Sentences with phrase «for idiocracy»

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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.

So for now, at least, we would do better to focus on helping poor people to overcome their disadvantages than to worry about the prospect of idiocracy.

You could argue that «Bottle Rocket» prepared Wilson for a career of choosing films that were either rejected or misunderstood upon their release: the buried Mike Judge comedy «Idiocracy,» the proudly peculiar Bob Dylan whatsit «Masked and Anonymous.»

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.)

The film is the directorial debut of writer Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder, Idiocracy) and follows a millionaire (Ferrell) who hires a friend to teach him how to survive an upcoming prison sentence for tax evasion.

Here's a look at the original trailer for Mike Judge's Idiocracy, to remind you what this movie is all about:

Not even «Office Space's» immortal iconography of workplace suckitude could save Judge's «Idiocracy» from languishing on Fox's shelves for two years before a 130 - screen dump over Labor Day 2006.

«Idiocracy» isn't high art — in fact, that's the point — but its slow - building success gives me faith in audiences and their increasing thirst for films that aren't sequels, remakes, or adaptations of books and TV shows.

«Idiocracy» tells the story of an Army private and major slacker Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson), who in 2005 is drafted to take part in a confidential hibernation program; the Army finds a female counterpart in a prostitute named Rita (Maya Rudolph), and she and Joe are put into individual «pods» before being sedated for a year.

Of course, in the eye of Mike Judge's dumbed - down America, «Idiocracy» would probably win the Oscar for Best Picture.

The multitude of pop culture references, from Idiocracy to Arnold Schwarzenegger one liners doesn't substitute for character or world building.

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.

For all those people saying «OMG Idiocracy!!»