You know what the country REALLY needed after spending last year thinking about the Swine Flu, this year worried about the economy, gas prices, terrorism (with regards to the 10th anniversary of 9/11) and all that other stuff?
A ficticious movie about a pandemic & the ensuing chaos that was told from an overwhelmingly realistic POV right before THIS years Flu season starts. Where's Dustin Hoffman and that little monkey when you need him for a disease-outbreak movie. Or just another Resident Evil? Cause monkeys or zombies make for cooler movies than realistic movies.
And why didn't Matt Damon drive a car really fast while shooting guns in this movie?
Seriously... if you don't wanna know anything else... wait for the end of the italics and then start reading again...
Gwenyth Paltrow played the monkey role in this movie... the monkey was a lot cuter.
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Speaking of something entirely unrelated to this movie..
I finally watched a childhood friend of mine's SyFy web series the other day. It was really fucking good... If you have SyFy OnDemand, check out the Mercury Men. It's kinda awesome. All black & white old-school sci-fi goodness. Or check it out on their website.
Plus, it's kinda really cool to know an old friend that made a tv show. Even if it was done as a dozen or so 5-8 minute shorts that all ran together into a big long show. But amazing production value. Probably better than 95% of the original SyFy channel television content. The cheesy stuff was intentionally cheesy 50's-like sci-fi fare that was kinda done as an homage to old 50's sci-fi. But with modern cinematography.
And hell... it was set in Pittsburgh in 1975 too. Think Buck Rogers done in the Sin City style. Stark whites, pitch blacks and vivid greys. It was awesome. Rayguns, very Rocketeer-like costuming and all that fun stuff. No, seriously... stop reading this and go check it out.
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