Steven Soderbergh's Contagion

JP Liz V1 · 14-07-2011 11:18am #1

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The first trailer for director Steven Soderbergh’s virus thriller Contagion has been unleashed online.
Far from simply promising us Outbreak II: The Virus Strikes Back, Soderbergh’s film instead appears to be a terrifyingly realistic portrayal of a deadly epidemic.
With no less than six massive A-list names involved (and some stellar support), Contagion looks sort of like a Roland Emmerich epic if Roland Emmerich made taut, pulse-raising indies.
Tracking the progress of a lethal airborne virus, Contagion stars Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Marion Cotillard, Lawrence Fishbourne, Bryan Cranston, Demitri Martin and Elliott Gould.

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0v8BSYq7KY

Mickeroo · 14-07-2011 12:00pm

Looks decent, isn't Soderbergh retiring after this? Looks pretty scary although the trailer is a bit spoilery I thought.

Basq · 14-07-2011 12:30pm

Cracking cast and looks very good actually!

Sad Professor · 14-07-2011 1:47pm

Looks really good, but I find it hard to excited about anything Soderbergh does anymore.

Kiith · 15-07-2011 4:38pm

Saw the trailer for this earlier. Looks very good, and as said above, it's got a fantastic cast.

Dermo · 15-07-2011 4:44pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Looks decent, isn't Soderbergh retiring after this? Looks pretty scary although the trailer is a bit spoilery I thought.

He's got a few movies to go. He's doing, at least, a Cleopatra 3d rock musical, Liberace and The man from UNKLE. But he has said when they are finished he will retire

don ramo · 11-08-2011 8:06pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5g

out here in october, looks a bit like outbreak which i dont really mind as long as there not stupid enough to follow it too closely, steven soderberg is directing and it has a decent all star cast,

PhiloCypher · 11-08-2011 8:47pm

Tagline should read :

" IN 1975 STEVEN SPIELBERG MADE YOU AFRAID TO GO INTO THE WATER

THIS OCTOBER STEVEN SODERBERGH WILL MAKE YOU AFRAID TO TOUCH

ANYTHING "

Galvasean · 11-08-2011 10:44pm

Sounds pretty promising.

JP Liz V1 · 12-08-2011 10:49am

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http://collider.com/contagion-movie-character-posters/108320/

bnt · 04-09-2011 6:07pm

There's an early review in Time Magazine. Contains a few spoilers, like the trailer e.g.

Gwyneth's character kicks the bucket

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kraggy · 26-09-2011 4:18am

Went to see this at the weekend.

Awful. The plot has more holes than a golf course. As for the ending, it's hideous.

Cannot understand how it's at 84% on Rotten Tomatoes. Have found the RT gauge to be fairly out with other movies recently but this takes the biscuit.

Confirms for me that Soderbergh is one of the most overated directors around. Why the big names work for him is beyond me.

And don't get me started on Jude Law in this. Never liked him anyway, but in this, I just want to punch him in the face.

Seriouly, don't get your hopes up about this one.

Jesus Wept · 26-09-2011 4:21am

I'm wary of any movie that puts the directors name in front of the title or '<Insert director name> introduces <insert movie name>.

fullback4glin · 28-10-2011 11:36pm

It gets a 6/10 for me. Some of the acting is seriously suspect, even from Paltrow and Fishburne. And for the first 45mins it just felt like I was watching the news. I can not do that at home like.

minidazzler · 29-10-2011 3:03am

It was OK not terrible, but the whole time I was just thinking "SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING" ala the Pandemic 2 meme.

Hank_Jones · 29-10-2011 12:47pm

Far too many character arcs.

Think I counted 10 seperate storylines.

It's a 1 hour, 40 minute film, not The Godfather...

the whole year inn · 29-10-2011 1:19pm

I didnt like it gave it 3 stars on imdb.
There was too many archs,I was saying to the lads what was the point of jude law character,he really adding nothing to the story.Found it very boring with some bad acting,matt damon was decent tho.

Drumpot · 29-10-2011 8:51pm

Can anybody clarify what happened at start ? I missed start and only got into cinema on day 2 when

Paltrow took a call from the guy she had cheated with!

For me it was only ok. I didnt think I enjoyed it as much as I did outbreak.

There were times when I thought I was going to get into the mood of doom that the movie was showing us but for some reason I never felt the fear/emotion that I have in other movies. I like to leave reality outside the cinema and get into movies!

The kind of movie that it set out to be, it should of scared the Crap out of me, but it didnt and I didnt really care too much about the characters.I neither found it mainstream like Outbreak or really serious so for me it didnt really tick a particular box of satisfaction. - 5/6 out of 10.

paulosham · 29-10-2011 9:46pm

Soderberg is always a bit hit or miss with me and this was a miss. While I did like seeing

Gwyneth Paltrow having her scalp pulled down over her face

I thought the only good performance was from Matt Damon. The scene

at the end when he breaks down in the bedroom just before he goes downstairs to his daughter

was, for me, the only real show of emotion in the whole film.

And yes, too many arcs

Josey Wales · 29-10-2011 9:52pm

Drumpot wrote: »

Can anybody clarify what happened at start ? I missed start and only got into cinema on day 2 when
Paltrow took a call from the guy she had cheated with!

You really only missed a few seconds. That is the very start of the film. There are a couple of shots of Paltrow waiting in the airport. Then she takes the phone call.

You don't see Day 1 till the very end.

I was excited to see this movie but in the end I was a little disappointed. I thought it was good, not great as I thought it would be.

Fysh · 29-10-2011 11:50pm

What a bag of clumsily-attempted-emotionally-manipulative arse this film was.

For a film trying so damn hard to be clinical, it was far too melodramatic and sentimental. The characters working on understanding and treating the disease all behaved in ways completely at odds with the years of training and experience their posts would require (eg

the WHO agent who gets kidnapped being so daft as to not recognize her own Stockholm Syndrome, Fishbourne trusting his wife with a secret she clearly wasn't going to keep, the researcher deciding to test the vaccine on herself without documenting it first despite the fact that it's already mutated at least once..oh, and let's not forget Fishbourne lying about taking the vaccine and making himself a hidden vector, while also teaching other survivors bad habits. *shakes fist*

).

If you fancy a good plague film, skip this rubbish and watch the excellent (though subtitled) Phase 7.

The Black Oil · 01-11-2011 10:51pm

'That was a good sleep' was the verdict of one punter in front of me on the way out.

I enjoyed it, for the most part. It's not Outbreak. It trundles along at a leisurely enough pace and there is no Jack Bauer undercurrent - 'sonofabitch, find a cure, dammit, Chloe!'. It's simply not kind of film and is more talky than acshun. The science is OK, (though who knows about accuracy) i.e., not rushed and doesn't clobber you over the head. There may be one or two threads that test your patience a little in the creditability department, e.g.,

the kidnapping and 'don't tell anyone else this but', however I was (mostly) willing to let them slide. Kate Winslet's character was the one I found most interesting and I think individual deaths had more of an impact than the global tally, which was hefty to say the least. Not sure about the jump forward in time to when vaccine was sorted. I wasn't keen on the mass panic scenes, though they're pretty brief, or some of the globetrotting stuff, but hey. As for the ending with the prom night, well, yeah, that was pants and the actress playing Matt Damon's daughter wasn't great as indicated in the scene where she had to speak to him in quarantine.

If you're not aware of how many things and surfaces you touch each day you will be now.

WHIP IT! · 02-11-2011 10:38am

Saw this yesterday and just wish I'd read this thread before I went! Thought it was terrible, really.

Boring, slow, full of characters that were irrelevant - Jude Law's; Daria Strokous' and Elliot Gould's (who I love) characters all could have been lifted from the script and it would've made pretty much no difference.

As mentioned earlier,

Matt Damon's scene toward the end in the bedroom when he finds his dead wife's camera is the only scene with a bit of emotion in it.

Agreed with the poster who said the young actress who played Damon's daughter just wasn't very good.

I thought the bit they threw in at the end, going for an ironic twist for the ending seemed like an afterthought and was just silly.

Should've waited 20 minutes and went to see Ides of March

Staplor · 02-11-2011 11:18am

Cack

Just because you have a vaccine or natural immunity from a virus you can be a carrier of the virus on your hands etc, why was this ignored?

Mitch Connor · 02-11-2011 11:37am

Honestly, I completely forgot about the WHO agent during the movie. Never a good sign when you can completely forget part of the story while watching the movie itself.

I felt like this would have worked better as a TV Mini-Series, in fact it felt like the script was originally written as this but cut down and shrunk to 'work' as a movie - it is a decent idea but there were too many characters and stories that you never really saw or got involved in - the WHO agent and Jude Laws characters in particular.

Jonny7 · 02-11-2011 12:27pm

awful film - steer clear

Bus77II · 08-11-2011 10:31pm

Saw it last week. It was so-so. I agree with what some others have said, it was too spread out with no real focus on anyone (other than the bug itself).
The only thing I liked about it was the 'natural look' to the actors and lighting. Rare in a cinema film and a nice change.

09-11-2011 1:32am

I seem to be in the minority who liked this, definitely I agree with some of the criticisms above but I wouldn't call it a terrible movie apart from...

fúck Jude Law

pickarooney · 09-11-2011 11:53am

Mickeroo wrote: »

Looks decent, isn't Soderbergh retiring after this? Looks pretty scary although the trailer is a bit spoilery I thought.

I have to ask because it bugs me each time I see it - what is your sig supposed to be?

WHIP IT! · 09-11-2011 1:05pm

stankratz wrote: »

fúck Jude Law

LOL - he is terrible isn't he. One of those actors who just amazes me that he has a career...

It was comical later on in the film when he's walking round in that silly homemade suit of his! Fer God's sake....

joethelion · 09-11-2011 3:38pm

For what it's worth - saw this & loved it - did it's job & entertained me & made me think about what the film is really about - how quickly society can break down when under pressure (subsitute the illness for money & re think the plot!)

Steven Soderbergh's Contagion

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