Idiot movie

Lunch at my desk - it's been a couple of weeks since I did this... well, I guess I could talk about what has been going on the last few days.

We are still keeping our Netflix subscription going, and we are getting better about being able to wash dishes and watch movies on the same night. On Tuesday we watched Idiocracy, a movie that had a very limited release here. I actually enjoyed the movie, and would watch it again. Liz said she liked the movie, but never wants to see it again.  They set the scene in the first few minutes, which you can see here. Basically, if you don't want to watch the video, natural selection (survival of the fittest) is starting to fall by the wayside as more and more intelligent people don't breed, and more and more less intelligent people over-breed. 2 modern-day average people, an Army private and a prostitute, are put into hibernation as part of a government test. They're supposed to wake up after a year, but instead wake up 500 years later, in 2505, to a civilization that has fallen to the point where everyone is stupid.

Admittedly, there are some scenes where I could see why people don't like the movie, because, frankly, everyone in the scene is an idiot. But the frustration at how stupid they are is what made it funny for me. My only dislike in the movie was the lead female who played the prostitute. I did not like her.

In the end, though, the movie scared me. The first couple of minutes where they run over what started the meltdown of society through over-breeding is actually happening. At times there were lines said by the future idiots that people say now. The high-ranking TV show of the future, "Ow my balls" is like Jackass. Perhaps, one day, we'll get there as a society.

Yesterday the new tripod head was delivered, so we put it on the legs and made sure it all looks good. We're both happy with it; it's a lot nicer than the old fluid head that broke. It may take some getting used to, but I'm glad we went with a pan-tilt over a ball head or another fluid head. I'm sure the camera will spend a lot of time on it over the next couple of months and years.