Re: Contagion (Dir: Soderbergh) - Sept 9, 2011
 

She was barely more than a cameo in the film. :brickwl2:

Re: Contagion (Dir: Soderbergh) - Sept 9, 2011
 

But technically she was the single most important character in the movie next to the chef. ... :lol:

Plus there's just a lot of irony in her spreading the disease vs. all the stuff she shills in real life. I mean, Kate Winslet went to the CDC to research her role.

Re: Contagion (Dir: Soderbergh) - Sept 9, 2011
 

I re-watched this over the weekend -- what a great way to stoke any subconscious coronavirus paranoia. Thanks to this movie, however, I can now talk authoritatively about "R-naughts" and "fomites."

I agree with others who felt as if the 100-minute run time was a little too rushed.

Re: Contagion (Dir: Soderbergh) - Sept 9, 2011
 

This Buzzfeed is nice cheat if you haven't seen the film :lol:

I Made A Huge Mistake And Watched "Contagion" And Here's Why You Probably Shouldn't Either

Re: Contagion (Dir: Soderbergh) - Sept 9, 2011
 

I'm going back to Outbreak. At least I can spank it to Rene Russo while my organs are melting into pure liquid shit.

Re: Contagion (Dir: Soderbergh) - Sept 9, 2011
 

Lately my thoughts have been on the reality-techno-thriller The Hot Zone. Great book from the 1990’s. Not sure why it was never made into a movie.

Re: Contagion (Dir: Soderbergh) - Sept 9, 2011
 

If it's the book I'm thinking of, it was made into a TV mini series just this past year.

Re: Contagion (Dir: Soderbergh) - Sept 9, 2011
 

I marvel at what passes for film criticism these days.

Re: Contagion (Dir: Soderbergh) - Sept 9, 2011
 

Really?! I’ll have to check it out.

Re: Contagion (Dir: Soderbergh) - Sept 9, 2011
 

Re: Contagion (Dir: Soderbergh) - Sept 9, 2011
 

It was going into production with Robert Redford attached, but Outbreak was ahead of them. So the production was shut down. The FX mini-series they did of it was good, but not quite up to par as the book.

For maximum chills, they need to make Richard Preston's The Cobra Event into a movie. That outa scare the shit our of everyone good and proper.

Re: Contagion (Dir: Soderbergh) - Sept 9, 2011
 

NatGeo

Re: Contagion (Dir: Soderbergh) - Sept 9, 2011
 

Yeah, that one.

Re: Contagion (Dir: Soderbergh) - Sept 9, 2011
 

Wow. That was a pretty terrible article, but I must admit that I chuckled at Paltrow being referred to as "Goop."

Re: Contagion (Dir: Soderbergh) - Sept 9, 2011
 

Well...yea...it is a Buzzfeed clickbait article.

Re: Contagion (Dir: Soderbergh) - Sept 9, 2011
 

Check your expectations, it was very average and completely forgettable.

Re: Contagion (Dir: Soderbergh) - Sept 9, 2011
 

Agree. I enjoyed it while it was on but i didn't read the book till after the show.

Re: Contagion (Dir: Soderbergh) - Sept 9, 2011
 

I saw "Contagion" last night. I last saw it many years ago and remembered it being a lot more accurate than almost any other pandemic movie but I forgot how quickly the virus spread in the movie. Compared to COVID-19, the worldwide spread of the "Contagion" virus (I'll just call it the Goop virus ;) ) is unbelievably fast, basically infecting the world in about a month from first appearance. So that part stuck out to me as the most unrealistic part of the movie next to the far too quickly developed vaccine.