Everyone Is Renting The Matt Damon Movie Contagion Because Of Coronavirus

I feel as though the best way to describe 'Contagion' is by calling it an okay movie with a ton of stars that not that many people remember. Well, people must have remembered it enough, because thanks to Coronavirus, it is one of the most rented movies of 2020.

'Contagion' was the 270th most-watched movie from Warner Bros. in December 2019, now it is in the Top 5 and the 12th most rented movie overall on iTunes!

Look at the popular movies it is going toe-to-toe with right now!

The Steven Soderbergh thriller from 2011 made $75 million at the box office and raked in an 84% critics score and 63% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. It starred Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Kate Winslet and more. And, honestly, the synopsis lines up with a lot of the fears over Coronavirus...

When Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) returns to Minnesota from a Hong Kong business trip, she attributes the malaise she feels to jet lag. However, two days later, Beth is dead, and doctors tell her shocked husband (Matt Damon) that they have no idea what killed her. Soon, many others start to exhibit the same symptoms, and a global pandemic explodes. Doctors try to contain the lethal microbe, but society begins to collapse as a blogger (Jude Law) fans the flames of paranoia.

I mean, look at what happened today, they even delayed a major movie release because of the virus...

Even with the movie clearly lining up with the craziness surrounding Coronavirus, one of the movie's producers has said to not let it scare you into thinking everyone is going to die.

And while Soderbergh did intend to scare audiences in making the film, [producer Michael] Shamberg said he hopes new Contagion viewers still find something positive in the movie.

"Is it giving them comfort? Well, it shows that ultimately there will be a solution and humanity will recover," he said. "If it's scary, it's only meant to scare people into taking precautions and it's only meant to scare the infrastructure into doing the right thing.

"We're not trying to scare people that they're all going to die. We're trying to scare people that you can do something."
(via BuzzFeed News)

I would have a counterargument, but, honestly, I don't really want to watch 'Contagion' because seeing Matt Damon's face has inspired me to watch 'The Martian' instead.

Shit, if Coronvairus does become a problem, let's just do the whole 'The Martian' Mars thing. Scientists even say the movie is pretty accurate!