Outbreak/YMMV

• Crowning Moment of Funny: "Why are we flying so low?"
  • And, of course, "With all due respect, fuck you."
  • Anybody who's ever been in the military had a snicker at the scene where Dustin Hoffman's character basically browbeats a flight controller into changing his flight plan to Cedar Creek.
• Harsher in Hindsight: A real-life outbreak of the Ebola virus occurred in Zaire only a few months after the film was released.
  • Nearly 19 years after the film's release, a similar incident happened in West Africa.
• Nightmare Fuel: Averted, oddly enough. The symptoms of Motaba are basically painful flu-like symptoms followed by death, at least as far as we see. Ebola, on the other hand, is disturbingly horrifying, essentially rendering the body to a barely-living bag of blood as internal organs break down, bleed out, and essentially disintegrate until the host dies. Suffice to say, be glad they didn't show that.