If 2020 was a disaster movie, how would you end it? (lighthearted)

[TheABC]

Just that...

Mine would be a cure and the hunky scientist sipping champagne in front of TV watching his corrupt adversary taken away in handcuffs.

Or Godzilla rising from the sea. Just for the B-movie vibe.

Jacinta Ardern discovers that the the virus was cooked in a laboratory by Donald Trump in a plot by Donald and Boris to take over the world. There are billions of doses of vaccine locked in a large freezer. They wrestle for the key. Donald keels over with a heart attack, Boris runs away like the coward that he is. Jacinta saves the world and makes it home in time to read her baby a bedtime story.

@DianasLasso

A cure is found by an evil pharamaceutical multinational but it's held in a secret safe room in the top of a skyscraper in (insert exotic city of your choice here) and only Tom Cruise and the Rock can get to it.

Meanwhile the all-woman science team trying to reverse-engineer it (led by Helen Mirren, with Gal Gadot, Felicity Jones, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Michaela Cohen as her team of side-kicks) get drawn into some side action dealing with a giant astroid hurtling towards the earth. They realise that if they deflect it just a bit, the EMP resulting from its interaction with earth's magnetic field will fry the virus due to a hitherto unknown scientific effect known as the Maxwell-Farraday-DNA-hokum effect.

Everyone lives, and as a bonus, the EMP fries the servers for twitter, facebook, etc. so that everyone can live a much happier more productive life without FOMO and other forms of internet-induced guilt.

Tom Cruise and the Rock are a bit disappointed to find that their efforts were just a minor sub-plot to ramp up dramatic tension, but reluctantly agree that their disappointment is of small importance compared to the fact that the main plot is an epic Bechdel pass!

Helen Mirren and the Rock live happily ever after.

@DianasLasso I like the sound of your film but suspect I'd have to watch it 3 times before I understood it properly

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Some of these are amazing. Good to see references to shaven actors, Cthulu and Helen Mirran (definitely the Lead Scientist!).

Methinks if North Korea did have the Covid cure, China would simply turn off the generators and station their army at the border. At which point, the rest of the world would be dealing with China. 🤔

Dolphins took over the world some time ago. Right?

@ListeningQuietly, your ending sounds tempting. Could we exchange the Evil MasterMinds in return for a cold fusion reactor that solves climate change in one stroke?

Luff Helen Mirren - especially her opening scene in RED2

TheABC
Cold fusion is tempting
but actually making Climate Change make people change is better

Zombies

Scientists discover that eating dark chocolate provides immunity against the virus. Unfortunately, Trump, Putin, Erdogan, Assad and all the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party share a fatal allergy to dark chocolate and can't eat it. They retire to a dark dungeon together to wait out a cure.
All the people were happy once again.

Oh bugger
I cannot eat chocolate

I'll settle for Double tap

@AnnaSW1, zombies....in masks? How would we tell the difference?!

I am trying to imagine Trump with a Hotel Chocolat Dark assortment. It's oddly horrifying.

Bitey alien's jumped aboard the spaceship setting us all up for a sequel...

My first thought was also Bobby Ewing

We're so old

That Covid was transmitted by planes (if you want a pseudo-sci reason, maybe by the filtration system, which captured Covid as they are more sticky that usual viruses)
This which means that everyone could only travel by plane once a year to any destination they chose - business class only.

Bobby Ewing coming out of the shower (yes, old enough to remember that), Dominic Cummings being forcibly repatriated to his home planet (please, please, please, I'm thinking Io or similar, all huge tidal forces, endless volcanoes and cold enough - between volcanoes - to freeze methane, and take David Frost with him), Jacinda Ardern doing the wrap up with a nice bedtime story.

I love this thread.

It's an RNA virus
Doesn't have DNA.

Oh hell, my ending is ..... Everyone who survives the virus (so almost everyone alive today) is rendered infertile and after a few yrs of hedonistic debauchery the human race gets sensible and helps the planet rewild before bidding fond farewell.

@MedSchoolRat

It's an RNA virus Doesn't have DNA.

Oh hell, my ending is ..... Everyone who survives the virus (so almost everyone alive today) is rendered infertile and after a few yrs of hedonistic debauchery the human race gets sensible and helps the planet rewild before bidding fond farewell.

Hence my appending "hokum" (also, being a lowly physicist I had a brain-fart).

But seriously, it is in the rules of Hollywood blockbusters. Scientific accuracy must be avoided at all costs. Which is why the crew of the Enterprise went out armed with a vacuum flask to collect "photons from the nuclear wessel" and why the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation goes the wrong way in the Day After Tomorrow.

(Cf. historical accuracy in historical epics, trade craft in spy movies, any hint of biographical accuracy in biopics, actual police procedure in police procedurals, and any semblance of anatomical/gymnastic plausibility in sex scenes. Not to mention the most basic grasp on the geography of the town used as backdrop for your car chase scene.)

Them's the rulez.

Well, given some of the crap spouted by the media, plus the trump pronouncements, we've got the rules of Hollywood sewn up.

Hmmm. How about an alternative ending? A naturally occurring cure is found but can only be transmitted by kissing. It spreads like wildfire through the colleges and secondary schools, bringing hope to the world...