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Isn't Idiocracy one of the best movies ever? EDITED Title

Gingerbread Demon

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It's interesting to watch the history of this movie that everyone loves now in the present time. But when it first came out hardly anyone knew it even existed. Oh man.



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Giant Freakin Robot?

Boy, I hope their channel is better than their website. :D

I only liked this particular video...... Their website sucks ass.

I believe a lot of content may be AI generated so it's the lazy way out for the creators
 
You're just trying to confuse me, I bet

No just there were some videos I liked like the one about Idiocracy but most of their content is stuff I don't like.. Saying "I love this channel" well I think I shall edit that now... After a bit if digging, which I should have done before posting.. Sorry
 
I've only seen it once. It seemed alright, but nothing special to me, and I'm not really a fan of films that feature deeply stupid people.
 
I never really liked "Idiocracy". It's not that I thought it was a bad movie. It had scared me. I had feared the movie might prove to be a foreshadow of the real world. And I suspect it has in the end.
 
I watched it a few years ago and really enjoyed it, but now it's a little scary because it feels a little too close to where we are now and where we're headed.
I read an article a recently where they talked to someone that was involved with the production, and they said that when they were working on the movie, they needed shoes and found this new company selling "stupid plastic shoes", and they picked them because they thought there was no way they were going to take off. They were Crocs.
https://www.looper.com/1477932/idiocracy-crocs-why-everyone-wears-them/
 
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I watched a few years ago and really enjoyed it, but now it's a little scary because it feels a little too close to where we are now and where we're headed.
I read an article a recently where they talked to someone that was involved with the production, and they said that when they were working on the movie, they needed shoes and found this new company selling "stupid plastic shoes", and they picked them because they thought there was no way they were going to take off. They were Crocs.
https://www.looper.com/1477932/idiocracy-crocs-why-everyone-wears-them/


I think that's also why this movie was never promoted. I think a lot of the content as the video says hit close to home for people that were financing this and 20th Century Fox must have read the script a few times and realised this.
 
It was a fun movie. But the premise - a very old one - is classist, and the execution was (presumably unintentionally) racist in many respects.

The core trope is based on equating wealth and education with native intelligence - it's not smarter people who reproduce less, it's affluent people. Reducing their number of progeny opens more potential opportunities for intelligent folks who lack other social and cultural advantages.
 
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It was a fun movie. But the premise - a very old one - is classist, and the execution was (presumably unintentionally) racist in many respects.

The core trope is based on equating wealth and education with native intelligence - it's not smarter people who reproduce less, it's affluent people. Reducing their number of progeny opens more potential opportunities for intelligent folks who lack other social and cultural advantages.

I agree that it was also classist.
 
I liked it and it's of course has lots of funny situations and characters. Sort of relevant if not 100% accurate to what a world that is . dumbed down would look like.
 
It was a prophetic work. I don’t know if I could even rewatch it now. It’s not funny because it cuts so close to the bone.
 
In reality, it's simply an uncredited elaboration of Cyril Kornbluth's 1951 story "The Marching Morons."

Parenthetically, a number of the set pieces constructed for this film show up reused in the Trek fan fillm Starship Exeter: The Tressaurian Intersection which shot at Austin Studios on a schedule alongside Idiocracy. Our crew used to dumpster dive outside Judge's rented soundstage every morning. :lol:
 
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