How in the hell...

[Jason]

idiots overbreeding the earth into disaster is a little close to eugenics for my taste -

Surely this is the furthest thing from eugenics.

[buffcoat]

idiots overbreeding the earth into disaster is a little close to eugenics for my taste -

Surely this is the furthest thing from eugenics.

Yeah, more an argument FOR eugenics.  Not that I'm advocating, but.

OW!  My balls!

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

idiots overbreeding the earth into disaster is a little close to eugenics for my taste -

Surely this is the furthest thing from eugenics.

Yeah, more an argument FOR eugenics.  Not that I'm advocating, but.

OW!  My balls!

Sorry, let me be clearer: the premise of the movie is a little too close to an argument FOR eugenics for my taste.

[Josh]

I saw Stanhope last Friday; he made a pretty convincing case for incentive-based eugenics.



So did a pretty large segment of the audience. FOLKS!

[paul]

all i gotta say is, futurama better still be awesome when it comes back.

[Jason]

For the record I am for eugenics.

[dave from knoxville]

See if you can guess my middle name

[John Junk]

I was actually wondering if Fox's decision to not really promote Idiocracy, and thereby "suppress" it even though it produced it, was actually an ingenious switcheroo viral marketing strategy to make a mediocre movie get enough street buzz that it becomes some kind of DVD sleeper cult classic.  In other words, I was wondering if they figured the movie would tank hard if they gave it wider distro, and they actually STARTED some of the enraged Fox-is-against-this-movie stuff that was on the net so that they could sell more DVD's.  Just a theory.  Either way, all that buzz served to make a just-okay comedy sound like Citizen Kane up 'til the moment you actually watched it.  I like the whole giving-plants-electrolytes thing, though.

[Emily]

See if you can guess my middle name

from!

[Andy]

I was actually wondering if Fox's decision to not really promote Idiocracy, and thereby "suppress" it even though it produced it, was actually an ingenious switcheroo viral marketing strategy to make a mediocre movie get enough street buzz that it becomes some kind of DVD sleeper cult classic.  In other words, I was wondering if they figured the movie would tank hard if they gave it wider distro, and they actually STARTED some of the enraged Fox-is-against-this-movie stuff that was on the net so that they could sell more DVD's.  Just a theory.  Either way, all that buzz served to make a just-okay comedy sound like Citizen Kane up 'til the moment you actually watched it.  I like the whole giving-plants-electrolytes thing, though.

I have wondered the same thing.

[erika]

It's what plants crave!