Film Critic Quote of the Day
"Judge doesn't just bite the hand that feeds him, he barfs all over his audience. Language has degenerated into a slur of grunts, insults, Ebonics, and Valleyspeak. Slumped on La-Z-Boys equipped with built-in toilets, feeding tubes dangling from their slack jaws, the dirtbag citizenry gawk at the latest episode of Ow! My Balls! on the Violence Channel. Ass, the No. 1 movie in the nation, consists of a single, sustained butt shot with occasional flatulence on the soundtrack. (In granting Best Picture and Screenplay Oscars to this Warholian stunt, the Academy, at least, has smartened up in the five centuries since Crash.)"
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The Village Voice's Nathan Lee, on the suppressed Mike Judge film "Idiocracy," finally released this week. It's rough-around-the-edges, sure, but downright hilarious at several points, as it imagines a future with, among other things, a shirtless Fox News anchor and a pimp named "Upgrayedd" (pronounced "upgrade.")
Posted by Stephen Silver at January 11, 2007 11:09 PM