For lack of a better term, this movie is somewhat prophetic.
You have a society with a rich know it all elite, and one of those members of that elite meets a person Miles Monroe, who has been unfrozen after 200 years and sees the decadence of her side and joins the other side.
I know Woody Allen meant this film to be a slam against Nixonian Republicans, but today it is a slam against modern day democrats.
The scene where he disposes of the leaders nose is worth the price of admission alone.
Woody Allen is correct in making fun of public schooling, in Annie Hall: Those who can’t, teach, and those who can’t teach, teach gym.
I saw it as a kid. I remember thinking, that’s a pretty cool looking future. Everything is so clean, so prosperous, so modern. I wouldn’t want to overthrow that Leader. I’d want to live in his country. I was rooting for Allen to fail.
Oh Gawd no! Not Woody Allen.
“..And then a man named Albert Shanker got hold of an atomic boomb!”
Funny that you posted this while I’m watching Death Race 2000. :)
I thought this movie was hilarious when I was a kid.
‘I know this is Woody Allen...’
...who was gifted with a quick mind and the ability to use it to make people laugh; whatever his personal quirks and objectionable behaviors, he has proven his worth...
many scenes come to mind; the ventriloquists with their dummies during prison vistation, putting blindfolds on execution victims and getting his hand stuck in one of them, freaking out as the rifles were fired, passing an illegible note to a bank teller during a robbery (I have a gub), playing cello in a marching band...
One of my top 10 of all time.
Huh? She was adopted?
Oh. That makes it ok. /s
I eschew all things Woody Allen. Pervert.
“Is [the dog] housebroken, or is he going to leave batteries all over the floor?”
In this future smoking was good, eggs & bacon are healthier than granola. The orb scene was funny too.
I think Idiocracy is much more prophetic.