Why did nobody like this movie?

why did nobody like this movie?

I liked it.

i liked it

I liked it.
But I'm also a huge fag for Soderbergh.

Me too!

ugly pukey filters

i liked it a lot acully

I don't think he uses filters.
Soderbergh is just a huge homo for lowlighting digitals combined with natural light sources.

Who? Critics and my friends liked it.

Demetri Martin had 1 semester left to be a lawyer on a full ride and quit to pursue his career

>mfw gwyneth paltrow dies a lingering death

KINO

What a dick.

I already saw Outbreak you dumb bastard

>why did nobody like this movie?

Because its scares the living shit out of them.

Outbreak had already been made

The Crazies is the only outbreak kino.

It's well made movie, with a decent script and actor that did the best with what they were given. The death of the presumed main character so early on raises the stakes. The movie is well paced.

If they held it back until right around holloween, it could have done much better, but how would you market a plague movie?

Unlike most flicks in the past few years, people remember this movie if they saw it. Catch it on a streaming service, or if you come across it on a pay cable channel. Buy physical media if you particularly like thrillers/disaster movies.

It's a bit low stakes for a doomsday film

Degeneracy and infidelity caused a pandemic.

It Follows was better.

I liked it. The music by Cliff Martinez is fantastic

It's my favourite movie, OP.

But the real reason is because it's a very quiet film, dealing with a plot that most people aren't interested in.

Ugly, boring, pointless, felt like a two hour long TV procedural.
>Oh wow, it was infected bats all along!
Stupid ending too.

That was a incredibly stupid decision but I guess it sort of worked out.

I just hope he knows how to manage his savings.

Too many view points and characters. Not enough disaster porn. No insane survival.
It's too global for me. I'm not interested in watching what's happening to the world and especially not through a television screen. I want to watch ONE story where a man is fighting for his life.

>Oh wow, it was infected bats all along!

You really thought that was a twist ending, or that there was going to be one?

no, but that was the ending just the same

>oh wow it was bats, really makes me think

it's not like there was anything else to take away from the movie

I got that same file.

Wow.

Hardly surprising given that it's the GP.

Idk why that was even in the film. The pathology should be mentioned if it supports the plot but it was otherwise completely irrelevant. Who cares about fucking South Chinese fruit bats? In Children of Men, the infertility is completely unexplained and the movie continued unimpeded, enhanced in fact by the mystery of the diseases origins.

Children of Men wasn't about why or how though, it was about is.

Contagion is wildly different.

This movie was fuckin' brutal. I guess according to the CDC it was a pretty accurate (and terrifying) to a real pandemic of that proportion, how it spreads on a global scale, yada yada. I really liked it though.

Being a comic/bit role movie star sounds a lot more fun that litigating.

The best advice the lawyers in my family gave me was "please don't be a lawyer".

I would put Children of Men, 12 Monkeys, and Black Death in the same category with Contagion.

You're right, the director went in with a completely different vision. However, his idea of a plot fucking sucks. Where's the suspense? The despair? The suffering? Its why people watch disaster movies. I watched this piece of shit years ago but if I remembered right, its depictions were highly clinical and removed, like it was a BBC documentary.

>Where's the suspense? The despair? The suffering?

How long until it leaks, Matt Damon's encroaching breakdown, and a dying women on the stoop begging you to give her a placebo.

That's so odd, though. CoH is a straightforward survival film with an action-orientated plot.

It couldn't be more different.

What do you talk about? I love this fucking film.

Ok, that maybe a stretch. But it is plausible to me that it can be in the Epidemic/Pandemic Disaster Movie category. Black Death is surely one. But it can also be about religious persecution as well.

This x100
No homo

Eh. They were mediocre performances at best. I'll reiterate: he had a great shot at making a pandemic movie and he blew it. He spent too long trying to explain something that should be a backdrop rather than the plot.

Reality is, people thought it was going to be an action/zombie film.

I loved it. I love a good thriller and I'll watch anything Soderbro anyway

>yfw when they explain the r-nought.
>yfw you realize language and information as virus
>yfw there's the narrative of r-nought of language when Morpheus' wife mentions what she knows to her friend and it spreads like a wildfire, faster than the actual virus.
>yfw that depressing ending when you realize that Paltrow's character was a red-herring/not patient zero because of lack of information deceiving the people.
>yfw that awesome digital cinematography creating a sick & too clean world pitch perfectly.
>yfw that unforgiving brutality of the film where people just drop dead for 2 hours and nothing can be done

I sincerely think Soderbergh, if he was alive in the early 1900- would have made silent film masterpieces, this film is absolutely marvelous and relies so heavily on visual storytelling - and when people speak it's absolutely essential (language as virus narrative) in every sense (only once it is exposition for stupid reasons, when Morpheus gets fed the information about basic functions of any virus)

This is just so fucking perfect film, I also love Side Effects and the Knick so fucking much. Soderbergh is my fucking type of jam.

Soderbergh is the greatest living filmmaker i'm calling it now

That film really made me think just how much SS loves topics, themes, motifs that are out of sight.

Language as a virus? Someone's been watching Pontypool. Someone on reddit recommended it to me and I watched it. Fucking 2 hours I'll never get back. Retarded ass movie.

It received a 70 from metacritic, and grossed $135 million. So people did like it.

Thread inspired me to watch The Informant! again.

Highly recommend the book, too. It's a fucking tome but so worth it.

I have never watched Pontypool what the fuck is that. Memetics/philosophy of language is far older field of study than whatever the fuck that is. It's just basic narrative in the film, probably the main narrative even but not stated.

>Retarded ass movie.

Anyone who says 'ass' like that is a fucking nigger with no taste.

Shut up you fucking faggot ass nigga

Its hot garbage. The zombie virus spreads through words. Literally words.
It was almost as dumb as "It Walks."

>Its hot garbage. The zombie virus spreads through words. Literally words

Yes, that's how language works. Good job.

>through words

lmao. Back to the ghetto

But paltrow was patient zero

It's a good movie

OP is a fag

Very slow paced and boring, but I was a youngin when I watched it not realizing that not all films have to be exciting some can try be realistic

Is this the edited version of the poster or the original? The edited version has Mark Wahlberg in the top right from The Happening.

Ideas (which are words) are like a virus, they move from one person to another and can be stuck in their host with no real way to cure them

Who is the boy in the bottom right

>Dude you must like get vaccinated by the government because it's good for your health! Also look at this strawman of the truth movement we've came up with

People don't like being preached to

I liked Soderbergh's direction and cinematography. Initially the scenes showing the spread of the disease were good too, and later with spread of panic & unrest.

But the characters were one-note and there's too many to care about any one of them to a satisfying degree.

I did.

Because I told you last time it's fucking boring.

>The general population didn't like something because of paranoid delusions only a small percentage of idiots believe in.

Thanks for bringing back long dead illnesses though.

From what I remember, it was shot pretty nice but the characters all felt one dimensional. No catharsis either.

Well y'all nobodies so the question remains. Why did nobody like this movie?

You mean like someone believing that injecting mercury directly into the human bloodstream is good for your health? Lmao fucking ledditor idiot kys

I agree. This is probably the most accurate movie about a pandemic. Therefore it needed the perspectives of bureaucrats, every-day joe, and health workers on the ground. So I can see why there was little focus on characters. It's still a very good movie.

There was enough focus on "characters" and their drama. Such a tarded complaint in most cases.

That was my problem with it. It was too fucking banal. The only form of tension that was done well (hell at ALL) was Kate Winslet's character knowing she was fucked and her getting all desperate.

The whole thing was just fucking tedious and yes I did understand what was going on it wasn't fucking complicated.

I dunno mate, I'm not dying of mercury poisoning from injections I got 24 fucking years ago as a baby.

>wut iz biology xD
>big pharma would NEVER lie to us

Smoking one cigarette doesn't kill you immediately either, doesn't mean it's healthy for your body

Fuck off you shitposting fuck you don't think it's a coincidence that easily preventable through vaccination diseases are making a comeback? Fuck, this and the Flat Earthers are really giving me the fucking shits. It's cool to be an absolute fucking moron aparently.

Anti-vaxxers are good for Big Pharma's bottom line, considering they earn next to nothing from decades-old vaccines.