Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck

Re:Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck by rybosome on Friday April 14, 2017 @04:20PM (#14116972)

You're missing a big aspect of it: what about the ownership corporations have over society? That has nothing to do with "dumb rednecks", and it's certainly not subtle. From Carl's Jr. taking custody of a woman's children, many people named after brands, the diatribe on Brawndo owning the FCC and FDA, the Costco law school, language ("Listen, I supersize with you but you broke the law"), etc.

I thought the main point of the movie was that people's intelligence deteriorated past the point to recognize that they had lost their agency. Mocking lowbrow culture was an aspect of the satire, but I didn't see it as the main point.

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Re:Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck by linkregister on Friday April 14, 2017 @05:55PM (#14117757)

Thanks, I had missed that aspect of the movie in my analysis. To me the eugenics premise overshadowed the things you mention.

Indeed, the fact that the entire economy is managed by automation and is outside of the control of actual people was an interesting look at the future.

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Re:Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck by rybosome on Saturday April 15, 2017 @02:16AM (#14119654)

Yeah, I agree that the beginning feels very eugenics-y, but it evolves into something that is in some ways a more crass, pessimistic version of Wall-E.

Of all the great filter scenarios, that's one of the less horrifying.

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Re:Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck by self-diversity on Friday April 14, 2017 @04:50PM (#14117232)

An apparent life lesson for Mike Judge: if you posit a bunch of "scary" stuff and associate it to stupidity, people will feel smart about being scared of the stuff even if it's implausibly ridiculous because it's in service of a comedy film.

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