Idiocracy

[buffcoat]

Saw this last night.  It's absurd that some rage-filled Fox suit blocked this movie.

It's not the greatest movie of all time, but it is a funny concept and it's executed as a typical Mike Judge project, which is to say funny.  I enjoyed it.

[Richard_From_CHI]

As my dentist was making me shed blood last night she raved about this movie, I need to track this one down.

[Omar]

As my dentist was making me shed blood last night she raved about this movie, I need to track this one down.

It's the best film of 2006.

[Emerson]

Thanks for the tip.

I had assumed that anything that could be "marginalized" so successfully must not be very good.

Now I'm disturbed.

~EmD

[Jason]

I think the marginalization is a pretty sharp piece of marketing.
The odds of a film like this make big moolah at the box office are pretty slim so they release it on DVD and create a myth that it was suppressed. Is there a better marketing gimmick for the youth of of today than a story that "the man" doesn't want you to see it.

[Josh]

I think the marginalization is a pretty sharp piece of marketing.
The odds of a film like this make big moolah at the box office are pretty slim so they release it on DVD and create a myth that it was suppressed. Is there a better marketing gimmick for the youth of of today than a story that "the man" doesn't want you to see it.

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[Emerson]

That's giving them a lot of credit, particularly when entertainment marketers are more and more risk-averse. But you're probably right, in terms of the tailwind Idiocracy got from Fox's bureaucratic cluelessness.

I'm pretty sure the YHF "controversy" was created accidentally, too. That might be the silliest marginalization myth of them all... except for when the same thing happened to Insane Clown Posse.

Free Coke Blak! We want the truth!

~EmD