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Our First Review Of The New Untitled Mike Judge Comedy!!

mike judge.. by nolan bautista	Nov 19th, 2004 02:48:48 AM
..im there,dude..cant go wrong w/ the father of beavis and butthead
Sounds sweet, love the concept. Hopefully this is more Office Sp by Tall_Boy	Nov 19th, 2004 02:53:57 AM
and that's all I have to say about that.
i remember seeing "office space" in the theater when it came out by microwavable?	Nov 19th, 2004 02:55:49 AM
. . . and it was okay. though Ron Livingston was fun to watch, I thought it was terribly mediocre. Then about 4 years passed and I saw it again and I thought it was brilliant, almost groundbreaking. Funny how that happens.
Slightly off topic... by Demon Disco	Nov 19th, 2004 03:18:37 AM
...but hasn't it been rumoured that FOX want to bring Futurama back, a la Family Guy? Here's hoping...
Anyone else enjoy the review, yet want to punch the reviewer? by HappyHamster	Nov 19th, 2004 03:35:27 AM
It was a well done review, highlighting the layout of the movie. The extra garbage I could have done without. Between the snide remarks about "lower-class culture" , the movie being unsuitable "for people who enjoy Beavis and Butthead", and his claim that "The higher your education, the more you will get out of this film" left me...annoyed....and violent. ;)
Office Space made me a fan for life by Rupee88	Nov 19th, 2004 04:02:25 AM
I hated B&B, but I'd check out any film he did, considering he did the masterpiece of Office Space.
microwavable by Rupee88	Nov 19th, 2004 04:03:54 AM
I agree completely..I saw this soon after it came out and it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I saw it a year or two later and I realized how brilliant it was..weird.
I miss Beavis & Butthead terribly so by Xeniten	Nov 19th, 2004 05:28:10 AM
I never thought I'd say that publically, but it's true. B&B is Mike's best work, far funnier than ANYTHING he's ever done. And that's saying something.
uh...huh-huh.. by joe brady	Nov 19th, 2004 05:39:42 AM
I love Beavis & Butthead, King of the Hill, and Office Space. This will be nothing less than genius.
"The planet has grown incredibly stupid, owing to intelligent co by Murray-Clack	Nov 19th, 2004 06:20:08 AM
aka. Americans This movie was CLEARLY inspired after y'all voted in George Dubya Bush for SECOND TIME! Why wait for this movie?? THE FUTURE IS NOW!
mya rudolph is a worthless human being by funnyboy	Nov 19th, 2004 08:21:12 AM
When your comedy legacy is "Time Travelling Scott Joplin", you know you're riding the Chris Kattan train to nowheresville. Even Chris Farley's decomposed corpse is funnier. Amy Poehler - who is not funny - is funnier. Horatio Sans - who is not funny - is funnier. Cripples are funnier. Dog piles are funnier. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I hope Mya Rudolph gets crabs. And that she's not funny, and that not even Mike Judge can make her funny.
instant hit. by Judge Briggs	Nov 19th, 2004 09:19:05 AM
fuck Charmed.
Office Space is brillant... by Lost Skeleton	Nov 19th, 2004 09:43:11 AM
...and a great indictment on corporate culture (my old job was sooo Office Space!) Anyway, I beleive this movie will hit a similar nerve. I am disappointed that Mya doesn't do much in this because she is, by far, the best thing on SNL.
The best joke here... by Batutta	Nov 19th, 2004 10:07:52 AM
...is that the future depicted by Mike Judge is already upon us.
Mya Rudolph is never amusing by JackDonkey	Nov 19th, 2004 10:28:55 AM
nor does she look good
Mya Rudolph and Amy Poelher are ruining SNL by JackDonkey	Nov 19th, 2004 10:34:08 AM
If they both get the flu one week and the show goes on without it will be the funniest SNL of the year without question. Also I think Tina Fey has the female equivilant of a boner for the two, so she's a reason for the show sucking too then.
"Welcome..to the world of tomorrrrroooowww!" by Osmosis Jones	Nov 19th, 2004 10:41:00 AM
I'll just stay home and watch my Futurama DVDs, thank you.
Definite Must See by Itchy	Nov 19th, 2004 11:04:30 AM
I don't know how I missed it, but I finally got around to watching Office Space on cable about three months ago. That movie is just classic. From the meeting with the "Bobs", to the Michael Bolton is the one that sucks scene ... just classic. I became an instant fan of Lost when Terry O'Quinn had the flashback scene with his boss asking him where the TPS reports were.
Could be mildly amusing... by Childe Roland	Nov 19th, 2004 11:09:43 AM
...but the premise is not at all fresh, so he'll have to pull some Office-Space-style magic where nuance is concerned to make this this worth buying (it's already not the sort of thing I'd go out of my way to see in the theater).
It's not a "Futurama" ripoff... by Christopher3	Nov 19th, 2004 11:31:11 AM
Judge removed all references to 3001. Why do I always think that Jeremy Piven is the lead in this one?
"The higher your education, the more you will get out of this fi by TimBenzedrine	Nov 19th, 2004 11:32:48 AM
Then it's doomed. Americans distrust any and all public demonstrations of intelligence, be it in their television programs, movies, or God forbid, their politicians.
What this movie is "clearly" inspired by.... by williammunny	Nov 19th, 2004 12:08:42 PM
Before I say anything I just want to make it clear that I like Judge, and I am not critcizing him. Office Space is one of the funniest movies ever made, and King of the Hill is a great show. But, the set up of this movie is lifted, wholesale, from CM Kornbluth's story The Marching Morons. (Synopsis: In this classic story, written in 1951, a ruthless 20th century real-estate hustler named Honest John Barlow is put into hibernation and wakes in the far future. Over-breeding by low-IQ types has dragged America down to a point at which the small cadre of intellectually capable technicians and administrators can hardly keep things going. They are being overwhelmed by the marching morons. The world can only be saved by Barlow's good old 20th century greed.) Honest John's Solution is to set up an advertising campaign to convince all the stupid people that they want to go to Venus. Borrowing an idea from Hitler, once the first few batches of morons go to their deaths on Venus, the government sends back phony postcards to their relatives saying how great Venus is and how they should come to. It seems that Judge has veered a bit from the original story, but the set up is pretty much the same. I am surpised that nobody has mentioned this in any of the write-ups of the movie I have seen. So before people go off about what Judge is "clearly" saying, at least realize that this isn't even his premise. As for those that want to find political meaning in all this, Culture, American and otherwise, is being dumbed down. Its not the result of a single President or even a party. The political classes, left,right and center, all benefit from an uneducated and unengaged electorate. Stop all the left and right finger pointing and educate yourselves. Both sides of the politcal spectrum have sold out to corporations and special interests, just different ones. Stop all the left right nonsense, and look beyond mindless allegiance to either party. Your being screwed, and it doesn't matter who is in power, both parties sell out to the rich and the corporations.
theory on why Office Space didn't do great initially and why Bea by George Newman	Nov 19th, 2004 12:18:15 PM
I think it has become a classic now, not only because its funny, but also because the Y2K bug has passed, and we can all now understand it, and how Meaningless all of their jobs were!!.....XENITEN, King of the Hill and Office Space are both LIGHT YEARS ahead of Beavis and Butthead. Beavis and Butthead were mediocre at best. Just thinking back now to all the 'funny' things I laughed at on the show when I was younger, I see how childish and stupid all of the humor was.. Beavis said "I am Cornholio!" and we giggled, or rolled around laughing. It's the same kind of reaction that saying 'poop' and 'penis' got out of us. It's immature. That is what 7 and 8 year-olds laughed at. My brother, friends and I would be laughing our heads off saying, "Well you're a poopy head! HAHAHAHAHAHA," retorting with "You're a poopy-FACE, HAHAHAHA"... "I'm Cornholio! HAHAHAHAHA"........Do you see what I'm getting at?
If this is a ripoff of Futurama, then Futurama is a ripoff of Sl by Demosthenes2	Nov 19th, 2004 12:31:51 PM
Just saying.
I Love the Donatella versace skits... by BigTuna	Nov 19th, 2004 12:54:34 PM
I find Mya funny and I find her hot, so shut it! And yes, Office Space is very underrated.
mya rudolph makes me not want to have kids. by MiltonWaddams	Nov 19th, 2004 01:36:14 PM
she is a terrible person. ugh.
WHO NEEDS A TIME MACHINE WHEN YOU HAVE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY? by bushsux	Nov 19th, 2004 01:39:37 PM
Mike Judge is a liberal, tree-hugging dog-loving hippie elitist and shame on him for daring to insult dumb people. He's from the South and so am I so I can see his frustration with the backwards ideals grasping our region. This is certainly one of those movies that pretends to be about the future but is really about our present. 59 million Americans just voted to re-elect one of the most inept presidents this country has ever had and yet if you say anything negative about this, you're an elitist. Too bad 56 million Americans voted for John Kerry. Those 56 million people are elitists who are dangerous to our country.
"Doctor" Moriarty... by SalvatoreGravano	Nov 19th, 2004 01:45:43 PM
"Mister Green", your lack of familiarity with certain written classics is pathetic.
HappyHamster says "Anyone else want to punch the reviewer?" by eraser_x	Nov 19th, 2004 01:55:57 PM
Hey, Happy, thanks for showing how people with "lower-class culture" talk! ;-) Violence is the first and best answer for everything!
It's "MAYA RUDOLPH"! by sheltrk	Nov 19th, 2004 02:14:53 PM
Not "Mya". I think she's funny on SNL. Not sure about this movie, though. Sounds like it will either be hilarious, or awful.
Mr. Green sounds like a dip shit... by Louis P.	Nov 19th, 2004 03:04:05 PM
The whole "fans of B&B wont get this movie" is a ridiculious statement. I like B&B and "Office Space" (which I saw twice in theaters). Who is to say what a person would like based on taste or intelligence? Basically this guy is saying the stupid (ie B&B fans) just wouldn't understand sutle humor and only stupid people watch(ed) B&B. I was talking to a co-worker just this week about "Beavis & Butt-head" (the "testies, testies, one, two... three!?!?!" line in particular). We both agreed it was an easy laugh but what made it so brilliant is that no one before that ever thought to put the line in anything. You can say that about the shows entire run. Sure it's sophmoric humor but it was all very original. "Office Space" has a much more observational sense of humor but I find the film equally hysterical. Basically, humor often comes out of experience not education. If you can identify with the humor, you can probably laugh at it as well.
I love Sleeper. I love Futurama. I love futuristic movies. I lov by Mr Brownstone	Nov 19th, 2004 03:22:40 PM
I guess I will love this.
I'd prefer Judge's OTHER new project... by Super Person	Nov 19th, 2004 03:24:12 PM
"Super Person: God Among Men"... it should be a great show...
there aren't enough hillbillies in movies these days by vicious_bastard	Nov 19th, 2004 03:30:12 PM
Let's not get started on things going over people's heads. B+B is SO cleverly written. Everything Judge does is. This movie sounds great.
i just read a study that showed sugar wasn't supposed to cause h by ScaryJim	Nov 19th, 2004 03:37:11 PM
THIS REVIEWER SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS!!!! i'd really like to slap the reviewer too, there was a time when satire didn't have it's entire basis in the current political climate and B and B was an excellent parody of youth today! this film will be totally over my head though, i shouldn't bother because i'm not sure if my 'class ranking ' is high enough and you know I don't wanna be like uhhhh wasting my money on listening to jokes i'm not gonna get ..and stuff . stupid dumbass.
pots and kettles by Edward R Rooney	Nov 19th, 2004 04:00:21 PM
"Mr Green" is guilty of the very same ignorance he accuses B&B of harnessing. As mentioned already in this talk back B&B was some of the finest satire of its time. Those who love pop culture routinely feasted on the inside jokes and seemingly arbitrary (but in reality scathing) comments the two handed down, typically while watching videos. Pull your head out of your Cornholio, Green.
LEN titi kaka! by ScaryJim	Nov 19th, 2004 04:25:18 PM
course this would be so much more fun if the cockknocker would show up here and try and defend his comments
Yea! Mike Judge!!! Looking forward to this... by Russman	Nov 19th, 2004 05:29:35 PM
and who fucking cares if this resembles Futurama or Sleeper - as long as it's entertaining and isn't a waste of my $10.
Ripoffs by williammunny	Nov 19th, 2004 07:34:01 PM
I always love it when someone attacks something for being a ripoff of the movie or TV show they like, without realizing that their show is in fact a ripoff of something else. Futurama didn't invent the "person travelling forward in time" storyline. Neither did Sleeper. I don't think Kornbluth did either. In some ways is doesn't really matter, it's what each adaptation of the story does with it. There are only something like 50 basic story plotlines anyway, everything is just a version of those basic stories. I think Judge has a great eye for satire. I think Office Space was a brilliant send up of corporate culture, both the cubicle style and the stupid TGI Friday's style, with a nice cameo by Judge himself. I am sure this movie will be funny, wherever he mined the basics of the story from.
No! I say it's a rip-off of LATE FOR DINNER http://www.imdb.com by FrankDrebin	Nov 19th, 2004 11:36:49 PM
Although the "Carl's Jr." thing sounds like a rip-off of the "Taco Bell" thing from DEMOLITION MAN.
Mike Judge sux by WONKABAR	Nov 20th, 2004 12:09:42 AM

C'mere Boy! fetch me some lemonade while I watch over my PLANTat by AshesOfDonnie	Nov 20th, 2004 01:16:51 AM
look funnny though. Mike Judge never dissapoints. but i do have my second thoughts about Mya Rudolph. at least they didnt use bizzarro freak Rachel Dratch!!!
I remember reading the script to this about 2 years ago. I never by TheGinger Twit	Nov 20th, 2004 04:47:59 AM
Wow, trippy spin out duuude.
futurama sucks by MiltonWaddams	Nov 20th, 2004 10:56:16 AM
it's just not funny. at all. i really don't understand why people watch or like that show.

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