[lbo-talk] "Idiocracy"

[B.]

Carl,

I recently watched it as well (as I mentioned in a
previous post) and was impressed, despite the
b-movie-ness of some parts of it. Low brow, gangsta,
bro-ham, nu-metal, etc. culture takes over America,
and America suffers accordingly. It was filmed
unflatteringly in Austin.

In the big pharma-company thread I mentioned the movie
since in it, as you may remember, all medical research
had been devoted to helping men get laid and stave off
baldness while other types of medical problems run
rampant. Priorities out of whack, in other words. Even
though a premise of the movie s actually an incorrect
interpretation of how evolution works, it is still
funny as hell.

For some reason FOX dropped Mike Judge's _Idiocracy_
from big theater distribution just prior to its
release. Maybe it's because he pokes fun at FOX being
the dominant news network of the future, hosted by
American gladiator types? A lot of folks seem to think
the movie is itself low-brow, instead of a
condemnation of the low brow-ization of American
culture.

-B.

Carl Remick wrote:
> I used part of the LBO list's downtime productively
by watching Mike Judge's 
> "Idiocracy," a film that was long held prisoner by
20th Century Fox and has 
> now escaped to DVD.  This is the greatest dystopian
movie since Terry 
> Gilliam's "Brazil."  It makes "Mad Max" look like
"Brigadoon."
> the year 2505: