word for word they're "not having kids because they're too smart and want to focus on their careers" while cutting to dumb trailer trash humping like rabbits and fighting. It's not subtle at all.
1 gaslightlinux 2018-05-17
Think about it as a dictatorial desire to fix the world's problems because you know best and they're all so simple, and the other people are just dumb mouth breathers. Then add to it this sort of "Scoring the home run at the bottom of the ninth" fantasy, when they recognize your brilliance and make you their president. It's the story of the armchair politician, the completely average man, thinking he could solve all the problems if it wasn't for the other people -- combined with not realizing that's pretty much a dictatorial agenda, instead everyone realizes he's right and democratically crowns him their savior.
Mike Judge is a brilliant satirist. If you empathize with or think any of his characters are the "good guys" / "not being made fun of," then you lack self-awareness, which is conflated by Mike Judge's empathy for all.
1 jimmyjoejohnston 2018-05-17
I watched that show and laughed my ass off , now I cry when I watch it because it was not a comedy it was a prophecy
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
Actually some think it was not so much a prophecy as social commentary or criticism.
1 Disrupturous 2018-05-17
I'll have to get my extra big ass fries.
1 Disrupturous 2018-05-17
Conspiracies time. In the credits there is someone named Greg 10 Bosch and another person named Rusty Chambers.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
"Greg 10 Bosch" seems a quirky wordplay on the old Dutch name "ten Bosch", in which "ten" was simply replaced with "10".
1 theroyalJ 2018-05-17
Electrolytes
1 randomchancex 2018-05-17
https://imgur.com/gallery/lffAvij
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
Idiocracy is not a documentary, it's a movie, a comedy.
1 RMFN 2018-05-17
This is the end of "progress" and the telos of equality.
1 Daveking01 2018-05-17
Great film!
1 new-monkey 2018-05-17
Please don't take me the wrong way - I watched it all the way through, and enjoyed it a lot. l do however feel that a fair degree of irony is at work here.
The movie is about the dumbing down of society, and it's consequences.
So as 'featured documentary' we have a um goofball comedy.
This is not a complaint. I'm just sayin'...
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
But you are absolutely correct!!
There is a LOT of irony at work in this movie. It is not a documentary.
1 OkImJustSayin 2018-05-17
This is great. Anyone who hasn't seen this movie needs to watch it. It really captures society and the materialistic, short-term pleasure seeking idiots that are becoming the norm rather than the exception. Probably one of my favorite movies.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
Actually this movie should be one of the great "awakeners" tailored for today's public, IMO. It is not just a comedy, providing some brainless fun in the style of (to mention one) "Norbit".
1 JagsDontCare 2018-05-17
I always think of this movie and trip out how it predicted everything
1 missingthemessage 2018-05-17
So, Family style?
1 GuitarWisdom 2018-05-17
apropos: https://youtu.be/wJdNrCeUdhc
1 merkucjo 2018-05-17
Guy comes to world and saves it, another messiah figure then
Programming to wait for someone to improve situation
1 Tmwill87 2018-05-17
I haven't been here in a while are you guys still fucked in the head this movie is good
1 4brkfast 2018-05-17
Hey I know. Let's put toilet water on it.
1 luminouslilacs 2018-05-17
Hi
1 fizzy511 2018-05-17
It's a fun movie but Brave New World is more realistic. Gotta have a competent class of workers capable of maintaining the machinery and a class of elites to program the workers.
1 dizzyhobo 2018-05-17
Look at my ex wife, she's a tad and she's a pilot.
1 troy_caster 2018-05-17
Messed up the quote. "There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick-ass lives!"
Really adds an extra kick to the sauce.
1 CantPullOverAnyMore 2018-05-17
Two Ds for a double dose of his pimpin'
1 Disrupturous 2018-05-17
Yeah. But if I think I'm stupid doesn't that mean I'm... wait I can't find the word I'm looking for.
1 Disrupturous 2018-05-17
We didn't get where we are today by not having emotions and compassion being pathologized.
1 Step2TheJep 2018-05-17
What makes you say that?
I see retards guzzling down sports drinks all the time.
A guy I live with drinks litres of the shit every week. He honestly believes it is good for him.
Most guys I know jerk off daily. Again, they honestly believe this is good for them.
And look at most peoples diets. These people are zombies.
1 gaslightlinux 2018-05-17
He's exactly right, people like him. Consider that in what I said. What cause the world to be this way are the people thinking all the problems are the other side's fault, and they're so smart that if given the chance to be president the world would be utopia ... that's the problem with both sides, that's how the world got this way.
People actually doing something is what needs to happen, and it's spelled out in the movie. In the end everyone comes together and solves their problems collectively.
No matter which average-to-shitty candidate is in charge, blaming it on the other side isn't going to help, we need to work together to fix it.
1 Jukecrim7 2018-05-17
Well stated. It's also crucial that we not have a superiority complex but instead approach others in humbleness when trying to bring other points of perspective onto the table for them to consider.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
I would basically put today's sports fans in that category, plus those who are trying to fit in through social media.
1 piisfour 2018-05-17
Unlikely, average people wouldn't be too interested or really sensitive to the message anyway.
I think it's more a warning to thinking people.
1 PattyMakesCakes 2018-05-17
That has nothing to do with being in theatres....
1 prolix 2018-05-17
You're lost then I guess.
1 azazel0821 2018-05-17
You sound tarded and faggy/s
Sorry I couldn't resist, but seriously your take on this is spot on.
1 lf11 2018-05-17
I feel like you would find a list of average IQ by country to be both interesting and deeply unsettling.
1 lf11 2018-05-17
Technically, this has to do with self evaluation of competence rather than intelligence. Granted, the two are probably linked to some degree, but not tightly.
Classic example comes from medicine: the patient comes in with a printout from a Facebook post knowing all about their illness and utterly certain of it. Sitting across from them, the doctor is quietly wondering if the original diagnosis was in fact totally wrong, and trying to decide how far back to re-evaluate treatment.