A six panel comic doesn't address the details of a 90 minute film. Shocker.
Sex, Drugs, and RationalityIdiocracy is only 84 minutes, actually.
The shortness of it always bugged me. Some of the deleted scenes were pretty awesome, why not just have them be in the film since it's below average length anyway?
edited 29th Jun '09 8:44:05 PM by Nyktos
I guess it is.Incomplete dismissal of a film based on it's most superficial elements is not defensible as a critique nor as a form of humor.
I'd like to attack the comic's often painful visual austerity, as opposed to the baroque and hilarious visual gags popping up constantly in Idiocracy, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Mathematics Is A Language.I don't believe this was actually an attack on Idiocracy, any more than #16
was an attack on Monty Python.
I think Bobby G is probably right here. Either way, this "Oh, everything was better in the past" idea needs to be stabbed. Repeatedly. With whatever would be most painful. Because it needs to die. Painfully.
Yeah, there are things that were better in the past, but on average they're massively outweighed by the things that were worse in the past and will be better in the future.
What's the name of that book that lays bare the lazy thinking of that sort of thing? "Everything Bad is Good for You", right?
edited 30th Jun '09 3:26:01 AM by WilliamWideWeb
SHIKI is dead.
Planescape Hijack
Yeah, but that's just making a strawman, which: that guy was already a pretty bad example of one before making the leap to eugenics.
I wish it had at least been the black hat in this one, because at least then we'd have violence
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I thought this comic was terrible, though for a change of pace at least he didn't open the week with a ripoff which is almost refreshing. I would like to know why you guys are arguing the merits of this movie because Randall's sure not. The comic has the one guy point out a currently existing trend that Idiocracy pointed out (Idiocracy just happens to takes this to extremes as a social satire.) He's just makes an arbitrary, unprovable claim (much more so than the other person, who by the way, is not forcing opinions on anyone.), gives no room for rebuttal, declares himself winner (all without backing it up), and that "New Theory" line just makes him look like a jackass. A look at the forums tells me Randy made yet another spelling mistake and is in need of an editor.
"But it is still full of delicious, delicious irony." ~Lyanna What irony? Multiple critics can't find the same faults? Well, thanks for that insight. That Manuscript one is especially terrible for ruining its own premise!
The promises of children are worth less than the children themselves.Do you, like, do anything else on the fourm but bitch about XKCD? You see, a good sign of a Hatedom member is that they refuse to reconsider their opinion, and refuse to change the subject.
edited 30th Jun '09 2:10:35 PM by JethroQWalrustitty
Planescape Hijack
You really encounter lots of people who transition that easily from talking about a movie to saying "It's obvious, all we need to do is eugenics!"?
Though on further reflection the guy in the hat is pretty straw-man-ish too. "I agree with you and so does reality! Psych! You're a religious zealot! Who no one will ever sex with! Dohohoho!"
Productivity is for people without internet connections. -Count DorkuNot since high school, but I seem to remember theories along the lines of "everything would be better if the stupid people didn't breed!" being pretty popular there.
I will keep my soul in a place out of sight, Far off, where the pulse of it is not heard.I'm pretty sure Cicero bitched about that at some point. What else is new?
I will keep my soul in a place out of sight, Far off, where the pulse of it is not heard.

Yes it is. It fails to understand that science fiction is a state of mind. Idiocracy isn't really set in the future. It's set today. It's how were being treated by the media, and how people don't seem to be reacting against it. The breeding thing is not important.
It's a fundamental misunderstanding, exaggerating the least important elements of the film. It's like arguing that Godel's weird platonism disproves his inconsistency theorems. It's disjointed.
Mathematics Is A Language.