April 14, 2018 Idiocracy (2006)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
Private Joe Bauers, the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes five centuries in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.
It has been a long time since I saw this. The premise which everybody knows demonstrates how great an idea it is but the movie itself is really mediocre. Of course any criticism of how dumbed down the plot is can easily be met with "That's the point" but was the narrator really necessary? How this film comes up in discussions leaves much to be desired.
2/5
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
Private Joe Bauers, the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes five centuries in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.
It has been a long time since I saw this. The premise which everybody knows demonstrates how great an idea it is but the movie itself is really mediocre. Of course any criticism of how dumbed down the plot is can easily be met with "That's the point" but was the narrator really necessary? How this film comes up in discussions leaves much to be desired.
2/5