It’s a 10/10 movie wrapped in a 7/10 movie.
When I watched it the first time, back in the day, it was fun and all. Quite cool concept and the execution is quite good for a fairly low budget flick. 7/10.
HOWEVER! There is not, a, single, day, where I’m not thinking about that movie. In 2024 and 2025 my thoughts are constantly glancing back at the story and contents of the movie. 10/10
Anyone else has these symptom?
oooooooh gosh I remember watching that when I was lil. My dad was the one interested in watching i, must have been a redbox or netflix rental iirc?
It’s one of those movies I know full well most of the jokes definitely went over my head at the time but I also am unsure of if I want to go out of my way to rewatch. I think it came up for a vote in a movie watching group I tag along with in VR, maybe if it wins out eventually I’d watch again.
The one thing that stays in my head still all these years later is the perfectly average man in literally every respects. Best joke, I think I stole it for something at one point.
Obligatory “are we not living it?” reply!
It’s a bit uncanny how well it makes fun of the world we live in before it fully manifested! But I have to specify that I don’t actually think we got here by only stupid people having kids. That part wasn’t needed, just an erosion of systems like education and science in favor of rampant unchecked capitalism! IQ has also gotten kinda debunked between the time the movie was made and now. If you want some more stuff of the same vein I’ll mention the comic Transmetropolitan, parts of it has aged badly (including some controversies around the writer) but there’s still some very good plots in there I think
Yeah I see. I’ve actually never given much thought to how the movie primarily (and falsely) blames low iq. It’s a low hanging fruit and easy for everyone to understand and blame.
It has always been more about “the current state” it portrays in its futuristic vision. While human beings, as a whole, has never been more powerful and knowledgeable the individual are inching ever closer to becoming nothing but a drone in an automated existence.
Artificially induced dopamine is the driving factor in what many people do and at some point even critical functions (like the diagnosing of illness, as in the movie) is abstracted to be prodding colorful and fun icons on a tablet.
People abiding to and believing in dangerous and false ideas (as with the gatoraid watering) is something quite contemporary I must say.
Ads. Ads has become aggressive and they are taking up ALOT of space. A bit on the nose in the movie, where it physically takes up 90% of the actual screen area of people’s tvs.
I don’t think the movie has accurately forseen anything. Cus it’s pretty obvious where we are heading and it merely extrapolated a bit further ahead and made some “fun” assumptions.
….. I just can’t stop thinking about it…. Every time I read a newsarticle, a tweet, see a late night show, sees an ad in the street, overhear a conversation between random people in the bus. It’s there. Some of it. 
