[lbo-talk] "Idiocracy"

[B.]

Seems like recently there's an influx of great movies
I have to see:
_CSA:_The_Confederate_States_of_America,
_A_Scanner_Darkly_, that new British movie about
George Bush being assassinated, _Army_of_Shadows_,
_Little_Miss_Sunshine_, and now, of course, this.

What's weird is I've known folks here in Texas, where
_Office_Space_ was filmed, who are Republican and yet
who love that movie. That's remarkable to me because
that movie has very anti-racist, pro-working class
undertones.

Sidenote: Mike Judge apparently learned to do
animation by looking at books from the Richardson
public library, which is about 10 miles from me. The
"King of the Hill" city of Arlen is apparently based
on Garland, a satellite city of Dallas, also about 10
miles from here.

-B.




Carl Remick wrote:

"I'm a big fan of Mike Judge's TV show "King of the
Hill" and was surprised to see that 20th Century Fox
has decided to go virtually direct-to-video with
Judge's new movie "Idiocracy" (after keeping it in the
can for two years) and not give it much of a
theatrical release.  The NY Times suggests Fox didn't
like the movie because of a supposed anti-populist
tone -- the NYT in fact describes it as "a cautionary
tale about low-intelligence dysgenics (essentially,
overbreeding among the stupid)." 

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/business/09online.html

I haven't seen the movie, but based on the Hollywood
Reporter's review (excerpted below), the film sounds
more anti-capitalist than anti-populist.