Graham (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} tao_) wrote,@ 2007-01-14 15:43:00 |
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Sorry to poop on the party
Just saw 'Idiocracy', by the wonderful Mike Judge, and...well, it ain't no 'King Of The Hill'. It ain't even 'Office Space' or, for that matter, 'Beavis and Butthead'.
It doesnae work, and I can see why it was shelved. No conspiracies here, the film is just half-baked. What bugs me is that there's nothing that couldn't have been fixed with a few rewrites. The idiotic future world it creates is riddled with so many logic holes, that you just never buy it. (For instance, if everyone's so dumb, who's building the machines?) Also, in the end, the film is not a lament for intelligence, but a lament for averageness... it's something of a sorry day when a major plot point turns on whether or not water makes crops grow. ("He was right! He was right!")
And you know what? The film is set too far in the future. Five hundred years is too long, especially when you consider who's running America right now. Ten years would have been fine, and would have made the humour more cutting, less slapdash.
A real shame--a bit more time behind the word processor and this could have been something special.
Just saw 'Idiocracy', by the wonderful Mike Judge, and...well, it ain't no 'King Of The Hill'. It ain't even 'Office Space' or, for that matter, 'Beavis and Butthead'.
It doesnae work, and I can see why it was shelved. No conspiracies here, the film is just half-baked. What bugs me is that there's nothing that couldn't have been fixed with a few rewrites. The idiotic future world it creates is riddled with so many logic holes, that you just never buy it. (For instance, if everyone's so dumb, who's building the machines?) Also, in the end, the film is not a lament for intelligence, but a lament for averageness... it's something of a sorry day when a major plot point turns on whether or not water makes crops grow. ("He was right! He was right!")
And you know what? The film is set too far in the future. Five hundred years is too long, especially when you consider who's running America right now. Ten years would have been fine, and would have made the humour more cutting, less slapdash.
A real shame--a bit more time behind the word processor and this could have been something special.
