The world of 1984 was nothing like the world of 1984. EPIC FAIL, George Orwell!
Unless, of course, it wasn’t so much a prediction of the future as a commentary on the author’s own time.
“Big Brother” caught on as a metaphor not because it was part of some abstract vision of the future, but because it reflects the unease people felt then and feel now.
“You talk like a fag and you’re shit’s all retarded” caught on as a catchphrase not because it’s some futuristic gibberish, but because it reflects the way people respond today to things they don’t understand. Star Trek’s holodeck is a speculative extrapolation of technology. Ow, My Balls! is an America’s Funniest Home Videos highlight reel.
Is Mike Judge a classist snob? I don’t know, but it seems to me the white-collar types in Office Space don’t come off too great either.
Which made me wonder: who made the microphones? Who made the plane the doctor’s girlfriend flies? Who made the movie and TV cameras to allow “Ow, my balls!” and “Ass” to be filmed.
No, it’s based on the assumption that stupid people have more babies. Now, you can argue whether or not that’s true, but you’re not allowed to get the whole basic premise wrong. Next time, watch the damn movie before you rant about it.
I apologize. Since you made the comment on my thread about Idiocracy, I thought perhaps you were including my observations in your generalization. No harm done.
Since I was quoting directly from the screenplay, I don’t think I was being ironic in using “who’s” instead of “whose,” which is the correct usage in the referred instance. Mike Judge may have been, though. Or maybe he’s an idiot.
Where, if anywhere, did you get a copy of the physical screenplay used for shooting? It should be pointed out that Google shows 91 results for the grammatically-correct “whose ass it was and why it was farting,” including oft-used-for-research IMDb and Wikipedia, as opposed to 32 for the incorrect “who’s ass it was and why it was farting.”
Nonsense. Poor people have more children; the whole logic behind such works is that poverty=stupidity, therefore the fact that poor people have more children means that the future will be full of stupid people. That’s what the “idiocracy” scenario has ALWAYS been about. America sterilized thousands of poor people under that theory; after all, if they were poor they must be stupid, and we can’t let the stupid outbreed the smart ( aka wealthy ), now can we?
Off of Google, that frustrating den of ambiguity, which obtains frustratingly incorporeal results. Damn abstractions and their non-existent eyes!
Whether it was the final, accepted shooting script or not (The character of Frito is listed as Dizz), it was still written by Mike Judge and used, at one time or another, as justification to make a pile of images and sounds out of a collection of words and pulp. Whether the usage was ironic or not, I’m unable to declare.
A strangely robust number of responders seem to think this comedy was meant to be taken seriously. Why is Idiocracy derided for being “silly” and “unlikely,” whereas, say, Spaceballs is cheered for being silly and unlikely. It’s a comedy, ladies and gentlemen; please ease up on the righteous indignation.
The folks who started Big Lebowski threads never had to abide by this.
Who didn’t realize Brawndo wasn’t very healthy, and shouldn’t replace water, and wouldn’t be sufficient hydration to grow plant life? How do you forget about the useful properties of one of the most useful substances on earth?
And Joe wasn’t some genius, he was very average. But at least the damn dude knew water would help plants grow.
I must be out of the loop could someone please link to a news story for all these forced mass sterilizations based upon the premise of Idiocracy please because google isn’t bringing anything up.
The movie never once suggests that the stupidity is native and genetic, which is the only basis on which your criticism is valid. Rich people get better educations. Far from being a conservative premise, it’s much more an extrapolation of the current problems facing public education–i.e., the education of poor people.
It doesn’t mean politically conservative, it means it has a conservative attitude: it always mocks new things. That’s not to say older things are always accepted, but new ideas and inventions are where new material comes from. “Look at all these hipster jerks with their iPhones!” “What’s with this Twitter thing?”
