Excellent cast, grade A director, great scenario and studio money. We have an official best picture contender now. <iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4sYSyuuLk5g" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Getting sick of Soderbergh and all his crappy movies. Totally an overrated director. Just another unoriginal take on the outbreak crap. The guy keep on getting top actors to star in his mediocre movies.
let me guess, Madagascar is the only safe place on earth who remembers that game where u select virus/parasite/something else and see who can wipe out life on earth the quickest
I think the most notable virus genre movies of the last 30 years has been 28 Days Later and Outbreak. One was a hybrid Zombie film and the other was made famous as an insult in Chasing Amy. If I remember correctly, Outbreak was basically three scientists chasing a monkey for 120 mins. This one looks to have a broad macro approach to it. Kinda like Traffic.
If this is a contender for best picture, I will be fairly disappointed with rest of the releases for the rest of the year. Looks like an interesting film with a great cast, but the premise of this story has been done and redone.
Pandemic 1/2/3. Good game, but infuriating because of Madagascar (or, if you started on Madagascar, Iceland/Cuba/New Zealand). Honestly, the trailer looks good but with outbreak movies the trailer almost always looks promising. I'll probably go see it anyway, but not going to pin high hopes on it
Nice to see Jude Law starting the long road back after the fall of Alfie. And Matt Damon, jeez. The man just exudes.
Saw it last night. It was pretty good, bordering on VERY good. Spoiler Matt Damon is fantastic. Fishburne is actually quite good. Jude Law kills it. Completely dominates every scene he's in. Winslet is basically wasted, she doesn't really have that much to do. The main storyline I didn't like was the Marion Cotillard subplot. I found it boring and disconnected from the rest of the film. Remove that from the film and, besides trimming the overlong running time, I think the movie would have been much, much better.
Get used to it, the Oscars are basically a mechanism for getting older people to watch movies and buy DVDs for stuff that doesn't gross a quarter billion over the summer. Movies get nominated based on having cast members who are famous enough to make the pre-show interviews, red carpet nightgown walks and Sunday night awards speeches seem halfway interesting. It's the Super Bowl for middle-aged, middle-American women.
I watched this last night and can't see how anyone could have enjoyed this film. It was long, drawn out and boring. There were some aspects that I liked but not enough to enjoy the film. I have really enjoyed some of Steven Soderbergh's prior films such as Traffic and Syriana. this one tried to be on the level of those films but fell short.
caught the matinee and I thoroughly enjoyed the film Spoiler I went in expecting this to be the typical catastrophic film, but it wasn't... I liked the fact that it did not solely revolve around a person, rather the virus was the main protagonist. Too often in these kinds of films, they're revolved around a small group of characters and their involvement/reaction to the pandemic, The Day After Tomorrow is a perfect example, that movie wasn't bad, but I didn't like that it was focused on a single group of survivors... Contagion has various aspects, and it was really well put together 8.9/10 PS: dude sitting behind me started coughing halfway through the film... that startled me lol
