Idiocracy

Idiocracy For a movie that had almost no marketing done for it and was released in theaters in only six cities, Mike Judge’s Idiocracy, released in 2006, has become an extremely successful movie. Fox sat on the movie for over a year before finally releasing it in theaters. It didn’t even have so much as a movie trailer or an official movie poster. When Idiocracy did finally hit the theaters, the movie was only shown for two weeks. And shortly after that it went right to DVD, still without much marketing

The 2006 movie “Idiocracy,” starring Luke Wilson as corporate Joe Bauer presents a different outcome than what humanity expects the future to be. Joe Bauer works for the U.S military as a Liberian and due to the fact he has an average life, he is chosen to be a part of a top secret experiment with another subject. The other subject is a prostitute known as Rita, who agrees to be part of the experiment in exchange that she gets to be a prostitute without any consequences. Rita is played by Maya Rudolph

For my movie essay, I chose to write about Idiocracy. Idiocracy is a movie directed by Mike Judge that was released in 2006. It stared actors Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, and Dax Shepard in a comedic science fiction that takes a different outlook, than most other movies, on what the future will hold for humankind. Idiocracy begins, in 2005, with a U.S. army Officer named Collins, played by Mike McCafferty, who is the head of a top secret project known as, The Human Hibernation Experiment. This project

The movie Idiocracy, directed by Mike Judge, takes place in the year 2505, where the world has drastically changed from now. People have gotten so dumb that someone of average intelligence from today, is two times smarter than everyone else in 2505. In Idiocracy, the main character, Joe Bauers, wakes up to a world that in centered around consumerism. In this society the media constantly is around people, telling them to purchase more and to obtain more stuff. The way that companies market their products

with the movie Idiocracy. Even though we have made, good improvements with technology and growing our economy throughout the last few years. There have also been changes to the way people act and use the resources that we have today. Some of these being the type of foods being produced, the way we use technology, and also the way we speak. While watching the movie I was able to think more about how it related to the way people act today and I believe that we are heading into an Idiocracy. The main reason

Anyone who watches the movie Idiocracy, may think that it is the stupidest movie that they have ever seen. In fact, they may think that it is so stupid, that just watching it made their IQ drop a few points. Although Idiocracy is a comedy, the director Mike Judge is warning us what our future would look like if we drive our focuses away from important things, such as education. The film Idiocracy reveals the ways in which mass media can negatively affect a culture’s intelligence. More specifically

Courtney Mathis Professor Ratliff English 1302 20 March 2017 Technology is damaging the Future Society Technology is rapidly advancing as the years go by. In the film “Idiocracy” directed by Mike Judge, main character Joe Bauer was picked by the Pentagon as an average American human to be in a top-secret hibernation program but was forgotten. Waking up years into the future he realizes that everyone got dumber and that he is by far the smartest person. Technology has its advancements while society

depicted by the movie, “WALL-E” and “Idiocracy,” where humans live in a dystopian age which is filled by waste and trash. (good introduction, catches reader’s attention)  With both movies raising awareness about environmental problems and pollution to their audience. However, “WALL-E” and “Idiocracy” both use very different strategies to communicate their intentions. “WALL-E” used an animation while using minimal use of dialogue, thus making it family friendly. “Idiocracy” on the other hand, uses comedy

Idiocracy Mike Judge chose to express his societal critique through the medium of movies, and thus demonstrates his critique on the growing stupidity of the human race in his movie Idiocracy. Judge’s movie portrays to us America 500 years in the future, however, society does the opposite of expected and devolves instead of getting better. Moreover, as the name suggests, the America within Idiocracy does not have any intelligent people at all, but rather is filled with complete morons. As an example

With the spread of technology and innovation in the world, society is continuously expanding and becoming more and more intelligent. However, in the world of Idiocracy, directed by Mike Judge, society’s intelligence plummets to the point where low IQ is undoubtedly common. The social commentary of this incredibly hilarious and eye-opening film shows the inevitable future of the human race if intelligence continues to decrease. Although the directors and writers may have over exaggerated this future