Delta Force.
The Siege. The Ordeal. The Rescue.
Indeed.
Full disclosure: I don't really believe in movie poster prophecies, but hey . . .
I don't know why, but I get the sense that this movie poster for a terrible 1986 Chuck Norris film offers many potential symbolic clues about what might be coming down the pipe as far as the birdemic goes.
Delta Force. The Siege. The Ordeal. The Rescue. Indeed. Full disclosure: I don't really believe in movie poster prophecies, but hey . . .
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Hari Seldon
7/8/2021 01:50:05
Hollywood is littered with images and themes that disturbingly prefigure the events of the past 18 months. I was particularly struck by I Am Legend, the 2007 Will Smith blockbuster in which a genetically engineered measles virus that is designed to cure cancer ends up wiping out 90% of humanity and transforming most of the rest into zombies.
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Francis Berger
7/8/2021 22:27:06
@ Hari - Yes, I do believe Hollywood films have sometimes been employed to foreshadow world developments and events, but as you know, my use of Delta Force here is clearly not an example of that.
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Hari Seldon
7/10/2021 04:20:07
Thanks. I have not read the novel (or seen the other movies based on it), but now I am intrigued.
Whitney
7/9/2021 00:15:56
I read the book also and there were two groups of infected. The vampires that rose from the dead and were cognitively impaired and partially insane and the living infected that were cognitively okay though psychologically changed and able to deal with their infection with medication. These were the two tribes, the living were smarter than the dead so they were able to wipe out the vampires, which was considered an essential hurdle before they built their new society. It ends with them killing Richard Neville because as the last uninfected human he is essentially a different species and a freak of nature and an object of horror so he has to die also. I think it was established that he was immune to the bacteria so they couldn't just infect him and let him become part of their society.
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Jon
7/9/2021 17:04:53
These movies used to be considered lowbrow and cheesy by critics or those in the know. But nowadays they are quite enjoyable compared to the alternative, extremely ideological crap that studios are producing/trying to push down our throats.
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Hari Seldon
7/10/2021 04:16:16
This is true of a great many movies (and TV shows), I think. Not only is the older stuff less ideological, it's also just of higher quality. There has been a profound decline in workmanship and aesthetic standards in the last couple of decades, such that "mediocre" or "lowbrow" entertainment from the past is now surprisingly enjoyable. Meanwhile, both the lowbrow and the "serious" stuff that is produced today is essentially unwatchable, I find.
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