i swear i wanted this one to be more simple visually but mister copyright claim said no

Years later and I feel like Idiocracy is cope. Wanting to believe the deterioration of the world is caused by stupidity and not actively malicious, aparthic, bigotted, and/or greedy people.

the thing I hate most about idiocracy is how many people call it "scarily accurate" except the in universe president of the united states recognized that he is no where near a perfect being and had the humility to step down and listen to someone smarter than him and holy fucking shit if our modern dystopia could be so kind.

The thing that always baffles me is Terry Crews. I mean, all showboating aside, he evinces some clear leadership skills, and admits when he needs help. If anything he's better than what we've got now.

It also has the general ''its funny because person is mentally deficient/dysfunctional'' punchline told to you over and over again which definitely doesn't get tiring at all and is definitely not punching down others to feel superior masqueraded as ''just a joke'', but this is something applicable to most 2000s adult comedies.

The point made at 10:18 isn’t just correct, it’s an understatement. I hated/enjoyed Idiocracy since its original release in part because the movie’s writers inadvertently attack themselves. They insist that the problems of the future are caused by genetic stupidity - a clear and unmistakeable eugenicist canard - but then, within the plot of the film and even in the *text* of the narrative that relies on eugenics, they make it clear that all of the problems of the future are caused by the “smart” people of the past. Not 70%, not 80%, literally all. Future infrastructre is built on extremely durable and sophisticated technology, all built around efficiency and convenience. Despite poor maintenence, it works well enough generation after generation. Who built that? Not present-day Americans. Basic checkup medical devices are so sophisticated that laymen can manage them. Who built those? Not present-day Americans. The political system has been utterly corrupted, as the video points out. Who created that system? Not present-day Americans. There are massive piles of trash everyplace. Who created that environmental crisis? Not present-day Americans. And let’s not forget the eugenics narration at start. The movie claims that smart people (particularly scientists) couldn’t solve the problems of growing stupidity. . . despite the fact that it was all so obvious that said stupidity is the basis for lowbrow humor throughout the film. If they couldn’t tackle what was an obvious issue from the viewer’s perspective and instead created the world of the future, then . . . present-day and past humans are a bunch of dumbasses. On top of this, Idiocracy’s future political society is objectively less disfunctional than ours. Let’s review the plot: • The country faces a problem created by political actors that pre-date the present-day administration. • The President hires a person to solve this problem, based on merit, with no recourse to self-serving political favors. • The President holds that person accountable for his job performance (!!) based on the laws and customs of the day. . . which are utterly barbaric, but the President didn’t create them. • But the new hire succeeds and is not only rewarded by having his deal with the President honored, he achieves political office based on demonstrated merit (!!). Read that last bit again. We’re told, over and over, as a constant refrain, that the people of Idiocracy are idiots, and that the leaders are idiots, but the President and the majority of the population both evaluated a political actor based on objective merit and placed him in high office as a result. That’s something that our system, run by “smart people,” cannot do. Not just fails to do, but is designed to not do. Idiocracy presents itself as a dystopia to be shunned by the present-day political establishment, but it portrays a utopia burdened by the malice and garbage created by the present-day political establishment. The problem with Idiocracy isn’t its nihilism; it’s that its nihilism is sent through a very specific cultural lens, that being the well-off white guy in the U.S. This nihilism requires one to ignore the moral failures that create social ills and dismiss them as intellectual failures. We don’t have our present-day problems because of immorality in politics manifested as rightwing policies and institutions; we don’t have politicians relying on white supremacy and electoral fraud; we don’t have a rightwing media establishment employing a Woke Branding while pushing for policies of mass theft, embezzlement, murder, protection of rapists, and racist institutions; we don’t have an anti-labor, anti-small business plutocracy acting as a worldwide, lower-case-“c” conspiracy against human interests. No. We have dumb-dumbs *on* *the* *bottom* the social scale that make everything dumb. Don’t blame your leadership, even though they have literally all of the responsibility for these problems. If this sounds a lot like reactionaries, including white supremacists, telling you not to blame their cult leaders who run the economy for the economy, but to instead blame a scapegoat, that’s because you’re hearing the same grift. This is why South Park was crapped on back when it was relevant. When faced with the actual causes of politically-generated suffering, the creators rebelled from their own intellects because the source of those problems makes them feel bad about themselves. Seth McFarlane has gotten similar criticism (anyone remember his Rush Limbaugh episode?). People who advocate for mass-murder are morally respectable, but the guy who cut you off in traffic is a degenerate. It’s through this chauvanism that the nihilism of the film is processed, leading to both its imbecilic maliciousness and its contradictions. It wants to attack political corruption and present-day political policies because its creators know, intellectually, that those are bad, but it can’t do that and still let the writers attack their neighbors and thereby Get Their Smug On. The creators sacrifice the former in order to do the latter, and the result is a hot mess that makes the creators look far dumber than the people they lampoon - as well as immoral. On top of this, the film in its explicit text tries to tell us that the smart white guy is good, but then it craps itself when it simultaneously makes that guy responsible for literally all of the world’s ills (alongside smart white women). It fails, unintentionally, for the same logical reason why white supremacist logic fails: if you’re so much better than other demographics, why not demonstrate that (without resort to immoral policies)? The superiority of “smart” people in the film is asserted, but it is never delivered in the text. Instead, the “smart” people drive the country, and/or planet, into the ground for the sake of short-term personal and social satisfaction and literally - literally - leave an ocean of their own g0dd@mn garbage for their children to suffer through.

"As people eventually come to understand that the strict ability to control your mouth has no direct correlation with self-awareness or inner complexity-" is such a banger line. This applies in so many contexts where so much of our judgement is based on face-value perceptions.

You said "I win" and you didn't follow it up with a "bye-bye". Disgusting.

hmm, seems like you're overthinking it. it's just a movie, after all (also I would love to see the reaction of anyone involved in the protest against margaret thatcher shutting down the mines watching the "dumb angry mobs" riot because they all just suddenly lost their livelihoods)

Went from "dumb people lol" to phrenology like that

I never bothered to think about the movie much (or think at all) but it always struck me as a fantasy for people with self-proclaimed above average intelligence who say most people are dumb and we shouldn't allow them to vote etc

“Just a trick to get you to watch Sorry To Bother You” The best tricks are the ones where everyone benefits while having a laugh.

I saw Idiocracy in the theaters because it was being flushed by Fox because it made fun of Fox news. I had to insist to the theater they were in fact playing it and after they got a manger I got to see it. I did at the time laugh at the shallow jokes and during the bush admin it was easy to fall into the "I'm surrounded by idiots" feeling. When I left the theater I was left with the whole "Well intelligence doesn't work that way." and the vague eugenics feel Really over the years the film has fallen lower in my feelings due to the way people throw around the words IQ. Really this wasn't a left leaning film it was a very centrist film much in the way South Park falls into that "Enlightened Centrist" realm.

Also the introductory sequence of the movie seems to suggest that higher IQ people are less capable of cooperating than lower IQ people, since the high IQ couple is still hung up on petty things while the lower IQ couple manages to stay together in way worse condition (which, according to the movie, they may have brought upon themselves, but that's not the point). In a hostile environment, the ability to cooperate is essential for survival: if you and the rest of your group can't help each other, you will die tomorrow. In fact, I'd say that is a much more essential trait than intelligence, which helps you improve your condition in the long run. So yeah, if high IQ people were as the intro showed, they would have been culled by natural selection at a much greater rate than low IQ people, and it would be them that can only exist thanks to natural selection being removed. The fact that the movie uses the phrase "Natural selection rewards the strongest, fastest, smartest" is a telling sign. That's how natural selection is taught in middle school. Actually scratch that. When I went to middle school (a long time ago), the teachers made an effort to offer us a significantly more nuanced take than that. I mean, I get it, it's just a movie, but it's so weird because it didn't even NEED this stupid eugenics angle. It could have simply went with "in the future people are dumb because consumerism" angle, which yeah, is a bit cliché, but also not so stupid.

Dunning-Kruger pt II: “Everyone is stupid except me!”

Please don’t make me look at negative-exposure clips anymor

I always found things deeply misanthropic that blame the worst nature of the populace as the cause of their own misfortune to be almost akin to victim blaming someone in a toxic relationship. It's almost like the well established power structures abuse the worse parts of us to perpetuate themselves and then blame us for being awful.

This movie feels like it helped pave the way for Rick and Morty's "dumb people are good, smart people are cruel and miserable bastards who are always right" philosophy.

I can't believe she didn't mention that Terry Crews was also in Sorry to Bother You. Great video!

Honestly, I want more videos where the reviewer suggests a piece of art that does what the subject matter is trying to do better.

On the subject of Mike Judge, I've always thought Office Space kind of squandered some of it's potential by never addressing that banal office culture never HAD to be a thing. Coincidentally, that's something Sorry To Bother You's also more introspective about.

I remember a friend showing me Idiocracy. He was really, really hyped to show me and I went and rented it for us. I ended up absolutely hating it. I didn’t even really know why I hated it at the time. Something about it just innately frustrated and upset me. As someone with undiagnosed autism and a history of being treated like I’m dumb, strange or otherwise lesser, the film felt like it was punching down at people like me. The eugenics angle at the beginning of the film wasn’t lost on me, but I figured I was just thinking too hard about it and decided this was something I needed to turn my brain off to enjoy. But the movie just got worse to me. Look, I can enjoy dumb humor. I can enjoy offensive jokes. I can’t help that I still laugh at peepeepoopoo and the VERY cringe joke that I am a furry that desperately tries to convince you I am not a sexual deviant while there’s literally BDSM gear on my nightstand. But a whole movie of nothing but dumb/offensive humor and telling me I theoretically would suck if I were in this universe gets grating pretty quickly.

Idocracy feels like a giant missed opportunity. It could've been an interesting cautionary tale about how corporations try to manipulate and deceive people, and the danger that can come from trusting such corporations. But instead it feels like a movie made by hypocritical capitalists who decided the movie's premise was gonna be based in eugenics with the punchline being "haha stupid people funny"

Honestly at some point it's important to mature a bit and realize that generally people aren't all that bad - nor is the world. There aren't just people that do bad things - there are people that do good things. Negativity bias just makes people feel like everyone's bad. Getting $10 doesn't feel as good as losing $10 feels bad after all.

i really appreciate the 'compare & contrast with a second movie you'd actually recommend' bit, because the "arggh, it could have been good!" feeling really eats me up inside when thinking abt poorly-executed movies

I think idiocracy is an incredibly shallow movie that doesnt think deep enough about what its saying, which is very ironic

Calling it misanthropic I think is being generous. Whenever I see media that seeks to portray the masses of people or the public at large in a way that shows them to be unfit to hold political power, I just tend to call that media anti-democratic.

Yay! Seemingly-innocent-comedies-turning-out-to-be-about-eugenics is my favorite subject!

I was the only person in my family who didn't like this movie when it came out in my teens. As a comedy, as a sci fi, as social commentary - on every level, it's just entirely unpleasant. It appealed way too much to the neolib fantasy that the problems of economic inequality are largely the result of individual choices or failings on the part of the very people who are harmed by those problems. Y'know, the same fantasy that is killing us all as we speak. Sorry To Bother You is loads better in every dimension. Perfect comparison. Brava.

I just finished watching the movie about 30 minutes ago, and before I start the video I'd just like to say that the line, "After several hours, Joe finally gave up on logic and reason, and simply told the cabinet that he could talk to plants and that they wanted water." Absolutely made me lose my shit. That is all.

I already watched Sorry To Bother You, so I win more. Ha.

I would like point out that the uncomfortably close proximity between genetic engineering and eugenics is there, but genetic engineering isn't (generally) a euphemism or interchangeable. In transhumanist circles, especially leftist ones, it's a given rule of etiquette that you've got to bring a lot of nuance and walk on eggshells when talking about genetic engineering or the eugenicists will try and hijack your points. It's like how punks have to weed out fascists and Marxists have to weed out tankies. Editing in a great example from Citizen Cyborg by James Hughes: Chapter 4 specifically deals with intelligence and genetics. It opens talking about Francis Galton founding the concept of eugenics and predicting a decline in intelligence since "lower classes and non-white races, who they believed to be less intelligent, had higher birthrates." A lot like the opening to Idiocrarcy. But it immediately goes into detail of how the opposite has been happening and intelligence has been rising, a phenomenon dubbed the Flynn Effect. "There is no widely accepted explanation for the Flynn Effect, but the causes are assumed to be entirely environmental." It lists some contributing environmental factors then goes into how this creates a systemic feedback loop with poverty. Only then it gets into the genetic side, citing research from a UVA professor that saw genetic factors having very little influence to poor kids' intelligence but a higher influence on the intelligence of affluent kids, essentially meaning that genetics are largely irrelevant until environmental factors have been standardized for everyone. But even then it notes there's an inevitable biological threshold for human intelligence that technology and medicine can surpass. It's an excellent turnaround of framing: genetic engineering is not a necessary response to some form of degradation, but an enhancement to the limitations we'll eventually hit *after* standardizing environmental factors.

The movie is based on a short story. The March of the Morons or The Marching Morons. It was more about the collapse of civilization than the genetics of humans. The short story was much better than the movie. In the original story, the elite ran the world and brought "Joe" out of the freezer to start a revolution.

I‘m very late to the party I know. I‘ve watched this essay for the firs time, when it came out. I‘m glad that you focused on the opening sequence so much, because, I feel like, all of the failings of „Idiocracy“ basically hinge on it‘s explanation of the rise of „stupidity“. If the idiocy in „Idiocracy“ had been painted as a result of the system people had to live and participate in, it would‘ve been a (maybe even good) political satire. The way it is though, it isn‘t even a *political* satire at all. The way it is, it just gives off the vibe of 90s/2000s edgy comedy for kinda pretentious college-boys.

"Intelligence" is heritable, but only because poverty is heritable. The reason poorer people tend to be less educated and thus "less intelligent" is because they have less resources by which to support themselves and to support the education of their children. It can be difficult to educate and raise children when both parents need to work and thus won't be able to ensure their child goes to school and gets their school work done and advocate for them in school. Furthermore the stresses of poverty are known to have a detrimental effect on education. When children are thinking: "where am I going to sleep tonight, will I be able to eat tonight?" they won't be able to focus on their studies no matter how hard they try. Furthermore they may even have to divide their times between studying and caring and looking after their younger siblings. They may eventually be forced to drop out of school or be unable to attend college so that they can work and help to support their families. But with only a high school education they will only be able to get low paying jobs leaving them mired in the exact same poverty that plagued their parents. Thus the solution to this problem is not to control the sexuality of the poor but instead to ensure that the basic needs of the poor are met. If the poor do not need to worry about paying rent, buying food, and pay for basic utilities because those are provided through their taxes and they are paid a livable wage they will be able to improve themselves and their communities. Leading to a more educated and prosperous population. The problem with this solution is that it will cost the ultra wealthy their army of unskilled laborers whose surplus labor they can exploit. It also leads to a large class of people who can devote more time to question social systems challenge the authority of traditional elites. It's much more profitable to cull the poor and control their reproductive rates than to uplift them out of poverty.

One time me and my dad were discussing Idiocracy and I said “it’s just eugenics!” and he responded with “what’s that?” I cannot make this shit up

Yeah, it’s sad when people relate any speech predicaments with low intelligence.

The visuals for this were just aggghhhhh, but it’s still a great video Oh, it’s for a copyright claims, damn

i think this movie is pretty coherent in its passive nihilism, especially with the corporate takeover towards the end of the movie. the company does a corrupt thing, initially because the people in power see how it benefits them, then later because the people in power are too stupid to see how it solves their crisis. the average intelligence protag then sees the simple solution, without realizing the broader macroeconomic concerns that are usually the job of a team of trained professionals to track. just like the people who used to be in power, he uses naive arguments like "i can talk to plants" to justify gaining power and later "the plants grew!" to justify the unemployment caused by his actions, and thus saves himself and allows him to restore the bourgeois world he misses. the movie was nihilistic from the start, coldly describing disgenic phenomena that are naively plausible, mockingly caricaturing the shallow consumerist world we live in now, and coldly describing corporate takeover of the government. i dont think the movie is advocating for eugenics or for corporate responsibility, the movie was advocating for seeing it all as an absurd joke, possibly at the expense of impaired people. now that still means the movie is at best coping for nihilists and at worst circle-jerking for misanthropists, but i do think it does either of these things relatively coherently. now enabling nihilism and misanthropy is certainly aesthetically/spiritually problematic, and perpetuating "foreign accent = dumb" "bad with words = dumb" is rewarding lack of empathy, so for those points I like this critique, but my points still stand. The movie is still morally bad, just coherent in its badness.

everyone is stupid except of me, the movie

It is a bit disturbing how so many people either don't notice the eugenics subtext (despite how brazen it is) or are unable to reconcile it.

The much darker story, The Marching Morons by C. M. Kornbluth is supposedly the inspiration for idiocracy. The book has a clearly eugenic meaning, the film ... not so much. The film is not a left wing dystopian fairy tale but a liberal one I think based upon highly subjective view of their superiority.

Haven’t even seen this movie but I’m just going to assume President Terry Crews is the only un-ironically worthwhile thing here.

My dad (who funnily enough is a self-described socialist) absolutely LOVES this movie, and I just never really could. I found it a really dumb concept and thought it became like the 21st century movie equivalent of 1984 - in the sense that people who didn't understand the source material will always use it as a point to prove that the other side is bad.

I don't think the protest at the end was supposed to represent labour protest. I read it more as a metaphor for how masses could be mislead into protesting against their own interests (Like we're seeing right now with everyone protesting to reopen businesses during an epidemic rather than demanding welfare, fairer pay or UBI). It is an interesting way to interpret it, but I don't see it that way.

That's because "Freddy Got Fingered" is high art and you can't change my mind.

I don’t remember subscribing to this channel but I’m so glad I did, very interesting video and a well constructed critique!

sorry to bother you is so good. laughed out loud when you said you didn't spoil it.

The ending line "not bad for an average Joe", is clearly giving the message that you don't need to be some kind of genius to make positive change. Just realize the importance of education and striving for knowledge, something slowly being lost in a Capitalist consumer culture that deliberately dumbs us down to produce obedient drones. Go ahead and criticize the misanthropic themes if you want, at least you correctly identify those. But racist? Just as many white people (if not more) are depicted as being stupid as other races. so by racial measures the movie offended with equal opportunity. But as far as the opening goes, it's using exaggerated American stereotypes of "stupid" and "smart" people for the satire and has little resemblance to reality. You took clear silliness seriously.

Can I just say that I appreciate that at the end of this review it turned out that you weren't just shiting on a piece of media, but rather shiting on it and then proposing a solution to said problems with an example of the same concept better executed. That put you miles above a lot of KZfaq videos doing hot takes on stuff like this. That said, a misanthropic view of society is very much a consistent undercurrent in Mike judge's work. From the very first Milton short and frog baseball all the way up to Silicon Valley. You really get the impression that Mike Judge really just thinks people, in general, are complete garbage by default.

The only thing I liked about that movie is the designs for buildings and tech modeled after fast food restaurants and preschool toys

The way he solves the agricultural crisis by telling the future leaders that he can talk to plants always gets a rise out of me. I wonder if I can make people care about the environment a little more if I said I can talk to plants.

Would have mentioned average intelligence has rose up historically, like a middle school kid that grew up with Bill Nye and understand the importance of hygiene would be smarter that a peasant back at the middle ages

Anyone tired of people comparing everything Idiocracy. I swear it's the new 1984

I loved idiocracy when I was, 13, and have sense not really cared for it. This summed up a lot of latent feelings I had about it, and the parallels to Sorry to Bother You are so glaringly obvious I can’t believe I never made the connection. now I know why I like STBY so much more

Thank you. I've been desperately wanting more people to recognize this for so long.

Honestly, this is one of my favorite movies, but I've been learning more about its connections with modern eugenics history, and although I still enjoy it, I can't really view it in the same way anymore . For all of the times I've watched it, I always interpreted the opening three-minute sequence as a lament over the nurture/environmental/behavior factors passed down to kids rather than genetics. It was also an extreme caricature of two cultural stereotypes, guilty of dehumanizing and oversimplifying both the "responsible, educated, upper-class" and the "hot-blooded, uneducated, lower-class" tropes for comedic effect (clearly, the latter of the two families gets the shorter end of the stick in its depiction). Ultimately, I think this is a cultural critique and clearly silly premise used to vent anxieties about a cultural majority losing interest in education, logic, ethics, courtesy, healthy social connections, personal growth, and so on, because it overvalues automated services, entertainment, and instant gratification. To this end, I think it mostly works, but there's an obvious flaw. Idiocracy emphasizes the LOSS of ethnocentric, elitist culture and shows us a society that is DEFINED BY that loss rather than just DIFFERENT from that culture, sporting positive and negative features. It's not even close to a realistic scenario because it's a film overflowing with hyperbole, but I don't realistic worldbuilding was Mike Judge & co.'s goal in this film. It bears almost no resemblance to historical, linguistic, or cultural developments in the way its setting and society function. For the most part, I think this was a toilet-humor daydream about exploring an "idiot" dystopia and as well as an exaggerated imagining of people failing to think critically on a large scale. I like what you've done here--after all, social darwinism and eugenics theories throughout the last couple centuries were SO pervasive, appealing, and dangerous that we still see consequences of them today. "Survival of the fittest" sounds like a common-sense statement at first, but it quickly becomes dark when considering that the traits defining what was "fittest" were typically devised by those seeking to maximize their OWN worth through cultural elitism and racial superiority over others scapegoated as "unfit." Eugenics was popularized by Enlightenment thinkers and appealed to elitists and people of lower status alike--the narrative was so appealing that all of the heinous implications and consequences that go along with eugenics crept into people's ethical values and formed a new, normal consciousness. SO, in entertainment media like Idiocracy, it's important to pay attention to subject material that could skew as an endorsement of eugenics hiding under a comedy romp.

why do the movie be looking like when you have a laptop screen at a 40 degree angle and you try to look at it

As frustrating as stupidity is, malice and greed are the bigger issue

I never liked the idea that, in the future, people just got dumber. It just seemed too unbelievable to me. There's no golden age to return to. The future is always a maybe, maybe good if we make it that way, maybe bad if we don't (or if we make it that way), but there is no golden past to return to. IT NEVER REALLY HAPPENED.

Honestly just use stills instead of inverting the colours, I can't watch this

Oh my gosh! A Patricia Taxxon video essay about politics and pop culture?? Why is this exactly what I didn't know I needed??

Malthus: the movie

REMEMBER, IT IS A SATIRE

Intelligence is genetic to a degree, but like most things it also has a huge environmental factor. I’ve heard gifted children can have stunted growth if they aren’t allowed to flourish at their own pace but instead are forced to adhere to the school system. It’s like a seed, not every seed can grow into the same plant, but no matter what kind of plant emerges it’s still up to us to grow it into the best version of its kind it can be.

Ok maybe it's just me but Joe's journey kinda felt like it had elements of the "Hero's Journey" archetype to show that he needed to survive trials and learn how to communicate on the level of the people he's destined to lead (I suppose you could call Frito a mentor?). Hell, considering his "rebirth" after the arena and the way he pretended to talk to plants that miraculously grew visibly in just two days... and he marries an "artist"... Yeah Christ allegory as well, why not. That was fun. Good video.

I know that it's probably to avoid copyright but the negative coloring really gives me headaches. I don't think I can watch this one. Sorry Ms. Taxxon

I've had sorry to bother you on my list for several months now, but after this I'm moving it to the top. Well played, Patricia. You do win.

No joke, I immediately watched Sorry to Bother You after you started talking about it at the end. Highly recommend it to anyone who watched this video and hasn't seen it yet. Brilliant stuff.

Thanks for making me hate a movie I love lol. Seriously, you're being pretty much as fair as possible to the movie, and as a fan of it I know you didn't take anything out of context, so I appreciate seeing you dissect it like this.

I was super young when I watched this movie, so I thought electrolytes were fake until like mid high school

I fucking love sorry to bother you. Nothing will beat going into that movie completely blind after selecting it as my movie to watch for a random film assignment and then being hit in the face with its content. Love it.

this video is painful to watch only because of the copyright editing

"i like the big costco" is a giant mood at this present moment.

Enabling fascism to dab on the libs. Rock solid mainstream media. Love you, Patty.

LMFAO, "How else am I supposed to take this!" This video is great.

How anyone can misunderstand philosophy and misanthropy this much is beyond me.

I remember when Wisecrack was praising this movie for being groundbreaking lmao

I really enjoy your outlook on films please make more of these!

your videos are always a treat!

found your channel through the end music of hbomb's flat earth video. didn't know you made content like this as well :0 and it's from yesterday? :O

The best way to describe the ideology of the film is essentially pseudo-leftist elitism (also known as limousine liberalism, champagne socialism, etc.). It's ostensibly opposing consumerism, capitalism, and conservatism, but most of the time just ends up insulting the very people it claims to be supporting.

I think I missed the "and why misanthropy is for dummies" part. Really was looking forward to that.

Dude amazing video! Now I have a video to watch and look forward to.

Whatever the intent of your trick was, I ended up being tricked into watching the entirety of Idiocracy instead :/

Even when I saw this movie as a young teen, I thought it was dumb. Mostly for its very low brow comedy. Now, I realize that this movie was just a misanthropic and extremely bitter film that is used as an easy strawman for people to create and imagine of those that they see as lesser if they got their way. I hate this movie, and I thank you for reminding of it by tearing it a new asshole. It was quite satisfying.

This is my first video seeing you and you rocked it, thanks

Sorry to bother you is brilliant. My union branch and i did an online watch party of it recently. I LOVE the way it shows solidarity in everything. The football guys are so good.

I think Idiocracy wants to sincerely blame the irresponsibility of the public/corporate/state for the downfall of future society, but struggles to do so in a 90-minute span while being unclear in its opening that all three create the problem. It's a film that wants to say a lot but struggles to do so. It's flawed but I think in some ways brilliant, crude as it is.

YOOOOO I WAS JUST FUCKING THINKING ABOUT HOW SORRY TO BOTHER YOU IS THE EPIC AND BASED VERSION OF THIS BAD BAD BAD MOVIE. SORRY TO BOTHER YOU IS A 10/10!

"I am a dumb bitch" oh the mood of my life.

Damn, the trick worked, you won. Watched it immediately after the video and you most definitely did not spoil the movie

Sorry to Bother you is such a fantastic movie. It tackles so much and is just so interesting Even if we just compare the two as "funny voice gag: the movie" Sorry to Bother You does so much more with their voice gag that it's unreal.

what's with all the recent comments being written by preteens?

I've never seen Idiocracy but I assume this is why I've had several arguments over the years trying to tell people what electrolytes are and having them just tell me that it's what plants crave and trying to convince me that nobody knows what electrolytes are

Just watched Sorry to Bother You after your recommendation, and I can confirm for anyone wondering that basically nothing was spoiled here.

Humans aren't getting stupider we've always been stupid

Me watching this video: "You know, I think I'm gonna make thatvideo comparing and contrasting Idiocracy and Sorry to Bother You that I've thought about." Me at the end of the video: "God damnit."

Is there a version of this archived without the edit

I wasn't expecting a Sorry To Bother You mention but it's nice to see since this weekend, I'm gonna watch it for the first time. Can't wait!