While on one of my trips to Blockbusters, I came across a display for the Idiocracy DVD. I paused and I recalled writing about this movie a year ago, and yet I never saw anything else about the movie. Wasn't this movie supposed to be released in theaters? I thought.
Well, it looks like this movie ended up getting a very limiting release to a few cities, and FOX did very little to promote it. Some say the movie tested poorly, and it was 'forgotten' by FOX. Hell, WB promoted Batman and Robin like crazy, despite the poor test audience scoring of that film. Judge's film was completed in 2004 and now the movie has been released to the home market.
((In the new movie, Luke Wilson plays Army Pvt. Joe Bowers, who has been put in deep-freeze hibernation as part of an Army experiment. Things go awry and Bowers doesn't wake up for 500 years. America has changed for the worse, becoming so dumbed-down that this average Joe stands out as the smartest person in the world. (Imagine drawling, laid-back Luke Wilson as the smartest guy in the world. There's a punch line.) Maya Rudolph, Justin Long and Stephen Root and David Herman of "Office Space" co-star.
A large, worried cloud started hanging over the finished film in late 2004, several months after it was shot at Austin Studios with a considerable number of local crew and extras. Fan mumblings grew into unofficial rumors, culminating last month with a report on MTV.com that the film's release had been postponed indefinitely. ))
So the it comes down to two things: 1. The movie is really bad and FOX simply dumped the movie, or 2. Someone higher up didn't like what it said about the growing stupidity of the American public and our constant bombardment of product placements and ads.
Even if the movie is total crap, I have to give Judge credit for having enough balls to address the growing stupidity in our Nation, which is only enhanced by Myspace Starbucks, and The Gap.
Side Note: Mike Judge's other film Office Space has grown on me. When I first saw it, I didn't get it. However, that has changed.
Side Note 2: There has been a vocal group claiming that Judge stole the idea from Futurama...
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