It’s basically a comedy with the subtlety of a guy repeatedly screaming “I am beating you with a sledgehammer” as he hits you with a sledgehammer.
The joke is that everyone is dumb and the future and its painfully spoon-fed to the audience ad nusuesm. And now 15 years later everyone constantly brings up that movie when ever something happens and its the most over commented thing I’ve ever seen. It makes me hate the movie more. Its the peak movie for pseudo intellectuals.
I have never once heard someone call this movie subtle though. The opening credits literally have Mike Judge saying “this is what I see happening right now and this movie is a warning of what things could be like if they continue.”
This is an unpopular opinion because it is a wrong opinion. True about the subtlety part tho
The point is that the movie is extremely stupid and yet still we can find parallels between our world and this dumb movie. Our reality is fucking dumb. Nothing pseudo intellectual about it.
It’s on the same level as Office Space (another Mike Judge movie), it just has a lot of moments in it that people see in their own lives and can point to the movie as art imitating life imitating art. No one has really ever called either movie cerebral or claimed they were deep, they’re just really relatable to alot of people. Given that he also worked on King of the Hill as well, that’s been kind of common thread through alot of his work, comedy for the “everyman”.
Except in this case, instead of art imitating life imitating art, it might be life imitating art imitating life? :-P
No one has really ever called either movie cerebral or claimed they were deep
Ii definetely disagree on that point, there were plenty of folks on reddit who treated this movie like it was a documentary and that it was required watching for understanding the faults in our actual society
That being said, I agree with everything else you said, some people just aren’t good at separating “I like this” from “this is important”
Absolutely it’s as subtle as a safe dropped onto your head. The point made isn’t made any less valid by being exaggerated - satire does that sometimes.
And Idiocracy being deep is not something I hear a lot, where in the world has that been a common take?
If you think fans of this movie are pseudo intellectuals, I think that says a lot more about you than them
“ad nusuesm”
Op is an idiocracy
Who the fuck calls it deep?
It wasn’t trying to be subtle and wasn’t trying to be deep. The people who like it now are those that can relate to seeing the world lean further into the jokes about society getting stupider.
Nobody is trying to be intellectual when they bring up this movie.
And before I forget: Welcome to Costco, I love you.
it’s hard to rail against that film without sounding like the guy on his toilet chair watching his television and eating his cheese, telling everyone to shut up
And now 15 years later everyone constantly brings up that movie when ever something happens
No, that’s not why people bring this movie up, but your odd description is sort of proving their point.
Fuck you, I’m eating
You’re not wrong. I don’t think anything Mike Judge has ever done should be necessarily labeled as deep. I think there is still some funny commentary in it.
But, it’s got electrolytes!
Has someone actually told you they think this movie is deep?
