this 'idiocracy' movie sounds like something i'd dig [reuters]
september 11, 2006 @
21:44
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it presents a "dystopian vision of a [future] world peopled by inarticulate, tv-addicted dolts who eagerly throw themselves under any and every set of corporate wheels that steamroll toward them." it's like it's pandering directly to me. bad news: the closest it's coming is chicago, so i'll be waiting for the dvd. nostradoodle predicts this thing becomes an instant cult classic.
dad thought:
Forget the movie. Read "the marching morons" by C M Kornbluth.
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=830251
(I didn't use the wikipedia link due to to criticism)
jburkart thought:
It's also written/directed by Mike Judge, who was the guy behind "Office Space". I don't understand why they wouldn't play that up since there are about 20 million cube jockeys like me that would see it opening weekend.
dave thought:
the whole way it's being handled is weird. like "maybe it hits too close to home" or "maybe it'll piss off our advertisers", it all seems like fake justification. i'm wondering if maybe it's just that it sounds like a great idea, but that in reality it ended up a poorly executed crappy movie. i guess i'll find out when i see it, because i totally will be.
del thought:
"Would you buy it for a quarter?"
dave thought:
indeed, that short story seems to have a very similar plot line. too bad you and the other omni reading scifi fanboys are the only ones who will know the truth. i think that means the dude who invented beavis and butthead will be branded a genius by the rest of us. ouch.
del thought:
Actually I be a Galaxy fanboi, not an omni poser. And I owned the paperback.