
The Ladykillers
1955


“In the future, intelligence is extinct.”
3.5K votes
To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.
Director
Mike JudgeWriters
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Original Language
English
Budget
$30.0M
Revenue
$495K
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**A dumb, smart movie or a smart, dumb movie?** This movie has become a cult classic on online forums as reddit users discuss the state of the world. I came into this movie with hopes that it would be a prescient foretelling of the state of the world and the death of intellectual curiosity. While I was hooked by the premise of a society getting dumber over time, I feel they ultimately exhausted much of this hook in the introduction to the movie. As the movie progressed, it revealed its true self - a quotable but ultimately low-brow movie that relies on the same tropes that it critiques. Be…
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