No one wins.

Yeah, in the War of the Worlds scenario, the Martians all catch the flu and die, them being so advanced they don't know anything about bio-threats. I guess they should have rifled the shelves in the local drug store before they blew it up.

Yeah, and in Independence Day, the aliens lose because they forgot to update their anti-virus software on their high tech ships.

As a former engineer, it takes me a shit-ton of willful suspension of disbelief to enjoy most sci-fi, and especially the pop-psych crap in all these comic book movies.



OTOH, with the amount of de-funding and limiting of CDC and NIH perpetrated by Repub admins over the last couple of decades, coupled with their insistance that we don't need no universal health care bullshit leads me to believe that we'll probably be in for a serious pandmic or two in the next few decades. Hell, global warming probably improves the incubation of pathogens, too.

Fuck, I might as well start drinking again.

In Independence Day, was there a USB port on the mothership somewhere? What did Goldblum plug his laptop into to upload the virus?

Is it actually a UNIVERSAL Serial Bus?

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Which is one of my favorite movies of all time.

Slim Whitman to the rescue!

It gets a pass from me.

Xenophobia will do fa more damage than the actual disease. It is tailor made for Trump to use to expand his de facto dictatorship

Disease will fell these criminals.

Done in Europe I hear it’s good.

They've kept it set in late Victorian England (and even used some of the extracts from the book that, lightly edited, Richard Burton read so well on the Jeff Wayne album), but changed a lot of the plot after the start. In the end, I felt it just got confusing. I prefer both the book and the album; and even, I think, the 1950s film.