Idiocracy

“I prefer to think of it as a documentary made in advance.”

“an excellent, hilarious, and sadly more relevant than ever, movie”

“if the networks had played that and it was promoted on YouTube for free the night before the most recent presidential election”

“Idiocracy turned out to be quite prescient”

“I remember thinking the premise is great but the situations are way too exaggerated for comedy”

“It promoted harmful popular misunderstandings of genetics and it shouldn't be defended as in any way accurate.”

“Pretty much everything else holds, including predicting the rise of Crocks.”

“The reason it is only in the intro and is never revisited is that it is just the setup for the actual movie, not a message in itself”

“It's a piece of satire forming a work of political and social philosophy, and a middling straight-to-video movie.”

“isn't the introduction sequence straight-up apologia for the theories behind eugenics”

“it isn’t punching down, it’s extrapolating upwards”

“It's actually worth watching Idiocracy and Wall-E”

“it is a interesting movie. It should have talked more about cultural enshittification”

“There are still some good themes on over-reliance on automation without understanding it.”

“Idiocracy is a fun, silly satire that is nearly a cartoon”

“It has a mildly eugenics-y vibe where the world is bad because poor, stupid people have poor, stupid kids that outnumber the smart ones.”

“this seems like a good addition to the reality based manuals out there”

“it's pretty clearly making a eugenics argument without any mitigating counter-hypothesis”

“It's not a eugenics-y vibe. The inciting incident is dysgenics, and the in-narrative apocalypse would have been prevented by eugenics.”

“It's very explicitly a dysgenic apocalypse narrative, which could have been avoided with earlier eugenicist intervention.”

“Watched it again with my wife who had not seen it before: it's not funny.”

“I still like the movie, but like with any 20+ years old comedies, I can recognise issues with its premise”

“I love Idiocracy, but I have come to sympathize with criticism that it's a bit pro-eugenics.”

“Idiocracy explained how we got there.”

“I think it's a great movie and they struck a good balance.”

“there are countless jokes in the movie that don't depend about how the world became stupid”

“the satirical elements are heavily over exaggerated by fans”

“As a cultural mirror, it's pretty entertaining”

“I couldn't finish "Idiocracy" because the underlying eugenics nonsense made me angry enough not to enjoy the comedy anymore.”

“we are lucky that they didn't just can it completely”

“I ve been watching Idiocracy over and over for years, as a documentary.”

“One of my favorite hard satires.”

“one of my favorite scenes in the movie”

“I also disagree with the sentiment that we're in "Idiocracy", but I still enjoy the film.”

“the movie is definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it yet”

“It was supposed to be a comedy movie but sadly, it describes the world we are living right now.”

“it was a warning about the future, not a comedy movie”

“Mildly funny but also I think representative of the kind of smart(arse) and unwise attitude”

“an upbeat film that shows me what we could aspire to as a country”

“Idiocracy is a very interesting documentary”