Best pandemic-themed film?

[celedhring]

As you know, I love film polls!

This has to be a film dealing with a contemporary worldwide pandemic. I'm going to exclude zombie virus films in order to narrow down the field, because there's so friggin' many zombie plague films. Same with vampire/mutant viruses.

I had doubts whether to list 12 Monkeys, the plague is just really a McGuffin there, but there it goes.

Anyway, for me it's Children of Men, for me. I love how the film is shot, and how clever it is with its "plague". It's odd and poignant. Blindness tried the same thing but it was shit, so it doesn't even make the list.

[Legbiter]

What's the name of the one where Gwyneth Paltrow kills everyone?

[celedhring]

What's the name of the one where Gwyneth Paltrow kills everyone?

Contagion.

[Legbiter]

 

[Sheilbh]

Children of Men.

I was enjoying this film and thought it was decent. Then either it was the first single-shot scene or the first I noted and it just became so thrilling and engrossing. I love it.

[Iormlund]

12 monekys is one of my favourite films, so no contest here. 

[mongers]

No 'Omega Man'

edit:
Or what about 'The Satan Bug' from the 1960s, iirc that was reasonably good.

[celedhring]

No 'Omega Man'

edit:
Or what about 'The Satan Bug' from the 1960s, iirc that was reasonably good.

Omega Man has a vampire/mutant virus, it doesn't qualify. Haven't seen the other one.

[Duque de Bragança]

Other:

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, not literally, but for the latest blockbuster remake.

[Duque de Bragança]

Anyway, for me it's Children of Men, for me. I love how the film is shot, and how clever it is with its "plague". It's odd and poignant. Blindness tried the same thing but it was shit, so it doesn't even make the list.

Children of Men is just a pretentious and expensive rip-off of an Italian post-apocalyptic rip-off (2019 after the Fall of New York). [spoiler]last fertile woman and Guernica scene[/spoiler]

[The Brain]

Children of Men is a dog movie.

[mongers]

Another recommendation, the 'Survivors' a BBC 1970s TV series about a virus/plague killing the vast majority of people, well worth watching the first episode on youtube has it has some eerie echoes of last few days here.

https://youtu.be/zAyjkaFYnzE

[Tamas]

Children of Men is terrible.

[Syt]

Out of these movies I've only seen Andromeda Strain, so I guess that's what I'm obliged to vote for.

[garbon]

Children of Men is terrible.