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Post by snsurone on Apr 25, 2020 12:17:53 GMT
Just imagine how many films based on this pandemic could be made. It wouldn't surprise me if scripts were being written as we speak. Maybe a Hallmark made-for-TV movie called Love in the Time of Coronavirus??  But whatever Hollywood comes up with, I hope that all the films show Trump as the conceited ass he is! |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 25, 2020 12:42:07 GMT
You know that Hallmark's first movie to deal with it will be "A Covid Christmas."
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Post by cynthiagreen on Apr 25, 2020 12:54:24 GMT
As long as Valerie Bertinelli is cast I'm happy.
A CGI'd Andy Serkis could play the Chinese bat.
Surviving cast memners from classic 70s disaster flics (Dunaway, Wagner, Hackman, Bisset, Michael Caine, Loren, Sheen, Simpson, Linda Blair et al) could all play victims
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Post by politicidal on Apr 25, 2020 13:34:11 GMT
It’s gonna happen. Just like the movies they made after 9/11 or the Iraq War.
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Post by snsurone on Apr 25, 2020 14:18:40 GMT
You know that Hallmark's first movie to deal with it will be "A Covid Christmas." Good one, Dog! BTW, other movies have dealt with epidemics and quarantines. For example, a portion of FOREVER AMBER (1947) dealt with an outbreak of bubonic plague. Do my fellow posters know any others?
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 25, 2020 22:55:36 GMT
You know that Hallmark's first movie to deal with it will be "A Covid Christmas." Good one, Dog! BTW, other movies have dealt with epidemics and quarantines. For example, a portion of FOREVER AMBER (1947) dealt with an outbreak of bubonic plague. Do my fellow posters know any others? From '36 thru '40, there was a minor (forgive me) outbreak of films featuring epidemics, quarantines and/or the related field of disease control as plot points: The Story Of Louis Pasteur; The Prisoner of Shark Island; The Citadel; Jezebel; Pacific Liner; The Rains Came; Vigil In the Night; Dr. Erlich's Magic Bullet; Untamed, for instance. I can never keep track of which disease was in which movie, be it plague, typhoid, yellow fever, cholera, the heartbreak of psoriasis or whatever.
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 25, 2020 23:00:35 GMT
Wuhans Upon A Time In America
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Post by cynthiagreen on Apr 25, 2020 23:16:51 GMT
You know that Hallmark's first movie to deal with it will be "A Covid Christmas." Good one, Dog! BTW, other movies have dealt with epidemics and quarantines. For example, a portion of FOREVER AMBER (1947) dealt with an outbreak of bubonic plague. Do my fellow posters know any others?  also try IMPULSE from 1984 or so with Meg Tilly and (I think) a young Bill Paxton - not a disease exactly but the "infected" lose all their social inhibitions and simply do WTF they want all the time ... with predictably unpleasant consequences.  best of all though this TV series from BBC 1975-77 was a colossal hit in which 99.98% of the global population croak... Most personable of those that didn't was Carolyn Seymour (far right) 
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Post by Rufus-T on Apr 25, 2020 23:34:49 GMT
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Post by jervistetch on Apr 25, 2020 23:45:15 GMT
You know that Hallmark's first movie to deal with it will be "A Covid Christmas." HE KNEW SHE’D BEEN NAUGHTY. SHE HAD NOWHERE TO HIDE. 
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 26, 2020 0:55:05 GMT
You know that Hallmark's first movie to deal with it will be "A Covid Christmas." HE KNEW SHE’D BEEN NAUGHTY. SHE HAD NOWHERE TO HIDE. That sounds like a slasher version. We'll definitely need some of those. In the Hallmark one, a young woman, disillusioned with life in the big city, returns at Christmastime to her impossibly picturesque hometown to take up residence in the family home she's inherited, just in time to find herself in lockdown quarantine with the property's reclusive but handsome and sensitive caretaker who happens also to be a great cook. They fall in love while stuck in the house together and maintaining a six-foot separation at all times (thus emphasizing the chaste nature of their relationship). The holiday's saved when, on Christmas Eve, the town GP announces he's discovered a cure developed from - what else? - sap extracted from Christmas trees. And I do mean "sap."
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Post by jervistetch on Apr 26, 2020 1:31:35 GMT
^^ PRICELESS! ^^
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Post by snsurone on Apr 26, 2020 3:49:42 GMT
How's this for a story line:
Agents from the FBI, the CIA, and Interpol join forces to locate the source of the COVID-19 virus.
In the course of their investigation, they uncover evidence of a collusion between the presidents of Russia and the US to create a pandemic in order to seize control of all aspects of the country.
However, their plan backfired when the Russians discovered that the POTUS regarded the whole situation as a big joke, and the crisis blew out of control with tens of thousands people dead.
In the end, a number of Russian collaborators are arrested, and the POTUS is removed from office, stands trial, and is sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Unfortunately, the agents could find no hard evidence against the president of Russia, so he escapes punishment.
I would suggest Harrison Ford and Bruce Willis as the head agents, with Alec Baldwin as the POTUS.
Such a film would probably be classified as "cinema verite".
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Post by llanwydd on Apr 26, 2020 5:22:20 GMT
I don't know. A large-scale Hollywood exploitation of the pandemic seems unlikely to me. Just because movie-goers are already bored to death of the virus. I think the subject will always be more depressing than exciting.
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 26, 2020 5:27:21 GMT
You know that Hallmark's first movie to deal with it will be "A Covid Christmas." Good one, Dog! BTW, other movies have dealt with epidemics and quarantines. For example, a portion of FOREVER AMBER (1947) dealt with an outbreak of bubonic plague. Do my fellow posters know any others? Young Vito Corleone is quarantined in The Godfather 2. The Swiss Family Robinson run up a quarantine flag to scare off pirates.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 26, 2020 8:24:13 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 26, 2020 13:07:09 GMT
Some possibilities:
My Darling Quarantine - The Earps and Clantons, sequestered in their homesteads, do long-distance gun-battle.
Peter Pandemic - Harmless imp or infectious menace?
Outbreak Bound - Passengers on a ship from which they can't debark aren't sure how they got there, retaining the memory of only the onset of flu-like symptoms.
La Dolce Covida - A fever-addled journalist stumbles through a week in Rome, wondering where everybody is and why he feels so lousy.
Quo Virus - Roman soldier resents the dictatorial stay-at-home orders of the emperor.
P.P.E. - Flashback account to Los Angeles doctors of a small-town accountant's search for whoever deliberately infected him at a San Francisco hotel.
The Disinfector General - Snake oil shill is mistaken for high-ranking public official, and dispenses unsound medical advice to a gullible public.
Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vaccination - Extended family meets at the hospital in a small seaside community to avoid big-city crowds seeking inoculation.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 26, 2020 14:18:48 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 26, 2020 15:00:53 GMT
A few more:
Muscle Bleach Party - Overdeveloped, hormonal teens gather for good, lung-cleaning fun at the shore with kegs of Clorox.
Briefing Encounter - A chance meeting in the W.H. press room tempts doctors Anthony and Deborah to contradict the president.
ICU In My Dreams - The successes and failures of a songwriting intensive care unit physician.
Murder, My Suite - A private detective does contact tracing in a luxury hotel commandeered when hospital rooms are filled.
The Respirator - A cyborg from the future journeys to the 20th century to prevent the birth of a doctor destined to cure a viral infection.
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Post by snsurone on Apr 26, 2020 21:17:18 GMT
Howzabout this one, Dog:
BEN HERPES--A prominent Jewish family in Jerusalem is forced into quarantine by Pontius Pilate because of the coronavirus.
Also quarantined are the family's servant Simonides and his daughter Esther.
Judah and Esther give in to their urges in their close quarters, but unknown to Judah, Esther had previously slept with Messala and contracted genetal herpes which she passed onto Judah.
Eventually, Jesus on the cross cured both COVID-19 and the herpes, but Judah dumped Esther and married Messala.
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