hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 4:07 pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqH1N83KE9k

"everything that could go wrong, did."

"look at these horrible plastic shoes. they will never become popular."

"today it would be people staring at their phones."

i'm not going to sit through 3 hours of that.... never watched idiocracy. loved office space. intellectual elitism makes me uncomfortable. i try to avoid it.

I'm not gonna watch a Joe Rogan clip, but fyi the film is one hour and 24 minutes. It flies by. It's classic Mike Judge. Whatever you're on about with regards to "intellectual elitism" is way off the mark. I've seen the film maybe more than 5 times. You haven't seen it. If you're forming your opinion on what the film must be from a Joe Rogan clip, even with Mike Judge present, I think you're missing out. It's a great movie. So is 'Extract', btw. Also by Judge.

trey wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 6:17 pm

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 4:07 pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqH1N83KE9k

"everything that could go wrong, did."

"look at these horrible plastic shoes. they will never become popular."

"today it would be people staring at their phones."

i'm not going to sit through 3 hours of that.... never watched idiocracy. loved office space. intellectual elitism makes me uncomfortable. i try to avoid it.

I'm not gonna watch a Joe Rogan clip, but fyi the film is one hour and 24 minutes. It flies by. It's classic Mike Judge. Whatever you're on about with regards to "intellectual elitism" is way off the mark. I've seen the film maybe more than 5 times. You haven't seen it. If you're forming your opinion on what the film must be from a Joe Rogan clip, even with Mike Judge present, I think you're missing out. It's a great movie. So is 'Extract', btw. Also by Judge.

it's not the looooong podcast that turned me off of idiocracy (which i know is short, that's not my complaint either). i just don't like jokes that make you feel superior. i guess the kids call it punching down these days.

What it didn't predict was the Christo-libertarian-crypto-tech-fascist oligarchy, which FM hcain@OF aligns himself with.

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 6:31 pm i just don't like jokes that make you feel superior.

I can't imagine feeling superior watching this movie. It's like the Baseketball of dystopian future films.

zorg wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 12:36 pm

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 6:31 pm i just don't like jokes that make you feel superior.

I can't imagine feeling superior watching this movie. It's like the Baseketball of dystopian future films.

it's in the title! "look at these idiots. aren't you glad you aren't them?"

Krev wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 11:56 amWhat it didn't predict was the Christo-libertarian-crypto-tech-fascist oligarchy, which FM hcain@OF aligns himself with.

you forgot gambling degenerate.

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 4:18 pm

zorg wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 12:36 pm

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 6:31 pm i just don't like jokes that make you feel superior.

I can't imagine feeling superior watching this movie. It's like the Baseketball of dystopian future films.

it's in the title! "look at these idiots. aren't you glad you aren't them?"

I imagine you must be horribly offended by The Revenge of the Nerds as well. Idiocracy is not a Dziga Vertov Group movie, this is an sophomoric satire that accidentally predicted some previously laughable outcomes. From the creators other works, you can tell that he's staunchly sympathetic to the salt of the earth. On the other hand I think Blade Runner is a great and profound "dark future" movie, but not very good at predicting stuff.

zorg wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 9:09 am Idiocracy is not a Dziga Vertov Group movie, this is an sophomoric satire that accidentally predicted some previously laughable outcomes. From the creators other works, you can tell that he's staunchly sympathetic to the salt of the earth.

Yeah. Claiming Mike Judge is “punching down” is laughably dumb (and so is making bold claims about a movie you haven't seen).

maybe not punching down in a power dynamic way. he is giving the "idiots" power. i know what the movie is about. it's not hard to see the connection to eugenics when you break down what he's actually saying.
but i get that movies can be enjoyed on multiple levels. don't let me ruin it for you!

It's anti-eugenics, as the elite stop having children, and the dolts have many.

I would argue that no one has power, because everyone is basically living off of whatever came before them and they don't understand how anything works anymore. Everything is set to automation. Going to the doctor, for example, is just plugging something into your butt and mouth and the machine outputs an answer. Ordering a meal is just pressing a button with a picture on it. The only thing politicians do is decide who's going to be the next victim in the monster truck rally. Everyone else is a spectator. It isn't until Joe arrives that things change. He's the most average person by the standards of his natural time, but because he wakes up 500 years into the future, he's now a genius because everyone else has devolved intellectually. The country runs because the systems that were previously designed are still running, mostly. The movie is actually happening during an inflection point where those systems are breaking down.

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