*CONTAGION* Movie Reaction FIRST TIME WATCHING
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00:00 Intro
00:10 Contagion Commentary
32:13 Contagion Movie Review - Zábava
What other disaster movies should we check out?
DISASTER Playlist: czcams.com/play/PLQHhQlj8i5drRG8fV109sAyBh6xYOSySy.html
Can never go wrong with Dante's Peak, Daylight, The Core or Geostorm!👍
SPHERE next please
Geostorm & Greenland
Sir Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal the cannibal 😃)binge watched Breaking Bad and wrote a soaring letter to the cast and crew afterwards...the highest compliment from legendary actor🤘🔥...you can find it on Google I'm sure..I found it extremely impressive myself..✌️
Verticle Limit was pretty good, trapped mountain climbers caved in on K2
What makes this more interesting is that during production, they wanted to be as scientifically accurate as possible when describing the disease, its origins, and potential impacts. It proved to be rather prescient.
The only thing they couldnt predict was the number of pro-death anti-vaxx assholes that there were... covid killed a whole bunch of em, hundreds of thousands in the US alone, if it had been deadlier probably tens of millions would have died... all because of trumps bullshit and the republican propaganda news... pushed by facebook and twitter... and zero criminal charges have been brought against them for literally murdered hundreds of times more people than bin laden ever did.
Not really prescient. I'm not even 40 and there have been at least 3 pandemics in my lifetime. swine flu pandemic was in 2009, sars in 2002-04.
I've lived through the same. But the levels of panic and worldwide impact weren't as severe before this film as they would be during Covid.
georgeheilman4243 Levels of panic aren’t proportional to death counts. It has more to do with media causing the perception of huge death counts. The Spanish Flu killed around 1% of the world’s population, and there was less panic than with CO*ID.
And every couple of months the media predicted imminent disaster in Florida, going as far as to give Gov. De Santis the nickname of Death Santis. But when the huge death tolls didn’t happen (repeatedly), media figures never apologized or admitted that they’d been wrong.
@@daerdevvyl4314 was that before or after desatan lied about the numbers and fired the whistleblower, trying to prosecute her, for highlighting his failures?
This is a great movie, it definitely has a more realistic feel to it. The cast was stacked and the score was very eerie, also Gwyneth’s acting during her death scene was pretty terrifying.
Indeed, terrifying seizure acting, if I recall correctly.
I don't like her as a person...but you can't deny those acting chops. Great performance
@@lucianaromulus1408
She didn't really have much to act with in this film, she's basically just acting out a seizure, and it's not like there isn't a ton of reference material on the subject or likely experts on set to advise her on getting it right, so she didn't just act this out from scratch.
Marion Cotillard and Kate Winslet both made a better showing IMHO.
I was already a huge fan of this movie before the Pandemic, but when Covid started it became so surreal. I actually had to take someone to the ER in March 2020 (he wound up dying, but not from Covid). What I saw at the hospital was almost beat-for-beat from the movie. All I could hear was the soundtrack in the background.
Yeah... I started saying my family we had to buy a lot of food, medicine an alcohol before our goverment declares quarantine. That movie saved me in this decade
@@danielaponte8594
Why alcohol unless for medical purposes?
"Let's thank god it did not come to this for us" YET, the next one may not be so "benevolent" and given how the world responded, I'm sure we're not ready.
This movie is quite good because it showed almost exaclty what really happened before it's time. Lots of panic and misinformation plus those in charge who profit from it is a terrible cocktail, I'm afraid.
The best to you, yours and the folks in the comments.
we've detected avian flu in raw milk and what happened as a result? raw milk sales are UP in the united states. drastically up.
@@ISavantI don't blame people for not trusting the government, even when I don't fully agree with it. If we as a society were more transparent, we wouldn't have these issues to such an extent
@@lucianaromulus1408 I do blame people for stupid actions, like the morons who refused to wear masks or get vaccinated due to the pandemic, because their actions killed people.
@ISavant the biggest blame is the powers that be that allow people to not trust them. Questioning isn't the problem and our government should be held accountable. In a transparent true society, the only people that would question anything to extremes would be total nuts.
@@lucianaromulus1408 no i'm gonna keep blaming the joe rogans, the alex jones, the ron desantis, the trumps, etc... alll those fascist idiots who made the pandemic worse.
..and next ..... The Andromeda Strain....(1971)
Please if she does Andromeda strain let her do the original first.
OR The Omega Man (1971) with Charlton Heston
BLESS YOU for specifying 1971! What a great film!
The original Andromeda Strain from 1971 and not the remake for sure
@@charlesmaurer6214
The original is the only one worth watching tbh.
The remake changes the story significantly, including the baseline point of it.
Jen's right that living through COVID causes us to view this movie with a sense of personal experience. It's also scary to consider how modern transportation helps spread infections out of the 'hot zone.'
Not only that but also the fact that next time people won’t react as severely/quickly because the boy already cried wolf so it’ll probably spread far more before most containment efforts begin to be implemented.
Also there was a leaked video back around 2021-2022 of a Chinese general giving a speech in private to a small group (if I remember correctly, I haven’t been able to find it since then) and in it he said something very similar/to the effect of ‘the best weapon would be one that would only affect the biological markers for the demographic of your enemy and one they will spread themselves and which will cause their unconditional surrender solely in exchange for the cure only you hold’….
Again I’m paraphrasing because again I haven’t been able to find the video since then and I’ve asked around and others online remember it but don’t have the link so I may search for it again later but if memory serves me correctly then I looked into for a long time back then and it all seemed to be a real general who was actually over something like a biological testing department or something to that effect so while it could easily still be fake it’s odd that I’ve never seen it again even when I’ve looked and the only mentions of it don’t mention it being fake or anything so I’d assume it was real and just got quietly taken down.
In other words yeah we may be in for a rough ride because COVID could’ve been a test run that was purposely overreacted to in order to cause less panic and less containment when the real threat emerges or based on that general’s statement is released and that theory seems more likely things start to make when you think about things like how China reacted the strongest to Covid and if you really put on the gun foil hat and game everything out assuming it was intentional and assuming something worse is coming then it all sort of makes sense. The only issue I can see is that their economy is dependent on ours in a way so there would also have to something else to factor in to replace us economically
I remember I watched this the first day of lockdown 😂😂😂
And I live in Atlanta near the CDC
Hey Jen, you mentioned the directional and visual style. It's the signature of the director Steven Soderberg. It follows a documentary style with a muted color palette. ------- You should check out his other movies. "Traffic", "Crash", "Erin Brokovich", "Magic Mike", "Ocean's 11, 12, 13.
The best, most realistic movie on this topic I've seen and scarily prescient (fascinating how the film even has its own version of ivermectin in forsythia). With Steven Soderbergh you get smart filmmaking that also looks great and sounds great.
Fortunately COVID wasn't this bad. The bug in Contagion had what? A 90%-ish transmission rate and a 30%-ish fatality rate? COVID was nowhere near that.
Unfortunately our experience with COVID will almost certainly make our response to the next pandemic even worse than it was this time. And the next bug could be much worse than the one in Contagion.
Our state governments response to covid made it worse than it would have been. I mean michigan and NY city put covid sick people into nursing homes.....to kill old people on purpose, because it wasn't killing people enough without that.
If it is, we're dead
Give it time.
All viruses do is mutate.
The worst part about Covid was so many peoples reaction to wearing masks and getting vaccinated. It really just shows how many people are extremely childish and ignorant.
Compared to the response in the move, world is failed miserably dealing with covid. And I seriously doubt it will improve for next one.
I last watched this in March 2020 while everyone was going to be furloughed at work, good film. We've now lived it! Did we learn anything? nope, I still see people at work not wash hands.. humans be humans I guess.
The survival rate for seniors during the COVID19 crisis had me worried, especially after some Japanese entertainers bought the farm. It certainly made me watch films like this in a different way.
To be fair I think it was later reasoned out that survival rates depended largely on weight and preexisting medical conditions even among seniors.
Age tends to bring problematic medical conditions, but then it also tends to cause people to become lazy and put on weight too - so it's a bit of a double whammy.
Another amazing choice! I'm so glad one of the top tier reactors is finally doing this one. Thanks Jen!
Loved your reaction, Jen. If and when you wish to revisit this topic, I'd suggest 1971's 'The Andromeda Strain'. It's tone is in between 'Outbreak' and 'Contagion'. and It is rated 'G'.
Awesome reaction as always! My disaster pick: The ANDROMEDA STRAIN. Very stylish, very Sci Fi. See you on Sunday Jen! 😊
Andromeda Strain was a good one. Warning Sign was too.
I loved The Andromeda Strain. The characters were realistic, and the science was very well explained.
Dmitri Martin is the guy from the biohazard lab. Hilarious and quirky comedian!
Before starting this video I knew Jen would quickly zero in on the score, it was one of the more memorable aspects of this movie.
Love your comments about the music, the background colors and the fact parts of the movie give you chills; it certainly gives me chills
The Andromeda Strain is simply awesome.
5:49 "She's worried about something a lot worse." She's not rolling her eyes at the "you don't want to catch cold" guy because this disease is worse, she's rolling her eyes at him because she's an epidemiologist and knows that the common cold is caused by a virus, not being chilly.
Till this day those front line workers who worked so hard are hero's forever in my eyes. I will be diagnosed with Cancer during Covid which for me added another layer of stress. I am a 1 1/2 Cancer free and made it through Covid. 🙂
That guy you like from Ocean's Was a huge star back in the day. Elliott Gould. The Long Goodbye, MASH, Bob & Carole & Ted & Alice, Capricorn One, The Silent Partner
Yeah some good movies there. Caught The Silent Partner recently.
Was curious how you'd react to this music in this film. Anxiety-inducing much like the 'Uncut Gems' movie soundtrack😓. Great reaction 🦠
I've been infected with a virus that makes me HAVE to watch Miss Jen's reaction vids!
IT'S AN EPIDEMIC!
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Yeah, She is hot as hell eh hooser?
Depending on realistic you want to stay, but Steven Kings' 'The Stand' is a pretty good, post disease/apocalyptic type made for T.V. movie...either version, there's one from '94 and one from 2020, are both fun watches.
The soundtrack by Cliff Martinez was one of the best things about this movie. Steven Soderbergh is one of only a handful of directors who are not at all averse to bucking tradition to go with an electronic soundtrack.
Cliff Martinez has actually scored most of Steven Soderbergh’s projects. A couple that I would recommend are the film “Traffic” about drug cartels and the cable series “The Knick” about the early days of surgery at the turn of the century (seems like an unlikely candidate for an electronic score, I know…). Both have soundtracks with a similar flavour to this film.
LOL, I just noticed at 29:13, it's Enrico Colatntoni, who also stars as Mathezar in Galaxy Quest!
In case you were wondering WHAT'S IN THE BOX!? This movie finally showed us.
Ouch
Neat Trivia: the Gwyneth Paltrow head used in the autopsy scene was originally made for the "what's in the box" scene in the film Se7en.
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The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston! One of his three classic sci fi films! A must see.
Yes! I kinda liked the newer I Am Legend movie until I read the book. Oof!
If you like Elliot Gould, you should watch MASH from 1970 and the Long Goodbye from 1973.
Still holding out for the 1993 version of The Stand.
What a lot of people don't know about COVID-19 is how many people with other aggressive diseases like cancer had their hospital visits cancelled. I was one of them, my radiation treatment was cancelled. When COVID was calming down and I had an appointment at the hospital the doctor was angry because the cancer had spread to my lungs. Wasn't my fault I was told to stay home by the hospital but they passed the blame on to me.
Everyone is mentioning The Andromeda Strain film. It’s an adaptation of a book by Michael Crichton who wrote Jurassic Park.
Also read Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone.
Preston is a talented non-fiction writer about science topics. I haven't read Hot Zone, but I did read two other books of his; recommend him.
Definitely read The Hot Zone. It describes that first appearance of Ebola on the shores of North America and how, thanks to the Army's USAMRID we avoided a pandemic Which could have started in the shadow of our nation's capitol. There is also an excellent miniseries based on the book as well which was on National Geographic Channel a few years ago. Very well done.
@@stephenkoehler4051 it was a damn scary read because it really happened and Preston wrote it like a thriller.
We were warned.
The thing I liked about this was how they accurately portrayed every angle of reaction from officials, regular Joes, con artists/conspiracy theorists and the desperate.
And it'll happen again.
I remember watching a promo for Wife Swap and this one family believed that soap and baths were a government conspiracy. I was like... WHAT??? I don't even like shaking hands anymore.
Gone Baby Gone, Ben directing his bro.
it's already happening now.
raw milk sales are up *after* detecting H5N1 in it, because of idiot conspiracists.
This movie (and score) was already disturbing and stressful before the pandemic. Rewatching it after hit much harder.
Thanks, Jen, your reactions to any kind of movie/TV are great. It's like I get to share your brain for a little while, and I like it!
Thx for doing this movie, one of my favorites. So real and well done. When COVID happened this movie was so amazingly accurate of what can happen.
The year I graduated high school they had a lottery to see who got drafted ( and invariably be sent to Viet Nam). Luckily my number was far down the line so the losers were the winners.
Mine was no. 60......wellcome to the WAR MACHINE son
@@markr.devereux3385 Oh No! Even when I was in Jr High school watching TV news and seeing newspaper , I thought we had no business being there . There just didnt appear to be reasons like my parents had , both of which voluntarily enlisted in the services to fight in WW2 (my dad in navy in pacific and my mom in the army in North Africa and Italy).
@geniusjohn8280 I hear you. I have some stories to tell thats for sure. Those years were interesting . I got yanked out of college and reported for basic in jan.1972. Nixon won reelection and the war protest was building to a boiling point. there was talk of mutinies and taking over armories to stop the WAR. .morall was really low among soldiers.and I was living this shit. Anyway things worked out and I returned to civilian life a wiser young man. The military ofvU.S is a satanic coven it was then and is now. IMO of course
"Breaking Bad, I have to watch that, right?"
Yes. Just...yes.
lol. Yeah that cracked me up.
@@barbarino2000 I just hope she takes it to heart.
Great reaction!! Do remember seeing this movie in the theaters when it first came out, but really did not remember too much about it. Forgot how good/engrossing this movie is.
Anyway, a few "epidemic" type movies to consider:
The Crazies (1973)
The Crazies (2010)
12 Monkey's (1995 + Bruce Willis)
"Breaking Bad," yes for sure, Jen. 👍💯
To me, this movie feels like Andromeda Strain (the movie) and Outbreak had a child.
They didn't give everyone braclets for covid because once you have gotten the shot your name and information was logged in to the computer. I went to the mall to get my first one. Their were military people everywhere. Lost my father to covid . Hello from Pa USA 🇺🇸 💖. Keep up the awesome work.
I love this movie. Its so well written and acted. Such a wonderful cast. Very nice reaction.
Steven Soderbergh directed "Contagion". I would recommend his film "Traffic" (2000) if haven't seen it. It's about the "war" on drugs and covers all sides of that so called war. An excellent film! It was nominated for best picture, won Soderbergh the best director Oscar, Benicio Del Toro best supporting actor as well as adapted screenplay and editing, among other awards. An outstanding, moving film that doesn't preach, is intelligent, moves fast and is just flat out entertaining.
The 1971 film "The Andromeda Strain" is the best germ movie. And "The Cassandra Crossing" from the same period is also a goodie.
The *can't* kill the top botanist on Mars.
Using real disease specialists in this film was stroke of genius. I admit I did watch this film during Corona lock down it was quite surreal experience.
I remember watching this back in early 2020 I was about 10 and it had been about a month of lockdown and my dad just decided to put on this movie 😂 I was absolutely terrified!!!!🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, watching this years ago made me consider possibilities .... you know what, I never ran out of toilet paper 😂😂
Hi Jen hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤
Thanks John you too
I just watched this last week. When COVID hit, I think a lot of people had this movie in mind.
Check out the 1994 made-for-TV miniseries, “The Stand.” Ignore the Apple+ miniseries; it’s not good. Also, the original version of “The Andromeda Strain,” and another miniseries, “The Hot Zone;” which is based on a true event.
the soundtrack is made with synthesizers and sampers ... the best instruments exists out there 😍
"The Andromeda Strain" 1971, kind of a warning. "Fantastic Voyage" 1966, more medical no virus but original, if you are in old school S-F.
Yeah, those of us that had seen this before Covid were probably even slightly more scared initially (be interesting to see if there's an actual correlation there between seeing this and how seriously people took the precautions :). And as time went on the movie just looked _more_ prescient.
Check out the 90's miniseries of Stephen King's The Stand.
Cliff Martinez did the music for this. He's done a ton of stuff. I also really like his music on The Neon Demon and The Knick.
Really shot at the CDC in Atlanta. I parked right there in that parking deck and went thorough the same glass doors Lawrence Fishburne when through many times.
The director, Steven Soderbergh, is known for using heavily saturated colors to set a mood. "Traffic" is the most blatant example of this, but you can see it in "Erin Brockovich," "Out of Sight," and even "Magic Mike."
We sorta did something like the bracelet thing with our phones. My country is much smaller than the US but confirming we were vaccinated was pretty easy.
I saw this at the cinema in 2011, and I was NOT prepared for 5:06
I definitely recommend breaking bad! You'll love it!
This movie was awesome, seen it plenty of times! Glad you're viewing it! 😁🤙
Calling Lawrence Fishburne "Morpheus". LOL.
This hit differently now and when you live in mpls 😅😫😫😫
Awesome reaction of my favorite movie!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊
Some good recommendations are Dante’s Peak, The Abyss and The Omega Man which was pretty much a reboot of The Last Man On Earth and then later rebooted as I Am Legend. And I’m gonna say this yet again. Arlington Road. I’ve recommended it so many times to multiple channels and no one ever does it. I’m not sure why it is, because it’s a good drama with a great ending. Lastly, you would also enjoy Breakdown with Kurt Russell, another thriller. I know these aren’t disaster films except Dante’s Peak but all good.
An older movie related to this is Andromeda Strain. Based on a sci-Fi novel.
t was wild watching this in theaters then years later being like it happened.
still such a great watch
LOL "I had a... freaky time."
Two other Steven Soderbergh films you should definitely check out are "Out of Sight" (1998) and "Traffic" (2000).
Soderburgh does great movies. You should try Traffic which is about the drug trade with Benicio del Toro, Michael Douglas and Don Cheedle. Very clever writing with very stylish filmmaking.
Forgot Enrico Colantoni was in this movie loved him I'm Flash Point one of the greatest Canadian TV shows I've ever seen
I remember when they were filming scenes here in San Francisco when Jude Law was walking down the street. It was cool seeing the final project.
This is a great movie that a lot of people just aren't aware of.
Dante's Peak. No virus, but a pesky volcano.
I remember seeing this. It always tripped me out with the banality of the whole process, but it sparked an interest in virology, and microbiology in general. Give it 8.5 years later and I wrote my first paper on the threat of biological warfare, and pandemics in general. 4-6 months later and I got to experience the movie first hand, almost play by play. I even got the virus in the final days of the "it's still outside of US borders, no need to worry" BS, and almost died. The screwed up part is that my paper was spot on. The not so spot on part was that I expected a "my fellow Americans, let our hearts go out to the 1.5 million dead" speech, but I guess pretending it never happened works too.
When COVID lockdown started, my family wanted to watch this. I was already filled with fear and anxiety but watching this made it worse 💀 still a good movie though
7:46 That's stand up comedian Demtri Martin. You should do a reaction to one of his specials.
Spotted the guy who was in (the movie) M*A*S*H
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Elliot yes❤
Jen: I like that guy... he'll probably die. X)
That's how it usually goes with movies like this! Lol
Yeah, it was weird when covid first started ... I couldn't get this movie out of my head. I listened to all the warnings and did all the things they suggested because I'd seen this movie and took it very seriously.
No, Kate knew one of the housekeeping staff had gotten her sick and was still working to track down the infected and isolate them to prevent the spread of the disease. That's why she wanted a list of names of everyone who'd cleaned her room. ;)
It's pretty much the case that there are always some people who are naturally immune to any new disease out there. Humanity could have easily died out long ago if we didn't have such wild variations in our immune responses. What works to defeat one virus will kill you with another one, so it's good that we're a hodge podge of reactions to disease; it increases the overall chance of survival for our species as a whole.
It's been 4 years since covid started. To date, 3 out of 4 people have had covid at least once. We're so fortunate it's not as lethal as the disease in this movie.
This movie really captured what a pandemic would be like before it had even happened in modern times. Loved your reactions to this one, Jen! And I agree ... pigs are cute! :)
Threads, and Special Bulletin (1983) are both very well crafted movies.
Hey Jen! I think you would really love the music of Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross. They compose the soundtracks for The Social Network, Gone Girl, and the new Ninja Turtles movie to name a few!!! :)
Every time I see this movie, I itch for a week after... lol
Thanks jen
Has anyone mentioned The Andromeda Strain?
I saw this in the theater. Upon leaving, everyone was silent and nobody touched anything.
Breaking Bad?
Oh. My. Goodness. YES!
That is, without question, a must watch (and react)! 😉
And then Better Call Saul. I am unbelievably eager to find out precisely how much you adore Kim Wexler 😁
Andronema Strain 1969, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later.
I never saw this film until after the pandemic... thankfully.
Life - with Ryan Renyolds - science fiction horror. I think I've only seen one other reactor do it.
Human species is protected from these scenarios by separating in social layers. Only if these mix, we can have this level of death.
Praise Nurgle.
-huh, not that bad.
Magic Reaction , and your 3rd reaction to a virus outbreak should be The Andromeda Strain , its a great movie with a good story, and not to much gore .. and has a twist.
Because this is a great film about a pandemic and you are a cool Canadian, I recommend another great pandemic related work w/a Canadian connection; The book Station Eleven written by Canadian Emily St. John Mandel came out in 2014 and was turned into a mini series starring another cool Canadian: Mackenzie Davis. I highly recommend both. ✌🤟🤘
Seeing this before Covid should hit different than seeing this after Covid. It should make this reaction more interesting.
I watched this during the first couple months of covid and was petrified
Interesting that a big star like Gwyneth Paltrow was offed right at the start of the movie!