Idiocracy

[jalapenoguy]

because of this thread i went out and watched this film tonight. it may have deserved a wide release but it was not a good comedy, not even in the ballpark of office space.

the premise was amazing and had tons of promise. the last half killed it though. it should have been about lukes character taking advantage of his "genius" but instead turned into a run of the mill sitcom.

if the movie lived up to the premise this had the potential of being a top 5 of all time comedy. unfortunatly judge took the easy way out. to me it was the exact opposite of office space and because of that i was thoroughly disapointed.

his intitial scene in the future is him using his wits to break out of jail. it goes from that to him not understanding why he is a smart man or why he is qualified to be secretary of state.

im saying don't watch the movie, you will be pissed after you do. right after i started watching my best friend called me to ask me what i was doing. told him i was watching this movie, then told him the premise. we both laughed together, making jokes for the next 10 minutes. unfortunatly those 10 minutes outlived the movie that followed.

[Exsubmariner]

Thanks for posting. I didn't realize it was out. I was disappointed when it didn't get to theaters. Mike Judge is brilliant. He was inspired by the story The Marching Morons , I read on an internet page about the movie.

That story itself is really cool. Basically, the Marching Morons is based on the Marching Chinese. Once, someone calculated that if you started walking the Chinese population in a line two wide at their border, regardless of what happened to the line, there would be an endless line of people coming from China.

Anyway, the Marching Morons depicts a future where "high born elite" work like slaves to keep morons producing in order to stave off catastrophe from 600 million tons of rotting human flesh resulting from a societal collapse. They call this "the problem." Read the link. It gets a lot more interesting.

[Exsubmariner]

Well, the problem with a harmless lovable lead character is that he doesn't have it in him to take advantage of his superior intelligence. If he did, you wouldn't have a comedy. It would be more science fiction.

[Barcalounger]

I watched it last weekend. My wife calls it "the worst movie she's ever seen." I'll just call it a failed attempt at a great idea. The problem with the movie is that the concept is great and it deserves to have an awesome movie attached to it. Instead it overplays the satire, the characters are too over the top, and the plot is too lame.

I agree with somebody else that it's a 2 star movie, with an underlying idea that easily could have been a 5 star film if done well. I mentioned some parts at the bar later and everybody thought it sounded awesome. Maybe Fox is to blame for this mess, I'm not sure. But if you have to rent it, beware. Idiocracy is nowhere close to as good as it sounds from hearing about it.

[rothko]

yeah, idiocracy is one of those films that you really want to love, because it's almost genius, but you just can't.

[battschr]

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yeah, idiocracy is one of those films that you really want to love, because it's almost genius, but you just can't.

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Yup, I thought it was pretty good, but could have been so much more.

[Slow Play Ray]

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yeah, idiocracy is one of those films that you really want to love, because it's almost genius, but you just can't.

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so true...this was a great idea for a movie, but it was just so horribly executed...

[fyodor]

Saw this the other day. Agree with pretty much everyone else. So much promise went downhill so very fast. I got some laughs but expected more to be coming.

[LuckyDevil]

I chuckled once during the movie. Good idea, could have been done a lot better. Not even close to as good as Office Space.