Sep 9, 2006

Idiocracy: Our consumable future - film

The latest film from Mike Judge (King of the Hill, Beavis and Butthead, Office Space) is "Idiocracy," and it's just opened with virtually no publicity -- thanks to the patented Fox stupidity about smart comedy. It sounds like a great flick, though:
Most everyone is a mouth-breathing lout, barely capable of forming a sentence. They've elected as president the guy who seems cool to them, they pass their days consuming, defecating, fornicating and gawking at anything that goes boom. Then consuming some more. And because they don't know any better, they've let themselves be co-opted by corporate marketers, taking brands ("Frito") for names and wearing disposable clothes covered with ads.
Link (via Digg)

Update: NPR's Day to Day did a great story on this: Link to NPR page, MP3 Link