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Mike Judge Is Making Another Big-Screen Comedy, And This One Stars Ben Affleck, Mila Kunis, Jason Bateman and Kristen Wiig!!
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Ben Affleck will play an opportunistic lawyer in Mike Judge’s latest big-screen comedy, “Extract.”
The Miramax feature, which starts shooting Monday, is about a flower-extract factory worker who loses a body part in a freak accident and finds himself pursuing a substantial settlement from his employer. Others in the cast include Kristen Wiig, Mila Kunis, Clifton Collins Jr. (Perry Smith in "Capote"), and Jason Bateman.
Writer-director Judge is the man behind "Beavis & Butt-head," "King of the Hill," "Office Space," "Idiocracy" and the upcoming animated ABC sitcom "The Goode Family."
Find all of Variety’s Thursday-morning story on the matter here.
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fucking first! soldier of the apocalypse!
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Could be good,.....but two Bens don't make a right......good movie that is.
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maybe with some "star power" this will actually hit more than 2 screens nationwide?
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not really a fan of king of the hill. is it still on? but found office space hilarious. so.. could be interesting no?
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The better it will do! Mike Judge can do great things with the mundane.
I'm worried that star power will flavor this wrong though, particularly Affleck. Ugh.
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I dunno, I mean, King of the Hill is OK, but never anything I felt I had to watch consistently. With the death of the Simpsons, Futurama's movies being subpar (even though the last one was a little better, but again WHY AREN'T FRY AND LEELA TOGETHER), only South Park and to a lesser extent Family Guy are the only consistent "big" animated shows right now. I mean, Robot Chicken has it's moments, obviously the Venture Bros has been great... but I'm talkin' the mainstream stuff. Oh and Idiocracy was surprisingly pretty good.
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But i loved Office Space. And Idiocracy had its moments. I'd like to know more about it but I'm willing to give Judge the benefit of the doubt for now.
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will the studio kill this? It is nice to see Miramax is handling it, but after they slaughtered Idiocracy and Office Space, which are two of my most quoted films, I have no faith that anyone in the Hollywood machine will back one of his films in the way they deserve.
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and hopefully with Jason Bateman in tow this new movie won't be swept under the rug by the studio like Idiocracy. Oh wait, Affleck is in this too?
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But you already knew that didn't you?
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It's about time the studio's took notice. I enjoy an Apatow comedy, and Tropic Thunder was pretty good, but Judge understands satire better than anyone. Idiocracy was so completely underrated it's a tragedy. Office Space...well, it's a classic. I saw "Jump to Conclusions" welcome mat actor at McDonalds the other day btw. He was also the "bullshit" story cop in Fugitive. I was too much of a bitch to say anything.
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There’s a lot going on with Mr. Judge. “Office Space” gives me hope each and every time I see it and “Idiocracy” IS the future. There is a lot to be said for his satire. I, for one, can not wait to see this on the big screen.
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That movie is alot funnier each time I watch it. Anyways, i'm a big King of the Hill fan but Fox has raped it this season and left it in a ditch to die a humiliating death. It deserves better.
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I have ever seen in my life.
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He hasn't had a legitimate hit in years and he has the screen presence of a used diaper. The guy is ten shades of dull yet they keep using his boring ass in films that might otherwise be solid. I love Mike's work but somebody in Hollywood needs to void Affleck's deal with the devil and expel him to the direct-to-DVD marketplace where he most certainly belongs.
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is a show that I find a lot easier to respect than like. I was never a big fan of Beavis and Butthead, but Office Space holds up surprisingly well and Idiocracy has its moments.
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Idiocracy was the biggest disappointment of the decade. What a piece of crap follow-up to such a great classic film.
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when will this archaic site add a fucking "Edit post" function? They're STANDARD on any decent message board
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Aug 20, 2008 10:55:18 PM CDT
of all Clifton Collins' great roles, you pick "Capote"???
by shiftyeyeddog2
probably the worst movie he's been in
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Could have used a few rewrites though.
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Gone Baby Gone was one of the finest movies of 2007. He needs to find a new piece of work to push his directing further, not star in another stupid comedy from the guy whose last movie was Idiocracy, a terribly unfunny movie. I love Office Space and Beavis and Butthead as much as anyone, but just as far as Affleck goes, this is a mistake. I would much rather see him take another shot at direction.
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Ben Affleck may be my generations Keanu Reeves, but he also directed Gone Baby Gone and I we found out what else he can do besides win Oscars for writing screenplays. The mother fucker may not know how to act like a 3 dimensional person, but he sure as fuck knows how to write and direct fucking great films.
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that he's smart, serious, charming, funny and sincere and he doesn't know how to turn himself off and the character on when he's in front of the camera. Put him behind the camera or in front of a laptop and he shows us what a potent talent he is.
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Ditto on the positive vibes for Gone Baby Gone and Good Will Hunting. He still holds a special place in my heart for Chasing Amy as well. Looking forward to this flick!
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He has his moments. I'm not saying he should be carrying a serious, dramatic picture. He's playing a lawyer in a comedy, so let's give the guy a chance. He's been a fanboy punching bag for too long.
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Who knew Affleck had it in him. I'm watching it right now on Starz.As far as Idiocracy is concerned it was a good idea gone bad. The funny thing is that movie really pisses off the people it's mocking. The country really is heading in that direction.
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this will be good
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Hilarious and disturbing in its accuracy. Office space is obviously a classic, and beavis and butthead and king of the hill are also pretty entertaining. Bring on whatever he's got planned, cause the man can do no wrong.
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It just needed a better third act. The monster truck rally was kind of stupid, and the bloodthirsty crowd wouldn't have given a shit about some "faggy" plants when given the chance to see someone get burned alive. Maybe what Mike Judge should have done is had Wilson torn limb from limb in front of the cameras, and then have Maya Rudolph catch the replay on a Fox News morning show with the bikini hosts laughing and drinking gatorade coffee. Then she could see it again that night on America's Fucked-up Home Videos with a ridiculous Sagat-clone doing funny voices. "Ow that hurts. . . I'm a faggot. Owch ah sheeit. Haw haw!" Why not? He lost studio support right? So fuck it, take it all the way and seriously unnerve some people. . .
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If you catch my drift heh heh...
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Mila Kunis needs to get on it. Pronto!
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- but still mandatory viewing; utterly hilarious in parts. It's heart, and brains, were definitely in the right place. Maybe Judge himself can remake it in 20 years or so. That is if there are any people smart enough to operate cameras. "SHAWD AWWWWWPP!"
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I think we catch your drift. Astounding work.
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Yes, indeed.
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back to back. Loved it.
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...is the best thing on SNL right now. ("too bad SNL sucks right now") whatever. regardless, she is a fucking great performer...very observant. i'll stand by and let people molest my opinions a lot on this site, but i will stick up for kristen wiig. watch the surprise b-day party sketch with walken, or any of her "A-hole" sketches...she is fantastic. the show knows it, too. she is placed in most of their stuff these days.
affleck has less charisma than a broken rib, though. he may be a good director...he may be a good screenwriter...that fucker cannot act.
although, he's still better than mila kunis. she's goddamned awful. and her voice is like a thousand birds being slaughtered.
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I think Office Space is a classic. It was such a fantastic film that I couldn't wait to see Idiocracy.
Then I started to read articles about the studio bungling the release, and Judge was all upset that it was happening again.
But then I saw the film.
Wow, it really fucking sucked. Really, really bad. Let's hope this is at least half as funny as Office space. -
Can't say enough how thoroughly I enjoyed Idiocracy. And Ben Affleck has his moments, although there are more bad than good. I thought his scenes in Boiler Room were interesting. If he doesn't have to carry the film, he'll be OK, and the film will be OK.
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made one hell of a film with Gone baby Gone. One of my favorites of last year. Kevin Smith once wrote, "ben affleck is a movie star. Matt Damon is an actor" or something to that effect. Kind of a backhanded compliment if you ask me.
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Aug 21, 2008 1:38:04 AM CDT
Mike Judge + Live Action Movie = Brilliance.
by stereotypical evil archer
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give me a break. Keanu while not too bad now, was fair dog turds in the early 90's. Admittedly Keanu is much better now. Affleck has never been dog turds...he's been mediocre, but not dog turds. Affleck can do well, he just needs a role where he can stretch himself. Because we havn't really seen too much range from the guy. Dog Turds.
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...Concept isn't promising, but does anyone remember the early pitch for I Heart Huckabees? I'll trust him on this one. I have to ask, on a semi unrelated note...Tropic Thunder? What the fuck were you people on? Don't get me wrong, some of the tard imitations were funny, but its was mostly a couple of steps above a Wayans movie. And Tom Cruise? I think this flick has helped firmly cement him as a washed up loser. I've never seen more dead screen time then when he did his fucking dances. You could hear the perplexion in peoples brains during the credits sequence, just this aghast wonderment at why the fuck a human being would be embarassing himself in such a way.
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In the right role, that is.
I like the guy, I just think he has iffy taste in movies. I.E.; Anything NOT made by Kevin Smith. -
Really Ben? After your success with Gone Baby Gone? Mike Judge? With Mila Kunis, Clifton Collins Jr. (the brackets mean you are not famous enough for everyone to know of you), and Kristen Wiig. Though Jason Bateman, I will watch in just about anything. So, thumbs up there. Idiocracy is underrated, but compared to other satires, pales greatly. Mr. Judges, even if the US of A was to slow intellectually come the next millennium, a Porn Star President and giant Penis Monster Trucks.... A BIG NO THANK YOU Pass! So now we will get a... flower-extract factory worker after a bad day? Whatever. Ben go make another gritty film on your own, you can do better than Judge on his best day - EVER.
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Dang Return Key got me... Agreed… Tropic Thunder had moments of humor -excusing the fact I felt like I was watching parts of the Three Amigos in the jungles of Vietnam vs. the Desert, with a vibe of being hopped up on 'Jelly Beans' (wink-wink). Fake trailers? The real ones are funny enough. Like making fun of a Mine… they have already done your job for you just be being – A Mine. Very uneven pacing, kept me out of much of the movie. On Tom Cruise, when the credits rolled, and Les ‘Tommy-C’ Grossman did his little dance (and then showed in the credits who he was), just about everyone in the packed theatre I was in went: WTF? That was Tom Cruise? Why? I thought: Just get Owen Wilson to do a pointless cameo, careful not to mention Kate though, he might get weepy! Or not too risky, get Vince Vaughn. Back to Cruise, how many times did he say, f#ck? Seriously, he looked utterly mad in his glee, while acting out this douche of a dream character, F-Bombing everyone. Dead screen time, and just seemed to be channeling his own barely suppressed fury.
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was good. he's done some stinkers, but i actually like the guy. he was alright in the the third wheel. i enjoyed paycheck, i even liked daredevil. it's poular to slag him off, but i think he's actually a fairly decent actor with the right material. give him a break!
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fuck if I knew.
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Mr_X, Daredevil is a guilty pleasure for me as well. Ben in Boiler Room, modestly I say this, reminds me of Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross. TooWhippy, Judge's own narrow urethra prevents him from finishing a third act... He's a squat and write type, he waits and waits and finally, it comes! Just as he is getting ready to hit the third act... so sad, MJ, time to wipe. please use your first two acts.
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He just isn't. He's gotten a lot of opportunity to get better too. A lot of practice. More than most actors will ever get. And he just never improved. He got worse if anything. His two best roles were Dazed and Confused and Chasing Amy. He seems like a really cool grounded guy - hard to be in Hollywood. But in the end it's about acting chops, and he doesn't have them. Still, the main characters in Judge's movies usually aren't the focus. They're just plot devices so he can sprinkle in all the more interesting supporting characters he's so great at creating. So that gives me hope for this movie.
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You may want to do that to Mila Kunis and who wouldnt but She is a cruise-bot. so after you do that do mila kunis. you may well be asked to see tom cruise. you'll be a tom cruise bnf. no escape for you!!!
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For a long time I could do nothing but despise him, though he had already proven he had at least a marginal talent with Good Will Hunting. His role in Hollywoodland showed he had some credibility as an actor, and then i thoroughly enjoyed Gone Baby Gone. Hopefully he focuses more on direction from now on; I'd like to see where he goes from GBG.
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Simply one of the most enjoyable movies ever. You can watch it over and over again and never get tired of it, much like Ed Wood or The Big Lebowski. Pure joy.
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Fuck all you naysaying cocklickers. Affleck is a solid actor as well, anyone who doesn't think so needs to fucking rent Hollywoodland. Also, Office Space is a stone cold fucking classic so I'll see this on opening weekend
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its not great but its almost so far out there at times, it becomes witty.
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About fucking time. Since this isn't with FOX, it may actually get treated properly.
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Seriously, I know she is doing voices on Family Guy and Robot Chicken, but she should really consider the career change for the benefit of many guys out there.
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because it blasted everything about corporate America, Americans and the Film industry. All the time maintaining the 'this could actually happen'. (well most of the time). I loved the hospital scene with the reception girl needing a keypad with pictures on it so she could enter the correct information.... much like a McD's cash register which we have now.
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or was the production never truly finished. I like the film, but it seems so rushed that I'm guessing it was either hacked to pieces before (heavy rewrites) or after shooting (in the editing).
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I'l never understand you. Go watch it again, you must've been high. Or not high enough.
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I think Ben should let his younger and more talented brother be the actor. Ben should stick with directing and producing.
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alright. It had its moments. but by the end, it had lost all its steam. It became forced. The stuff about the decline of culture as represented in the giant Ass on cinema screen is highly memorable. Americans drinking out of toilet bowls, is stretching it a it far. Bush has proved that an idiot backed up by a wealthy family can be president. Can a wrestler? or a former austrian bodybuilder turned actor turned governor.
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Socientolgist. Just a warning.
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Mike Judge is great- I hope that this see the light if day
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Something's wrong when your best performance consists of staring longingly at Brad Pitt for two and a half hours and having the worst country accent this side of Nicholas Cage in Con Air. I think there's still way too many people out there deluding themselves that The Assassination of Jesse James is a good film. I like pretentious films, and even I couldn't stand it.
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Love both of his movies, so I'll check this out unless I start hearing really bad things. Even then, plenty of people badmouth Idiocracy so I'm not sure I can trust people who diss Judge.
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All the guy wanted was a slice of Pecan Fuckin' Pie.
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Can't wait for the new season of King of the Hill!!!!
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my wife was tardeaded and she was a Violet.
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And yes, Mike Judge rocks.
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you know he lost his pee pee in a machine, right? And there will be suggestions made he was masturbating on it.
Also fart jokes, poop jokes, and other high brow oscar material. -
That's okay, I'll bang the alien spirits right out of her... With sex. If you know where I'm going with this, heh heh heh....
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There was a article on Scientology and the dangers of it in IRelands Sunday Independents Life Magazine and mila was pictured with Erika Christensen. They were pictured at a scientology charity bash with a pair of angel wings.
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How did this toupee'd turkey land another role? He sucks, he took credit for Good Will Hunting which was obviously all Damon, he should take his mis-shapen square toupee'd head and retire already!! Oh did I mention - HE SUCKS!!!!!!
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And don't say "Phantoms" yo. He's fucking cringeworthy in everything he does. Just fucking awful: Daredevil, Smokin' Aces, all the Kevin Smith schlock (yes, even Chasing Amy)--the guy is the cinematic equivalent to a hangover fart in an elevator.
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hmmm
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Everything he's been in for quite a while now has bombed. No one want's to see this guy on screen except for a few "Chasing Amy" fanboys who remember in the beginning when Kevin Smith's movies were enjoyable. They ain't anymore, they suck - but still not as badly as Affleck. But now that I think about it, Affleck should have played the horse's dick in Clerks 2.
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Good Will Hunting, Hollywoodland, Dogma, Changing Lanes. He's been in a lot of bad movies, but I think when you look at them (any of the Bay films, Daredevil, Forces of Nature, Gigli), no one else in the parts could've made them films better.
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How quaint. Grow a vocabulary, you stupid fucks.
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Best Ben Affleck movie "Dazed and Confused"and a great Steroids after school special in the late 80's
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And she can look hot when she tries too.
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the body part he loses is his penis
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It's overshadowed by the Simpsons and Family Guy, but it has been consistently funny for years. Hell, in recent years it has become funnier than either of its neighboring cartoons.
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LOVE him...thought I'd go for the optimistic post of the thread.
And I'm loving Kristen Wiig...she's one of very few people on SNL that are keeping the laughs up on the show. -
Or hit Judge in the ass again.
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I read somewhere because it was too anti-corporate, but I would be surprised if Fox was that observant about the message in their movies.
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Office Space is a serious contender for the funniest movie ever made. Beavis and Butthead was great and Kill of the Hill has the most consistent quality of any show ever made (not great, but very good).
So I was drinking with some friends explaining to them my theory that stupid people out-breed smart people and the human race is necessarily doomed and that's when someone turned my on to Idiocracy. I had been waiting for a movie like that forever. Perhaps it could have used a little more work, but it was the most believable sci-fi future I've ever seen depicted. Fuck Blade Runner! Idiocracy is, without a doubt, our destiny.
So fuck yeah, I'm gonna see this movie. I'll be all over his new show as well (first time I heard about it). This will be a great antidote to the half dozen or so Will Ferrell movies they make a year. I've never once in my life laughed at anything Ferrell has done. But Judge makes me laugh every time. -
... it was really, really bad.
I love Mike Judge, but Idiocracy was a fantastic idea ruined by godawful execution. The jarring, overly obvious narration was the biggest of many flaws. -
show that white people, no matter their IQ, are not breeding at all. Soon they will decline in real numbers as they are already declining relative to other ethnicities. I think this underlying reality may have scared away incredibly PC movie execs from promoting/distributing Idiocracy in any real terms.
PS I don't think I'm the first one to suggest this. For Idiocracy to reflect reality, 2500AD America would be almost completely devoid of whitey. In fact, Joe Bauers might be the only white guy walking around by that point. -
not exactly a hot trend in science these days.
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So far, Mike Judge has done no wrong in my opinion. "Office Space" is his magnum opus, but "Idiocracy" also has a lot going for it. There's a local steakhouse in my town that actually has "Big-Ass Fries!" on the menu, and with shit like "Flava of Love" and "I Love New York" and "The Hills" and every other shit reality show clogging up the airwaves, I'd say that "Idiocracy" is not so much satire as it is prophecy. I, for one, will be there for "Extract."
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Definitely checking this out.
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That's a pale shadow compared to Alec Baldwins raw acidic bile spat out in Glengarry Glen Ross (Mr Baldwin's pinnacle imo). Ben Affleck was to the late 90s early 00s what Kevin Costner was in the late 80s to mid 90s, pretty, mediocre acting ability (though Kevin has shown flashes of brilliance the rare times he's inspired - Mr Brooks and Open Range come to mind) with less of an ability than Costner to choose commercially successful scripts. Sadly, Ben Affleck's place high in the Hollywood food chain seems to now be occupied by the equally pretty and talent-deficient Josh Hartnett. For what it's worth, whoever Affleck's agent was should have been hurled out of a catapult and splattered onto the walls of the Masada for recommending him the Paycheck script.
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You know, I like Ben Affleck. Thought Sum of All Fears was pretty good. C'mon, give it up, his Boiler Room cameo was good. He was good in Hollywoodland. Gone, Baby, Gone was good until the stupid ending. I agree that he's only a so-so actor, but he's likable--he has everyman appeal. Nevertheless, I think JackRabbit is right that Open Range and Mr. Brooks are too shining beacons in Kevin Costner's ridiculous, self-aggrandizing career.
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I always goof too/two up.
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Office Space is clearly the goods. Idiocracy, well, I'm with some other folks. It's an interesting enough idea, and it has it's moments, but it's just too all over the place and kind of runs out of steam. Hope this one is good.
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has become far better than the Simpsons or Family Guy. KOTH is one of the best shows still on tv.
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Because if so, I'll see it, per her being smoking hot. If not ? Maybe video. Idiocracy was mildly entertaining - great premise, but patchy execution and NO production value. Should have been a lot better. As for Affleck, the guy gets undeservingly ragged (primarily thanks to the J-Lo era) ... he's very solid in a whole range of different stuff (Dogma, Good Will Hunting, etc), and his directing debut (Gone, Baby, Gone) was one of the best debut films I've ever seen.
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definitely put me in the pro-_idiocracy_ column. not a pitch perfect, "not a wasted scene or performance" instant masterpiece like _office space_, but one that wins out on the astonishingly negative critique of our dipshit-ocratic, consumerist lifestyle (a plotline/sensibility copped, somewhat, by a loveable l'il bucket of bolts named wall-e). "carl's jr. -- fuck you, i'm eating!" brilliant, and one of many likesame lines. also, credit this flick for finally revealing the ample charms / unusual hotness of ms. maya rudolph and, um, "the girls"...
and speaking of unusual hotness, good lord the divine kristen is all that, albeit absent, um, "the girls". whatev!! what she lacks in cup size she more than makes up for in overall looks, wiit (sorry), timing and, i bet, dirty talking when it counts. if tina fey is the thinking man's smart/funny erotic ideal, kristen wiig is the effing thinking man's tina fey! -
Anyone who thinks that Idiocracy had any funny moments must have confused the sensation of sand in their vaginas for a case of the giggles. That movie was HORRIBLE............steaming pile of turds that was so rancid that flies wouldn't even come near it.
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electrolytes? its what plants crave!
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