Idiocracy

An underseen gem that shows Luke Wilson, defying the odds, can actually be a great leading man. Who knew? The premise: In the future, Wilson is the smartest man in the world, proven by his ability to answer this question on an IQ test: "If you have one bucket that holds two gallons and another bucket that holds five gallons, how many buckets do you have?"

Since stupid people breed more often than intelligent people, the world's IQ scores go down. People call each other scrot and 'tarded and say things like, "Go away, 'batin!" Wilson's court-appointed lawyer, Frito Pendejo, responds to Wilson's claim he's not guilty by credulously saying, "That's not what the other lawyer said."

Advertising is more explicit and direct. "If you don't smoke Tarrlytons... F--- you!" Carl's Jr.'s motto is, "F--- you, I'm eating." Fuddruckers changes to Futtbuckers then Buttruckers then to well, you can probably guess. Everybody drinks Brawndo, "the thirst mutilator," simply because "it's got electrolytes," though no one knows what those are. Water was a threat to Brawndo's profit margin, so it bought the FCC and FDA and could say and do anything. People are paid money if they end sentences by saying, "Brought to you by Carl's Jr." They have companies like Jack Inuh Box, Uhmerican Exxxpress, and Starbucks Exotic Coffee For Men, which serves Gentlemen's Lattes. Costco has a law school and a greeter who stares into space and says in monotone, "Welcome to Costco. I love you. Welcome to Costco. I love you."

The America 500 years from now is a scary prospect (though after seeing glimpses of "The Hills" and "Keeping Up With The Kardashians," I think now is pretty scary). "Ow! My Balls!" is the most popular TV show. It's nothing but a man getting hit and kicked and crushed and bit in the balls. It serves as a kind of metacommentary on our society since we find the show funny as well. "Ass" was the number one movie in America. "And that's all it was for 90 minutes." It won eight Oscars, including best screenplay. Readers of this blog can probably guess that I don't think movies are much better than this now.