Outage Update [Aug 05, 2020, 12:13 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Just want to give a quick update on the status of the outage at the Blue Tower. We are still without power or cell phone access, and the power company is not offering a time when things are expected to return, which is obviously not a good sign. It turns out there was a tornado in the area which explains the devastation. We're keeping our fingers crossed that things will return, and I'll try and let you know what's up as soon as I can. Sorry for the down time.
Acleacius wrote on Aug 6, 2020, 17:37:Mr. Tact wrote on Aug 6, 2020, 16:01:Gtk, I didn't realize it was Soderburgh and I'm not a fan of the style either.jdreyer wrote on Aug 6, 2020, 15:45:It has a couple of moments, but yeah overall it is only "okay".Acleacius wrote on Aug 6, 2020, 12:09:
I still haven't been able to watch Contagion during this apocalypse, now your scaring me with the Birds!
I watched it a couple of months ago. It was just *okay*. I thought there were a lot of missed opportunities. Also, Soderburgh's disjointed style annoyed me.
Did you guys really hate Ocean's 11 or something?
Let me give a stronger endorsement for Contagion: it is a taut, gripping, exquisitely well made thriller. It was also remarkably prescient in several areas, particularly with respect to misinformation and hucksters hawking miracle drugs *cough*hydroxychloroquine*cough*. I'm also struggling to understand what might be considered disjointed about the film's storytelling; the only thing that comes to mind is the use of several dialogue-less, music-driven montages that quickly cut between multiple scenes/points of view to visually tell the story of the disease's spread. If that's a negative however, I would say that we have VERY different tastes in movies.
Watch the opening couple of minutes of the film, and in the likely event you're hooked, then give the film a watch: as awful as our reality is at the moment, Covid-19 isn't nearly as horrific as the disease in Contagion.
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