{"id":373,"date":"2007-04-02T12:10:44","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T12:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=373"},"modified":"2011-08-28T17:29:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T22:29:07","slug":"dvd_idiocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/04\/dvd_idiocracy.html","title":{"rendered":"DVD: Idiocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the same brilliant minds that made OfficeSpace.  But significantly darker, to my mind anyway.  Two people of average intelligence are sealed up for an experiment&#8230;yet while they&#8217;re &#8220;asleep&#8221; the entire society gets so dumbed down (ouch! too close to home?) to the point that when these two are mistakenly awaked, they are now geniuses.  And the contretemps ensue&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Luke Wilson is great in this.  And I loved the whole &#8220;Who&#8217;s on First?&#8221; tattoo machine moment.  Also: &#8220;Gatorade&#8221; has taken over the world!<br \/>\nSadly when this really goes down it&#8217;s going to be a company a LOT worse than that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Funny.  But sort of secretly dark.  Or super dark behind the scenes once you start thinking about how likely some of it feels&#8230;  You could watch it without those inner thoughts.  But who would?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the same brilliant minds that made OfficeSpace. But significantly darker, to my mind anyway. Two people of average intelligence are sealed up for an experiment&#8230;yet while they&#8217;re &#8220;asleep&#8221; the entire society gets so dumbed down (ouch! too close to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/04\/dvd_idiocracy.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}