Not that he’s starving to death
Guardian Unlimited Arts | | Stupid Fox — Fox has repeatedly dropped some of the finest art for odd reasons. I doubt that the Simpson’s would even be on if it was just beginning. Judge was first screwed by Fox when Office Space, an incredible classic, went straight to DVD with no promotion ever.
So why was Idiocracy dumped? Perhaps because it taps a growing anti-corporate mood in the nation; perhaps because it expertly satirises the jingoistic self-absorption that now passes for public culture. Or perhaps because more people are sick of the modern America that Fox energetically helped to build than the Fox corporation itself is ready to admit.
Scary: Behind the movie’s satire lie long-term social changes like the stupidisation of the American electorate over 30 years through deliberate underfunding of public education, the corporate takeover of every area of public and private life, and the tendency of the media – particularly Fox News – to substitute anti-intellectual rage and partisan division for reasoned public debate.
Jim W,
Futurama went precisely the other way. In fact, there is an episode where Fry saves the universe because is the stupidest person in the universe… as a result of his going back in time and performing actions which made him his own grandfather.
In the words of The Great, Phillip J. Fry, “Hey! I’m important too! It’s just that the kind of importance I have… it doesn’t matter if I don’t do it.”
I understand everyone’s shits emotional right now. But at the end of the day it’s a movie and some of the best cult movies and songs don’t become hits till years after their release. Just cause more people watch Blockbusters, doesn’t make them better movies or even more profitable in the long run. I live in Australia and most of the shows and movies I like never get released here on DVD let alone at the Cinema’s. But yeah Mike Judge is truly Brillant. He has what Plants crave! He’s got Electrolytes!