The most frightening thing about "Idiocracy"

[hifiguy]

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Is that about a third of the American populace is already there.

That it is a Fox film is disturbing beyond belief. Murdoch told us what he is doing to the world. And to Fox it is funny.

I couldn't laugh.

[MrScorpio]

1. I was disturbed by the numbed minds, the casual violence and the unquestioned deference to authority

Controlled by machines, the absence of individuality the rejection of intellectual thought.

Lumpen mounds of flesh, limping through existence in a haze, only pursuing the basest of acts.

[hifiguy]

2. Evolution in reverse.

Controlled and engineered by the corporate media.

DEVO were far more right than they ever dreamed possible. They thought it was satire but people are so much dumber now than even 40 years ago even they couldn't have imagined it.

To have watched it in real time is disturbing beyond words.

The major ethical problem that arises is what to do with the ineducable moron majority. The solutions range from awful to unthinkable but something has to be done. Morons and greedheads cannot be allowed to destroy the human race. That is the ultimate abandonment of responsibility.

There are no pretty choices. As far as we know there is no other "intelligent" life in the universe. This precious toehold cannot be sacrificed.

[kentauros]

3. The first RoboCop showed how dumb the future populace could become, too.

"I'll buy that for a dollar!" from their top-rated comedy show.

"Give us three minutes and we'll give you the world!" - the epitome of "headline news"

And so on.

Dev-O rules, by the way

[hifiguy]

4. Whoever thought a bunch of smart-ass

collegiate satirists from Ohio would pose the definitive question for the survival of humanity?

I don't want to "dance the poot."

Jocko homo indeed.

[TeamPooka]

5. The film Idiocracy was written and directed by Mike Judge who created the TV series KING OF THE HILL

animated series and also Beavis and Butthead.
Idiocracy is his best work.
It is a dark satire about the state of the world and our future.
Murdoch had nothing to do with the making of the film except that his studio paid for it.
They did that because Fox has made like a billion $$ of KOTH and wanted to keep Mike Judge happy.
This is what he gave them as FU to the studio and the world.

Funny thing is the studio pulled the film from theatrical release literally because the Fox Marketing Dept could not cut a trailer for the film that didn't anger test audiences
because it skewers everyone and calls them idiots.
It's a famous behind the scenes incident here in the business when it was pulled and why.
It got a weak DVD release and lives on in VOD now.

Look how it angered you.
Imagine if you were the marketing dept and had to sell that.
The film is genius because the world is so fucking stupid now and we let it be that way.
It's only going to get worse.

[AngryAmish]

7. By contract, it had to be released in theaters

It was. In 6 theaters. I actually almost went because I loved Beavis and Butthead. On Chicago it was at Piper's Alley, kinda an art house.

As far as I know, it is the most explicitly pro eugenics movie I have seen. And short of The Camp of the Saints, perhaps the most pro eugenics form of art out there.

Re Devo: in the documentary, one of the members hit it exactly : we are just getting uglier and stupider.

Evolution does not exist. Natural selection does. Right now the society we have favors the stupid fecund gluttons of the world where Ow, My Balls is considered great and a Kardashian is considered the untouchable lion of progressive morality.

We are fucked.

[TeamPooka]

20. yes it was given that token release with out any ads or promotion. Just sad. Great film though.

[Bluenorthwest]

15. Mike Judge also makes the very great 'Silicon Valley' on HBO, which just completed season two

[hifiguy]

17. Oh, I am very much aware of Beavis and Butt-head and KOTH.

Fan of both.

It didn't so much anger me as depress me. The best satire is usually set in "another" world that is in essence the one in which the satirist lives. Judge and his co-writer basically burn down American society in that film. The mirror they hold up shows an unspeakably ugly reflection.

[TeamPooka]

21. You have to admire writers who call them as they see them. Orwell did too and look where we are. nt

[hobbit709]

6. For years I've been saying it's really a documentary.

[raouldukelives]

8. Whenever I see a Fail video my internal voice says "Ow, my balls!" nt

[demwing]

9. Go away...baitin'

[lovemydog]

23. Holy crap.

That is a lot of hate-filled dumb ass mofos right there.

[TimeToEvolve]

10. figuretively speaking; we are anesthetized-

while the PTB cut our lives to shreds..

[The2ndWheel]

11. The real problem in that movie is the smart people

Not only do they not have their own smart children because they're worried about their high paying careers, they presumably built the system which seems to run by itself and has given all the dumb people the ability to procreate.

[hifiguy]

18. And the dumb ones always breed like rabbits.

[GummyBearz]

12. I once watched the movie with an ex (who was smart) and her roomates.

Her roomates were like the dumb future people... It was a really shocking experience. When president "Camacho" was introduced one of them seriously asked "is that supposed to be Obama?".

We are doomed

[hifiguy]

19. I am afraid so.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. Actually it was a miracle it got released. The Crypt Keeper did

his best to kill it by not promoting it or paying for a wide release. But yes, it gave my ex nightmares the night we watched it. It's truly frightening.

[bluedigger]

14. I found it inspirational.

[Zorra]

16. Whaa? You mean it isn't a documentary? nt

[QC]

22. K&R