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"Idiocracy" Intro Scene watch!

youtube.com — The first few minutes of the future cult classic by Mike Judge. If you've ever wondered why everyone seems to be getting stupider with each passing year, then watch this scene and bask in its great revelation.

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  • Renork, on 10/12/2007, -3/+47I fear for our future =(
    • 0o0Moylan0o0, on 10/12/2007, -31/+8I dont know how many of you have seen this movie, but it is soooooo bad, insanely bad, about equal with 'Material Girls'.
    • Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30I like the inevitable evolution of Fuddrucker's.
    • nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24actually it's not bad. It's not amazing, but it's not bad either, I'd see it again.
    • davidhildreth, on 10/26/2007, -2/+35a great concept, just not the best movie

      worth seeing
    • evenson, on 10/12/2007, -9/+8Just saw this tonight. It has it's points and I love Mike Judge, but this is a really, really bad movie. I'm surprised Luke Wilson is in it.
    • GravitySpec, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41The movie isn't all bad... it has electrolytes.
    • subzeroash, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3I would fear our future too...
      but luckily, intelligence is not genetic.
    • bysin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"They really do have an irony deficiency. I honestly believe that in certain parts of America now, people have started to mate with vegetables." - Jeremy Clarkson
    • Reap, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4"I would fear our future too...
      but luckily, intelligence is not genetic."

      Right. Which is why... say... it's genetic. Not completely, but partially.

      l2science
    • masgrada, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19The capacity for intelligence is genetic. Not the intelligence itself.
    • GrindingSalt, on 10/12/2007, -9/+0yep that contra"ception" is great... sadly most female contra"ceptives" are really abortifacients

      selfish, hedonistic, murderous ***** run amuck! that'll help build a just society

    • awm4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Go away... I'm batin
    • Fragalishus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Karl's Junior...***** YOU...I'm eating!

      There's definitely some extremely un-funny moments in the movie, which happen to be pretty much every time Dax Shephard comes on screen, but that's not really a coincidence. But there's enough comedic genius here and there to make up for it.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlSa7KxsR8M

      I'd say it's 75% God-awful and 25% pure brilliance, but the 25% makes it worth checking out.
    • Stevethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Unfortunately" intelligence has nothing to do with genes, it has -more or less- to do with the upbringing. While a poor family would theoretically not provide the proper upbringing, it doesn't make it necessarily true. Many great people came from piss-poor families but excelled the society like noone else before them .....
  • marcuschi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+45I love this documentary...
  • kahlessreborn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14This is so the truth it shouldn't be funny
  • jull1234, on 10/12/2007, -8/+8The movie is genius. First really good comedy I've seen in quite a while.
    • Akina, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7It's definitely a winner, though it starts out much better than it eventually ends. There's a lot of lost potential, I found.
    • jull1234, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I can't disagree with that.
  • MScrip, on 10/12/2007, -15/+1This movie was so bad, they released the whole movie for free as a FLV file.

    I pity those who actually paid for it.

    Actually, it was pretty funny... but it skipped theaters and went straight to DVD.
    • sambtravis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10It didn't skip theaters, Fox Studios gave it the shaft on release. It was actually in theaters a few miles away from me but didn't know what it was until after it had left theaters. And yes, I did buy the DVD just to support Mike Judge. ***** Fox.
    • MScrip, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0Ah, thanks. I never heard of it till the video came out. You'd think a Mike Judge / Owen Wilson would be a huge hit.
    • jull1234, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7ahem... Luke Wilson ..cough.
  • jamesey, on 10/12/2007, -6/+32after that scene the movie is all downhill
    • clownguyx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7For the most part you're right, but I got a kick out of the House of Representin
  • lemon67, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6everyone should see this movie
  • sclond, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8case in point: "stupider"
    • dracostimpy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Stupider

      I'm not stupider than you.
    • sclond, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Any grammarian cringes when writers use "er" and "est" as the superlative form of "stupid."

      ...Not that I'm a grammarian; I just play one on the interwebs.
    • dracostimpy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I promise you I won't use "stupider" in my magnum opus, but for most diggers, "stupider" doesn't raise any hairs. Thanks for reassuring me that we're still a few years short of a full-blown idiocracy. You are American, I hope...
  • kid_kansas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19That is the best scene of the movie, I don't think it will be a cult hit, it is nothing compared to Office Space.
  • howdareyou, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Seriously why wont the government talk about the problem of kids ***** out kids? Maybe I should drive around darting young girls with the depo shot.
  • tatltat, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2dupe
  • KanosWRX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"I super size with you and all" This movie is great,everyone should see it, definitely the most underrated movie of the year.
  • ahoy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23"Welcome to Costco, I love you."
  • Splitter402, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I really liked this movie more than I should've...

    Its got electrolytes.
  • ImTheDarkcyde, on 10/12/2007, -9/+11"the future cult classic "

    shut the ***** up
    • dracostimpy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4If you didn't get the poignant message masked within this otherwise absurd comedy, that's probably because the movie is about you.
  • sparkmonkeyz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I thought this was a really good movie.
  • astrosmash, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12The ones who live comfortable and content lives do not have a strong urge to reproduce. The ones who struggle to get by and live in chaotic conditions have a very strong urge to reproduce, as a survival instinct.

    In the olden days (I mean, from the dawn of time, up until about the 1920s) the smartest, strongest, and richest produced the most offspring (that would live to become adults and reproduce again). The poor, dumb, and psychopaths reproduced often, but most of their offspring would die.

    Since about the 1940s, everyone (in developed countries) gets to live, and everyone's babies receive an adequate amount of heath care to live to adulthood and reproduce. The problem with this is that the dummies and psychopaths in this world are very, very good at reproducing, meaning the ones most unfit to be parents are having the most kids.

    • stupidverizon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I disagree, happy and content people tend to want to have a baby with their partner more than a depressed guy with a wife and a job he hates.
    • geoboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1You say all that as if it's somehow fact. I think astrosmash gets the "***** comment of the day" award.

      The ones who reproduce the most are simply the ones who want to and can. It's as simple as that. The kind of people who reproduce the most today are those who have nothing better to do than *****, or deeply religious people who don't use contraceptives or feel the desire to create an army of God.

      Yes, the difference today is that the child can actually live to adulthood even though the parents may be unfit to raise a child. But that's really all.
  • rrainist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSDRNc-SLos This is pretty much the best scene in this movie.
    • stealpick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Best line from the best scene: "Says on your chart, you're ***** up. You talk like a fag and your *****'s all retarded."
  • sweetskye82, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2This is one of the best movies I've ever seen!
  • saintdesy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Is there a scientific term for the sort of de-evolution that is shown in this clip? I've thought about this for years before I saw that movie. If we somehow didn't advance in our technology to artificially or genetically enhance ourselves, this would inevitably happen.
  • s6t9eve, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Anyone got a torrent or streaming video link for this film? i heard it mentioned on the TWiT episode of the same name, and it sounds great.
  • s6t9eve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Full movie streaming video:
    http://tv-links.co.uk/link.do/4/434/883/11339/19260
    :D
    • psbpv3o, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2good site! It loads fast as hell and the amount of content is astounding.
    • psbpv3o, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2wrong reply bury
  • psbpv3o, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Isn't 138 a completely average iq? And 78 is the iq of a 3 year old.
    • bobbob1016, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@psbpv30:
      I'm not a psychologist, but to the best of my knowledge, 100ish is average (IQ is calculated by 100*(Mental Age/Chronological Age)), and 138 is genius level. IQ doesn't change, so a 78 IQ three year old won't "grow" into a higher IQ. The Mental Age according to http://www.geocities.com/rnseitz/Definition_of_IQ.html usually stays proportionally above the Chronological Age.
    • psbpv3o, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1@bobbob

      130 can't be genius level. My mom's iq is 155 and my iq is 142. I highly doubt that either of us is above the genius standard.
  • sumgi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2It's an old concept http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics and they were wrong then too.
  • RocketSeason, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2The only good scene from that film.
    • miochza, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Well, it's definitely the best scene, but definitely not the only good scene.
  • mfratz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I saw this movie a while ago and it is not very good. Sure, there are some funny parts but overall, I would say its a waste of time. That opening scene was actually one of the funniest parts of the movie and it just goes downhill from there.
  • pentomino, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm going to write Richard Dawkins and ask him to please refute this scene without straying from good Darwinian principles.
  • NegativeNine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wonder why 20th Century Fox buried this movie. They only release it in like 125 theaters and didn't bother making a trailer for it. It's definitely not the best thing Mike Judge has ever done, but if ***** like Norbit can make $90 million you'd think they could've at least made their money back on this one with a bit of advertising.
  • PJ88, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Future cult classic? This movie sucked.
    • dracostimpy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So do most cult classics. What made Rocky Horror or Killer Klowns or Reefer Madness into cult classics... their great screenplays? I think Idiocracy will be a cult film precisely because it's so ridiculous.
    • psbpv3o, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Rocky horror picture show kicked ass. So you can go ***** yourself.

      I didn't think this movie was the worst movie I've ever seen. But I never really got a laugh out of anything like I did with office space.
  • Antebios, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4This is soooooooooooooooooooooo true. My wife and I (very intelligent people) refuse to procreate. I'm a high-tech consultant making almost about 175-200K/yr and we refuse to have kids. We don't want to put up with the hassle of these ungrateful swines. Yet, these illegals and trashy people that produce like rats are taking over the world. For years I've been complaining that Darwinism is dead. No longer is the survival of the fittest true. We have dumbed down the laws to prevent Retarded people from killing themselves, whereas in the past we would have been happy to see them go. Now we have the Darwin Awards to showcase the stupidest people in humanity.
    • saillax0609, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"My wife and I (very intelligent people) refuse to procreate."

      If you do say so yourself.
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