Idiot America

I wrote about this once before but thought I would touch upon it one last time. Today on Yahoo, they have one of those silly filler features that they run from time to time and tonight's is a masterpiece. With the Presidential election not too far away, they have a list of the 10 best US Presidents in cinema history. It's pretty much what I expected save for one wicked surprise: Terry Crews take as President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in the brilliant, but very much maligned and ignored Idiocracy.

If you haven't seen it, and judging by the money it made, you haven't, please do go out and rent it, as few political satires have managed to hit the proverbial nail on the head. From director Mike Judge of Office Space and Beavis and Butthead fame, it's a pretty poorly made film staring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard and the President himself, Terry Crews. What it lacks in production quality though, it more than makes up for in brilliantly mocking the current state of American culture and America itself. Wilson plays an everyday average Joe who volunteers for an Army experiment that goes awry. Frozen in a special chamber, he and Rudolph are supposed to wake up one year later, only they don't and it's 500 years till something causes their sleep chamber to come awake. What they find is a world full of complete and total idiots.



Seems that sometime around the turn of the 20th century, smart people stopped having kids, preferring instead to focus on careers and self-fulfillment. The folks you currently see on Jerry Springer keep on popping them out and before too long, idiots rule. When Wilson wakes up, he finds that the Best Picture is a movie called "Ass", the top television show is "Ow, My Balls" and Starbucks now sells hookers and blowjobs. People can't get more than a word or two out of their mouths without saying ass, fuck or shit. Buildings are built crooked, nothing is spelled right, they spend all day sitting in a recliner that doubles as a toilet and get force fed yellow paste. In short, if you take the current state of affairs in America and take them to their logical conclusion, Idiocracy is what you will get.

Here are a few of my favorite quotes:

Doctor to Wilson's character Joe: "

Right, kick ass. Well, don't want to sound like a dick or nothin', but, ah... it says on your chart that you're fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded. What I'd do, is just like... like... you know, like, you know what I mean, like..."

At a State of the Union Speech:
President Camacho:

Shit. I know shit's bad right now, with all that starving bullshit, and the dust storms, and we are running out of french fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution.

South Carolina Representative # 1:

That's what you said last time, dipshit!

South Carolina Representative # 2:

Yeah, I got a solution, you're a dick! South Carolina, what's up!

Secret Service Thug:

Okay. Hey, a couple of us guys were wonderin', uh if we'd go family-style on her.

A story about history:
Narrator: [Time Masheen starts]

We're gonna take you back, to the year 1939 when Charlie Chaplin and his nazi regime enslaved Europe and tried to take over the world...

Narrator: .

..But then an even greater force emerged, the U.N.
[pronounced "un"]

Narrator:

and the U.N. un-nazied the world - forever.