Sentences with phrase «as idiocracy»

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Watch the movie, «Idiocracy» sometime (the intelligent people decide to quit reproducing as much and guess who survives?)

There's no particular reason why churches, for example, can't step up to fill the relational void, just as there's no reason why ordinary lives will drift inevitably in the direction of idiocracy.

Idiocracy drew little comment on its initial release, but has become a touchstone among those who despair at what they see as relentless dumbing down of social and political discourse.

Wilson has cemented his modest legacy playing handsome, sometimes underachieving dudes in comedies such as «Bottle Rocket,» «Rushmore,» «Old School,» and «Idiocracy.»

And yet, his latest work plays just as much like a blown - up, fun home image of Mike Judge's «Idiocracy,» as it too uses the conventions of science fiction to mount a caustic social satire.

Being that Judge's previous effort, Office Space, has become something of a cult phenomenon over the years on home video, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the same fate potentially awaits Idiocracy.

Idiocracy a fun film for those who laugh at, or perhaps lament, the sorry state of our society, where reading is increasingly being deemed by youth culture as passé, popular entertainment has nearly no emphasis on story (Judge portrays films of the future as nothing but shots of bare asses that occasionally fart, which the audience finds consummately entertaining), and people can't speak intelligently without being labeled as uppity snobs.

(BTW, as I write this, «Idiocracy» has a 71 % rating on RottenTomatoes.com, compared to 43 % for last week's box - office topper, «Gridiron Gang»; 31 % for Brian De Palma's «The Black Dahlia»; and 17 % for «All the King's Men,» opening Friday.)

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Latest Mike Judge Comedy Misses the Mark While Mike Judge may be best known as the creator of the MTV animated series Beavis and Butthead, he also has a cult following of devoted movie fans who love his live - action masterpieces like Office Space and Idiocracy.

Idiocracy is the sci - fi comedy from Mike Judge about an average guy, played by Luke Wilson, who is frozen and wakes up in the future - only to discover it's an idiotic place with Terry Crews as President Camacho running the country, and Brawndo being distributed instead of water.

When I talked with Blaustein, his observations to me were right on the money, and call to mind the satirical statements made by writers such as Mike Judge in the film Idiocracy.

Beyond representing the possibility of a President Trump, like in Mike Judge's irreverent and anti-intellectual Idiocracy (2006), Doomocracy is pure satire — a counter-site employing the discourses of the extreme right as a platform for play.