It's official, American media has sunk as low as it can possibly go. ABC is apperently making some doom and gloom craptastic miniseries about birdflu killing every living thing ever or some idiocy.
This has been a pet peave of mine since I was down in houston and we had to cover the stupid chicken farmers that occasionally died because of it. It's not that big a deal! THis is like making a movie about the fact that people occasionally choke on fish bones.
If you are going to make a movie like that, at least use a disease that has half a chance of actualy killing people on a mass scale. Ebola, or an airborne aids strain or something.
This thing has killed what, 200 people worldwide? and half of those were chicken farmers. Geez overblown panic much? I swear, more people are going to die of idiocy overdose watching this crap than will actually die of birdflu.
Gah
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It's the same as madcow disease, from what i can figure no more than a 100 people worldwide have actually died from eating infected beef. How many people died by cars yesterday I wonder? or handgun shootings?
I am embarrassed to admit that out of incredibly sh*tty movie curiousity, I actually watched Category 7: The End of the World. It was kinda hard to hear the dialogue over my husband screeching that it was scientifically impossible for a Cat 7 to occur though.
I watched 10.5 too...
I watched 10.5 too...
My reaction, upon seeing a commercial for this MOTW:
"Isn't there a Stephen King novel about this that was made into a four-part miniseries?"
"Isn't there a Stephen King novel about this that was made into a four-part miniseries?"
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My reaction, upon seeing a commercial for this MOTW:
"Isn't there a Stephen King novel about this that was made into a four-part miniseries?"
"Isn't there a Stephen King novel about this that was made into a four-part miniseries?"
Nah that was a "Superflu" invented by the U.S. government that accidently got released and caused an apocolypse. After everyone else had died God and the Devil duked it out through their proxys on earth creating 2 societies.
Good movies, better book.
Was called The Stand btw.
I agree Kao. Shi[red][/red]tty garbage like this is why I can hardly stand to watch commercial television anymore. Utter crap.
However, I don't think the issue is that they're overstating the eipdemic. I think they're capitalizing on the very real possiblity that the bird flu virus might mutate into a form that can be transmitted easily from human-to-human, in which case a massive pandemic is quite likely.
However, I don't think the issue is that they're overstating the eipdemic. I think they're capitalizing on the very real possiblity that the bird flu virus might mutate into a form that can be transmitted easily from human-to-human, in which case a massive pandemic is quite likely.
If they get Molly Ringwald, Gary Sinise, Max Hedroom and the guy from Parker Lewis I'll watch it. Otherwise I'm sticking with Mother Abigail and the crew. Damn, I think Rob Lowe was in that, too, and the big dumb guy from Coach.
Anywho, what would be a better apocolypse movie? Maybe something with snakes.
Anywho, what would be a better apocolypse movie? Maybe something with snakes.
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If they get Molly Ringwald, Gary Sinise, Max Hedroom and the guy from Parker Lewis I'll watch it. Otherwise I'm sticking with Mother Abigail and the crew. Damn, I think Rob Lowe was in that, too, and the big dumb guy from Coach.
Don't forget the chick with the big boobs from Just Shoot Me.
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My reaction, upon seeing a commercial for this MOTW:
"Isn't there a Stephen King novel about this that was made into a four-part miniseries?"
"Isn't there a Stephen King novel about this that was made into a four-part miniseries?"
Nah that was a "Superflu" invented by the U.S. government that accidently got released and caused an apocolypse. After everyone else had died God and the Devil duked it out through their proxys on earth creating 2 societies.
Good movies, better book.
Was called The Stand btw.
Yeah, I've read the book and seen the miniseries. I just couldn't help but feel that this seems like a cut-rate version of The Stand, made basically for people who don't want the whole battle-between-good-and-evil thing in it. (I dunno who these people are, either. Maybe they're Democrats. Maybe they're Republicans who are afraid that W will get put on the "evil" side because this is Hollywood.)
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Geez I'd totally forgotten about The Stand. I preferred the book to the movie. That was the one where they all gathered together in Denver and Las Vegas right?
Boulder rather than Denver, but yeah.
Next year it is gonna be rabid goats attack and bird flu will be an overused story gone to the wind. What I HATE is gullible people like my stepmother who forbids the family to eat beef because "Madcow is a serious problem."
..."No it isn't"
"People have died!"
"God forbid."
..."No it isn't"
"People have died!"
"God forbid."
Jawbox the Furtive wrote:
However, I don't think the issue is that they're overstating the eipdemic. I think they're capitalizing on the very real possiblity that the bird flu virus might mutate into a form that can be transmitted easily from human-to-human, in which case a massive pandemic is quite likely.
There's just as real a possibility that at some point rhesus monkeys may suddenly fly out the asses of 90 percent of the U.S. population. Sure, at some point it could mutate. so could the already airborne common cold and domestic human flu. It could get engineered by the soviets to turn birds into zombie attack drones that peck people to death. There are so many more likely scenarios to worry about besides this one.
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I liked the little 8 part miniseries on the discovery channel, Perfect Disasters, like each week they'd do something different, the perfect firestorm, sun flaring and hitting NY, perfect icestorm. It was interesting.
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I liked the little 8 part miniseries on the discovery channel, Perfect Disasters, like each week they'd do something different, the perfect firestorm, sun flaring and hitting NY, perfect icestorm. It was interesting.
I stayed awake for almost the first quarter of that post.
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