Eryk Davis Ester
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I caught part of "Idiocracy" on Comedy Central over the weekend. It's Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph as two "average people" who somehow end up 500 years in the future, into a time in which the "dumbing down" of society as advanced to a degree that they are by far the smartest people around.
While I didn't like the movie much at all, it got me started thinking that it was actually kind of a cool and original premise for a story.
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I saw that too! It was utterly terrible! One of the worst movies I've ever seen actually.
But yeah, the premise for the whole thing is actually pretty good. It'd make a great Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episode, or one issue story in Strange Adventures or something.
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I agree -- "Idiocracy" has an interesting premise and it would be interesting to see what this "dumb" world would look like,(the tv show of neverending blows to the crotch is probably going to be on Spike next season) but it was a bad film and there wasn't really a story there.
It could have been a collection of short films, each helmed by a different director showing different visions of the "dumb future".
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quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: I caught part of "Idiocracy" on Comedy Central over the weekend. It's Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph as two "average people" who somehow end up 500 years in the future, into a time in which the "dumbing down" of society as advanced to a degree that they are by far the smartest people around.
While I didn't like the movie much at all, it got me started thinking that it was actually kind of a cool and original premise for a story.
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quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: . . . the "dumbing down" of society . . . it was actually kind of a cool and original premise for a story.
Outer Limits had a similar story when I was a teen.
These parents were shown trying to hide that their son, or maybe daughter, I can't remember for sure, was very smart. We don't know why until the end, when he's (she's) taken away by authorities to be euthanized so that the other kids, who weren't smart, wouldn't feel bad about themselves.
Everyone had to be mediocre. sigh
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I saw that miniseries when it first came out, I think, or something very like it.
Is it based on the idea of humans leaving the planet with probes either sent back periodically over the years to check on what's happening here?
Anyway, I rattle on so. sigh
I'm waiting for the new Star Gate Universe to come out.
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You're thinking of the Future is Wild, which is somewhat similar. It focuses on the future course of evolution in the absence of humans.
Life After People is more about what would happen to all of our stuff after we suddenly disappear, and how long it takes for all evidence of human life to be wiped out. There's something oddly groovy about watching the International Space Station crash into Earth, thus destroying our attempts to preserve human DNA, or finding out that it will take about 100 years for parrots to quit mimicking human language in our absence.
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Idiocracy would have been okay as a half-hour short. Not so much as a full-length movie. The premise is somewhat disturbing, but not in the way Judge intended, I'm sure.
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The DVD box had the original movie also, making the new one seem even worse in a side-by-side comparison.
Quantum of Solace.
WOW! Smartest written James Bond movie I can remember. I like that it continued on the story and some non agency characters from the last movie and I think I'm going to like this "real" Bond. Best foot chase sequences I recall seeing in a movie.
Still wouldn't mind a super villain on occasion but this direction has to be my favorite of all Bond takes(sorry Mr. Connery).
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Life After People was pretty groovy! Is that an ongoing series?
I love watching the history channel specials. The one about Krakatoa is simply fascinating to me. I also watched the gloomy one about 2012...my friend said it best: "looks like shit is over in 2012." The special is a little over the top in being alarming and trying to scare you. Its like Fox News or something.
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