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02-05-2007, 07:29 PM
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Idiocracy
tried search and didn't see anything on it.
I just watched the movie Idiocracy. Solid 2 thumbs up from me. The heroes (Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph) are in an army experiment and are put in a deep freeze. Through odd circumstances, they wake up 500 years later. Instead of finding an improved, advanced society, they end up in a world of morons. Basically, the dumb have outbreeded the smart and society has fallen to its lowest common denominator. Polysyllabic words are gone. Sentence structure is gone. Luke is called a '[censored]' for the way he talks, etc. It's like WWE meets Jerry meets Britney Spears meets SuperSweet16. Luke and Maya are now, by far, the smartest people alive. Good laughs ensue. The film is by Mike Judge, of Beavis and Butthead fame. Ironically, its a moral statement to have people read and think more. Paraphrasing, Intelligence isn't ghey. Watch it! 
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02-05-2007, 07:45 PM
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Re: Idiocracy
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sounds good. when was it made? [/ QUOTE ] 2006 it was a new release at Blockbuster, but I don't remember it hitting the theatres
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02-05-2007, 07:52 PM
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Re: Idiocracy
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[ QUOTE ] sounds good. when was it made? [/ QUOTE ] 2006 it was a new release at Blockbuster, but I don't remember it hitting the theatres [/ QUOTE ] It was never given an official release in theaters. The studio decided to dump it straight to video, despite Director Judge's protestations. It has gotten mostly good reviews by those who have seen it.
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02-05-2007, 09:25 PM
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Re: Idiocracy
A buddy of mine watched this and said (facetiously) that he now knows what I feel like every day. I'd imagine it has to be a pretty good movie, since I'm sold on Judge's credentials (Office Space).
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02-06-2007, 01:08 AM
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Re: Idiocracy
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It was never given an official release in theaters. The studio decided to dump it straight to video, despite Director Judge's protestations. It has gotten mostly good reviews by those who have seen it. [/ QUOTE ] Not technically true, as it was given a limited release this past summer in a few cities. Before that, it had been sitting on the shelf for over a year.
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02-06-2007, 03:14 AM
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Re: Idiocracy
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[ QUOTE ] It was never given an official release in theaters. The studio decided to dump it straight to video, despite Director Judge's protestations. It has gotten mostly good reviews by those who have seen it. [/ QUOTE ] Not technically true, as it was given a limited release this past summer in a few cities. Before that, it had been sitting on the shelf for over a year. [/ QUOTE ] yeah, judge was given the shaft by the studio who was afraid of the film's message.
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02-06-2007, 01:24 PM
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Re: Idiocracy
Thanks for posting. I didn't realize it was out. I was disappointed when it didn't get to theaters. Mike Judge is brilliant. He was inspired by the story The Marching Morons , I read on an internet page about the movie.
That story itself is really cool. Basically, the Marching Morons is based on the Marching Chinese. Once, someone calculated that if you started walking the Chinese population in a line two wide at their border, regardless of what happened to the line, there would be an endless line of people coming from China. Anyway, the Marching Morons depicts a future where "high born elite" work like slaves to keep morons producing in order to stave off catastrophe from 600 million tons of rotting human flesh resulting from a societal collapse. They call this "the problem." Read the link. It gets a lot more interesting.
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