Films/DVD Asylum

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 §.