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In Reply to: Don't Be Presumptive... Let Er Rip! posted by AudioHead on March 09, 2000 at 12:30:14:
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
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