American dysgenics & the best movie you've never heard of...
It isn't often that I choose to sit through a movie, and even rarer for me to bother writing about one. This weekend I saw Idiocracy, a film so good I watched it three times over. This movie was, for political reasons obvious once you have watched it, unceremoniously dumped by FOX with no real theatrical release, without any marketing, and apparently even the budget to finish was cut off in post-production. It made about $400k, released in only 130 theatres to fulfill contractual obligations. The film is anti-corporate, anti-pop culture, and very likely anti-YOU and your dumb ass.
The story is about an average Joe (Luke Wilson) cryogenically frozen for 500 years. When he wakes up (courtesy of the Great Garbage Avalanche of 2505) the centuries of consumerism, corporate branding, anti-intellectualism, and the good old pursuit of instant gratification have devolved the USA into an absolute idiocracy where everyone is an illiterate 'tard'. Think of it as a live-action Futurama, only a lot more cynical and insulting (insulting YOU). This future is the logical endgame of today's hyper-commercial, hyper-sexualized, and often hyper-idiotic society. In 2505 Starbucks sells handjobs with lattes. Fudd-rucker's has become Butt-fuckers. The most popular show on TV is "OW! My Nuts!". Instead of water the fountains pour 'Brawndo the Thirst Mutilator (with Electrolytes)'. And in this future the President is former porn star and five-time Ultimate Smackdown champion Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (played by the always hilarious giant of a man, Terry Crews):
President Dwayne Elizondo addressing the House of Representin' in 2505.
The scariest part for me was the monosyllabic, vulgar pidgin-talk that English has become by then and how similar it is to some people I hear on the streets of NYC. There are so many other funny details though, each one driving home the point about the negative cultural direction of...well, just about everything. I was unsurprised to learn this morning that the genius behind the film is Mike Judge of Beavis & Butthead, Office Space and King of the Hill fame. I know you never heard of Idiocracy, but get your hands on the DVD or order it on Cinemax while it is there; the confederacy of dunces that is FOX has conspired to bury this one hard, and that alone should tell you its worth.
If you don't get it then you are probably part of the problem. In the spirit of your unborn but 'tard'-ed descendants I say FUCK YOU, DIPSHIT. ASS. YEAH FAG YOUR FACE. AND SHIT.
The story is about an average Joe (Luke Wilson) cryogenically frozen for 500 years. When he wakes up (courtesy of the Great Garbage Avalanche of 2505) the centuries of consumerism, corporate branding, anti-intellectualism, and the good old pursuit of instant gratification have devolved the USA into an absolute idiocracy where everyone is an illiterate 'tard'. Think of it as a live-action Futurama, only a lot more cynical and insulting (insulting YOU). This future is the logical endgame of today's hyper-commercial, hyper-sexualized, and often hyper-idiotic society. In 2505 Starbucks sells handjobs with lattes. Fudd-rucker's has become Butt-fuckers. The most popular show on TV is "OW! My Nuts!". Instead of water the fountains pour 'Brawndo the Thirst Mutilator (with Electrolytes)'. And in this future the President is former porn star and five-time Ultimate Smackdown champion Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (played by the always hilarious giant of a man, Terry Crews):
President Dwayne Elizondo addressing the House of Representin' in 2505.
The scariest part for me was the monosyllabic, vulgar pidgin-talk that English has become by then and how similar it is to some people I hear on the streets of NYC. There are so many other funny details though, each one driving home the point about the negative cultural direction of...well, just about everything. I was unsurprised to learn this morning that the genius behind the film is Mike Judge of Beavis & Butthead, Office Space and King of the Hill fame. I know you never heard of Idiocracy, but get your hands on the DVD or order it on Cinemax while it is there; the confederacy of dunces that is FOX has conspired to bury this one hard, and that alone should tell you its worth.
If you don't get it then you are probably part of the problem. In the spirit of your unborn but 'tard'-ed descendants I say FUCK YOU, DIPSHIT. ASS. YEAH FAG YOUR FACE. AND SHIT.