Here's a quick overview of "documentaries" to watch before, during and after a pandemic:
The Andromeda Strain film: An early Michael Crichton adaptation which came before the Westworld film and series and the Jurassic Park film series. Like many Michael Crichton stories, factual science is extended with credible speculation. In this case, a prion-like infection has killed almost everyone in a village and the survivors are seemingly unrelated. The film is best known for its cartoonish but very photogenic indoor set which serves as the backdrop of a Level 4 Biolab. Such eloborate sets were common in the era. (Other examples include Rollerball and disaster parody/Airplane predecessor, The Big Bus.) The film features concurrent action which was a common experimental film technique in the 1960s but, nowadays, is most commonly associated with Kiefer Sutherland in the 24 series. There is also a lesser-known mini-series.
Outbreak: A rather dull film which nevertheless provides a graphic portrayal of uncontained pandemic and towns being quarantined. It would be marginally improved if the antagonists were re-cast. Possible source material for DeepFaking.
The Resident Evil film series: These films considerably advanced the tropes of amoral corporation, rogue artificial intelligence as antagonist, reality within reality, experimentation without informed consent and the horror of a medicalized vampire/zombie rabies virus. The Red Queen versus White Queen subplot dovetails with Alice in Wonderland, prey versus predator evolution and Umbrella Corp's red and white logo which - in a case of life mirroring art - was copied by Wuhan's Level 4 Biolab. Many people prefer the competent and detailed Resident Evil series of computer games which are arguably better than the Half Life series or the SCP game.
28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, 28 Months Later: Gritty films which borrow liberally from Resident Evil and a rich seam of British, Cold War, post-apocalyptic drama, such as Survivors. The most iconic scenes of the film - Central London without people - weren't composited or closed for filming. They were merely shot at dawn, on a Sunday morning, around the summer solstice. The first film may have influenced Black Mirror episodes: The National Anthem and White Bear.
World War Z: If Dan Brown wrote zombie stories, they'd be like World War Z. Brad Pitt's character dashes to a number of exotic locations and is swept up by events such as panic buying and stampedes from an unspecified infection which has an incubation period of about 20 seconds. (A duration which appears to have been chosen to maximize tension while staying within the one minute beat sheet of the Hero's Journey monomyth.) It builds upon the zombie mythology of Resident Evil and 28 Day Later. However, it is undermined by cheap grading, cheap compositing and reliance on flocking software.
Contagion: I haven't seen this one. It may or may not involve Gwyneth Paltrow, Harvey Weinstein, an Oscars acceptance speech, Seth MacFarlane and a vaginal steamer. Well, it probably relieves the itching of genital herpes.
Cloverfield 1, 2, 3 and 4: Found footage genre which is heavily influenced by the Blair Witch Project (obviously), Godzilla films, The Day the Earth Stood Still, any B-movie with a military Jeep and medicalized zombie films. The first film has fantastic compositing which may be of particular interest to anyone working on an augmented reality horror game.
Bad Taste: Peter Jackson's first commercial film. It was almost unfinished due to the ridiculous ending which blatently copies from a film which - to prevent spoiler - I won't mention. A particularly low budget effect was used for gun flash. Specifically, the original 16mm footage was poked with a pin. Regardless, if you've seen the carnage of Peter Jackson's orc battles then you may be curious to see the carnage of Peter Jackson's zombie fights. Additionally, Bad Taste works particularly well as a drinking game.
George A. Romero and John A. Russo films: These classics brought zombies out of a largely undifferentiated mess of vampire/mummy/voodoo/swamp monster B-movies. Unfortunately, they have been overshadowed by escalating gore and violence. This leave each classic looking more like an extended episode of the A-Team.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Anything is more exciting with zombies and Jane Austen's dull novel certainly benefits. This wilfully inaccurate historical drama, a genre shared with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Snow White and the Seven Samurai, features square dancing and blunderbuss zombie carnage.
Any better suggestions out there?
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There has been some controversy over Deepfakes, a process of substituting faces in video. Almost immediately, it was used for pornography. While celebrities were generally unamused, porn stars were alarmed by the further commodification of their rôle. The algorithm is widely available and several web sites removed objectionable examples. You know something is controversial when porn sites remove it. Reddit was central for Deepfakes/FakeApp tech support and took drastic action to remove discussion after it started to become synonymous with fictitious revenge porn and other variants of anti-social practices.
I found a good description of the deepfakes algorithm. It runs via a standard neural network library but requires considerable processing power on specific GPUs. I will describe the video input (with face to be removed) as the source and the face to be replaced as the target. The neural network is trained with the target face only. The source is distorted and the neural network is trained to approximate reference images of the target. When the neural network is given the source, it has been trained to "undistort" the source to target.
[Continues...]
I previously reviewed Rudy Rucker's Ware Tetralogy and Postsingular and found that Rudy Rucker's best work comes after ideas had the most time to percolate. Postsingular was a relative dud, although still far superior to Neal Stephenson's REAMDE. In contrast, Rainbows End is highly recommended. Indeed, it is essential reading for anyone concerned about the progression of software from desktop, web and mobile to augmented reality. The book has a shockingly similar game to Pokémon Go in addition to a plausible mix of tech mergers and new entrants in a near-future universe where smartphones have given way to wearable augmented reality.
Many books, comics and films have covered the purgatory of high school and some have covered the special purgatory of going back to high school (for a re-union or as a student). The film: 21 Jump Street is a particularly silly example of the sub-genre. Rainbows End covers a world leading humanities academic who spends years in the fugue of dementia, responds almost perfectly to medical advances and is enrolled in high school to complete his therapy. While he looks almost perfectly like a 17 year old, his contemporaries remain in decline or have bounced back with far more random results.
Although he has physically recovered, he has lost his razor-sharp insight and biting wit[1]. Like other patients, he finds talents in unrelated areas. His computer fluency, which was sufficient to publish in academic journals, is now 20 years out of date. During this period, laptops have become as thin as paper and also horrendously obsolete. Although the paper-thin laptops can be configured as a variety of legacy desktop environments and legacy web browsers, rendering data from the (almost) ubiquitous wireless network is less successful than accessing the current World Wide Web without images or JavaScript. However, this is only one slice of purgatory.
(Score: 2, Funny) by fustakrakich on Monday March 02 2020, @02:23AM
The most appropriate movie would be:
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @02:23AM (8 children)
Hey voyeur trash. Don't just watch the pandemic. Live the pandemic.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @02:52AM (7 children)
What is it with the hateful comments I've seen posted here from ACs? This is unprovoked and just totally uncalled for.
I understand that sometimes discussions get heated and people cross lines. I got into it with Buzzard not too long ago and said some things I shouldn't have. I get that it's far too easy to get angry about stuff that's posted online, which is what I did -- and apologized for it. But there's absolutely no reason for random unprovoked attacks like this.
To be honest, the last thing I want to be watching right now are films about pandemics. Watching and reading the news too much right now, knowing what's at stake and what can happen, is enough to make anyone go crazy after awhile. But the list was submitted in good faith and doesn't merit a cowardly attack like yours.
Personally, I'll be watching sports to take my mind off the news. I'm looking forward to opening day and the start of baseball season. I also really enjoy NASCAR for most of the same reasons I like baseball. Indycar and F1 are a lot of fun to watch, too. I'm just hoping that F1 doesn't have to cancel any additional races.
I understand that people aren't always going to get along and will get into heated arguments. But it seems like there have been more AC comments like yours that are just randomly directed and are vile. Perhaps it might technically violate the rules but because these comments seem to be frequent, I wouldn't be upset if they were modded spam.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @03:56AM (1 child)
Why? Because people like you feed those trolls.
It was already modded to hell, but you needed to respond -- and your response, especially since it was a negative one -- just encourages those idiots.
DON'T FEED THE TROLLS.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Monday March 02 2020, @06:56PM
A lot of people have been claiming, without evidence, that if you ignore them they'll just go away. Well it's been about THIRTY years now and they're still around.
Maybe it's time we start calling them out as the pathetic little douchebags they are?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @07:15AM
Go away, Knowledge_Troll! You said you were retiring! Why are you still here bitching about how nobody likes you?
(Score: 2) by edIII on Monday March 02 2020, @08:17AM (2 children)
Fuck it. I'm going to feed a troll here, if it gets you to never feed a troll again.
Pay attention.
Something that is that way overboard by an AC, is very very similar to a monkey throwing poo. Normally, they ARE modded to oblivion. So if you surf at 0, you get pretty much everything, and all of neutral AC comments. You don't even see the poo.
If you surf at -1, you are deliberately looking at the poo, so it makes no sense to point it out to others. The game is to act like there is no poo. Is there any poo around you? Of course not! If you see it, then grab the mod shovel so others don't have to.
When you fail the game, you're locking eyes with the monkey. At that point, you are forever, the monkeys bitch. It skull fucked you, and now you need therapy to get over it, as far as its concerned at least, and it's wild laughter and celebratory dancing is the only thing allowing it to fuck the shit out of some other monkey. A vile, pathetic, very, very, angry little monkey with erectile dysfunction. Desperate for people to see the poo.
Don't acknowledge the poo. The only winning move is not to play. Listen to their desperate screams for attention, and just smile instead, and let your indifference burn them.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Monday March 02 2020, @01:09PM (1 child)
I surf at -1 because it does happen that while unpopular opinions get modded to oblivion, groupthink isn't always right.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @01:14PM
Fair enough. However, I note that you didn't upmod OP in an attempt to break us of our groupthink. Nor did you respond to OP troll.
Care to elaborate on that?
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @07:55PM
it sounded like a joke, you dipshit.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Monday March 02 2020, @02:28AM (4 children)
I bought a case of soup Friday, that's 12 cans. Plus what I usually have on hand means I'm good for 2 weeks (assuming I have electricity), and another week after that if I want to cook stuff like shrimp without any sauce or rice.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Monday March 02 2020, @01:12PM
I caught and dressed the neighbors we didn't like. They're in the smoker now [imdb.com]. Why wait to resort to cannibalism when you can be pro-active and get the best cuts?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Informative) by fliptop on Monday March 02 2020, @01:27PM (2 children)
I bought a new pistol and shotgun last month, plus 2500 round of ammo. In a SHTF scenario I'll stop by for some soup.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday March 02 2020, @07:30PM (1 child)
I was thinking about a Mini-14, because it's basically a California-proof AR with a short barrel for ease of carrying and wielding, and in a SHTF scenario 30-round mags could be acquired hypothetically in a game of Minecraft and not at all in a state where they are outlawed.
Then after the epidemic blows over I could hypothetically get rid of those hypothetical mags within the video game of Minecraft and still have a semiauto .556 rifle that will be California proof for at least the next decade.
If it's gonna be a proper zombie apocalypse with freaks trying to invade your home and steal your shit, you're gonna want some kind of semiauto rifle with the pistol and shotgun as last-resorts. Also don't forget the medkits, grenades, and invulerability powerups (PCP-dipped Sherman cigarettes). Booze and cigarettes also make great currency along with precious metals.
(Score: 2) by fliptop on Monday March 02 2020, @09:48PM
I have several semi-autos too, (AK-74, Bushmaster AR .300 blackout, and a DPMS AR .223) and thousands of rounds for all of them. I bought the pistol (Beretta 94 FS) b/c it's 9mm Luger which is a more common round than the two Makarov pistols I currently use for carry. The shotgun is a single shot breech load (Savage model 24V over/under .222/20 gauge) and I got it b/c it's the same firearm my grandfather taught me to hunt w/. There's a lot of sentimental value there.
In some circumstances having a concealed pistol when approaching an unknown person / group is probably much less menacing than having an AK slung over your shoulder. YYMV.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: 5, Informative) by barbara hudson on Monday March 02 2020, @02:35AM (1 child)
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @02:52PM
Thank you. I couldn't believe this movie wasn't listed on the front page of the article. Like all Terry Gilliam movies, this one is brilliant in its story as well as cinematography.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @02:44AM
Any good? Heard some noise. Is it dubbed?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @02:49AM (1 child)
The Purge
The Purge: Anarchy
Night of the Living Dead
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday March 02 2020, @07:44PM
The Black Syph (2002) is about a supervirus that was native to Brazilian jungles and spread to humans through all the human-monkey sex that goes on there. From Brazil it is then spread to the brothels of Tijuana. It is a super-lethal hybrid virus with the DNA of rabies, syphilis, HIV, and leprosy.
Once infected the virus causes aggression in humans, which is dangerous because the initial symptoms are indistinguishable from just being typically Mexican. Then the penis turns black and falls off, and then the patient develops insatiable urges to get in the nearest flat-black GMC SUV with bondo'd up bullet holes and go on vehicular homicide sprees.
After nearly being defeated by the horde, San Diego biologists discover by accident that putting the patients to full-time work and teaching them manners cures the disease.
(Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Monday March 02 2020, @03:10AM (1 child)
She who must be obeyed and I, to accompany our pizza, watched Contagion yesterday evening. It's about a worldwide viral pandemic that originated in China and results in millions of deaths. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 [imdb.com] [imdb.com] In the movie the US develops a cure and the world is saved. I am far more pessimistic about our current situation.
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @11:10AM
White men are faggots: woman worshiping pieces of shit; and the reason men are banned from marrying little girls the world over now (bad for MUH WHOTIUE WUUHHHMAN)
(Score: 2) by Booga1 on Monday March 02 2020, @03:30AM (1 child)
I have heard the live action "Resident Evil" film series is pretty terrible.
The games are pretty fun. Though, if you play Resident Evil 5, play with a friend. The computer partner uses up your health supplies when you get a scratch. :P
My personal favorite is Resident Evil 4 on the Wii. Having a real aiming reticle is a huge benefit and saves you lots of ammunition and health.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Valkor on Monday March 02 2020, @03:57AM
The first movie in the series is a good action flick, but it's downhill after that. I only made it minutes in to the third one, and suffered through the 2nd because I was with friends. The first one is one of my favorite movies though.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by NotSanguine on Monday March 02 2020, @03:33AM (7 children)
When that will be 24/7 on the news?
How about some escapist stuff to take your mind off the ugly reality instead:
The Princess Bride (1987) [wikipedia.org]
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
The Wages of Fear (1953) [wikipedia.org]
Nitroglycerine is good for your heart!
Superfly (1972) [wikipedia.org]
"Sellin' cocaine, as usual."
Dr. Strangelove (1964) [wikipedia.org]
"I do not avoid women, Mandrake. But I deny them my essence."
Repo Man (1984) [wikipedia.org]
"Let's go do some crimes."
"Yeah! Let's get sushi, and not pay!"
Animal House (1978) [wikipedia.org]
"Oh boy, is this great!"
The Blues Brothers (1980) [wikipedia.org]
"How much for the little girl? I want to buy your women."
"No ma'am. We're musicians."
Doctor No (1962) [wikipedia.org]
"That's a Smith & Wesson and you've had your six."
You Only Live Twice (1967) [wikipedia.org]
"Welcome to Japan Mr. Bond. Where men come first, and women come second." (if at all)
Three Days of the Condor (1975) [wikipedia.org]
"Is he a tough guy? What will he do?"
"Understand."
"Wow. That is tough."
Amadeus (1984) [wikipedia.org]
"I will speak for you, Father. I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint."
Belle du Jour (1967) [wikipedia.org]
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) [wikipedia.org]
"What's that smell in this room? Didn't you notice it, Brick? Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?... There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity... You can smell it. It smells like death."
D.O.A. (1949) [wikipedia.org]
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) [wikipedia.org]
"Fuck you. That's my name."
The Lords of Discipline (1983) [wikipedia.org]
Or binge watch TV shows like
Leverage [wikipedia.org]
Vera [wikipedia.org]
Inspector Morse [wikipedia.org]/Lewis [wikipedia.org]/Endeavour [wikipedia.org]
The Closer [wikipedia.org]/Major Crimes [wikipedia.org]
The Avengers [wikipedia.org]
Babylon 5 [wikipedia.org]/Crusade [wikipedia.org]
Red Dwarf [wikipedia.org]
X-Files [wikipedia.org]
The Expanse [wikipedia.org]
The Prisoner [wikipedia.org]
I could go on and on. Like I said, why watch movies about disease outbreaks when that's all we're going to hear about anyway? Why not watch stuff that will take your mind off the bodies piled up on the streets?
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday March 02 2020, @03:39AM (2 children)
Logan's run...sexiest movie ever!
;)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday March 02 2020, @03:50AM (1 child)
Or The Name of the Rose [wikipedia.org], which has the *dirtiest* (literally) sex scene I've ever watched in a non-porn movie.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by mendax on Monday March 02 2020, @07:31AM
Indeed. And the 15-year-old Christian Slater was not doubled in the sex scene. Kiddy porn! SHHHHHHH!!!!!
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Booga1 on Monday March 02 2020, @04:01AM
I was introduced to The Avengers TV show back around 2000. Absolutely wonderful show and ahead of its time. It's a shame the 1998 movie was so terrible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @07:44AM
So, these two have something to do with disease spreading around too... The "black oil" in X-Files and that entire molecule thing in The Expanse? Major, major plot lines right there. Of course, a lot of subplots around these major story arcs..
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday March 02 2020, @01:18PM (1 child)
That's a great list.
My wife and I started watching Samurai Cat [imdb.com] on Amazon Prime. It's quirky and hilarious, unlike anything I've ever seen except very vaguely like Comrade Detective [imdb.com].
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday March 02 2020, @02:14PM
Thanks for the compliment and the suggestion, Phoenix!
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday March 02 2020, @03:37AM (1 child)
Trump and the Dems leadership race...two train wrecks just WAITING for popcorn to be made. Of course, you'll have to cough into the popcorn to get the pandemic meme going.
But the SCARES! OMG!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @03:51AM
Popcorn is disgusting stuff, whether you cough in it or not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @04:12AM
Either in books or movies, his stories always amaze me, have read most more than once.
"On the Beach" is about the last of humanity after nuclear war, made into a movie, but the book will keep you occupied much longer.
"What happened to the Corbetts" a fictional depiction of the effect of aerial bombing on the British city of Southampton. Electricity and water stop, food deliveries stop and suddenly middle class existence can't be taken for granted anymore.
Books are out of copyright in some countries, most are available online.
(Score: 2) by PocketSizeSUn on Monday March 02 2020, @05:18AM
At least the first 2 seasons were decent.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2402207/ [imdb.com]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Hartree on Monday March 02 2020, @05:27AM (1 child)
They tried to make a miniseries version in 2008 but it was IMHO a pale shadow of the first.
To a geeky 9 year old, seeing it in a theater in 1971 with electronic music and computer graphics was mana from heaven.
Even after all these years it's still one of my all time favorite movie experiences.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @05:33AM
Yep. It is a fabulous movie.
Not one that I'd want to re-watch during a pandemic, but a good movie.
If you must have Crichton, then The Abyss [wikipedia.org] could work too.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @05:57AM (1 child)
It's a movie series that is actually better than the books.
Reading the books is still worth it, though, if only to read about Tom Bombadil.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Monday March 02 2020, @01:21PM
It is more suitable for a refined palate.
I'd add the details in the books make a more complex brocade than the movies do. For example, the books explain the sword that allowed Merry to break the enchantments that made the Witch King invincible, so Eowyn could kill him.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @06:08AM (1 child)
All the titles listed yet you missed the obvious Pandemic? Sure, it's a made-for-TV movie, but based on the list proffered, it fits. And what about The Stand? Again, TV movie (or was it a mini-series? It's been too any years...), and not that great, but it fits the list.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @06:11AM
actually the closest movie to coronavirus symptoms is the original aliens movie.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @06:09AM (3 children)
Debbie does Dallas and JFK on rotation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @06:20AM (1 child)
Are you from the DFW area or something?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @07:36AM
Nah just my Eros / Thanatos thing.
(Score: 1) by Only_Mortal on Monday March 02 2020, @01:10PM
Debbie does Dallas? My "documentaries" folder is mostly Marc Dorcel informative films.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Monday March 02 2020, @08:13AM
Contagion is a frightening realistic film about a global pandemic. Not something to watch while recovering from or trying to dodge this pesky disease.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 02 2020, @09:09AM
Insects and arachnids are well known to spread disease. Well, insects, anyway. Arachnids mostly keep it secret. But, my computer is infested with mirkwood spiders. If I can just get the last one, and her eggs, I'm sure the pandemic will end soon after. It's the eggs that are so hard to find. When you've entered the dungeons, you've got to burn every level with wizard light. Every level.
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Monday March 02 2020, @10:25AM (2 children)
There's that one episode of Sliders where a virus swept the world and wiped out most of the male population. Then Gilligan and the professor got captured for use in Australia's breeding program.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @12:32PM
What? No love for the Skipper?
He was knocking off Ginger *and* Loveyl. But Mary Ann was *way* too kinky for him. Those farm girls really get their freak on. Barnyard animals indeed!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @03:12PM
Right! Y: The Last Man [wikipedia.org], a story of a slacker and his monkey. I hear it's being turned into a TV series.
(Score: 2) by stormwyrm on Monday March 02 2020, @03:51PM
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @07:57PM
I'll just stick to playing the board game "Pandemic" and its expansions! (including the Legacy versions)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @08:01PM (1 child)
Silent Epidemic:The Untold Story of Vaccines [youtube.com]
(Score: 3, Funny) by PartTimeZombie on Monday March 02 2020, @09:03PM
Thanks A/C. I'll watch that while I'm on the way to see what's on the other side of the ice wall.
If NASA don't try to stop me.
Wish me luck! I hope I don't fall off the edge.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Monday March 02 2020, @10:30PM
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was surprisingly entertaining. Its more a satire of P&P and zombie flicks - well my take of it anyway; and Lily James was just mesmerizing slaying zombies in tight garters. Their twist with Lady Catherine against the original P&P was a good one.
Anyway, speaking of movies to watch, I'm thinking The walking dead more reflects a potential reality. Not the zombie apocalypse but the society breakdown and that we'll have humans being more dangerous to humans than whatever caused the fall.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 03 2020, @12:12AM