They find a cure for the virus at the end of the movie.


Ok now that the spolier warning is out of the way...




Anyone else watch the remake?

I understand the UK got to see it first?

Soooo... what was the point of the triangular symbol again? Some kind of multi-national black ops group? The equivelant of the "The Syndicate" in The X-Files? And the sample is being stored on the ISS?

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we Talking about the mini series..produced by the Scott boys?
started watching it, never saw it to the end....dam Kevin you gave away the ending... , next time its on tv will watch it all the way through and see how much it differs plot wise from the movie, all i could see was they just brought it up todate,

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I only saw part of it, it was o.k. Back when the original hit theaters, it meant something because biological threat films hadn't really become a genre.

Now-a-days you see a movie like this every other day on the sci-fi channel, so it's not as exciting.

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I managed about 35 mins - it was absolutely dire...
 

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I watched 45 mins of it. The original was 100 xs better than the remake. But, it seems Hollywood will remake anything these days because they are all out of new ideas.

 
I can't believe Ridley Scott was part of this. I'm speechless.
 

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The only reason I even tried to watch it was because Ridley Scott was involved. And yeah same here Speechless...

Yeah it was basically an updated version- there were a few twists from the original story.

I'm trying to remember what the original virus was... It was alien wasn't it?

This time around they really played up the alien aspect- but there is a big twist in how it got to Earth:

(Spoiler blah blah blah)




Apparently Earth in the future contracts the virus- so our future scientists send it back in time (through a recently discovered wormhole) to our present. The whole point being that a natural resource in our present that has been harvested to extinction in the future so happens to be the only thing able to kill the virus.

So the virus is actually a warning from the future to stop doing the harvesting or eventually face annihilation (actually that has a "12 Monkeys" flavour to it--- definitely a ST:IV theme ).

Did some digging... The ending has a bit of the "Terminator" Cyberdyne paradox---

More spoilers hee hee...


Although all of the test samples were to be destroyed- one small sample is purposely saved. It is stored aboard the International Space Station. The paradox being that sometime in the future the sample makes it back to Earth, causing Mankind's destruction.

I actually liked it. But I'd like to watch the '71 film again.

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Wait send someone back in time... isn't that 12 Monkeys?

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Not someone-

The virus itself.

The scientists of the future sent the plague back in time because present day Earth still has the only thing that could kill the virus... which is extinct in the future.

And the reason it is extinct is that we have been using it up in the present. So the plague being sent back was a kind of warning.

But it does take elements from 12 Monkeys.

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I caught the last 45 minutes of it, not really thrilled with it.

The two guys getting capped in the car caught me off guard though.

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the original movie is still on my "to watch list" ...

However, I did read the book. Was great, maybe one of my favourite novel.

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But it is 60's sci-fi looking. But a great movie.

I kinda knew something was going to happen as I noticed a HUMVEE pull up beside them in the background while they were talking...

I wasn't quite expecting that though- especially not both of them.

Guess they won't be in the tv series.

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