I watched it and here's my take:

Posted by Tom §. (A) on January 23, 2007 at 05:00:32

In Reply to: Mike Judge's "Idiocracy" posted by 4season on January 15, 2007 at 14:45:12:

The salient characteristic of this movie has been it's blessing and its curse is: it's premise. The premise appeals to viewer's vanity because in panders to the "nearly everyone else in this world is stupid" line of thought. The other side is that the movie insinuates everyone else (including the author of this post and whomever the reader might be) *is* stupid. We can't escape the fact that everyone thinks everyone else is stupid. It's the pornographic thought that keeps our egos errect. Perhaps that's an unintentional insight Judge conveyed (or I'm just underthinking it).

It's no suprise corporate distribution wouldn't touch this one. It insults many aspects of popular american culture. It insults yuppies right off the bat by insinuating yuppies are too wrapped up in themselves to breed. It insults hip hop culture and its money train of white teenage idolators. It goes after the trailer park culture of professional wrestling, tractor pulls, and bandwagon patriotism. The corporate "biting satire" bits go beyond cartoonish in their exaggeration of how corporate advertisers go for the lowest common denominator. Is that funny? I don't know. Fuck you, I'm watching a movie.

-Tom Â§.

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Topic - Mike Judge's "Idiocracy" - 4season 14:45:12 01/15/07 (12)

I watched it and here's my take: - Tom §. 05:00:32 01/23/07 (0)

Imagine that! "A biting satire" about Costco and Starbucks! What other hard-to-hit targets will be next? - clarkjohnsen 23:31:36 01/15/07 (7)

How about pretentious message board posters? - Tom §. 11:45:22 01/16/07 (0)

You haven't watched it, have you [nt] - 4season 09:52:09 01/16/07 (5)

My comment was not on the film, but on the inanity in the original post. nt - clarkjohnsen 10:42:18 01/16/07 (4)

Re: And yet, you read and replied. Twice. [nt] - 4season 11:06:42 01/16/07 (3)

More inanity, and a lie; I replied to the original post only once. nt - clarkjohnsen 13:06:09 01/16/07 (2)

Constructive criticism instead of ridicule? - 4season 21:16:09 01/19/07 (1)

The referenced problem was not in the writing, but in the thinking -- about which I endeavor to instruct no man. nt - clarkjohnsen 09:57:09 01/20/07 (0)

quite disappointing - tunenut 15:57:04 01/15/07 (2)

re: quite disappointing - 4season 11:02:36 01/16/07 (1)

I liked Office Space a lot...this seemed a lot more slapdash - tunenut 17:25:11 01/16/07 (0)

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I watched it and here's my take: - Tom §. 05:00:32 01/23/07 (0)

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