Stupidity

To begin with, the video is cleverly marketed to Canadians (such a discerning smug audience required) with Rick Mercer and other non-Canadian, but infamous, intellectuals like Noam Chomsky. But, as with many other genre of movie, the content fails to... Full review

This film does a credible job of exploring the history of stupidity, the development of the IQ test, etc., but then it falls flat. The documentary focuses too much on people who "choose" stupidity and too little on people who... Full review

This movie is stuffed with quick edits full of useless archival footage. Are any of the clips in the movie longer than 10 seconds? The filmmakers clearly think we need constant visual stimulation to keep us engaged. This movie is... Full review

The title pretty much says it all. People really should watch this. I don't care if the budget was small, and the video and sound quality is not Hollywood level. The content is what matters. And the content is good... Full review

OK, so "stupid" isn't the right word, "cheap" is more like it. A film with a fascinating subject, that has been neglected in the media (which the film makes a big point of), is ruined by shoddy production values. The... Full review

I really enjoyed this film. I never heard about it before but the cover of it caught my attention with a picture of what may just be, Marilyn Manson with a dunce cap on. It looks like the American cover... Full review

There's different versions of this film. The more recent ones are much better. It's like they realized they were onto something. Anyway, I found the theory of belief systems leading to stupidity to the most convincing. It's true. Religion, politics,... Full review

When I saw the film the audience was laughing quite a bit.In other parts there was a scary silence. As the film point out, stupidity is really funny but it's also running our world. Film travels from some of the... Full review

Went to see this movie in San Fran after getting hilarious fliers featuring a really, well, STUPID-looking George W. smiling awkwardly, as only Dubya can. But the movie is not so much about Bush as about, well, stupidity, idiocy, moronism... Full review

Stylistically, "Stupidity" raises a number of valid questions, and the director gathers some intriguing soundbytes from linguistic, intellectual, and celebrity heavy-hitters. Made for the Documentary Channel, Nerenberg's project ultimately sought deeper answers to the origin, meaning, and usage of the nomenclature society uses to subjugate bad behaviour or unsociable acts. ... Full Review

But Nerenberg pads out this very short movie with man-on-the-street interviews that are really nothing more than thinly vieled attempts to make the average joe look, well, stupid. I gotta say, it's fascinating, and as director Albert Nerenberg points out, in modern society we seem to be surrounded by stupidity of all kinds, all the time. ... Full Review

As a documentary, Stupidity accomplishes its two goals quite handily - it's a delightfully engrossing film to watch, because for whatever reason we like it when other people do stupid things (see the Darwin Awards). One of the primary theses behind Nerenberg's film is to wonder why stupidity is such a slippery concept to grasp and why so few people are talking about it. ... Full Review

As a documentary, Stupidity accomplishes its two goals quite handily - it's a delightfully engrossing film to watch, because for whatever reason we like it when other people do stupid things (see the Darwin Awards). One of the primary theses behind Nerenberg's film is to wonder why stupidity is such a slippery concept to grasp and why so few people are talking about it. ... Full Review

It must have been so much easier when a guy could just grab the gal he wanted and drag her by the hair to his cave. ... Full Article

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Angered by the omission of "Roger & Me" from the list of nominees for this year's Academy Awards, leading documentary filmmakers are circulating a letter of protest to the Motion Picture Academy, calling for revision of the selection process, and... ... Full Article

As director Nerenberg points out, repeatedly, in his amusing and horrifying documentary, the subject of human intelligence has been studied since time immemorial, but there are few treatises on the subject of human stupidity. ... Full Article