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So this weekend I watched the film Idiocracy directed by Mike Judge (a la Office Space fame).

I truly was looking forward to watching this film! I simply love BAD movies and this one had a rating of 6.4 on imdb. Personally, I like going for films that have a less than 6 rating... For example, Zardoz has a rating of 5.5 and it is a GREAT film... No really, I do love Zardoz...

Some spoilers ahead...

So, the film stars Luke Wilson as an average Joe who enjoys his mundane and uninspiring life in the military. He is chosen as a lab rat for a one-year, experimental, "top secret" military project which will hopefully, in the future, cryogenically freeze their top soldiers for future military use. Of course, the experiment goes awry and Joe wakes up 500 years in the future to find out that people and society have not evolved but rather devolved.

The film is neither poignant nor cerebral by any stretch of the imagination, however, the irony is that in its stupidy it manages to disspell and idea that we are indeed superior beings. It also reminds us that, given the wrong sort of direction, society is not far from nor truly removed from becoming the dystopia that is represented in this film. It is filled with insane but possible truths. And for anyone that has a love for the uber-bad films that portray the degeneration of society (ie: Soylent Green, Escape from New York and Omega Man) this is just another film that should be on your "Ought To Watch" list.

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