This is the worst movie I have ever seen.

[Danascot]

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2/ Unsurprising that this movie doesn’t work – the screenplay was a dog’s breakfast.

3/ So much heavy handed foreshadowing. The apocalyptic footage from Wuhan, the super villain American president, the whistleblower dying, the Russia/China border closed while people still claimed it was just a flu, the warnings unheeded. Insulting to the audience's intelligence

4/ And then – that most annoying of horror/disaster movie tropes – the hapless idiots walking into disaster after disaster, all of which the audience can see coming from a mile away.

5/ The over the top details of world leaders and their wives falling ill, the far fetched idea that industrialized countries wouldn’t have proper protective gear for front line workers and ventilators. Pleeeeaaase. This movie needed a script doctor.

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[Wounded Bear]

1. She has a point...

dark humor, not sure if a is appropriate.

Maybe a

[True Blue American]

3. I just finished watching," The Help,"

On free showtime. Made me realize we have not really come far with the hate, bigotry and blaming others.

Evangelicals and the Trump cult have proved that!

[CaptYossarian]

4. Try "The Mist".

An Evangelical nutjob gets shot dead, while the normal citizens are getting bumped off by these giant insect-like creatures lurking in the dense fog.

Killing the nutjob was the most enjoyable part of that flick.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. I likewise feel like I am in the middle of a very poorly plotted movie or TV series.

And I should know about poor plotting. I'm a sometime writer, and cannot plot to save my life. Sort of limits my career possibilities in the field.

But honestly, even *I* could plot this thing better.

[Dave Starsky]

5. This is like living in The Twilight Zone.

Except that if Rod Serling had read the first page of this script, he would have instantly thrown it in the trash.

[ismnotwasm]

6. K&R

[uponit7771]

7. K&R, But Wisconsin being a trial run turns the movie into dog dinner vs just breakfast

[denem]

8. 'At its heart this movie is a love story'

the love of a virus for its host.

[Andy823]

9. The problem I have

I can't turn this damned movie off!

[ihaveaquestion]

10. It's "Contagion," but with Stupid People

running things. No one would have approved a script written like this.

Hopefully the end isn't like "The Road," which I don't think specified the apocalypse which cause the world to go to hell.

[peggysue2]

12. LOL!!

Spot on!

Weirdly enough I rewatched Contagion sometime in December. The current pandemic rollout is, indeed, a dummy version of that script with the leading real actors stupid and malevolent. Nowhere do I recall anyone (in the movie) suggesting we should sacrifice the elderly or infirmed on the altar of capitalism. Why? Because back in the day similar comments would be considered monstrous, immoral, evil.

Btw, I've also seen The Road . So right. We certainly don't want that script as our future!

[Ad Infinitum]

11. LOVECRAFT

Cthulhu should be rising from the murky depths of eons

of sleep just in time to eat us before we can be infected.

[wnylib]

13. Stephen King - The Stand

Eerily similar. On NPR's Fresh Air a couple days ago, King discussed with Terry Gross what it feels like to him to be "living in a Stephen King book."

Many, many years since I read that book. Think I'll dig it out of my closet boxes of old books to re-read it.

Starts out with a pandemic killing off millions. Survivors fall into 2 camps, good and evil, who battle it out for what the new world will be like.

[erronis]

14. The Stand was brought up a couple of days ago on DU with a video link. I tried to watch it

but then decided I didn't need to give my nightmares any more ammunition.

[wnylib]

19. I was off the board a couple days so

I missed it.

Even the politics of the book fit our times, as well as the pandemic. The main difference is that the current coronavirus evolved naturally. In the book, it was a bioweapon that escaped the lab.

I can understand not wanting to add to already existing anxiety. I read the book decades ago when the idea was more theoretical, so it's not as shocking to remember it as it would be to read about it or watch film of it now for the first time.

I'm fascinated by the fact that some writers are so attuned to the dynamics of their times that they write fiction that is remarkably close to reality within a few years or decades. There have been a few such cases, but I can only think of one now (besides The Stand). There was a story about a huge luxury passenger ship hitting an iceberg and sinking with several prominent people on board. It was published before the Titanic existed.

[erronis]

20. Same reason I haven't watched "Contagion" - don't need it now. The Twilight Zone was prescient.

[aggiesal]

15. I stiill have not been able to determine what movie this is referring to. n/t

[Danascot]

17. The movie we find ourselves in

here and now

[kairos12]

16. No amount of Avengers to save people in that movie. Or our movie.