Idiocracy

I am posting this blog to give my critique, not so much on the movie, "Idiocracy" starring Luke Wilson, but to comment on the usability of the DVD display menu. I wish I had a screen shot for you showing the display menu, but ahh....I don't. Instead I'll make up for it by attempting to describe it.

Last week, I watched this movie, in it's entirety, and it took me about 2 minutes to actually start the movie from the menu. Isn't that ironic considering what the movie is titled........ The display menu came on the screen and there were images and signs everywhere, with a lot of colors. The images were designed to mimic televisions screens bordering around the actual menu. When you highlighted what you actually wanted to see, it was really hard to decipher the highlight because there were so many competing colors. The highlight color was yellow, but yellow was on more than half of the other television boxes. Maybe they were trying to somehow relate to the dumbing down of characters in the movie.

The premise of the movie is that Luke Wilson, "Private Joe Bowers", is the definition of "average American", and "is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. He is forgotten about and he awakes 500 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive." Ummmm..... I don't know if I would recommend the movie, but if you're a Mike Judge fan you'll probably see it or have already seen it.