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Idiocracy - GeraldRice - 01-16-2007
Mike Judge's latest movie is a great concept. It doesn't work as an 84 minute movie, though. The first act was great BEFORE Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph go into the pods, but in the 2nd act it stumbles and in the 3rd act it outright falls on its head.
How best to say this? Idiocracy is about how we dumb things down to the point that 500 years from now all the intellectuals have been bred out and if you say anything remotely intelligent you are called a fag, regardless of your actual sexual orientation. In the beginning there were a lot of smart 'stupid' jokes. By the end they were just stupid 'stupid' jokes. This one didn't have a full bag of steam and perhaps would have been better served as an HBO special. The story should have been condensed to trim the fat.
Don't rush to put this one in your queue. Wait for it to come on HBO or Showtime.
Idiocracy - webby - 01-16-2007
GeraldRice Wrote:Mike Judge's latest movie is a great concept. It doesn't work as an 84 minute movie, though. The first act was great BEFORE Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph go into the pods, but in the 2nd act it stumbles and in the 3rd act it outright falls on its head.
How best to say this? Idiocracy is about how we dumb things down to the point that 500 years from now all the intellectuals have been bred out and if you say anything remotely intelligent you are called a fag, regardless of your actual sexual orientation. In the beginning there were a lot of smart 'stupid' jokes. By the end they were just stupid 'stupid' jokes. This one didn't have a full bag of steam and perhaps would have been better served as an HBO special. The story should have been condensed to trim the fat.
Don't rush to put this one in your queue. Wait for it to come on HBO or Showtime.
I haven't seen this, but I'm wondering... if it is "about how we dumb things down to the point that 500 years from now all the intellectuals have been bred out", is it possible that as the movie goes on the jokes become more stupid on purpose?
If you think of it with that perspective, would it make any difference, Gerald?
Idiocracy - GeraldRice - 01-16-2007
I see what you're saying, but a movie in this era at least, must still adhere to certain rules. Judge just didn't have a full tank of gas on this one.
Idiocracy - Mike Hanson - 01-17-2007
The Top 10 Overused Movie Review Quotes
10) "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss ten bucks
good-bye" - I believe this is a semiannual favorite for
anything written and directed by Woody Allen.
9) "Cool!" - used appropriately once every few years
or so for such classics as STAR WARS, THE WRATH OF KHAN,
TRON, HEAVY METAL, TOP GUN, THE MATRIX, etc.
8) "It Rocked" - overly used in every teencentric ad placed
for the cinematic abortion known as DETROIT ROCK CITY.
7) "Excretable," "Sophomoric," "Tasteless," and "Brilliant"
- four perennial favorites for every movie Kevin Smith
puts out (Note: I'm in that twilight zone of movie-goers
who is just a little too old to quite "get it" when it
comes to Smith's flicks, but not so old as to hate or be
shocked by them).
6) "This Movie Was Out of Gas" - which several right-wing
republican Reviewers used for WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR.
5) "Righteous!" - painfully resurrected by Christian-Rock
aficionados upon the release of Mel Gibson's THE PASSION
OF THE CHRIST.
4) "It Sucked" - my favorite two-word headline for the train
wreck that was TRANSYLVANIA 6-5000.
3) "It Blew Chunks" - TWISTER. Nuff said.
2) "They should pay US to watch this crap." - a variation
of which must have been in every college newspaper upon
the release of CALIGULA.
And the number one overused movie review quote of all
time is...
1) "It stinks!" - before Jay Sherman, I clearly remember
adults saying this when as a small boy I walked out of
a theater after sleeping through 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
(Note: which I later loved as a teenager).
Idiocracy - saynomore - 01-17-2007
Gerald, Gerald, Gerald, the movie is clearly a satire and the dumb jokes were being used ironically, with a bit of litotes thrown in. I surely would not buy this on DVD, but it is worth a view by fans of Mike Judge.
AC
P.S. I hope you stuck it out to the very end of the credits: there's one final scene that concludes a running gag throughout the movie. And the advertisements in the background have loads of in-jokes (as in the opening of Futurama). I give the movie two severed thumbs up.