Idiocracy

Posted by ungraspiness Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:43:00 GMT

“Welcome to Costco, I love you.”

Idiocracy, the second live film by Mike Judge (the 1st was ‘Office Space’) is a Science Fiction, Action Comedy set 500 years in the future. The world is inhabited(and ruled) by dysgenics while 2 unfortunate people from a failed military hibernation experiment in 2005 have the unfortunate chance of waking up in a completely bungled future. Luke Wilson gets a shot at the U.S. presidency because he ‘discovers’ that the dying crops of the world may grow again if they are watered instead of being fed a futuristic gatorade.

Brilliant.

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Videodrome

Posted by ungraspiness Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:55:00 GMT

Is Cronenberg brilliant or insane or are those the same thing ?

I am a fan of Cronenberg but have never seen this film. When I heard that Videodrome stars Debby Harry I decided to watch it out of sheer curiosity.

It has a similar feel to the 90s ‘Naked Lunch’. The makeup and effects as well as the blending of reality and imagination of the main character.

The theme of how mass media effects our reality can be easily mapped now to the internet.

Long live the new flesh (of cyberspace)...

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