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The Rewatchables

How ‘Contagion' Belatedly Became a Disturbing Rewatch, With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

The Rewatchables

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.613.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan reexamine Steven Soderbergh's 2011 thriller ‘Contagion,' starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, and Jude Law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Alright, this is an unusual rewatchables.

0:08.2

We are basically tossing away the categories for this one and we're talking about a movie

0:12.0

that came out nine years ago and is incredibly relevant right now for a bunch of different

0:17.6

reasons and is one of those fascinating rewatches I've had.

0:21.8

And we're taping the Sun and Friday Chris Rancey or Sean Fennissy is here with the

0:24.9

movie called Contagion.

0:27.1

You might remember it.

0:28.1

You might notice on the iTunes store it is I think like the third or fourth rental

0:34.4

pay-per-view thing right now along with all the new movies that came out.

0:37.8

It's had this bizarre but not that bizarre resurgence the New York Times wrote about it two days

0:43.5

ago again, we're taping the Sun and Friday.

0:46.4

And we were hesitant to do this because we didn't know if the coronavirus was going to

0:50.2

get worse or I'm sure it's probably not going to get better.

0:54.3

I watched this last night.

0:56.8

It was just kind of an unbelievable experience.

0:59.4

I couldn't get over how uncanny it was almost predicting how this was going to play out

1:07.2

in 2020 not as deadly but the same kind of panic and the way it's shot and it almost uses

1:14.3

germs like the shark and jaws or something where it's like somebody touches a pole and

1:19.9

a bus and it just lingers on the pole for an extra second.

1:23.7

That's all stuff we've been thinking about the last two weeks.

1:26.4

What was your reaction when you rewatch this?

1:28.2

The exact same one which I think is why it's been booming and been so in the consciousness

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