Not bad. I was expecting a Scifi Channel cheesy quality “original movie” man-roach type film and was pleasantly surprised. It was a little eye rolly here and there, but overall the production quality and performances were pretty good. The science technobabble dialogue impressed me.
I never actually read the book, or if I did it was so long ago I don’t remember. According to Wikipedia the movie is loosely based on the book.
Any thoughts?
Oh, and no spoilers just means please box your spoilers until after the US airing.
Yeah; the decontamination included burning off all body hair and the outermost layer of skin. I remember the original movie as having impressive sets and (for the time) state of the art special effects and computer stuff. Usual weaknesses of a Michael Crichton story.
I read the book years ago ,then saw the first movie. The ending could use a little help. The first movie emphasized th contamination building a lot. It was really big on the technology.
Wow, having seen the one made back in the 1970s (and really liked it), I liked this one even better. I never read the book so I couldn’t say which was truer to it.
They said something in the first part about how pH levels didn’t affect Andromeda, and I thought, “Oh, it’s not going to be like the original; they already ruled that out.” And then what happened? The writers totally FORGOT and went back to the original, with pH being the absolute key. Sheesh.
Sheesh what a waste of four hours. A promising start, but they fell into the old script-o-matic at the end. Take the self destruct mechanism from Alien with the climbing the shaft above the water from The Poseidon Adventure, mix well. All they lacked was a swordfight.
Call me crazy, but if I found out that the deadly life form I was working with would only be strengthened by a nuclear explosion, I think the next item on my To Do list would be “Disable the nuclear weapon underneath my lab.” (I think I might also have made the “Stop the nuclear explosion” terminals a little more resilient and redundant.)
On the plus side, it’s good to know that it only takes a few hours to produce enough antidote to thoroughly cover thousands of square miles, load it up into about half a dozen helicopters, and spray that huge area. And that the military commander can tell from his helicopter that no trace of this highly deadly and extremely contagious and fast-moving toxin is left anywhere. No need for those pesky tests or anything, just watch as the nasty brown-red color turns back to a pretty green. All better!
This version was a piece of shit. The first half seemed to have some promise, but it just got worse and worse in the last half.
The initial premise was good, but the government conspiracy crap got very tiresome.
Look, I served over a decade in the military, and I never met any senior officer that I suspected could murder civilians, murder enlisted soldiers, plant bombs, etc.
I can believe stupidity. Hell, never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. But if our military and government was as full of malicious, murdering traitors as Hollywood seems to think, our country would have fallen apart long ago.
Anyway, some questions:
Why would Dr. Barton actually give in to the blackmail? All she would have to do is pretend to agree, and destroy the samples anyway. What could they do to her? Prosecute her for following an illegal order?
What killed the Asian doctor? Reactor coolant is just ordinary ultra-pure water. It didn’t look particulary hot, temperature-wise. It could increase his chances of cancer down the line, but that’s about it. Hell, Admiral Rickover famously drank a glass of reactor coolant at a Congressional hearing.
Who killed General Mancheck and the psycho Colonel? Why?
What organization was represented by the crossed triangles?
Who sent the Andromeda Strain?
I just think that a life-threatening alien virus that threatens all life on Earth is exciting enough without throwing in the government conspiracy.
