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Related: About this forumI thought time for some relevant movies tonight. A Face in the Crowd and The Andromeda Strain.
It's been years since I've seen either one and I enjoyed the first one. Now to finish the double feature.
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I thought time for some relevant movies tonight. A Face in the Crowd and The Andromeda Strain. (Original Post)
brewens
Mar 2020
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AlexSFCA
(6,260 posts)1. Contagion
brewens
(15,359 posts)2. I heard, but that's on Netflix isn't it? I'm not subscribed to them. n/t
AlexSFCA
(6,260 posts)4. I saw it in movie theater when it first came out
and it was very well done and relevant - also about similar coronovirus but with more serious health effects and much higher death rate. Its $3.99 on Amazon video
TexasBushwhacker
(20,646 posts)11. Not on Netflix, but Outbreak is
You can watch Contagion on Vudu for $3.99.
Pachamama
(17,010 posts)3. I was going to recommend "Outbreak" w/ Donald Sutherland and Dustin Hoffman
TlalocW
(15,623 posts)5. MST3K's TV's Frank agrees
SCantiGOP
(14,190 posts)6. A Face in the Crowd
Great movie. Saw it 10 years ago and watched it again last month on TCM.
The whole movie could - without changing a scene or a line of dialogue - be an produced today as an explanation of the phenomenon that created the Trump presidency.
BigmanPigman
(52,211 posts)7. That film and Network have
foreshadowed the US media and politicians.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,646 posts)8. I keep waiting for the country to reach their breaking point
and throw their windows open:
BigmanPigman
(52,211 posts)9. That was well done!
TexasBushwhacker
(20,646 posts)10. They call it kinetic typography
There are a bunch of them. I like them because they really emphasize the WORDS. Here's another, courtesy of Aaron Sorkin: