Poll
Question:
What's the best film virus?
Option 1: Outbreak
votes: 4
Option 2: Contagion
votes: 5
Option 3: Carriers
votes: 0
Option 4: Children of Men
votes: 5
Option 5: Doomsday
votes: 0
Option 6: Dawn of the Apes
votes: 1
Option 7: Maze Runner films
votes: 0
Option 8: Andromeda Strain
votes: 4
Option 9: 12 Monkeys
votes: 8
Option 10: Other (name it)
votes: 2
Option 11: The Jaron Strain
votes: 0
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.
What's the name of the one where Gwyneth Paltrow kills everyone?
Quote from: Legbiter on March 17, 2020, 08:02:19 AM
What's the name of the one where Gwyneth Paltrow kills everyone?
Contagion.
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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.
12 monekys is one of my favourite films, so no contest here. :P
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No 'Omega Man'
edit:
Or what about 'The Satan Bug' from the 1960s, iirc that was reasonably good.
Quote from: mongers on March 17, 2020, 08:24:52 AM
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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.
Other:
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, not literally, but for the latest blockbuster remake.
Quote from: celedhring on March 17, 2020, 07:24:22 AM
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]
Children of Men is a dog movie.
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 (https://youtu.be/zAyjkaFYnzE)
Children of Men is terrible.
Out of these movies I've only seen Andromeda Strain, so I guess that's what I'm obliged to vote for.
Quote from: celedhring on March 17, 2020, 11:15:46 AM
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Quote from: Tamas on March 17, 2020, 08:56:20 AM
Children of Men is terrible.
:yes:
Philistines :blurgh:
Is that the one with the not especially great Brit in the lead and with the somewhat weak ending?
I guess I will go with the classic, Andromeda Strain.
Damn those are some really mediocre filmes :lol:
I did really enjoy 12 Monkies but I guess I more consider it a time travel film.
Can someone please watch some of the youtube link I posted up thread and see if they're as spoked by some plot points as I was. :mad:
The Children of Men novel is much better than the mediocre film adaptation.
Contagion is probably the best on that list.
Night of the Griffin probably had the biggest impact on me. Freaked me out cuz I was young when I saw it. More or less fits.
Quote from: garbon on March 17, 2020, 11:51:41 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on March 17, 2020, 11:22:14 AM
Quote from: celedhring on March 17, 2020, 11:15:46 AM
Quote from: garbon on March 17, 2020, 11:00:21 AM
Quote from: Tamas on March 17, 2020, 08:56:20 AM
Children of Men is terrible.
:yes:
Philistines :blurgh:
Yeah. I don't think I've ever seen a worse opinion by garbo or Tamas :blink: :o
Clive Owen is not a good actor. Soz.
Agreed, but in that film he's a good enough actor. And it's not really about him it's all the other stuff.
Quote from: garbon on March 17, 2020, 11:43:04 AM
Quote from: mongers on March 17, 2020, 11:20:18 AM
Quote from: celedhring on March 17, 2020, 11:15:46 AM
Quote from: garbon on March 17, 2020, 11:00:21 AM
Quote from: Tamas on March 17, 2020, 08:56:20 AM
Children of Men is terrible.
:yes:
Philistines :blurgh:
Is that the one with the not especially great Brit in the lead and with the somewhat weak ending?
Yes, exactly that.
Great minds think alike. :D
The Charlton Heston Omega Man seems a notable omission from the poll. I voted Children of Men, a wonderful portrayal of societal breakdown.
Not strictly speaking a pandemic movie, but my mind has been on Childs and Macready at the end of John Carpenters "The Thing" from 1982. Not to mention Wilfred Brimley and his computer model of the spread of the contagion earlier in the same movie.
Quote from: fromtia on March 17, 2020, 12:13:09 PM
The Charlton Heston Omega Man seems a notable omission from the poll. I voted Children of Men, a wonderful portrayal of societal breakdown.
Omega Man is excluded by the "no zombie/vampire/mutant plagues" clause.
Quote from: celedhring on March 17, 2020, 12:16:14 PM
Quote from: fromtia on March 17, 2020, 12:13:09 PM
The Charlton Heston Omega Man seems a notable omission from the poll. I voted Children of Men, a wonderful portrayal of societal breakdown.
Omega Man is excluded by the "no zombie/vampire/mutant plagues" clause.
Its sort of an outlier in that respect. Theres only a handful of muties and they are a by product of the plague. Fair enough though, I'm with you on Children of Men, for the same reasons.
Twelve Monkeys is great.
I am surprised at Languish - no mention of Shivers?
I would have the say The Passion of the Christ. A more scary story of the beginning of an outbreak has not been told.
12 Monkeys. It really captures the feeling of being insane.
The best part of Children of Men was when the youngest person in the world died and everyone sobbed their eyes out.
I thought the ping pong trick was the best part.