Showing posts with label idiocracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label idiocracy. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

the title says it all

the movie started off promising. the idea that the smart people are waiting to have babies until they can "afford" them combined with the red-neckers complete disregard for population control is a scary but completely plausible reality. the rest of the film was a highly unlikely exaggeration which was almost insulting at times. for instance, when luke's character talks like a normal human does today... it's called "fag talk" while everyone else just "speaks" in grunts. but maybe that's a way of saying that homosexuals are smarter than heteros. who knows. and really... would we ever elect a WWF, or whatever it's called now, wrestling dude... president? not us. but these people would. i guess when i say insulting i mean that i am offended (read: scared) that anyone would think my gene pool is capable of being such a bunch of morons.

idiocracy had its [few] funny moments. but it was mostly made up of "har-har" sex jokes. the acting was abysmal, even from luke wilson, who's usually great on screen. mya rudolph was just absolutely horrible. but dax shepard played a "retard" pretty well... but i'm not sure that's really something to be proud of.

it was a worthy attempt at depicting the degradation of our society. but the low brow humor was a little much and negated any progress the film made in terms of being taken as a serious comedy.

idiocracy: c+