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In Reply to: Yeah... but perhaps not what you would like to hear... (nt) posted by Victor Khomenko on March 09, 2000 at 11:05:51:
I have no emotional investment in this film. In actuality, I saw it
years ago and don't remember much about it as I was playing cards at the
time and was mostly distracted.
Mainly curious about Steve T's opinion since it involved the Ebola virus.
- AH
My friends and I burst out laughing during the scene where Dustin Hoffman is on television saying something like: "If you've seen or recognize this monkey, please contact me at the CDC." The mother of the girl who played with the monkey "recognized" the monkey from the crude DRAWING that her daughter made of it.Another stupid plot device is that when they find the monkey, it is able to generate enough antisera to treat the entire town's population in a matter of hours. That's one hell of a monkey. For comparison, horses are used to generate antisera against snake venom and it takes a LOT of horses to generate that much antibody.
I was already "losing it" when Hoffman's character played "Blue Thunder action star" with pursuit choppers.
Overall, this was a dumb, DUMB movie. My fellow American Society of Microbiology members, this is one you should skip (unless you're thinking about renting "Congo" instead).
If you think Dustin Hoffman's line was from Outbreak funny, how about this gems from Sphere: "I'm not putting in my report that I lost a crew member on a deep-sat expedition to find an alien named "Jerry".Unbelievable that an actor of Hoffman's stature could stoop to making this kind of crap... sad really.
Amazingly this film has a fairly high rating on the imdb site - 6.5/10 (3678 votes); I was planning on checking it out from my library video
section, but from what Filmlanders say, think I'll take a *rainCHECK*
instead, not worth the viewing effort. BTW, there is a TV Movie about
ebola, which I haven't seen: "The Plague Fighters"-1996, awaiting 5 votes
on imdb. - AH
...but perhaps I should run a calibration on that imdb thingy. I need to compile the list of the crapiest movies and run it there. I suspect most will not go below 6 or so. Things like the imdb tend to even things out, and the greatest masterpieces will usually not register much higher than my favorite piece of crap - the Titanic, for example. It is all the the voting crowd, my friend.To a large extent that crowd does what it does when it goes to see the movies, and we all know that it is not the best movies that collect most of the sucker's money. 100 million that liked the Titanic represent a much more powerful voting body than those 10,000 idiots who went to see the Postman.
What you are seeing is the "democracy" at its ugliest. Remember, there is really no difference between the democracy and mob rule. Democracy is specificaly designed to suppress the best to the benefit of mediocre.
nt
mediocrity is a lack of any extreme, even if that means extremely GREAT
In my view it was a much-below-average-made-for-US-television caliber piece of crap with no redeaming values. Actors didn't have to play much, they had masks over their faces most of the time.A very cheap disaster movie - pun intended.
Why did you ask?
I have not watched many "new" movies in the last few years. But
I did watch this one (think my wife insisted on renting it).
Unadultered crap.Mike
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... lost an oportunity to showcase Russo & Hoffman talents. "Sphere" delved even deeper into unmitagated crap than "Outbreak", IMHO. "Sphere" exhibited all the lack of competant direction of "Lost Horizon". These are some of the main reasons why CG/FX get such a bad rap. Even though it's just the latest gimmick, a modern chase scene, as it were.Is it the crop of new directors? I still can't get over the behind the scenes of "Ronin" where the director was prominently concerned about the credibility of the action scenes (car chases & shoot outs). Did anyone who watched the flick really give a good damn about this (aside from the Frech Connection groupies who were DTing from the lack of a decently done scene)? I'd rather someone work with the Reno & DeNiro characters. That's where the charm resides. The action is an excuse to reveal their covert characters as these dark individuals learn to trust eachother in this inethical environment.
Just how hard is it to make a decent movie?
Forget Ronin, forget Bullitt - if you want to see the best chase scene ever, check out Le Casse' (The Burglars) from 1972 with Jean-Paul Belmondo. The film climaxes with a breakneck chase through the crowded streets of Athens on a Kawasaki 900 Z1 - the chase in integral to the story and not just a tacked on film device.My standard offer follows: rent this film, and if your palms aren't sweating after this scene, I will pay for the rental.....
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Hey, just send me a new VK-50 and I'll throw in 2 additional videotapes of your choice for free!!!: )
***Hey, just send me a new VK-50 and I'll throw in 2 additional videotapes of your choice for free!!!
Including the one of me at the age of ten singing the American Anthem while playing my balalayka? You really HAVE that one?
I thought you had 3 sheets to the wind, not 3 strings.< < chuckle > >
LOL
nt
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