Idiocracy
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Idiocracy
Everyday idiocracy is becoming more and more real
History of the world: part 1
Independence Day. Just run away, alien dudes! The xenophobia isn't worth it!
Schindler's List. Humans can be nasty, horrible, utterly evil. It's all too common. But some of us will work to do good. Some of us will push back and do what's right. There is evil in this world, but there is also goodness.
"Contact" for a similar reason. It's a mix of all motivations, along with people's general mistrust of each other.
Samsara for the same reason. It shows beauty mixed with terrifying images of human impact.
Life of Brian, no doubt
The meaning of life too
Just the entire Cunk on Earth series.
100% factual information about human history.
Don't Look Up
The depressing thing about that movie is that in some ways it was exaggerated like satire usually is, but in others they actually toned down the stupidity.
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The man from earth. That should confuse them.
Hey, Neptune! I'm the only other human to have seen that movie!
I wish there were more. I love it so much.
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By Jerome Bixby? It's my favorite movie. I have to watch that again soon
Independence Day. Tell them it's a documentary.
Idiocracy.
Real answer though, 2001 a space odyssey.
Idiocracy was honestly my first thought, but they wouldn't have all the cultural nuance required to understand it. Someone else said Don't Look Up, which I think would get through the irrationality a bit better.
Haha 2001 was my first thought, and Idiocracy was my second.
Not a movie exactly, creators asked some basic questions and invited people to submit footage from a single day in July 2010. Exciting or mundane, anything.
Itβs really well put together and always gives me a refreshed perspective on my place in the world.
They did it again in 2020, during the pandemic.
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Shocked nobody's mentioned 'Mars Attacks.'
Mean girls
Idiocracy.
You should show them my latest movie that I can't promote right now.
They would be so confused, it would be hilarious.
Spaceballs
Obviously the complete Stargate franchise. Humans don't put up with aliens tryin' to pull any shit.
Eraserhead.
Lol. They'd leave and never come back.
"Gorg, wtf did I just watch?"
"I don't know, Sir"
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The Invention of Lying
Hellraiser II
I just came here to upvote every "Idiocracy" comment
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Orgasmo. The '97 one, not the '69 one. ... fuck it, also the '69 one. Make it a double-feature.
Earth Girls Are Easy
Charlie Chaplin Modern Times
An interesting choice, but they'd be pretty mislead about how our economy works 90 years on.
Napoleon dynamite pretty much sums it up. I intensely dislike the film but it's pretty indicative of the human condition.
Samsara
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - Literally telling aliens that we will fuck shit up.
Stalker (1979) - You can leave your garbage and we'll think it's treasure.
Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) - Humanity is really just a bunch of idiots, stumbling through everything.
Samsara
Either point break or bad boys 2.
If I could get away with a miniseries, James Burke's Connections.
Or Cunk on Earth. It's a toss-up.
Rocco's Animal Trainer #3.
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) by Peter Jackson.
Half Baked
SalΓ².
A certain sci fi movie from 1992
Magnolia
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