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Anyone ever see Idiocracy?

  • 09-08-2014 7:36pm
    #1
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭


    Saw this film popping up on a "Films that are very under-rated" list and then saw Mike Judge (Office Space) was involved so thought Id investigate further.

    Anyone ever see it? The Rotten Tomatoes rating looks strong.


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  • #2
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Saw this film popping up on a "Films that are very under-rated" list and then saw Mike Judge (Office Space) was involved so thought Id investigate further.

    Anyone ever see it? The Rotten Tomatoes rating looks strong.

    A bit of a guilty pleasure of mine & I've used quotes from it on more than one occasion.


  • #3
    dreamers75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    One of the funniest movies ever made. Its like marmite you either love it or hate it.


  • #4
    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Scarily accurate about breeding rates.


  • #5
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Yeah it's underloved but brilliant. So scarily accurate about how quickly our society as a whole is becoming more and more dumbed down.


  • #6
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,076 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Welcome to Costco, I love you... Welcome to Costco, I love you...

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • #7
    don ramo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭don ramo


    i think you made a mistake, im supposed to be getting out :D:D:D

    welcome to the time machine:D:D

    great film, it looks like a very cheap film, but at the same time it looks at what could be a possible future for the human race, all the jokes aside, i do fear for humanity a little more after each watch,

    now im gonna get some starbucks;):p


  • #8
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    I prefered Office Space (one of my favourites of all time), but Idiocracy is also worth seeing.


  • #9
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    It's way up there with The Jerk in terms of comedy. Some of it is hysterical (Electrolytes! It's what plants crave!). Seen it multiple times.

    Doesn't hurt that Sara Rue is in it.


  • #10
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    Terry Crews is awesome as U.S. President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho


  • #11
    Warper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭Warper


    Didnt like this at all - real basic infantile humour


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  • #12
    Savman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,323 ✭✭✭Savman


    NOT SURE ;)

    Very underrated and defo worth a watch.


  • #13
    Reg'stoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,589 ✭✭✭Reg'stoy


    Warper wrote: »
    Didnt like this at all - real basic infantile humour

    Come on..............

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1P7GMnd38


  • #14
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,383 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Shut up, batin'


  • #15
    takamichinoku
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭takamichinoku


    ricero wrote: »
    Terry Crews is awesome
    Edited cos the rest of your post seems unnecessary, he's even good in White Chicks, like.


    Uhm, I don't like the film, just didn't hold together, but thought it had a lot of moments I liked a lot.


  • #16
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Well this is batshít crazy so far lads. Im sensing lots of Zucker Brothers influences.

    But lets hope its more Airplane! than Kentucky Fried Movie :cool:


  • #17
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    A very uneven film, but when it was funny it was very funny.


  • #18
    Padraig Mor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,610 ✭✭✭Padraig Mor


    Absolutely dreadful. I turned it off halfway through, which is something I NEVER do.


  • #19
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,433 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Warper wrote: »
    Didnt like this at all - real basic infantile humour
    great accurate satire


  • #20
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,433 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Anyone been following Silicon Valley?


  • #21
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,383 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    Anyone been following Silicon Valley?

    Yeah, was great.


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  • #22
    spacecoyote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭spacecoyote


    To me, I found that the body of the film didn't live up to the opening sequence re the evolution of the population.

    That is a brilliant (& quite scarily ominous) piece


  • #23
    Philo Beddoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Philo Beddoe


    Occasionally amusing satire, but the whole concept is based on a flawed premise - that stupid people reproduce faster and therefore our society is becoming progressively more stupid. As if this hasn't always been the case....


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