Idiocracy is now our point of reference for the dumbing down of society. Gizmodo made the case for Idiocracy as a cruel film for the slippery-slope of classism in the story’s introduction that undermines the political satire in the film: One major plot point dragged the film down for some critics. It’s just one specific thing after another!” And then Donald Trump being in the WWF before, and talking about his penis size. Then there’s this thing called the Fellatio Café in Switzerland where you get blowjobs with coffee, and we had the Starbucks thing in there. announcing that they were going to have a completely robotic, non-employee store-and it’s Carl’s Jr. “At first, I was just thinking, yeah, that’s nice to hear, but then very specific things, like Carl’s Jr. Now every other Twitter comment I get is about Idiocracy, and how it’s a documentary now,” Judge told The Daily Beast. “Three or four years ago, I started getting comments about it, people discovering it, and it just keeps building. Now unfortunately our id has become our candidate for President.” “Writing Idiocracywas just following your id. “Our jokes would be like, ‘I’m going to build a wall around the earth.’ They were only incrementally stupider,” Cohen told TIME. Come to think of it, a world where the opening remark of the State of the Union is “ Shit,” as Terry Crews’ bombastic President Camacho readies to sling empty promises and obscenities, doesn’t seem all that far off. At least in Mike Judge’s future, the nitwits see water affecting the growth of plants and believe it. But we also have climate change happening right in front of us and still there are deniers. Our current situation is far better than skyscrapers being held together by rubber bands, or mountains of trash mounds that overcast major cities. ‘Idiocracy’ Realized: How Our Current Situation Is Worse Than the Film Predicted ‘Idiocracy’ 2016: 20 Movies That Predicted Trump’s Rise The legacy of a film that Rolling Stone once called the “smartest stupid movie ever made” is up for review far sooner than we anticipated, and the retrospectives have been pouring in across the internet: Idiocracy was granted new life as a recurring jab during a tense 2016 election and continues to feel dangerously close to reality in its aftermath. Read more: The Best Dystopian Video Games And when its main character needed “rehabilitation” for talking all “faggy,” the film did The Hunger Games before the YA-dystopian novel frenzy became a Hollywood cash cow. It made sex feel dirty for all the wrong reasons, with chivalry on a downward trajectory into the pages of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian Handmaid’s Tale. Stumbling across this film late at night on some god-forsaken secondary HBO channel was like being handed The Grasshopper Lies Heavy : For Dummies on the hush. Idiocracy persists as a must-watch cult classic, not just because it feels as though Judge and Cohen looked into a crystal ball, but it’s also as digestible of a futuristic dystopia as we’ve ever seen in popular culture. It had it’s own sort of magical experience in that way.” “ Idiocracy had no theatrical and everybody was up in arms like, ‘This movie didn’t come out in a movie theater, but you have to see it, it’s insane!’” indie filmmaker Jay Duplass told Deciderat the end of a totally unrelated interview, thus proving the film isn’t far from anyone’s mind. “It was like this frenzy about how this incredible movie snuck past theatrical and people were yelling at people, forcing them to watch it.
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