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Idiocracy (2006)
Rate:
3
Viewed:
2/20
2/20:
The first fifteen minutes of Idiocracy is kind of spot on, and then it's downhill from there, never being funny
for once.
If there's no vegetation anywhere, people will die. Without plants, there's no oxygen for them to breathe because the
carbon cycle has been permanently disrupted. This means there will be no animals to feed on, either. Forget about growing
any crop; the soil is finished, and the damage is irreversible. Trees are necessary to filter the land of dangerous chemicals
and pollutants. With all of that being said, none of these people should be alive in 2505.
Have you been to a landfill before? Do you know how god-awful it smells there? Incredibly, none of the two transported morons
notices the heavy miasma that's produced by trash which is literally piled up everywhere. Where are the bugs and
rats? They're absent which isn't possible. Inhaling an intense amount of air pollution and toxic chemicals, new
and old alike, will lead to skin problems, respiratory illnesses, and many forms of cancer, yet everybody looks
great if zombie-like.
I've met stupid people all my life, and I'm familiar with where their IQ range should be at. The people of 2505 as shown in
Idiocracy aren't dumb enough. I can easily get 100 or 200 people beating these idiots in whatever. Criminality and
low IQ go hand in hand. So does sexual perversion. The amount of them shown in the film isn't high enough by any means.
Language changes significantly over time, even in 400 years, yet the English spoken by the characters sounds more or less
the same as today. The fact that they're able to sound out but mispronounce advanced words is a dead giveaway of their
average IQ still matching the average IQ of people today. In Idiocracy, a chart is displayed with the average IQ dropping
over 400 years until plateauing at 25 or so. That will be in the range of severe to profound mental retardation which means they
should be helpless and dependent in all aspects of life, having only basic nonverbal communication.
So, what the fuck, Mike Judge? Is he trying to be clever in a piss-poor way or something? There's a lot of potential, but
he misses the mark in everything after managing to get a lot right about the cubicle culture in
Office Space. The
quality is beyond awful as it looks 95% filmed in CGI. I didn't realize the current state of cinema had sunk so low. At the
same time, I'm surprised at some corporations like Fuddruckers, Starbucks, and CostCo for lending their image to be used in a
derogatory manner.
Back to the beginning of the film, it touches on two couples, one with intelligence and the other that's white
trash. When I said earlier that it was "kind of spot on," intelligent people tend to focus on themselves first career-wise,
so they'll be financially ready to start a family (thanks to the feminist movement which empowered women to seek higher education
and diverse jobs) while the dumb people are mass producing but aborting a great deal of babies to no end. So no...high IQ isn't
going to die out any time soon, but what's alarming is the caliber of the top 10% has been dropping as proven by SAT scores.
By the way, what the hell is Maya Rudolph supposed to be for her character? In real life, she's described as a mulatto
(oh, excuse me...to be in tune with the PC culture, I must use the word "biracial," but whatever) but looks Indianfaced up
the wazoo.
All in all, despite providing nice food for thought, Idiocracy fails abysmally.