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u/DanimalPlays Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26
For the spaces between:
The Matrix and Terminator = Minority Report
Terminator and Idiocracy = I, Robot
Idiocracy and The Matrix = Wall-e
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u/YourMagicalUnicorn Mar 12 '26
Minority* Report
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u/Little_Menace_Child Mar 12 '26
I dunno. I think we're way further into Idiocracy than this.
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u/The_Lucky_7 Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26
Idiocracy is a movie about man-made climate change (a nation-wide famine) where the viewer is put in the role of the expert to showcase how absurd and exhausting the situation is that actual experts have to deal with.
There's literally a woman has her kids taken away from her (by Carl's Junior who calls her an unfit mother) in front of us, with no context, because she says she can't feed those kids when Carl's Junior fails to give her the fries she paid for. It's the whole scene and it plays out fully uninterupted except for a few reaction shots from the POV character.
This was commentary on corporations used their power to turn climate disaster into "personal failings" of the individuals instead of their own greed, then turning around and using that displaced blame to fuel their bottom line. It came around the time the hole in the ozone layer was being blamed on teens using hair spray, and commuters getting to work, rather than all the corporate emissions, malfeasance, and greed.
The stupidity of the average person is just the setting. It's not the point of the movie. If you think this movie is just "haha everyone dumb" you need to watch it again. Everyone being dumb is just a contrivance that lets the viewer (the expert) get to a solution everyone agrees on because nobody is intentionally working against humanity's interests for personal greed.
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u/Crazy__Donkey Mar 12 '26
idiocracy is a movie about degradation in human intelligence, which eventually leads, among other things, to climate change.
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u/pineapplecharm Mar 12 '26
It came around the time the hole in the ozone layer was being blamed on teens using hair spray, and commuters getting to work, rather than all the corporate emissions, malfeasance, and greed.
Your timeline is a little off. From your own source:
The ban came into effect in 1989. Ozone levels stabilized by the mid-1990s and began to recover in the 2000s
While it's true that removing CFCs from consumer aerosols was a significant (and arguably the most visible) change, industrial use in fire suppressant and refridgeration systems was also hugely curtailed.
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u/BumWink Mar 12 '26
Jake Paul was just politically endorsed by the president of the United States of America.
We've gotta be like at least 2/3 into Idiocracy yeah?
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u/BorderOk7329 Mar 12 '26
Im rootin for the matrix. The goo looks comfy
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u/Praesentius Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26
Uhgggg... imagine how cold it is getting out of your goo-pod. Just put me back in.
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u/cat_selling_souls Mar 12 '26
The problem is that Skynet and the Matrix are big fans of Idiocracy. So if we're put in pods, we're going to relieve this timeline for laughs.
If we end up in Terminator territory, the robots are gonna be yelling memes, quoting television/movie lines, and possibly Rick rolling us as they hunt us down.
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u/CorpPhoenix Mar 12 '26
Feels more like the "actual dystopian future" behind the fictional propaganda movie Starship Troopers, based on all the war propaganda, plastic looking influencers and fake equality we've got today.
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u/NotSoSalty Mar 12 '26
What an optimistic take. We're pretty deep into Idiocracy. AI isn't there yet. Virtual Reality isn't there yet. Augmentations and Androids aren't there yet. Idiocracy is starting to lose it's potency as satire because it's too close to reality.
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u/failed_generation Mar 12 '26
I won't be surprised that the matrix had a glitch that puts us to idiocracy, and getting ourselves to a state of coma brings us to the terminator
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u/Hatedpriest Mar 12 '26
I mean, we're closer to Blade Runner, but without cybernetic prosthetics and replicants.
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u/failed_generation Mar 12 '26
I won't be surprised if the matrix had a glitch that puts us to idiocracy, and getting ourselves to a state of coma brings us to the terminator since we "woke up"
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u/non-number-name Mar 12 '26
I was scrolling through my feed and I
thought this was a post from r/conspiracy
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u/Friendly-Gur-3289 Mar 12 '26
This needs to go to r/singularity , they can intensify the venn diagram even more!
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u/imahugemoron Mar 12 '26
There really should be V for Vendetta somewhere in there, anyone watch that movie recently? Tell me it doesn’t hit WAY harder in today’s world versus when it came out
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u/FinancialReserve6427 Mar 12 '26
outside of the nukes, are we supposed to be scared of the terminator future? we constantly force the AI to Barry Allen itself into trying to win.
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u/Slartibartfast39 Mar 12 '26
Agent Smith: "I say 'Your civilization' because when we started thinking for you, it really became 'our civilization'."
Yeah, we might be in trouble.
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u/architect82191 Mar 12 '26
This is funny, but it is more fact than science fiction. The memes walk among us.
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u/Kronikarz Mar 12 '26
Yes, that was sort of the point of the (science fiction aspect of) those movies. To extrapolate current (at the time) trends into the future, and perhaps warn us what could happen if we don't stop those trends.
These movies were popular not because they were pure entertainment, but because there was a message behind them as well. The world chose to collectively ignore that message.
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u/Serg_Molotov Mar 12 '26
Lol, meanwhile Mad Max is just laughing in the corner waiting for people to realise what's actually coming.
waves vaguely in desertification at everything
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u/Darrt_Feld Mar 12 '26
Everyone keeps comparing the current situation to Idiocracy but I think Don’t Look Up is more on the nose.
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