Last episode of Cells at Work, please. And I would really like to see you review *Once Upon a Time... Life* I wonder if it is still accurate, or if it ever was and how much.
Honestly back when I watched it in March, the most unrealistic thing for me was the army guys on their loud speaker saying "anyone who needs a test will get one".
I remember watching this in class a couple years back. I remember thinking that the "Cure" only really dealt with the infection, and shouldn't have done much to help with the organ damage. Yet everyone's healed like they drank a Full Restore.
vechz davion I wondered about that, too, when I was older and rewatched this movie. A disease that liquifies pretty much all your internal organs in only three days, and monkey antibodies are supposed to reverse that level of mass-cellular decay? Forget a full restore; you’d need a full revive!
This is how reaction videos should be. Where the reactor give their thoughts process to the viewers. Not just starring at the video. Quality content Doc, great job. Thank you our frontline.
Jim Tamim Psychology in Seattle does awesome reviews to, where he really explains what may be going on between people in a relationship, in a very good way. (He’s name is dr Kirk Honda.) Sicknotes and Psychology in Seattle are the best shows in these genres, in my opinion.
Yet you just described a commentary. Reactions can be silent with dramatic physical movements and short outbursts. If I want to see someone stop and talk, or worse....talk all over the movie's dialog, I'll watch the dvd's special end commentary part. This is a doctors commentary, and I don't mind it. If he were a normal person non doctor like myself I certainly wouldn't keep talking to the camera or talk out loud missing all the important dialog. Reaction and commentary are to whole different things in my op. If you are watching a movie alone in your home, are you talking to yourself constantly? I want to watch normy folks watch a film/show like I was watching alone or with a special someone. And you know the rudest thing is to keep blabbing while someone is trying to hear the dialog. But anywho......just my 50+ yr life's experiences talking. Love his......commentary analysis reactions. There...a compromise lol. PEACE and good health to all. ✌😎👍
He didn't review the scene where McDreamy's girlfriend greets him at the airport and then sticks her tongue down his throat, ie the most disturbing thing I've ever seen in a movie
In the 90's, I read "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston, which was a primary inspiration for this movie. The book documented several Ebola outbreaks around the world since the 60s. Later, in 2014, as a member of the U.S. Military, I volunteered to deploy to West Africa to help with the Ebola crisis. The book and the real world setting were both chilling in different ways, and I've learned to massively respect diseases and contagions as a result.
After months of you and Sonja being noble as f---, it's nice to see this channel getting back to its roots. It makes me think things are returning to normal. Oh, wait. I'm in America. Nooooooo!
Sad to see what's happening in the US. Unforturnately, in the UK, our Covid has never been properly under control (more controlled by responsible citizens self-isolating), and with schools going back this week, it can only resurge. Our Prime Minister is an incompetent sociopath - he really is a little Trump :(
March 2021, at least my 78-year-old mother has had her vaccine shots, might be another month or so for me. *crosses fingers* Stay Safe and well, fellow Dr. Hope watchers!
@@44excalibur No it was not. From the book: "[the] microbe contains chemical elements required for terrestrial life and appears to have a crystalline structure, but lacks the DNA, RNA, proteins, and amino acids present in all forms of terrestrial life". It is far, far smaller and simpler than ANY bacterium, as all bacteria have cell walls and contain DNA and other organelles.
@@ravenlord4 The point is, it was still not a virus. The determined that it was too big to be a virus. It's crystalline structure described a silicon based organism.
I really enjoyed Resident Evil! It was great fun for a movie spawned from video games. Although, I have to admit my absolute favorite zombie related media is the Typing of the Dead video/arcade games.
Outbreak is an extremely blunt movie, with well-defined heroes and villains. Outbreak, in that, offers the easy assurances that any such action film will. It creates a universe in which right and wrong are both extremely-cartoonishly-legible. Its dramas are, often literally, explosive. That makes for good entertainment; it also, as it happens, makes for extremely poor insight into the current pandemic.
Well Ebola-like viruses are way more lethal than Covid. If we had that outbreak right now, you can be assured extreme measures would be taken to prevent the spread.
@@Clay3613 Ebola would run out fo people to munch on prety fast. While Covid is a lot less lethal than Ebola, its ability to spread rapidly over large areas puts it in a position where it killed more people in about 7 month than Ebola did in the last 50 years combined ( ~16.000 since 1973 vs. allmost 800.000 in 2020 alone, with a very decent chance that it will crack the million before the end of the year.) So, I doubt that the measures taken would differ drasticaly; Isolate, support the sick, suppres the spread, wait what happens (and hope it runs out... or find a Vaccine/cure. Whatever happens first). TL;DR: For the individual, Ebola is very bad news. For a Society, Covid is worse news.
it is so cool to see a doctor being so real and down to earth, i guess we are all used to seeing the professional side, that we never take time to realize you are human too and do the same things we all do
“Don’t let him take his mask off!” I think it should’ve been, “Get him out of here now!!” Surely they would’ve had a designated safe zone or vehicle to go to in case of this reaction, or to decontaminate and store the suits when not in use. Am i wrong?
With a 100% fatality rate, and no vaccine? You would need to place a serious military decontamination post. Basically the same as we would place for an Alpha particle radiation issue. You would be looking at no less than 2 minutes of decontamination. In this case, the rule is throw up in your suit and clean up afterwards. They honestly didn't take any of the precautions I would expect to see here, the first of which would be a plastic tent built over the hut. In the case that virus, which attacks the blood, it wouldn't normally be airborne. The Sars C 2 ,as a virus which attacks the lungs, will be airborne almost from day one... Which is why early on masks should have been worn... And the FDA/CDC decision to 'prioritize' masks for medical staff by saying "most people do not need it" honestly did more harm. I am just glad that even among the highest risk groups the fatality rate is only in the 20-30% range. If the general population fatality rate was closer to that of ebola we would have lost hundreds of thousands of people by this point.
This movie is absolutely a guilty pleasure for me, in spite of the godawful science in it. It's well acted, well structured and (aside from the science) well written.
So awful. The guy who uses his full hand over the front of his N95? I’m going to use that at work where I explain the new PPE rules to people: “This isn’t a movie, so don’t be dramatically ripping that off your face”
Your reaction to this was pretty great, I loved this when it came out, I read the Hot Zone in elementary school (I was a weird kid). I think Ebola was a kinda "hot" and exciting new scary thing in the 90's, I remember it was everywhere in our consciousness for a minute.
I remember being shown this film during biology class in high school and wondering how accurate it was, particularly cause the whole thing with the monkey didn't seem to add up to me and it wasn't commented on by the teacher. Good to see where it was right and where it was so laughably wrong, and also good to see you back in the studio.
Your vlogs were very informative and interesting (and humanised a lot of the current pandemic which was hard to see despite of the social media hurricane around), but I'm glad to see you back reviewing movies again, where you're looking a bit more relaxed than you have been. As for movie recommendations, I've seen Resident Evil, Dawn of the Dead and Contagion mentioned. World War Z, the Cabin Fever series, The Beach House (2019) come to mind. Personally, I would love if you could look into the Blade movies, as they describe vampirism as a blood disease and have a surprising number of scenes involving medical procedures.
Vaccine from a monkey in two hours! Frankly, I thought this was how they could do it. I had no knowledge to suggest to me that you can't do that with an animal to help humans, so I went straight to romanticizing the capability of today's (America's?) medical field. But, everything I've learned from John Campbell about antibodies immediately activated my skepticism revisiting this movie.
I took the monkey's antibodies at face value when I was younger watching this movie. But now I know it is far far more complex. Make sense because we would otherwise have solved most diseases.
You're back! I'm glad to see that the usual Dr. Hope is back. I can imagine you explaining a new version of cells @ work one day. Yap, this is the right place for you.✨✨✨Thank you again for the new vlog. 🌟
Im happy you’re back because that means that the covid situation where you’re at is under control and i hope it continues to stay that way! I have missed you so!
3 years later, I think we can comfortably say there is very little overlap between the events depicted in Outbreak and the actual events of the COVID pandemic.
Haha, so glad you've posted again. I watched Contagion (2011) in February when the virus felt a world away, in Wuhan. Crazy how we thought it was far fetched, but here we are....
The fainting responce is so common that when I was doing nursing training we were taught how to back up to and slide down the wall so as not to disrupt the surgery
why the heck didn't you choose "Contagion" for this reaction? It fits the actual situation so well haha..like scarily fitting..like if covid 19 was designed off the movie.. just less lethal seriously: i love your content and i partied for days everytime you released one of the cells at work vids.. which you have to finish btw! there are 1 or 2 episodes left! greetings from austria, keep up your wonderful work, online as well as offline!
i first saw this movie in 7th grade and have been in love with viruses ever since. i actually wanted to be a virologist...kinda glad i changed my mind, considering recent events! awesome review too :)
There were several pop sci books about Ebola published in the run up to the movie entering production. The Reston outbreak formed the central part of The Hot Zone by Robert Preston, which is the book that sticks in my memory. Motaba's look is a retouched version of, I think, Marburg, rather than Reston.
Just to clarify things a little bit, getting antibodies from a llama is not the same thing as getting liters of anti-serum from a single monkey. The idea is that llamas (and the rest of camelids) have a somewhat simplified structure of the antibodies. This makes it possible to express their antibodies as recombinant proteins in bacteria or yeast (as nanobodies) and systematically screen millions of variants to find ones that might be specific to whatever antigen your are dealing with (in this case, I assume, SARS-CoV2 surface proteins). The major advantage is that due to the recombinant nature of the nanobodies, it would then be much easier to ramp up production.
A couple weeks ago I did a 4 day binge of (US) TV mini- series: The Day After, The Stand, & Golden Years. I called it my "Cheer up, things could be worse."series.
We started following you before the pandemic and glad you and your family are well. Thank you for keeping us informed. We appreciate you! Take care. Really enjoyed this video. 👍
Oh honey, I remember reading about Ebola when I was in middle school. Hot Zone was written with ebola in mind. Ebola is genuinely one my biggest fears and has been way longer than any large outbreak.
also just to add, it is nice seeing these reactions again doc. and how I found this channel, but I rather enjoy the update vlog or whatever else you do too. you're a enjoyable fella to watch and relax, all the videos are fun. on side note how are you and your parents doing during all this? hope you lots are staying safe and mentally sane too lol love from USA
I love this movie and that you go into so much detail! Those suits are similar to the hazmat suits or "MOPP" gear that I had to wear in the military. It's designed to protect against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear exposure. It's very hot, limited vision and annoying to wear for long periods of time. The military gas mask even has a tube that plugs into our canteens so we could drink water safely. In Kuwait, when we were concerned about Saddam launching chemical weapons, everyone in my unit spent so much time wearing the Mopp suit that we all just took off our uniforms underneath and just wore the suit because it was so hot in the desert lol.
Glad to see you back, Dr. Hope! I'm glad things are cooling down for you. I'd love to see you react to The Andromeda Strain (1971), if you haven't already. That's one I remember watching with my dad (a big sci fi fan) when I was a kid.
Glad to see you back in the studio. Not gonna lie though, I'm going to miss Sonia. How are you and your parents coping with all of this? Also, loves the Cells at Work cameo, lol.
Glad to have him back. Good thing it's getting better in more places. Not where I live but whatever. Glad to see him again. Can't wait to see if he gets back to cells at work.
This film was also very losely based off the non-fiction book 'The Hot Zone' by Richard Preston which was adapted more recently by National Geography to a 6 episode miniseries also named 'The Hot Zone'
My mom's a retired infectious disease researcher. She thought this movie was a comedy when it came out in the 90s. Especially the last bit about how they got the cure.
Couple things: 1. REALLY happy to see you back, Dr. Popie, but tbh, the graphic nature and severity of the virus in this movie (that I saw when it was released in theaters) is... A BIT MUCH, for these COVID times. xD. 2.12:27 Machinery like... *tHe MiToChOnDrIa!?!?!* :p
Outbreak ('95) is based on the book The Hot Zone ('94), that recently had a "remake"/"reboot" short series "The Hot Zone" ('19). Neither Outbreak or The Hot Zone (series) is exactly perfect, from technical point of view or from the point of view of good "entertainment". It could be fun to compare.
Hey Doc, welcome back (to your studio). react to movie Contagion (2011), it's quite accurate with our resent condition. oh and of course you have still one more episode of Cell at Work.
Oh boy, hesitated on clicking this video x'D This movie terrified me as a kid, haha. I appreciated your nitpickiness and breakdowns/explanations to help distract me. :P
That was excellent! I agree totally with your findings as I have worked with many scientists & doctors and said the same thing while watching the movie!! I is scary all the parallels of today are showing 😷😷😷😷😷😷
yes, I loved this movie, Dustin Hoffman and Morgan Freeman are great! if you or anyone wants a scary "realistic"-ish virus movie, take a look at contagion 2011 with matt damon
I've been in resuc with friends in status epilepticus & going into respiratory arrest from an overdose, and I've literally never, ever, seen a Doctor carry on like the guy does in the 'I think it's toxic shock' scene.
Hey Dr Ed! Quite glad to see you look both happy, healthy and in your usual studio! I would love to see your reaction on the 2002 film 28 Days Later starring Cillian Murphy. Thank you for all you are doing! Though please get Sonia back on in the future! I miss her already! ❤
Between this movie and 12 monkeys, they gave me so many nightmares as a teen. But it kept me interested in infectious disease though, just so I could understand more to soothe my fears. Just wish I furthered my education, especially given the current pandemic. And for a recommendation, the final episode of Cells at Work!
Since the pandemic started, everybody's been watching _Contagion_ and _Outbreak_ but they keep missing the most apt movie _Blindness._ That one shows more things that are terrifyingly realistic from the collapse of systems to the nature of humans. 😬
I have had a fair bit of experience with microscopy and cell biology. Those initial images of cells showing the spread of the virus are completely impossible. Why you may ask? Well, in order for that kind of an image to be obtained, you need to fix the cells to a slide and then stain them. Nuclei and organelles do not show up with such a vivid blue color. That is from the staining so that we can see the organelles. The process of fixing and staining the cells KILLS them and therefore prevents biological processes from continuing. Those images were identical and therefore represented the same cells.....cells which should have been dead following the first imaging prep. Sigh, now I can never go back to watch this movie ever again without grimacing. There are ways to image live cells but to the best of my knowledge, those methods do not produce images like that.
I'm back in the studio! Let me know what you want me to review next...
More cells at work please!
You know what is, doc...it's inevitable. :p *Platelets intensify*
Last episode of Cells at Work, please.
And I would really like to see you review *Once Upon a Time... Life* I wonder if it is still accurate, or if it ever was and how much.
Hoping we'll get a review of ep 13 of Cells at Work! You got me totally hooked on that anime!
It was my dream to receive your heart symbol. I finally got it!! I love you!! Thank you. 💕💕
this movie was so unrealistic ... they all still had toilet paper
Honestly back when I watched it in March, the most unrealistic thing for me was the army guys on their loud speaker saying "anyone who needs a test will get one".
*snort*
never had the kind of problem..
@@massconvergence you can tell it wasn't in the UK!
@@massconvergence I mean gov't guys saying that isn't unrealistic
I remember watching this in class a couple years back. I remember thinking that the "Cure" only really dealt with the infection, and shouldn't have done much to help with the organ damage. Yet everyone's healed like they drank a Full Restore.
vechz davion
I wondered about that, too, when I was older and rewatched this movie. A disease that liquifies pretty much all your internal organs in only three days, and monkey antibodies are supposed to reverse that level of mass-cellular decay? Forget a full restore; you’d need a full revive!
This is how reaction videos should be. Where the reactor give their thoughts process to the viewers. Not just starring at the video. Quality content Doc, great job. Thank you our frontline.
Jim Tamim Psychology in Seattle does awesome reviews to, where he really explains what may be going on between people in a relationship, in a very good way. (He’s name is dr Kirk Honda.) Sicknotes and Psychology in Seattle are the best shows in these genres, in my opinion.
Yet you just described a commentary.
Reactions can be silent with dramatic physical movements and short outbursts.
If I want to see someone stop and talk, or worse....talk all over the movie's dialog, I'll watch the dvd's special end commentary part.
This is a doctors commentary, and I don't mind it. If he were a normal person non doctor like myself I certainly wouldn't keep talking to the camera or talk out loud missing all the important dialog.
Reaction and commentary are to whole different things in my op.
If you are watching a movie alone in your home, are you talking to yourself constantly?
I want to watch normy folks watch a film/show like I was watching alone or with a special someone. And you know the rudest thing is to keep blabbing while someone is trying to hear the dialog.
But anywho......just my 50+ yr life's experiences talking.
Love his......commentary analysis reactions. There...a compromise lol.
PEACE and good health to all. ✌😎👍
He didn't review the scene where McDreamy's girlfriend greets him at the airport and then sticks her tongue down his throat, ie the most disturbing thing I've ever seen in a movie
I'll leave this for an ENT surgeon to breakdown
i'd avoid watching the human centipede.
I think based on that description that the ENT surgeon is going to *have* a breakdown
@@DrHopeSickNotes I rewatched this movie at the beginning of the corona virus pandemic
You know, if the mortality rate is 100%, I'd let them put monkey plasma in me...😂
Just dropped in to say how cool it is to see you again.
"It looks like Toxic Shock!" Immediate thought: "The tampon thing?"
😂😂
Yeah cardiac tampanon
Same. I asked “so he didn’t change his tampon?”
"just rub the monkey against it!?" oh oh, like homeopathic "medicine" you mean? ;)
No no no, you take the monkey's blood, dilute a few million times to raise its potency, then inject it to patients. Presto. 100% organic vaccine.
/s
Karen with her crystals and lavender oil dislikes your comment.
And then the film would be called, Monkey Magic. 😂
If homeopathy is true, than all water is full of shit ;)
Trillion times diluted into every ocean and river.
Reject needle, return to monke
Good to see you again Dr Ed! Hope you are staying safe mentally and physically. Thank you for all you’re doing. Love from Canada. ☀️
In the 90's, I read "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston, which was a primary inspiration for this movie. The book documented several Ebola outbreaks around the world since the 60s. Later, in 2014, as a member of the U.S. Military, I volunteered to deploy to West Africa to help with the Ebola crisis. The book and the real world setting were both chilling in different ways, and I've learned to massively respect diseases and contagions as a result.
Your description is gold... "Best way to relax after treating patients during a pandemic is to watch a medical disaster movie" 😂
It shows you how easy you actually get away in the real world :D
That movie theater scene still haunts me today. That scene is how I visualize anyone coughing and the spread of their germs happening.
Now visualize those same germs passing right through every mask that's not hooked to it's own self-contained air supply, and you have today!
After months of you and Sonja being noble as f---, it's nice to see this channel getting back to its roots. It makes me think things are returning to normal. Oh, wait. I'm in America. Nooooooo!
Stay safe!
Sad to see what's happening in the US. Unforturnately, in the UK, our Covid has never been properly under control (more controlled by responsible citizens self-isolating), and with schools going back this week, it can only resurge. Our Prime Minister is an incompetent sociopath - he really is a little Trump :(
I know. Isn't it a shame....so much for America being "Great again." haha
March 2021, at least my 78-year-old mother has had her vaccine shots, might be another month or so for me. *crosses fingers* Stay Safe and well, fellow Dr. Hope watchers!
"The Andromeda Strain" by Michael Crichton is almost 50- years old, but it's amazing how well it has aged.
YES! And the design of the underground lab is amazing.
♥️ Love that film!
The Andromeda Strain wasn't about a virus. It was an extraterrestrial bacteria made of silicon.
@@44excalibur No it was not. From the book: "[the] microbe contains chemical elements required for terrestrial life and appears to have a crystalline structure, but lacks the DNA, RNA, proteins, and amino acids present in all forms of terrestrial life". It is far, far smaller and simpler than ANY bacterium, as all bacteria have cell walls and contain DNA and other organelles.
@@ravenlord4 The point is, it was still not a virus. The determined that it was too big to be a virus. It's crystalline structure described a silicon based organism.
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Where are the cute platelets from Cells at Work??
"How did he get to med school"? It was super easy, barely an inconvenience!
Well if you're in, I'm in!
Also med school is tight!
Loved the callback to CELLS AT WORK! [16:13]
But he failed with the other cells shortly there after.
@@earnestbrown6524 I know! I wanted platelets!!
@@quiquaequod322 ano ne ano ne
So happy to see you again in the studio and with THE shirt on. I missed your confusion look XD
Resident Evil movie just because it deals with viruses. Lol.
YES!
@@DrHopeSickNotes I mean, yeah. Zombie outbreaks are extreme fiction. But that kind of thing just fascinates me.
@@kieran89uk Fun thing; Rabies checks most of the things you expect from a Zombie-Virus... except raising the dead, ofc. :D
@@psymcdad8151 That's why "fast zombies" are also known as "infected" and don't simply rot.
I really enjoyed Resident Evil! It was great fun for a movie spawned from video games. Although, I have to admit my absolute favorite zombie related media is the Typing of the Dead video/arcade games.
Outbreak is an extremely blunt movie, with well-defined heroes and villains. Outbreak, in that, offers the easy assurances that any such action film will. It creates a universe in which right and wrong are both extremely-cartoonishly-legible. Its dramas are, often literally, explosive. That makes for good entertainment; it also, as it happens, makes for extremely poor insight into the current pandemic.
Well Ebola-like viruses are way more lethal than Covid. If we had that outbreak right now, you can be assured extreme measures would be taken to prevent the spread.
@@Clay3613 I think studying antibodies and adapting ZMAPP is quite reasonable, unlike nuking every place that's infected.
@@Clay3613 Ebola would run out fo people to munch on prety fast. While Covid is a lot less lethal than Ebola, its ability to spread rapidly over large areas puts it in a position where it killed more people in about 7 month than Ebola did in the last 50 years combined ( ~16.000 since 1973 vs. allmost 800.000 in 2020 alone, with a very decent chance that it will crack the million before the end of the year.)
So, I doubt that the measures taken would differ drasticaly; Isolate, support the sick, suppres the spread, wait what happens (and hope it runs out... or find a Vaccine/cure. Whatever happens first).
TL;DR:
For the individual, Ebola is very bad news. For a Society, Covid is worse news.
@@CTimmerman I'm talking about the military enforced quarantines.
@@Clay3613 Those are fine, like in China and Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni.
Laughed so hard when he asked how mcdreamy got into med school after causing a outbreak 🤣😂
You know we're living in very strange times, when Dr Hope reacting to the film Outbreak during a pandemic feels like a slice of normality!
it is so cool to see a doctor being so real and down to earth, i guess we are all used to seeing the professional side, that we never take time to realize you are human too and do the same things we all do
"Flying around in helecopters chasing a monkey is RE-DIC-U-LOUS" The best summary of the American healthcare system.
Can't wait for that last episode of Cells at Work.
“Don’t let him take his mask off!” I think it should’ve been, “Get him out of here now!!” Surely they would’ve had a designated safe zone or vehicle to go to in case of this reaction, or to decontaminate and store the suits when not in use. Am i wrong?
Yes, and why isn't anybody saying anything about the dude entering the room with no protection whatsoever?
With a 100% fatality rate, and no vaccine? You would need to place a serious military decontamination post. Basically the same as we would place for an Alpha particle radiation issue. You would be looking at no less than 2 minutes of decontamination. In this case, the rule is throw up in your suit and clean up afterwards. They honestly didn't take any of the precautions I would expect to see here, the first of which would be a plastic tent built over the hut. In the case that virus, which attacks the blood, it wouldn't normally be airborne. The Sars C 2 ,as a virus which attacks the lungs, will be airborne almost from day one... Which is why early on masks should have been worn... And the FDA/CDC decision to 'prioritize' masks for medical staff by saying "most people do not need it" honestly did more harm. I am just glad that even among the highest risk groups the fatality rate is only in the 20-30% range. If the general population fatality rate was closer to that of ebola we would have lost hundreds of thousands of people by this point.
@@almondmagnum8604 that's a local doctor
You are,you are right, but when making these movies people dont really think about that type of stuff
Good to see you back in the studio. Thanks for keeping us informed during the outbreak and thanks for keeping us informed about Outbreak.
This movie is absolutely a guilty pleasure for me, in spite of the godawful science in it. It's well acted, well structured and (aside from the science) well written.
Beyond Reality [CD10] I like it a lot, too.
Fun fact - doffing comes from the term to "do off" - don from "do on". Gotta love the English language!
And I agree, the doffing here was awful!
So awful. The guy who uses his full hand over the front of his N95? I’m going to use that at work where I explain the new PPE rules to people: “This isn’t a movie, so don’t be dramatically ripping that off your face”
Your reaction to this was pretty great, I loved this when it came out, I read the Hot Zone in elementary school (I was a weird kid). I think Ebola was a kinda "hot" and exciting new scary thing in the 90's, I remember it was everywhere in our consciousness for a minute.
I remember being shown this film during biology class in high school and wondering how accurate it was, particularly cause the whole thing with the monkey didn't seem to add up to me and it wasn't commented on by the teacher. Good to see where it was right and where it was so laughably wrong, and also good to see you back in the studio.
Your vlogs were very informative and interesting (and humanised a lot of the current pandemic which was hard to see despite of the social media hurricane around), but I'm glad to see you back reviewing movies again, where you're looking a bit more relaxed than you have been.
As for movie recommendations, I've seen Resident Evil, Dawn of the Dead and Contagion mentioned. World War Z, the Cabin Fever series, The Beach House (2019) come to mind.
Personally, I would love if you could look into the Blade movies, as they describe vampirism as a blood disease and have a surprising number of scenes involving medical procedures.
Ok I didn't expect you to use the image of Cells at Work's Streptococcus there... my day has been made sir.
Vaccine from a monkey in two hours! Frankly, I thought this was how they could do it. I had no knowledge to suggest to me that you can't do that with an animal to help humans, so I went straight to romanticizing the capability of today's (America's?) medical field. But, everything I've learned from John Campbell about antibodies immediately activated my skepticism revisiting this movie.
I took the monkey's antibodies at face value when I was younger watching this movie. But now I know it is far far more complex. Make sense because we would otherwise have solved most diseases.
Did you ever review the film Contagion? That one was downright prescient about how things went down.
Doctor HOPE!!!!!!!!!! I am so glad to see you back. I hope all is well!!!
You're back! I'm glad to see that the usual Dr. Hope is back. I can imagine you explaining a new version of cells @ work one day. Yap, this is the right place for you.✨✨✨Thank you again for the new vlog. 🌟
Im happy you’re back because that means that the covid situation where you’re at is under control and i hope it continues to stay that way! I have missed you so!
3 years later, I think we can comfortably say there is very little overlap between the events depicted in Outbreak and the actual events of the COVID pandemic.
Thinking COVID-19 was Level 3 is laughable.
This was a fun watch. I finally noticed the chapter names in the video. I kinda want a shirt that says “Monkey cure to the rescue!”
Literally had to check when this was uploaded 😂
Feels like forever since the old videos.
Hope all well! (Pun kinda intended)
Haha, so glad you've posted again. I watched Contagion (2011) in February when the virus felt a world away, in Wuhan. Crazy how we thought it was far fetched, but here we are....
The sarcasm is on point!
By the way, thank you for your service during, and still ongoing, during the pandemic.
The fainting responce is so common that when I was doing nursing training we were taught how to back up to and slide down the wall so as not to disrupt the surgery
I love what exposure to Cell's At Work is doing for your channel
why the heck didn't you choose "Contagion" for this reaction?
It fits the actual situation so well haha..like scarily fitting..like if covid 19 was designed off the movie.. just less lethal
seriously: i love your content and i partied for days everytime you released one of the cells at work vids.. which you have to finish btw! there are 1 or 2 episodes left!
greetings from austria, keep up your wonderful work, online as well as offline!
Probably because everyone else has already done it recently
Outbreaks much better
Outbreak is the OG of real virus themed movie hits.
i first saw this movie in 7th grade and have been in love with viruses ever since. i actually wanted to be a virologist...kinda glad i changed my mind, considering recent events! awesome review too :)
There were several pop sci books about Ebola published in the run up to the movie entering production. The Reston outbreak formed the central part of The Hot Zone by Robert Preston, which is the book that sticks in my memory. Motaba's look is a retouched version of, I think, Marburg, rather than Reston.
Great to have the Covid-19 perspective as part of this film review.
Just to clarify things a little bit, getting antibodies from a llama is not the same thing as getting liters of anti-serum from a single monkey. The idea is that llamas (and the rest of camelids) have a somewhat simplified structure of the antibodies. This makes it possible to express their antibodies as recombinant proteins in bacteria or yeast (as nanobodies) and systematically screen millions of variants to find ones that might be specific to whatever antigen your are dealing with (in this case, I assume, SARS-CoV2 surface proteins). The major advantage is that due to the recombinant nature of the nanobodies, it would then be much easier to ramp up production.
A couple weeks ago I did a 4 day binge of (US) TV mini- series: The Day After, The Stand, & Golden Years. I called it my "Cheer up, things could be worse."series.
The fact that you used the cells at work artwork for the strep is awesome.
We started following you before the pandemic and glad you and your family are well. Thank you for keeping us informed. We appreciate you! Take care. Really enjoyed this video. 👍
took me a whole minute to process which film you were reviewing. I really enjoyed this one.
Oh honey, I remember reading about Ebola when I was in middle school. Hot Zone was written with ebola in mind. Ebola is genuinely one my biggest fears and has been way longer than any large outbreak.
I love those occasional Cells At Work-references to illustrate the pathogens - its amazing how much easier they are to remember this way ^^
So good to see a video like that. I'm pretty happy that you were able to come back to your studio 😊
also just to add, it is nice seeing these reactions again doc. and how I found this channel, but I rather enjoy the update vlog or whatever else you do too. you're a enjoyable fella to watch and relax, all the videos are fun. on side note how are you and your parents doing during all this? hope you lots are staying safe and mentally sane too lol love from USA
I love this movie and that you go into so much detail! Those suits are similar to the hazmat suits or "MOPP" gear that I had to wear in the military. It's designed to protect against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear exposure. It's very hot, limited vision and annoying to wear for long periods of time. The military gas mask even has a tube that plugs into our canteens so we could drink water safely. In Kuwait, when we were concerned about Saddam launching chemical weapons, everyone in my unit spent so much time wearing the Mopp suit that we all just took off our uniforms underneath and just wore the suit because it was so hot in the desert lol.
Amber Alexander you’re bad ass!!!!!🙌🏻😄💜
Good to see you looking so well. That breakdown of the film was interesting and fun. See you next time!
Dr McDreamy face :D Took you reviewing one of my favourite films to find you, subscribed now!
The air bomb in the beginning was not just for containment-it was for a cover-up!
Glad to see you back, Dr. Hope! I'm glad things are cooling down for you. I'd love to see you react to The Andromeda Strain (1971), if you haven't already. That's one I remember watching with my dad (a big sci fi fan) when I was a kid.
I saw it as a kid in the theaters (yes, I’m old) and seeing all that on the huge screen gave me nightmares
Just wanted to say thanks for the video and for all your hard work in medicine during this crazy time!
I still remember being thrown out of the cinema due to continuously laughing when watching this movie 😆😆
Glad to see you back in the studio. Not gonna lie though, I'm going to miss Sonia.
How are you and your parents coping with all of this?
Also, loves the Cells at Work cameo, lol.
Oh, good show! Nice to see someone honestly poke a finger at the lack of science in this film.
Thank you very much!
Please stay safe!
Glad to have him back. Good thing it's getting better in more places. Not where I live but whatever. Glad to see him again. Can't wait to see if he gets back to cells at work.
"What are they gonna do? Rub the monkey up against the people-" is likely the funniest thing I've ever heard you say.
This film was also very losely based off the non-fiction book 'The Hot Zone' by Richard Preston which was adapted more recently by National Geography to a 6 episode miniseries also named 'The Hot Zone'
Ahhh, a burst of normalcy. Also, well done Doctor Hope, you've been brilliant through this pandemic.
My mom's a retired infectious disease researcher. She thought this movie was a comedy when it came out in the 90s. Especially the last bit about how they got the cure.
16:10 Nice Cells at Work reference there
Great videos as always, kinda sad cells at work didn't make an appearance when you were talking about the different cells like platelets though.
Would be interesting to see your take on the film Contagion. A lot of people have praised it for depicting a flu like pandemic.
Couple things: 1. REALLY happy to see you back, Dr. Popie, but tbh, the graphic nature and severity of the virus in this movie (that I saw when it was released in theaters) is... A BIT MUCH, for these COVID times. xD. 2.12:27 Machinery like... *tHe MiToChOnDrIa!?!?!* :p
I love the use of the Cells at Work character. Lol.
His teacher is so proud of him
Now I really want you to react to the episode of Clerks: The Animated Series where they do a spoof of Outbreak...
Or any given episode of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.
Outbreak ('95) is based on the book The Hot Zone ('94), that recently had a "remake"/"reboot" short series "The Hot Zone" ('19). Neither Outbreak or The Hot Zone (series) is exactly perfect, from technical point of view or from the point of view of good "entertainment". It could be fun to compare.
Hey Doc, welcome back (to your studio).
react to movie Contagion (2011), it's quite accurate with our resent condition.
oh and of course you have still one more episode of Cell at Work.
I'm glad your doing well. Keep up the great work. It's good to see you again!
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If you've ever been scuba diving, you know not to rip off your equipment in a panic. heheh
Oh boy, hesitated on clicking this video x'D This movie terrified me as a kid, haha. I appreciated your nitpickiness and breakdowns/explanations to help distract me. :P
Thank for another great video. It was cool to learn about different blood tests.
That was excellent! I agree totally with your findings as I have worked with many scientists & doctors and said the same thing while watching the movie!! I is scary all the parallels of today are showing 😷😷😷😷😷😷
yes, I loved this movie, Dustin Hoffman and Morgan Freeman are great!
if you or anyone wants a scary "realistic"-ish virus movie, take a look at contagion 2011 with matt damon
I've been in resuc with friends in status epilepticus & going into respiratory arrest from an overdose, and I've literally never, ever, seen a Doctor carry on like the guy does in the 'I think it's toxic shock' scene.
Hey Dr Ed! Quite glad to see you look both happy, healthy and in your usual studio! I would love to see your reaction on the 2002 film 28 Days Later starring Cillian Murphy.
Thank you for all you are doing! Though please get Sonia back on in the future! I miss her already! ❤
Between this movie and 12 monkeys, they gave me so many nightmares as a teen. But it kept me interested in infectious disease though, just so I could understand more to soothe my fears. Just wish I furthered my education, especially given the current pandemic. And for a recommendation, the final episode of Cells at Work!
i love how you used the streptococcus pyogenes from cells at work. i love that show!!
Loving the use of the Cells at Work character
Since the pandemic started, everybody's been watching _Contagion_ and _Outbreak_ but they keep missing the most apt movie _Blindness._ That one shows more things that are terrifyingly realistic from the collapse of systems to the nature of humans. 😬
I have had a fair bit of experience with microscopy and cell biology. Those initial images of cells showing the spread of the virus are completely impossible. Why you may ask? Well, in order for that kind of an image to be obtained, you need to fix the cells to a slide and then stain them. Nuclei and organelles do not show up with such a vivid blue color. That is from the staining so that we can see the organelles. The process of fixing and staining the cells KILLS them and therefore prevents biological processes from continuing. Those images were identical and therefore represented the same cells.....cells which should have been dead following the first imaging prep. Sigh, now I can never go back to watch this movie ever again without grimacing. There are ways to image live cells but to the best of my knowledge, those methods do not produce images like that.
I'm glad to see you back in the studio 😃
Casey later explained that it was too close for a mutation. Instead, he theorized that the host is carrying both strains of the virus
I love this review, you need to review Contagion, that movie is really good.
I am so happy to see you back .....keep up the good work
I did enjoy the video and it is nice to see you back and the studio!