Some thoughts and questions about "Idiocracy"

[BuelahWitch]

I watched this yesterday due to a recommendation from the Lounge (thanks by the way). Noticed a few things:

One thing I observed was once Joe got to the year 2505, there seemed to be very few people over the age of 30 in the city's population. I can't remember seeing any, except for the President and one of his cabinet members. Was this a nod to that movie where everyone over the age of 30 was murdered by the gov't? Or were there simply no older people available for extras the days the movie was filming?

Second thing: did the ex-wrestler who came out of retirement to "rehabilitate" Joe have a "Jesus" look to you? He did to me.

Third and last: what would have happened to the internet? These people didn't' seem to know how to read or write. Taken away when the corporations bought the gov't?

Of course, I saw many parallels to 2007. The best one was the parody of Fox news...

[asthmaticeog]

1. Odd...

though everything you point out is correct, they all pale in comparison to the most glaring inconsistency in the film: that people who are too dumb to tie their own shoes build and maintain mega-monster trucks, automatic I.D. tattoing devices and cars whose batteries can be remotely deactivated.

So some suspension of disbelief is plainly called-for.

[BuelahWitch]

2. You're right about that

But some of that machinery was complete shit and broke down, like when the woman was trying to get the fries out of the machine.
And then the travesty with Joe's name while he was being tattooed...so while the people did build and "maintain" this stuff, they did a pretty crappy job of it.

[hunter]

3. I think it's all done by robots...

The entire economy is on auto-pilot.

There are robot assembly lines churning out cars somewhere, powered by decrepit old nuclear power plants that would scare the shit out of anyone who wasn't stupid.

That's how I suspended my own disbelief. :silly:

[Lautremont]

4. "He tried taking water from toilets,

but it's Secretary Not Sure who's in the toilet now."

This sounds like genuine Fox News copy to me!

The lack of old people probably reflects the fact that all they eat is junk food and an electrolyte-filled sports drink, and so die off from heart disease at an early age. Not to mention that hygenic standards at the factories that make the food are probably pretty low.

I have no answer to the Jesus point. It hadn't occurred to me.

And I'll bet the internet has simply morphed into the Masturbation Network. (Motto: "Go 'way! 'Batein'!")