Uh, where'd my gasmask go?

January 2, 2005 8:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

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FX is currently showing "Smallpox," an original movie that's played out more like a documentary after the fact - It reviews the alleged events of April 2002, when a smallpox outbreak "occurred" and killed something like 60 million people. They put a very clear warning at the beginning of the movie that it was a movie, not fact, and that it was NOT based on actual events - I guess trying to prevent a "War of the Worlds" type reaction. No offense, but I think that they should have repeated the warning more often - it's some pretty realistic and scary looking stuff.

I was going to tape it and watch it later, if I thought the first few minutes of the movie were good, but it just sucked me right in - a good sign. It looks like some of the logic behind how such an attack could happen is pretty sound - i.e. people stealing samples of Smallpox from various locations - notably, in this example, Russia and the former Soviet Republic - and then the spread of the disease once it's out in the public.

Ok, it's back on, more later when I've seen the whole thing.