merari42What other movies wouldn't work today?
CascadianGiraffeIdiocracy
You would get sued by FOX ‘News’ for copying their daily programming.
Don PianoAh, because of the pro eugenics position in the movie? I dunno, I feel like they’d like for there to be more “past good, present degeneracy” type narratives around.
Really could pick any ‘news’ outlet. I just feel like they’re the ones most likely to be overly dramatic and most likely to sue.
Ah, because of the pro eugenics position in the movie?
uh? I always understood the justification of getting to Idiocracy was that only dumb people kept on having kids, the issue was not that they were genetically deficient, but that they couldn’t care less about education, ethics, societal improvement, etc
Whether it’s genetic or memetic the implication is that it’s what they’re passing down to their kids that’s the problem.
Yes but memetics is a far cry from eugenics
However much like eugenics, it’s shockingly hard to engage in it’s memetic equivalent without genocide.
Out of all the answers where it looks like people decided to try to make fun of old movies this one is the original answer that we are living this reality.
So remake it with a plot-twist: the man in the stasis pod just wakes up the next day but thinks he’s in the distant future. To set this up, maybe the pod is delivered to a different city or is mistakenly sent to a cable network studio.