When they say “Los Angeles” I think they mean some random theater in the middle of nowhere north of the Los grapevine canyon.

I lived in Ventura when idiocracy came out and a friend happened to be driving San francisco to San Diego that weekend so we met and saw the movie in that theater. There were only a couple of other people there - but it was a mid-afternoon showing.

It really felt isolated. Maybe on the edge of Santa Clarita.

When the costume designer was thinking about the kinds of shoes the people in this 'idiotic' future would be wearing, she found a small startup that made some pretty ridiculously looking and cheap shoes that she was sure were safe to use for the movie because they were definitely not going to catch on.

Those shoes were Crocs.