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To: axial who wrote (26294)	4/22/2008 6:31:41 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Jim, when I first viewed Idiocracy I thought some parts were funny, some tolerable, some, well, intended for idiots. I later came across the flick during a content drought on cable (which happens more and more frequently, I'm finding) and watched it a second time with more intent, this time making note of the social parody, particularly in scenes like monopoly Brawndo getting so large that it acquired both the FCC and the Food & Drug Administration, thus allowing it to say whatever it wanted, and later how Brawndo was able to devalue water by relegating it to toilet flushing only for fear that water would be competitive to its soft drink and other products that had totally supplanted water's role on earth. More recently I happened across it a third time and took note of the facial gestures of the principal actors and some of the subtler effects in background and I laughed my arse off throughout. I don't know, maybe I succumbed to Stockholm Syndrome or something, or maybe I just need to get out more, but I now regard the flick as hilarious. As someone else noted the other day, sorta like "My Cousin Vinny", it is both downright stupid and hilariously wonderful at the same time ;) ------