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1 posted on 09/02/2006 3:13:45 PM PDT by Ptarmigan

Is this the same Mike Judge of Beavis and Butthead fame?

2 posted on 09/02/2006 3:19:27 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)

Private Joe Bowers and a prostitute named Rita are frozen and are forgotten and fast forward to 500 years later. America has gotten dumber. All the dumb people reproduce like rabbits. The world is infested with litter and people are dumb.

Were they frozen in, say, the year 1506 or so?

8 posted on 09/02/2006 4:18:24 PM PDT by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")

Comedy? Sounds more like a documentary to me.

10 posted on 09/03/2006 4:42:58 AM PDT by Jack Hammer

Not South Park-related, but close enough!

11 posted on 09/03/2006 9:52:00 AM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)

A Google search reveals several articles that criticize the lack of promotion of this movie.

13 posted on 09/03/2006 1:33:23 PM PDT by EveningStar

If they didn't credit Kornbluth, I'll be pretty disappointed. This is one of the sci-fi stories that influenced my earliest socio-political developement, along with "Harrison Bergeron" by Vonnegut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons
"The Marching Morons" is a science fiction short story written by Cyril M. Kornbluth, originally published in Galaxy in April, 1951.

The story is set hundreds of years in the future: the date is 7-B-936. A man from the past, John Barlow, is reanimated in this future. The world seems mad to Barlow until Tinny-Peete explains The Problem of Population: due to a combination of intelligent people prudently not having children and excessive breeding by lesser intelligent people, the world is full of morons with the exception of an elite few who work slavishly to keep order. Barlow, who was a shrewd conman in his day, has a solution to sell to the elite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

"Harrison Bergeron" is a dystopian science fiction short story written by Kurt Vonnegut and first published in 1961. It deals with egalitarianism. The theme is set by the first line: "The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal." Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in October 1961, the story is now available in the author's collection Welcome to the Monkey House.

17 posted on 09/03/2006 4:08:54 PM PDT by Uriah_lost (M.I.E. Mainer In Exile I'll come back when the Massholes go home.)

21 posted on 09/03/2006 5:34:38 PM PDT by Anomaly in Illinois (Never Forget! ~~~~ Never Again!)

My wife and I saw it this afternoon here in Dallas (one of the few cities that has it). It's quite funny. The film takes an equal opportunity swipe at everybody; which of course includes itself. Reminds me a lot of South Park's approach to things.

I had read at one point that Judge quit making Beavis and Butthead when his own kids started acting like them. I wonder if the social commentary in Idiocracy is his atonement for that?

Regardless, it does leave you pondering just what could really happen....

25 posted on 09/04/2006 8:24:40 PM PDT by speelurker

Just came on cable.

I’d say it is already 2025.

LOL

Watching it now.

Not only kinda funny but to much like reality here in 2008.

27 posted on 01/19/2008 1:54:29 PM PST by Global2010

32 posted on 06/19/2008 8:53:15 AM PDT by dennisw (We have an idiocracy not a democracy)

33 posted on 06/19/2008 8:53:24 AM PDT by dennisw (We have an idiocracy not a democracy)

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