Idiocracy

This post has nothing to do with music, but I just saw what I think was the only theatrical showing of "Idiocracy" in Minnesota last night. It kinda sucked that the film projector melted at the very end of probably its only theatrical showing, but they fixed it and aired the final few seconds without a soundtrack. Seems like the climax of terrible marketing by Fox. This film had no trailer, commercials, or promotion of any kind. Its only theatrical showing was at midnight, last night, so I got to be one of the mabye 60 people in Minnesota who actually got the chance to view "Idiocracy" theatrically, which either makes me extremely lucky or extremely geeky.

But man, this movie was fucking hilarious. I figure it had bad marketing because of how it lampoons actual organizations that could sue the hell out of the distributors. It also lampoons the hell out of fox news, and fox itself was the distributor. Other lampoons - the future Fudruckers is called "ButtFuckers", the future Starbucks sells handjobs, blowjobs, and sex instead of coffee, and the future Costco is the size of an actual city which features tons of hookers and a law school. This film is probably accurate in what is likely to happen with humanity - with no natural predator natural selection favors the dumbasses instead of the smart because the dumbasses are too dumb to use birth control. Which is why abortion should always remain legal. The genuis of this movie is that it presents every category of dumbass you've ever met. Its pretty ridiculous, funny, and disturbing at the same time. The good thing is I think "Idiocracy" will actually be promoted once is comes out on DVD, and you can already save it on Netflix, which claimes it will be released in Jan. 2007, which is pretty soon.