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Inauguration Day (Score:2)
Not as bad as ABC's Oh-my-God-Avian-Flu-is-going-to-kill-us-ALL! sweeps-movie last week. I expected it to be horribly bad. But just for kicks, I flipped it on a few seconds early in the first fifteen minutes.
The high drama ultra magnification of virus particles being transmitted from patient zero, to a cocktail napkin, to a bartender, to an olive, to a martini, to patient three was a little too much to bear. Even if the overdramatized transmission wasn't over the top, the representation of a flu virus as a big blue spiky sphere was just laughable. (Yes, it looked like a pollen grain deeply embedded in fibers and whatnot. No, viruses do not look like some stock OpenGL shape.) Times like this make me happy that South Park is on DVD.
If this "movie" ended with the Lone Ranger singlehandedly saving the world from pandemic flu with a couple of his silver bullets, while Kermet, Ms. Piggy, Tonto and Trigger sing "Life is a Cabaret" in some a broadway number, it wouldn't have lost too much of its authority or gravitas.
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