Real Lawyer Reacts to Idiocracy (The Movie)
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I get asked a lot about whether being a practicing attorney is like being a lawyer on TV. I love watching legal movies and courtroom dramas. It's one of the reasons I decided to become a lawyer. But sometimes they make me want to pull my hair out because they are ridiculous. Today I'm taking a break from representing clients and teaching law students how to kick ass in law school to take on lawyers in the movies and on TV. While all legal movies and shows take dramatic license to make things more interesting (nobody wants to see hundreds of hours of brief writing), many of them have a grain of truth. This is part of a continuing series of "Lawyer Reaction" videos. Got a legal movie or TV show you'd like me to critique? Let me know in the comments!
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The trial of tim heidecker is a good one
The trial of the chicago 7
A few good men
Primal Fear
The Trial of the Chicago 7 definitely
I’m telling you you should totally review Fracture staring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan gosling. Hopkins represents himself in court and tries to manipulate the system and gosling is an upcoming lawyer in LA it’s got some fun moments that I think you would enjoy.
Another +1 for Trial of the Chicago 7, I'd love to see your take on it.
Objection: President Camacho finds a smart person to fix a problem plaguing the nation, and follows his advice. This movie is not realistic.
"Don't vote for my opponent because he listens to scientists" is something I thought I would only hear in a parody
Objection! Evidence submitted:
Chris Hedges once said(around 2008,while promoting his book,Empire of Illusion:The End of Literacy and Rise of The Spectacle):
"Americans are the most illusioned nation on the planet. "
Ergo(Florida man & woman taken into consideration)"The Idiiocracy"could be declared a documentary and not a"work of fiction'.
@@dysn3961 that just means Trump wants to copyright all possible parody of Trump as no historical documentary of his administration can be called a satire..
I didn't mean to make any sense of this, but it might turn out to be true
It used to be realistic... long ago, in the Before Times. These days? We'd be lucky to upgrade to Camacho. Gah.
I personally believe that Idiocracy is a Romanticized future Historical Documentary, depicting a less than truthful situation (Poetic license), when a President is smart/humble enough to listen to someone who is clearly smarter than them-self, on matters of scientific import.
Yo, don't diss on President Camacho.
He saw the country in trouble and he reached out to the most qualified person he could find to help. AND when he recognized he made a mistake sending him to rehabilitation, he reversed course.
Oh, that we had leadership with the integrity and humility of Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
Amen
Comancho 2020
For real! I was so pissed at his commentary.
Camacho is best girl
Lol it’s funny cuz it’s true!
At any rate president Camacho in the movie a better president than the last 4 we’ve had in real life... and I Doubt anything going to get better.
Idiocracy still has the greatest prison break in movie history.
"Uh, I'm supposed to be getting out of prison."
(smack) "Idiot. You're in the wrong line!"
Nah; just kidding; I'm here for crucifixion.
Yea, that guy already sat on my face and everything
@@StrategicGamesEtc Always look on the bright side of life!
lol
“For 2006 unrealistic, for 2020 I give it an A+” best line of the episode.
For 2022 I give it a reason to report this comment ;(
It became realistic back in 2016. 2020 just adds to it.
@@IntranetusaTry 2008.
@mr.dr.kaiser4912 - Nah. Obama and Bush were both riding on the populist bandwagon but neither of them were complete jokers. Both Obama and Bush knew how to act respectably.
@@Intranetusa Ah, yes, quite respectable war crimes and abuse of executive orders, how could I forget.
Every time he said "that would never happen" you can see his soul get crushed little by little.
Our actual legal system is worse.
Well, no s....t, My supervisor said the movie is representing real life.
Idiocracy is today, just much less humorous
You can feel the pain and disappointment!!! 😂
Good News!
It's only America that's like this.
"Luke Wilson is not an unfit mother."
Objection, counsel is drawing conclusions! Lol
I love this movie... it has electrolytes
Electrolytes: It's what plants crave
Ha. Ha. Ha. You said... you said the thing!
Man, we're living this movie.
what are electrolytes though?
@@katanafourzeronine it’s what Brawdo is made out of
@@katanafourzeronine salt
The only glaring error I can see in this movie is that they thought it would take 500 years to get to that point...
Mike Judge says he's no profit because he was off by hundreds of years.
it also supports the idea of eugenics
@@Freakazoid12345 yep he said he was off by 490 years.
"The Supreme Court does not do trials"
That may be true, but we're talking about the EXTREME COURT here
They also have original jurisdiction over disputes between States, ambassadors, and public ministers. Sooo technically can have trials.
2006: laughing because it's ridiculous...
2020: laughing because it hurts.
"We laugh because it hurts too much not to." --- Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein
Unfortunately true
Rewatching this movie every few years... Yes it hurts.
US govt apparently took this movie as a how to guide
@@StrategicGamesEtc That's why medical personnel use gallows humor to get through the day - if you don't laugh, you'll cry. (Although, if you value your job, you don't let patients' families or other laypeople hear you making jokes.)
There's a reason why its tagline is:
"The movie that began as a comedy, but became a documentary."
I love this movie!!!
Honestly been saying for over a decade Idiocracy is a documentary, but that was for the scientific/cultural aspects of it. The legal/political aspects also being a documentary (also honestly) blindsided me.
Or a blueprint.
When did that become its tagline?
@@lrgogo1517 when reality decided it so.
More like began as a comedy and ended up an instructional film.
@~6:25 , I totally agree. Having corporate sponsorship of the criminal justice system is nuts. Could you imagine the conflicts of interest if, for instance, a prison was a for profit business? Thank God we don't have to worry about that. *cough* cash for kids *cough*
Or if the legal system was unjustly used to prosecute a political opponent
@@Jthanson88You think the laws shouldn't apply to former presidents?
@@Jthanson88yeah that would be bad. Good thing that’s not what actually happening.
"What a wildly unqualified member of cabinet in the whitehouse"
"Corporate influence of a member of the cabinet in the whitehouse"
"Straight up nepotism amongst the advisors to the president"
"that would... what would never happen.. right?"
The gradual despair in tone and looks as you went through the cabinet members XD Oh what crazy times we live in eh!
That was genuinely depressing to watch
True
@Jared Moore Those emails were bad but were obtained illegally,Customer personal data cannot be sold when abandoned.
@@bryansylvestrew5024 You know as an outsider looking in, I don't care if the next president you guys elect is a literal sex offender as long as he is competent in office and is willing to play ball with international leaders. I want to feel safe ALL THE WAY here in Australia.
@Jared Moore Biden made money on book deals and speaking engagements. Nothing scandalous there.
"This movie is COMPLETELY unrealistic...for 2006. For 2020, I give it an A+."
So true.
Sigh
Ouch.
And if Mike Judge had cracked out a sequel somehow, I am sure in his prophetic awesomeness it would have been about a disease ravaging the populace.
It is staggering how quickly the US went to absolute shit.
@@LordButtersI seems its downfall has had more momentum than most would give it credit for
I'm here for Eagle's soul leaving his body every time he has to go that hard on the sarcasm
Soul? He’s a lawyer.
@@dallastexas5653 Contrary to popular belief he has one, its just been severely damaged by the initiatory rites that are law school and the bar exam. Most lawyers sell their souls for skill or lose it after it just DOES NOT want to be there anymore, but more than a few hang on, usually to have that pushed out of them eventually by other lawyers and the cases they have to try while in a toxic culture that does not at all one bit value mental health or logic beyond rhetoric
Edit: the realization that we're just Rome 2 electric boogaloo keeps hitting me like a sledge hammer a week later
Love how this lawyer thought this was a comedy, till he got about half way through and realized it was a documentary
Wait... What a well thought out and original comment, you must be the first person to ever say something like this! "Idiocracy was a comedy.. now it's more like documentary" what a funny and original and smart thing to say! You've gotta be the funniest, smartest, and most original person on the planet!
Joe: "Your Honor, I'm pretty sure we have a mistrial here"
His lawyer: "I'll mistrial my foot up your ass"
😂 such a great movie
Please listen!
PlEaSe LiStEn!
"don't bother me when I'm watching, "OWW MY BALLS!"
@@Goabnb94 We gonna go family style on your sister, you can join after we finished the starbucks part.
"I didn't do it!" "That's not what the other lawyer said"
"Obviously, Luke Wilson is not an unfit mother."
I don't think you're in a place to judge his parenting skills. For all we know, he is a terrible mother.
He’s biologically unfit to be a mother. ;)
Yes but they're not a mother. They haven't any child hat we're aware of. Until the end of the movie that's it.
He' supposed to be average as a mother.
How do you know "Not Sure" didn't identify as a mother?
He's the worst mother I've ever had.
Other name of the video:
"Lawyer slowly dying inside"
Idiocracy 2006 - A Prophecy
Idiocracy 2016-2020 - A Reality Show
Idiocracy 2020+ - A Documentary
All the characters have some Hunter Biden in them.
@@gmancolo And a lot of generic trump supporters. I mean Trump's picks for secretaries of various fields was straight from the movie. Bunch of least qualified dumbasses, who are rich and Trump likes for one reason or another and that was good enough.
The movie couldn't predict the shit the left is pulling, but they were spot on what will happen on the right.
Stupidity is celebrated and facts don't matter if you don't agree with them.
@gmancolo The crack-ho nature of Hunter Biden, combined with the arrogant and grifting nature of Trump, and the forgetful speeches of Biden + made up words of Trump.
@@gmancolo You are the person we're making fun of
@@criticalthinker3262 You're a bater.
Every time he says "that would never happen" take a shot for the hope dying in his eyes
Yes
devin dying a little bit on the inside every time
Yeah ikr its so funny 😆🤣
yes so true, and yet he reaffirms his resolve that those things would never ever happen at the end of his video. Like, we aren't fooled dude, we know what you really think...
Objection!
He isn't arrested for being an "unfit mother", he's arrested for being un-scannable (not displaying the legally required tattoo identification).
Might as well be an unfit mother lol
But let's not forget, he was officially arrested for not paying his hospital bill... which they wouldn't know about until after arresting him for being unscannable... which they only noticed because he was at the scene of a crime... which because he didn't reasonably fit the description of being the unfit mother they were looking for meant they lacked probable cause to question him to begin with... which means being incorrect in applying probable cause can cause it to become probable???
@@mygalsiii What if the police already had a report about an unscannable particular individual who skipped out on his hospital bill? Maybe he fits that description -- or maybe the ID tattoos are so common that simply not having one counts as fitting that description.
@@kvngn then you'd hope the officer would have made mention of the "particular individual" fitting the description of a reported unscannable suspect that fled a hospital earlier in the day to the obviously new recruit in training he kept speaking to for training.
@@peterdowdy174 incorrectly applying probable cause because you are stupid is unlikely. Cops of today's average intelligence make more leaps than a grasshopper to justify their cause and it's always upheld. Legal precedent states that probable cause never really existed exhibiting restraint in a few rare cases courts alluded to it but it never really worked out.
Watching Idiocracy:
2006: Laughs hysterically.
2020: Cries inconsolably.
lmao
Shut up, I'm 'bating....
lmao, too
Underrated comment. 🙏🏼
yes because America has surpassed the stupidity of idiocracy and it isn't even half as funny
Funny trivia and maybe an interesting tidbit re. the permission to kill any escaping prisoner: here in Sweden the law says, explicitly, that escaping imprisonment is not a crime. The rationale is that the human urge for freedom may not be criminalized.
“So check it, the judge should be like guilty! Peace.”
League Eagle: That’s actually not the worse opening statement I’ve heard.
LMAOOOOOO WHAT?? WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR COURTS?! 🤣🤣🤣
WE NEED TO KNOW
Sovereign citizens and taxation is theft people. I had the displeasure of observing a court case with those.
@@Measos77 oh god...if i got called for jury duty on a 'taxation is theft' person...i cant even imagine the migraine i'd get.
@@Krescentwolf if you want to get out of jury duty just make a few racist, sexist, or extremist statements when they're interviewing you. they won't call you back in. bonus points if you go in with a t-shirt that has the sleeves ripped off and a trucker hat.
@@iamzid I told them I was mentally unfit which its true and it worked.
OBJECTION! Camacho realizes he made a mistake and gives credit to expert advisors he sought out for their expertise. That is NOT 2020
Maybe Biden is the White Camacho
Objection: Luke Wilson is an unfit mother because he cannot be a mother thus it makes him unfit of the duty.
That's what I thought they meant
I mean, have you seen how technology has been adapting? only thing he can't do is get pregnant and give birth at this point, with formula he can feed the child at a young age, and that's really the only other mother-specific thing. While the title is father, he can fill the mother role (not counting conception and birth and the pregnancy), just as vice president can fill the president role if need be.
This particular commenter is on to something.
@@thedragonclan693 Formula is a pale substitute for the nutritional and immunization value of mother's milk.
And many studies have shown that non-traditional parent households' kids are at certain disadvantages statistically.
@@gaidin21 my point was simply that he could technically serve a fairly similar role to a mother, formula is a perfectly fine substitute however, as it is still nutritional enough that the baby doesn't starve, which means women who cannot breastfeed can have kids, and there are tons of different household types that would put a kid at a disadvantage, some traditional households would put kids at a disadvantage, the tradition doesn't matter, it's how the parent treats the child.
This movie was funny when it was fiction. Now it’s just depressing.
8:08 _"Honestly that is not the worst opening statement I've heard in my life!"_ - Wow! Way to pique my curiosity!
It’s spelled “pique” in this context, actually.
@@bsv103 I didn't know that! Then again English isn't my first language. Thanks!
You sure it's not "peek"? ;D
@@Hairysteed bsv103 is 100% correct, pique, not 'peek' and also not 'peak.' This is a VERY common usage error among native English speakers, including the highly educated, so it is completely excusable for you to have made this error. (Pique = verb meaning 'to cause a state of intellectual or emotional arousal.' Often a state of annoyance, in this case a state of curiosity. Peek = noun meaning 'A quick look at something.' A sneak-peek at an upcoming video game, or the game of peek-a-boo with an infant. Peak =noun 'Summit or highest point' such as a mountain-top or on a graph; valley or trough is the opposite. Sometimes used as a verb like 'the economy peaked in the second quarter of 2019.')
Yeah, it's 100% pique, not peek, or peak, but it's no biggie. De-Frenchifying French loanwords is a tradition as old as English. Fun fact: it's basically the same word as "pick." So we already swapped vowel sounds on it anyway.
I also would like to peek at what Devin considers the peak of bad opening statements. I'm sure it's quite piquant.
Realism rating:
2006: F
2020: A+
damn, this movie's 14 years old? I feel ancient.
@@e1123581321345589144 - it’s likely not gonna get better. *sigh*
It was fairly accurate for 2006 too. More like a B+
"In Florida-"
*cuts to an officer dragging a crocodile*
What is the difference between an alligator and a crocodile? Some florida man or gal please explain.
I'm not in Florida, but: Alligators have shorter, wider snouts than crocodiles.
a police man dragging alligator off a driveway doesn't even make the top 10,000 strange things that happen in Florida every day.
@@Jartran72 Alligators generally don't stray too far from water and also they are only in two locations, Florida Everglades and China. They are opportunistic feeders and are unlikely to attack unless provoked in some way (or starving). Crocodiles are more aggressive and more widespread. Alligators have U-shaped mouths while crocodiles' are more V-shaped, and when an alligator closes its mouth you can only see its top teeth, whereas with a crocodile you see both rows. Also, alligators are freshwater, crocodiles are saltwater.
that was an adolescent Alligator
I never ever imagined in 2007 when I saw this movie that a real lawyer would even think of explaining to people that events in this movie are not real and legal.
We've made it to the Idiocracy timeline
Honestly though, the fact that it's realistic now is the scary part XD
@@Schnipps It's not realistic XD
Objection: It's the EXTREME Court, not the Supreme Court.
"When I made Idiocracy I never knew I was making a documentary." -Mike Judge
It would be more of a prophecy
In Idiocracy they at least listened to the intellectuals.
@@Hello-xg3qc but it took absolute proof before the idiots actually listened…
@@Hello-xg3qc Sounds like it's more of a fantasy, then.
That moment when the dumbest legal movie ever gets the highest grade ever on this channel...
It's 2020.
"grade"
Ever since I first saw this movie back in 2006, I called it the scariest movie I'd ever seen. A terrifying vision of an all too likely future. In the end, it took less than a generation for many of it's predictions to come true instead of centuries.
Same. Same… 😕
Yeah, in that time we lost a generation that knew real suffering from the public consciousness. It's going to happen again so that we may repeat the mistakes and go along with the masses.
Back in.. I want to say 2014? 2015 ish? Cracked did a video showing how by that point Idiocracy was no longer a cautionary tale and had become a "best case scenario". A black president who can drive down the street on a motorcycle flipping off the masses with no fear of shooters? A cabinet with a female member who's ideas are treated equally by her peers? That the current head of state steps down to let a more qualified person take over? I think at this point it's now a pipe dream. Lowered expectations suck.
It's extremely unlikely, what are you talking about?
The movie didn't really depict anything at all though, same as most dystopia films don't.
They took problems that already existed in the US (Corruption, Corporate interference in politics, Anti Intellectualism, Vanity, Hyper Masculinity, Homophobia, Soulless automation etc) and exaggerated them to an extreme.
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” - George Carlin
Mob rule for real
That's why I avoid political rallies.
@Sid 2.0 The only popular quotes are him calling people stupid.
@ he constantly talked about the absurdity of world. What do you expect? Also wouldn’t that say more about the people quoting him rather than the man himself.
@ Maybe, but he is right and when he was alive he clearly had a genius IQ.
We wouldn't want private enterprise involved in criminals justice. *looks at private prisons*
well, he did say it would be really bad if that happened. *looks at the general prison industrial complex and the rate of recidivism in the united states*
😬😬😬😬
@@tokiobabe99 and judges being paid to sentence kids to private camps....
Yep
Least Camacho was actually interested in helping his country.
I mean, as soon as someone smarter came up, he stepped down
Thank God no one is smarter than our current President. Einstein couldn't hold a candle to Trump. Lol
Lol that was funny camacho just didn't give a shit and realized his public image is probably even better if he were out of office.
@@angc214 wtf ?? atleast in the department of physics id say Einstein is wayyyyyy smarter than mr trump
@@thesage1096 look up the word sarcasm and try to understand its meaning.
@@angc214 why shud I have to do that and what does orgasm have to do with it?????
When I worked at Blockbuster I told people to rent this movie because its the only move that started as a comedy and turned into a Documentary... I was too correct.
For legal realism as things are: A+
For legal realism as things should be: F
Gotta love America
Legal realism as things are: E-
"It's so unconstitutional but at the same time it's very, very funny."
That's the tag line for 2020, isn't it.
Objection! 2020 is not funny at all.
Ahem... Jan 2017 thru Jan 2021
But it's funny "uh oh" and not funny "ha ha."
Solid legal defense
LegalEagle: "For 2006 this was completely unrealistic... for 2020 - A+"
Me: "I miss living in precedented times..."
I want to live in un president ed times.
In the book Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett there is a curse, "may you live in interesting times" before Trump was elected I did not fully understand this curse, now......
Idiocracy: *explicit satire of the Bush Presidency*
Internet: I cAnT BeLieVe tHiS PrEdiCteD THe FuTuRE
@@WhaleManMan The hate train is too easy for people to jump on.
@drew pedersen If you say so.
Wildly unqualified cabinet? Oh 2020 Devon you have no idea what 2024 holds
"Is this a documentary?"
Hahaha, don't be silly. The idiocracy was EAGER to put the smartest person they could find in the government.
I remember watching this for the first time with my roommate back in 2009 or so. I was scared. Turns out I was right to be...
They did almost kill him though. So not exactly. It’s pretty much the same, we’ll give experts the microphone but then ignore and ridicule their advice.
@@Plumpkitters4u Dude, you turned a blanket statement into a political one. Congrats on playing the red vs blue game, read both sides, assume 90% of what the politician says is lies, then double-check to make sure their 'achievements' were not just a lump of coal. I swear to god the lot of Republicans and Democrats don't care about politics only what will piss the other off.
@@Demortra Unfortunately that's the way a lot of people have become I've heard it started with Reagan but I don't know about that....
@@Plumpkitters4u How about I damn you for being a mindless cultist instead?
"That's completely unrealistic. That would never happen in the United States."
Tell the truth, how many takes did you have to scrap because you burst into tears after saying that?
Zero.
... He started crying instead.
Poor Devin
He must have done hundreds, and he still tears up.
"that's not the worst opening statement I've heard"
Ok sir, you're gonna have to elaborate on that? Mkay?
"They helped me when I turned into a dog."
I wanna hit like, but it's at 100.
yeah because I would loe to hear this one
I rarely comment but I absolutely need to back this.
12:58 - sounds like LegalEagle just found a new Idiocracy argument for the prosecution:
Defense: "That's like, so unconstitutional, man."
Prosecution: "Yeah but it's funny, though"
Objection: George Bush was the vice president for Ronald Reagan, It has happened a total of 14 times
Excellent point.
Yeah, was he making a joke or something?
He was making a joke
I agree, I checked on Wikipedia, I also saw 14 names that went from vice-president to president.
@@dallasswoveland4466 The joke depended on the assumption that Biden could be the first vice president to become president for it to work,. So, the correction stands and is deserved.
“Idiocracy” is indeed a sad glimpse into the future, thought the first time I watched it. Just never expected it would be the NEAR future.
I don't really agree with it's whole eugenics undertone though.
@@alexschalk5439 I do though
@@alexschalk5439 yeah in the end idiocy spread through memes, not genes ("memes" as Dawkins described them)
It's the 5G, it turns us into idiots who belives that the workd is round!
I thnik this movie is already quite accurate.
@@barakav3483 I seriously hope you're trolling
2006: haha, we'll never end up like Idiocracy
2020: **LOOMS IN BACKGROUND**
Stands in foreground.
No background needed, it's current history.
When I saw the movie about 10 years ago, I had a feeling this would happen. And it is.
Trump watched this movie and thought it was an instructional video but fell asleep halfway through it.
I'm truly surprised that you hadn't seen this movie before 2020... It really is one of my favorite documentaries, and also proof of time-travel. 😂
There's no time travel in the movie, i'm curious what your reasoning is on that.
@mikeraker7742 If i have to explain the joke, then you didn't get the joke. 🙂
@@ohgeegames What you said wasn't a joke though 😅
@@yutterh9153 You got the joke! 😂
@@yutterh9153It is a joke
This movie scared me when it was new. Now that certain things have come to pass, it scares me way more
Seriously! All my friends love the comedy and I’m over here like “this movie is terrifying, what are you guys talking about?”
Part of the reason why I would like to have a child (even though I realize that just because I am slightly intelligent, it doesn’t mean my offspring would be).
@@henrylockhart495considering you take this movie as gospel, I don't think you're terrified in the way you're trying to portray
@@henrylockhart495 For your group of online doomers, an egg dropping to the ground would be "terrifying", a small house being destroyed would be "horrifying", and the need to get out of the bed and brush your teeth would be "dystopian". Man, I hate it when you guys exaggerate the living crap out of everything and believe that Murphy's Law is applicable to reality. How about you spend less time online doomscrolling and thinking you have an unbiased perspective on things? The future and the present is nothing like 2505, on the contrary, things seem to generally get better.
@@M50A1grow a sense of humor for the good of everyone who has to suffer your presence.
Before I even start watching, can we please all appreciate that Devin felt the need to specify?? 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks man, that was very appreciated
Objection: the defense attorney's sleeve wasn't a a corporate advertisement, it was labeling him as an attorney.
Rofl, thank you for pointing out that detail. I love this movie.
I kept wishing they would make a sequel to this movie, but then I realized we are living in it.
totally haven't heard that one before
I was so confused about that police officer wrestling a gator for a moment.
Until I realised Devin was just illustrating the concept of "Florida"
In the context of the discussion at that point of the video, I assumed that was a police alligator which had just been unleashed to capture a fleeing fugitive, and which was now being returned to the police van. Standard Florida police force escalation procedure: verbal commands, taser, K-9, alligator, improvised explosive device, pigpile.
Florida man got a job as a cop. Lol
I thought it was a police alligator too, and it was shown as the police using unnecessary force
I assumed it was an example of a police officer using an approved method of deadly force. "He's running, get ready to deploy the Gator."
I'm from Florida. Can confirm.
I love how you can see him die a little more inside every time one of Idiocracy's predictions came true.
Not predictions in most of these cases. Instead, it just shows how terrible the legal system is in America that pretty much everything is allowed to be used against you, including abuse of government powers.
It did, 2016 the Trump Administration have you ever known of a bigger buffoon?
Those sorts of things had happened and were continuing to happen long before Idiocracy was filmed. This movie was contemporary satire, and the fact you think this was a future prediction is sad.
I mean it's not any better today. Never forget 2+2=5 because math is racist towards blacks.
@@sigurdtheblue there is no better legal system in the world. Change my mind
Comacho may have been a meathead, but his administration successfully tackled a major crisis threatening the survival of the country. That puts him there with Lincoln and FDR.
Hmmm🤔 Are we still drawing parallels here?
@@velmawhite9830 key word is successfully
@@velmawhite9830 Contrasting. When faced with a problem he couldn't solve. Comacho, while applying a healthy dose of BS to grease the political gears, didn't try to BS his way out of it. Instead he found someone who could understand the problem, then used his bullshitting skills to protect that person so they could do their job. That's leadership.
Seeing FDR compared to Lincoln makes me die inside. Did no-one learn about how he put Asian-Americans in what were basically concentration camps during world war 2. Seriously.
@@oblivi8games808 Well Lincoln approved of scorched earth tactics in the confederacy. Merely the times their in dude.
This is an excellent and well spoken evaluation. I'm not a lawyer. I'm a state licensed funeral director with a BS in mortuary science
What's a mortuary science
Would you like some EXTRA BIG ASS TACO now with MOLLECULES ?
@@marc-antoinemarcoux697 Mmm I love molecules.
wait... you need college to bury someone?
@@marc-antoinemarcoux697 As long as I can get some BRAWNDO (it's got electrolytes) to wash it all down.
Objection! Former Vice President elected as president not happened yet? John Adams? Thomas Jefferson? Richard Nixon?
Or are you being sarcastic? Lol
George HW Bush???
Theodore Rooseveld
Hopefully, Joe Biden. 🙏🙏🙏🤞🤞🤞
You forgot to leave your comment in the form of an objection
@@thijsdaenen4980 Roosevelt*
"Hey I'm going to react to Idiocracy"
*Turns on C-Span, watches our government at work*
There's a congressman who begins every committee meeting with the same question.
"Are you a capitalist or socialist? Yes or no?"
The dumb people answer "yes I am a capitalist". The smart ones just say "yes" and refuse to say anything else.
@@eagleis72 Illogical, one can also be an anarchist, libertarian, etc!
"It's so unconstitutional but at the same time it's really really funny" should be the catchphrase for every police agency ever.
I was in jail once back when I was 18. They had a chair with straps on it. It was rumored that if you were a "difficult" prisoner the guards would strap you to "the chair" and either beat the crap out of you outright, or at least make sure to "accidentally" bash your head on metal doors and walls and stuff like that. It may have just been a prop used to scare the youngsters like me tho'. I went to the same jail about 10 years later and saw no sign of "the chair".
I love how he starts out playing up the "that would never happen" bits, with long, detailed descriptions of the acts that are being mirrored precisely, and then dismissing them. And then slowly, they just get shorter an shorter, more and more depressed, as the inane and absurd corruption and stupidity in Idiocracy continues to reflect reality with each scene.
Ah so I see someone who understands how satire works! Comedians love to use it all the time, I recommend watching a few :)
Just slowly watching him die inside over the course of the video lol...he played it off well 👍
@@maximnikolaev6627 I see someone loves being a smug asshole. Yes, we all know how satire works. Congrats for trying to score cheap brownie points.
I couldn't have written that better. When satire fades is a scary situation.
@@Gustav_Kuriga idk man, sometimes I wonder. People try to claim “satire” all the time after saying something awful to try to get out of being treated like an asshole
The only prediction this movie got wrong was that society's leaders would value a smart person and put them in charge rather than demonizing experts.
"That would NEVER happen..." **dies a little inside**
LE made this 4 years ago and it's more prescient than ever, my god
Objection: They have probable cause to arrest him for being unscannable.
Edit: 2:06 "This particular individual is unscannable" i.e. he has no valid ID, and is being detained for that reason. There are certainly places in the US where you might be detained if you are suspected of not being a legal resident and have no way to prove your status.
can you arrest someone on the basis of not having his ID on him alone?
@@cycla in the future that might be the case, problem is to my knowledge, they don't out right state something like "a new law was put in place where all the people need to have scannable tattoos."
@@cycla The tattoo doesn't look erasable, so it looks like it's assumed that they don't have an ID, I believe rightfully: because if they somehow hid the ID it would possibly mean they're doing something pretty suspicious
Though: I am not sure if that would mean that it makes what was done execusable. Just that it's possible they did that because of the possibile suspicion.
@@cycla Ask ICE
Now we must know: What _was_ the worst opening statement you've ever heard?
Seconded
@@Pingo21 squared
@@AB-ee5tb quadrupled.
no doubt something about Chewbacca living on Endor - it makes no sense!
Objection: historical accuracy issue. John Adams, the second president of the United States, was the vice President of George Washington. Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, and George H.W. Bush were also former vice presidents duly elected to the Presidency later. A former vice president has in fact become the Elected President.
Counterargument: None of those mentioned were elected as former vice presidents, but rather as sitting vice presidents.
Objection: Richard Nixon, however, in 1968 became the first (and only) former vice president to be elected president.
He was being sarcastic.
Albin Delibas Heijkenskjöld Objection: Both Harry Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson were Vice Presidents who assumed the Presidency after their predecessors died in office and then went on to win the next election. So, they could be classified as former Vice Presidents who were later elected to the Presidency.
@@culwin there is no such thing as satire in RUclips Court.
Lyndon Johnson and Theodore Roosevelt can also both be added to the list, but not to Albin's list. Each served as VP to a president who was assassinated, and ascended to the presidency that way, but each was later duly elected.
4 years later, Thump wins again and idiocracy starts XD , legal eagle predicted the future
I never dared to dream you’d actually react to this!
Me neither
I believe it was featured on prime or HBO or some stream service recently. Hilarious movie!
Title: Real Lawyer Reacts to Idiocracy
Me: You mean in real life?
Title: (The Movie)
Me: Oh. Good thing he specified.
(Spoiler: it’s also real life)
Lmfao
I think this is the first time he’s ever specified.
I love that in this move, the President was boisterous and yet _listened to his advisors._
Ahh, fiction!
I believe you mean listened to the qualified advisors, presidents listen to unqualified advisors all the time, how do you think trump got banned on twitter?
@@thedragonclan693 Pedant.
An unqualified advisor isn't an advisor.
@@JoshSweetvale tell that to the president
A black president listening to his advisors?
@@JoshSweetvale False. The only qualification needed to be an advisor is that you are someone that is being sought out for advice. Normally that means the advisor has some expertise, but that is not a requirement.
Not sure what was thicker, the sarcasm or the irony. Love your work sir.
"Did they predict the future?" No. They just warned us of what could be.
And since humans forget history every couple of years...
It has always happened. But now we have social media to record it at The moment...
... and no one listened. :/
This is nothing more than a view of what government has always looked like. The only difference is that people are paying attention to it now when they didn't in history class.
Idiocracy: *explicit satire of the Bush Presidency*
Internet: I cAnT BeLieVe tHiS PrEdiCteD THe FuTuRE
"A lawyer with a corporate sponsorship? That's completely ridiculous. Get 20% of the link in the description" GOLD!
Former vice president who later ran for president and won.
LeagleEagle: "Never happened. Maybe some day..."
Thomas Jefferson: "What do you mean 'Never happened'?"
GHWB also would like a word. ;)
"Hi, I'm the first Vice President, and Second President John Adams."
@@mistwolf yeah, I was confused by that one.
I think he meant didn’t happen in 2020 and phrased it poorly.
Also: Martin Van Buren, John Tayler (kinda...later), Chester Arthur (kinda,...later), Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman (kinda,...later), Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford.
YES! I've been saying this for years!
In a little more than a decade, this movie went from comedy to documentary...
You should do a legal review of Daria. Her mom is a lawyer.
"It is illegal, unethical, and immoral. I want no part of it. Alright, I'll do it."
Jane - What happened to all your paper-writing money?
Daria - My mom wouldn't let me keep it. She said it was wrong to encourage cheaters and to profit from them.
Jane - So, she's giving up being a lawyer?
Daria - I asked her that, and I'm sure some day we'll once again be on speaking terms.
I second this!
I'm familiar with this show but I never saw it . If this is a good example of the dialogue. I guess I will have to check it out at some point. Lol
She sure as hell helped out Daria when the school was putting her painting in the art exhibit despite her objections.
What about the art project / civil liberties scene. That was GOLD!
There's also the family court episode with Helen as the prosecution and Jake as the judge.
This video had me cracking up the whole time 😂
“Totally unrealistic, no way would Fox report actual news”
I lost it at the, "a cabinet member being heavily endorsed and sponsored by a corporation?! That would never happen."! 😂🤣🤣
@johan alejandro Cazador de piñas diabolicas Fox News recently faced a defamation case. Do you know what their defense was? "Any reasonable person can tell we don't report the literal facts."
god this whole comment thread aged poorly
What's unrealistic is that Fox News made it that far in time. 😅
'Totally unrealistic... in 2006. 2020: I give it an A+'. Pure. Gold.
This isn’t a movie is a prophecy that is unfolding before our very eyes.
It’s hilarious how LegalEagle starts off with the straight “that would never happen” and slowly escalates in desperation in the White House scene with a “kill me now” expression culminating in a “did this predict the future?!?!”
@Drew Taylor Even the mc, who succeed president Camacho, also names Joe and used to be a vice president.
@@Jedsa009 OOHHH F**K U GOTTA A SAD BUT GOOD POINT BUCKO
This is art. Not many people can throw this much shade in one video without it getting old real quick.
It did get old tbh
@@InhumanFan98 I think his political bias made this harder to watch. I like his other stuff, so I still made it to the end, but it's frustratingly obvious that he's not a Centrist or neutral.
@@sleepykittyH Centrism in 2020 is dead and anyone who puts on an act of Centrism are only performing for the circus.
@@sleepykittyH yea i agree, thats what i was meaning, its sad that its just joke about trump over and over which gets old. Legally laywers are ment to be neutral and this certainly isnt
@@steph0614 A Centrist's job is to be as unbiased as possible and find the truth. The comment section is filled primarily with people who hate Trump. It's very unlikely that they will see reason, as hatred blinds people to the truth. I put aside my dislike of his demeanor and focus on his proven actions. As of right now, he's done more good than bad.
2006: "That movie was HILARIOUS!"😂
2020: "Is this a documentary?"
Oh the worsening irony in 2024.
Objection!
Luke Wilson was arrested for being unscannable, not for being an unfit mother.
Objection: the reasonable person standard uses a hypothetical person in society who exercises average care, skill, and judgment in conduct as a comparative standard. If the average person is a complete idiot, then the reasonable person standard would ‘allow’ behavior that we might consider to be very, very dumb.
15:35 "Did this movie predict the future ? What am I seeing right now ?"
If you are saying that while looking out your window, then the answer might be 'The Prequel to Idiocracy'.
Not the prequel. the AU version.
This entire segment was quite disheartening, and hit close to home...
A former vice president becomes president. That’s so far fetched.😂
"Idiocracy is a satire, not reality..." 2006 was being generous.
In 2006, it was a satire. 😹
In 2020, it has graduated to a documentary. 😱
@@BigMamaDaveX ditto
It took less than ten years to accomplish beating the five hundred year prediction.
You know reality is bad when you have to add the caption "*Not from idiocracy"
Yup, A+ for 2020. The writer even thinks so:
"'Idiocracy' writer: I never expected my movie 'to become a documentary'"
thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/270642-idiocracy-writer-i-never-expected-my-movie-to-become-a
And the author of 1984 probably didn't either.
@@ricardorusan9991 In the case of Orwell, it was already a documentary...
Turns out it was a prophecy.
i live in Louisiana and have been through the judicial system a couple of times and in some cases not only are the public defenders underfunded but they are actually in cahoots with the D.A. where some of them don't even try for a defense and more or less just work as sort of managers of plea deals without even considering letting things go to trial ar actually defending a client.
Part of the underfunding means that Public Defenders that are still present are swamped with dozens of clients at a single time and so have to "pick and chose" which cases are "actually worth" going to trial.
@@J-manli Not every swamped PubDef is also a crooked PubDef.
It’s less cahoots more picking their battles due to being underpaid and over worked. Which still isn’t fair to the client. But cahoots implies plotting behind the scenes for some gain of some sort. When it’s more like deciding throwing there all in just isn’t worth it. Again, still bad, still unfair to the client, but not ‘cahoots’.
Many things don’t go to trial. Even in non-criminal cases. Trying to settle something before going to trial is also just a fairly common legal practice actually. In most cases settling something out of court takes less time then a full blown trial depending on what the issue is. That being said, in a reasonable situation (criminal or civil case) your lawyer is actually dedicated to your best interest.
I remember the stories of how law abiding citizens had their firearms illegally confiscated shortly after hurricane Katrina, including the elderly woman who law enforcement roughed up in her own home. Like that could never happen again.😉
@@wtywatoad That definitely sounds like "stories". I'm from a liberal, blue state and if that happened here it would make local news immediately, National news two days later. I personally know of two cases where people with restraining orders are allowed to keep their weapons. The police cannot confiscate by law. Lucky for them because they then used their weapons to kill their estranged spouse and a few innocent bystanders.
"This isn't the worst opening statement I have heard." Funny and sad at the same time.
I dunno this film is completely unrealistic. In the end they elected the smartest person alive as president as opposed to completely ignoring him.
It’s in the far future for a reason, it will take that long for it too happen.
Well, I am sure during his election campaign he was endorsed by the president, who seemed to be very popular, I am sure that helped quite a bit.
Because in the movie, stupid people know they're stupid and recognise smart. Here theres millions of people who think they know better than Dr. Fauci, an outstanding expert in his field with decades of experience.
Keep in mind that it was almost too late and only a lucky chance resolved it. Otherwise he would have been "formerly" the smartest guy in the world.
@@SkuLLetjaH -Now that I’ve thought about it, the world of Idiocracy is actually a utopia. Everyone’s a fricking moron, but at least the dunning-Kruger effect is gone and they know they’re stupid.