The actors. I feel genuine remorse for John Malkovich, especially, for doing this movie.

The gang. Doomsday movies are like Scooby-Doo for adults, except less awesome. A ragtag group that wouldn't overlap in normal life are suddenly thrust into each others' company and forced to keep each other alive, which starts as a real chore but soon becomes everyone's raison d' être. And boy does it challenge our presumptions about people! The moron no one liked at first turns out to be sweet and even heroic the mean old drunk is actually a real mensch.

Because that makes us feel good, even if we don't have any rational reason to be rooting for them, aside from that person being attractive and/or a recognizable movie star.

show starts the same: An epidemic is sweeping the planet and our protagonist, invariably the first person we meet on-screen, is thrown into chaos as he or she struggles to figure out what's going on and then beat the astoundingly low odds of survival, which he or she usually does.

Tom from bird box