My opinion: meh. There was nothing that made me particularly interested in the story. I mean, I felt for Matt Damon. Losing your wife and step-son, only to find out that your wife was a cheating whore would be pretty rough. Trying to keep your last close relative safe was the only good story line. That and the chick that would eventually get a Nobel prize for risking her life by testing her vaccine on herself.
Should've used Wahlberg. They're the same person, but Mark is better looking. |
Diseased slut. |
Crazy or not? |
Stockholm? |
"Don't be attached to anything that you can't walk out on in 30 seconds flat when you spot the Heat coming around the corner." That was my second movie. I'm sitting here blogging while I watch Heat, from 1995. I've never seen it, but I know it is highly regarded. It's pretty good. It's making up for the movie earlier. Both have crazy casts, but young Natalie Portman in Heat is probably the best surprise.
*Updated: I had no clue that Heat was 2 hours and 45 minutes long. It kept me up way past my bedtime. It was so good, though. Why can't Hollywood make good movies any more? They're too busy trying to turn shit like Toddlers and Tiaras into a movie. Pacino shaking hands with De Niro as he was dying: classic movie gold. So was young Portman's suicide attempt. As if Pacino didn't have enough shit to deal with.
~RoB
Lauren and I just saw contagion today. I was surprised, I thought it would be worse. Like the movie Outbreak from the 90s where everybody who got the virus died. You know how Hollywood can't get science right. It made me think of the flash game Pandemic http://awfulgames.com/2010/09/25/online-games/disease/pandemic-2-global-infection I could never kill off Greenland or Madagascar.
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We saw it today too! Stephen, Brookanne, and myself but I felt the same way you did...too many unresolved endings. Also I was kind of disappointed it was a happy ending. I wanted Jude Law to be right about the vaccine and have everyone go crazy or drop dead or something more dramatic. It just didn't live up to its posters/trailer.
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