Idiocracy

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Just to rebel from the Misc Mushy Mingle thread, I'm actually starting an individual thread about a movie we just saw on DVD.

Idiocracy. Never heard of it? Neither had we. Saw an ad for it being released to DVD. Mike Judge made another movie?! After reading the plot outline I had to see it:

Private Joe Bowers, the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes 500 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.

The movie delivers a horrifyingly possible - nay, probable! - future. It was funny and ridiculous but man, it was scary more than anything. I probably won't see it again but it was an entertaining flick.

I recommend it for popcorn stupidity. You may come away wanting to procreate and fill the world with smarter children.

"What are you tryin' to read that word for? What are you, a fag or somethin'?"

Random searches around the net tell me that the studio squashed this movie. Even the DVD release is in lame-ass January and costs way too much. I even found amusing posts that claim that Idiocracy was far more plausible than Children of Men.

Anyway, worth a Netflix evening.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

You may come away wanting to procreate and fill the world with smarter children.

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Please excuse me, I have a Jew egg to care for.

So .... IS this an announcement??

[Babette]

or an argument for government regulated reproductive rights

FUnny movie. Product placement and endorsements will be out of control in the future.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

So .... IS this an announcement??

Dude, you just have to see Borat and Idiocracy. Just because I've been seeing movies with reproductive themes doesn't mean there's a hidden message here. Why does every gay boy I know seem to be relying on ME to populate the world?

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Why does every gay boy I know seem to be relying on ME to populate the world?

Because they've all given up on me.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Because they've all given up on me.

And they know I'm nowhere responsible enough to care for a kid - if I even wanted one.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Because they've all given up on me.

Originally Posted by Babette

and they know my boyfriend

Originally Posted by Bornieo: Fully Loaded

And no female would touch me...

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

There are no good reasons to procreate. Unless you traffic in the human slave trade. Then it is pure profit. That's the only time. And it's wrong.

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

And they know I'm nowhere responsible enough to care for a kid - if I even wanted one.

Jeez people. Can I get some help here? At least Traci and Wendy know what's up. I just hope we're not ostracized when it does happen

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Why does every gay boy I know seem to be relying on ME to populate the world?

And no female would touch me...

[NirvanaMan]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

I recommend it for popcorn stupidity. You may come away wanting to procreate and fill the world with smarter children.

Hmm, well I took away a rather different twist on the same idea. I felt the strong urge to have the entire population neutered. Reproduction rights can be reinstated after registration, licensing, and a thorough background check including psychological evaluation and proof of financial stability.

Although that's nothing different than what I thought before the movie, but it just reinforced it...in a very eerie creepy way.

And now....the cupcake and memorial smilies.

[Babette]

and they know my boyfriend