Has anyone else seen this? Luke Wilson stars across from the Cheeseburger inmate in the Longest Yard and some prostitute in the year 2505 when all of humanity is intellectually inept. Great social commentary as well as some pretty funny parts.
I made the mistake of renting it thinking that it would be at least semi-funny. Yet it turned out to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Honestly, I'm not exaggerating here... that movie is terrible.
While it was disappointingly bad, was it really the worst you have ever seen. I liked how the plot was that humans evolved to idiots, which is where were heading kinda..
I actually quite liked this movie. It was.... interesting. The president basically being Rick James resurrected.... "The Violence Channel!"... Tylenol Jones.... Yes, I liked it. I think it made a good point.
Indeed. I thought "What? A documentary?" ... I kid, I kid. It was OK - good as a social commentary, mediocre as a film. Not a waste of my hour and a half, but not something I rave about.
I pretty much agree with spooner. I expected a lot from this movie and was horribly let down. the premise was solid but it quickly turned into the same joke being rehashed over and over again.
Agreed with most posters that while the film's main idea is not only brilliant but seemingly inevitable (look around you... we are being systematically 'dumbed down' in order for rich people to continue to use us), it was handled very poorly. I enjoyed it, but rarely laughed and felt a better script should have been written for the idea. 1st 10 minutes are awesome tho'. Pity the rest of the movie was far from it.
Well that's a trip, most people don't seem impressed... I put it in my top ten comedies. I couldn't stop laughing. My ribcage felt like I had bruised it. I felt every bit as worried about being unable to control my laughter as I had when taking acid or shrooms. The person who recommended it to me had recommended some real bombs too, so I had my expectations quite exceeded in like... pretty much the first two minutes! For a while, my signature on several websites was: "why do you keep trying to read that word? Are you a fag?" or "Go away, 'baitin'." At one point I was laughing so hard, my wife was as worried about my dying as she was when I overdosed on JWH and turned green. This film set new standards in achieving impossible to film sight gags. I can't think of anything as funny that wasn't animated. "I thought your head would be bigger!" Even youtube jokes inspired by idiocracy are hillarious to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYpfHBicjQk"]President of the United States [Idiocracy] [Remix] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbxq0IDqD04"]Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator - YouTube
An awesome and funny movie but sorry, OFFICE SPACE > IDIOCRACY. Anyway, Mike Judge is still a genius.
I agree that Mike Judge is awesome. But I hate to say, I felt that every joke was called in and foreseeable by about an hour. I loved the idea, but after the first half hour, I didn't even crack a smile. And I REALLY wanted it to be much funnier and memorable. It just wasn't.
if it wasn't such a plausible projection of where things seemed to be headed I would have enjoyed it more...yikes...ha
I saw it for the first time like a month ago, and I must say I thought it was pretty funny, but, I think the whole concept should have been a dead serious scifi/future prediction type movie.
what truly scared me was that armchair the guy was sitting in watching tv, the armchair with the handle to flush the built-in loo.... i don't know, it was just so - possible. the next big thing from La-Z-Boy, for that Ultimate Couch Potato experience. *shudder*
I saw this movie on tv recently, It was edited but I enjoyed it as I had low expectations due to some of the poor reviews I had read. Almost every other book or movie I've read or seen involving a dystopian future has been serious, so it was refreshing to see a dystopian future story spun in a comedic sense. I didn't find it a non-stop laugh a minute type movie however there were some pretty funny parts and interesting concepts making it a worthwhile watch.
