Go see Idiocarcy! (If you can)
A 20th Century Fox motion picture comes out with Mike Judge as the creative force anfd starring Luke Wilson. Haven’t heard of it? No surprise, in a reverse from Sankes on a Plane, the movie Idiocracy is getting absolutely no advertising or support from its own studio. No trailer. No official movie poster even. Up until a week ago it wasn’t even going to be releaed. Instead it has ben released in the unlikely cities of Atlanta, Toronto, Chicago and of course LA. Inaddition, Mike Judge’s home state of Texas can watch if they liv ein Austin, Dallas or Houston.
The movie takes place in an America of the future where everyone has gotten stupid. Consumerism, violence and idiocy, as the title implies, now rule. Luke Wilson plays an avarage guy form 2005 who enters a hibernation experiment and accidentally is kept asleep for 500 years. When he wakes up in 2505, he finds he is now the smartest person in the world.
The premise is that dumb people keep having kids and smart people don’t leading to a world of idiots. Granted it’s far-fetched form a genetic standpoint, but hey, what good scifi movie isn’t far-fetched. This is sort of similar to the plot of Futurama with stupidity being mor eemphasized. Terry Crews plays the President of the US, a giant dreadlocked pro wrestler. Wrestlers and porn stars seem to reign in the future world which also sports a Costco that is it’s own city with a giant monorail.
I implore Fox to explain what the hell it’s doing with this movie. Reviews are mixed to good, but if they hated it so much, why release it at all? Why not go straight to DVD?
I implore you to see it if you can and report back. I’m stuck in the apparently improper market of San Francisco, so I won;t be able to see it.
September 8th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
Unfortunately I won’t be able to see it either since I’m not in a “proper” venue. Was actually kind of looking forward to it too, mainly because I know one of the people in it and had heard him talk about it back around the time they were filming.
September 8th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
[…] Was thinking about seeing a movie tonight, but looked at what was playing and it all looked like a waste of time. I did read about one movie that looks really funny, but it’s not playing in any theaters near me, or anybody else for that matter: Idiocracy. […]
September 10th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
You’re right, nothing. Zip. Nada. Not a word about this movie at all! Sure, I’m in the UK so it may not actually come out here, but who knows..