Songbird - A coronavirus-inspired thriller from Michael Bay & Adam Mason

Even dumber is that viruses do not work that way. Don't they usually mutate to be more infectious, but less deadly over time?

Edited by AngrokVa on Oct 29th 2020 at 4:55:26 AM

Btw I Think someone theorised that online that "the twist in the movie is that the virus was made by a tech billionaire to control the population. Bay copied the plot of this from anti lockdown facebook groups lol"

Well, every infection and reinfection can weaken the body so it's even more vulnerable afterwards, which kind of 'makes up' for that...

I really hope Bay didn't actually do that.

I mean, he probably had very little to do with the actual script.

He's not directing this movie, and even when he does direct movies, he isn't a screenwriter. I'm not even sure if he has a single Story By credit.

Blech. Just watched the trailer a few days ago.

The problem with this film isn't something so subjectively superficial as it being "tasteless". It's that regardless of what the intent behind the script or the acting or the directing is, all it does is solidify the idea that basic public health measures are just the prelude to government tyranny (never mind that if Covid mutated to actually be that lethal, such "tyranny" would be justified many times over). Its release is more or less tantamount to sabotage of the overall effort to defeat Covid.

A re-release of Contagion is what would have been actually necessary and beneficial for the Covid-19 pandemic. This? This is just grievance porn.

Edited by PRC4Eva on Nov 2nd 2020 at 9:51:41 AM

I completely forgot this movie was still happening.

Why? Just why?

Edited by Bullman on Nov 2nd 2020 at 2:43:50 PM

Money

Yeah, Bay’s latest films have a habit of bending to political (often right-wing) conspiracy theories. Go to any video of 16 Hours and you’ll see a ton of Republicans insulting Clinton and Obama for their supposed failure in protecting the embassy.

This is just buying into that same sort of narrative, with Covid instead of terrorists.

To be fair, the usual right-wing conspiranoid theory regarding covid 19 leans more towards 'it's just the flu but Bill Gates wants to put vaccine chips in us' rather than 'this virus is very real and will mutate and kill us all if we cease lockdowns'.

Edited by AmazingSpiderHam on Nov 26th 2020 at 5:34:35 AM

That latter bit of craziness seems more like a left-wing school of thought.

The reviews for this are about as low as you'd expect.

Good.

I am equally torn between not wanting to touch it versus finding myself a stream mirror somewhere so I can watch it in complete Rooting For The Empire mode.

As far as conspiracy theories are concerned, both the "it's just a pretext for Bill Gates to implant us with vaccine-delivered 5G-activated mind-control microchips" and "it's just a pretext for the gubmint to herd us on to cattle cars" are decidedly right-wing. There's also "it's a Chinese bioweapon meant to destabilize America" (which, funnily enough, echos itself on the other side of the ocean as "it's an American bioweapon meant to destabilize China" among a small minority of Internets-dwellers). I don't think there's the variant of "it might mutate to become super deadly like Plague Inc", which isn't so much a conspiracy theory as, well, speculation based on playing too much Plague Inc.

That is not to say the left has not indulged in its own fair share of covidiocy, merely that they haven't been as prone to conspiracy theories regarding muh gubmint tearing knees.