I saw "Idiocracy" last night. Hold me.

[Aristus]

I've been inexpressibly depressed since then. I was expecting biting, even pungent satire from Mike Judge. And I was thrilled with the concept behind the film. I just wasn't expecting it to be so thoroughly squalid and relentlessly pessimistic.

One of the things I found depressing was the fact that despite a fictional 500-year remove from the present day, the future as envisioned in the film is not that much different from today. It was a fairly small extrapolation. Sheesh, "A Clockwork Orange" and "Blade Runner" weren't as depressing as this.

I guess I'm taking it all a bit too seriously, but I really wish now I hadn't seen it. Somebody hug me. :(

[ComerPerro]

1. Well, conservatives do breed at a higher rate than liberals.

I really, honestly, truly believe that in 100 years the US will be populated and dominated by Christian fundies

[Aristus]

3. Thanks. Picked me right up, there, ComerPerro.

B-)

[martymar64]

2. I loved Idiocracy

It took our present society and extrapolated where we're going. It was a little pessimistic but we live in a pessimistic world.

And now if you don't mind, I'm missing the new episode of "Ow My Balls!"

[unpossibles]

4. I know what you mean, but look at it this way

Conservative parents do not necessarily just make conservative kids, and vice versa. My parents were fairly conservative (well, my dad anyway. My mom passed away before I was really old enough to understand what her politics were), and I am a pretty hard core Leftist.

I also know a small minority of kids who rebelled against their hippie parents and became conservobots, but not as many.

I look at it this way: what we lack in breeding, we make up for in education. Reality has a liberal bias, and the movie's real lesson should be "we" (the greater we, not progressives) need to stop being lazy about education and we need to re-instill the idea that intelligence and improving ourselves is a worthy goal, beyond any monetary value. Education is the key, and that includes teaching kids how to be compassionate.

[Aristus]

5. Okay, NOW I feel better! Quoting Stephen Colbert did the trick, unpossibles.

Thanks. :hug:

"Reality has a well-known liberal bias..."

Perfect. B-)

[trof]

6. I felt the same way.

I was expecting something a bit more 'cerebral'(?).
More slapstick than satire.
Some funny bits, but overall not satisfying at all.

[catzies]

7. I saw it the other night, and while it was uneven it has stayed with me

I wanted to see it from the minute I heard about it a month or so ago.

I did have high hopes for it movie-wise, but I found the script to be weak in spots and the characters slightly underdeveloped but I thought the visuals were arresting and the attention to detail rather thorough. I also think it might have done better with different csting. Maya Rudolph was all right but I just think Luke Wilson can't project "dumb" enough. "Average," yes which is what Mike Judge was going for, but Luke lacked je ne sais quoi, I guess.

I liked the premise of the movie and I agree with it strongly. I didn't find it depressing because it presents a reality I think is firmly ensconced.

Like you I expected "biting, even pungent satire from Mike Judge," (very well-put), but Stephen Colbert has set the satire bar pretty high as far as I'm concerned so i found Idiocracy to be not-satirical-enough.

[datasuspect]

8. dr. lexus said it best

"don't wanna sound like a dick or nothing, but it says on your chart that you're fucked up, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyoDUxHeW44