I give it 10/10, and am sad that nobody produced a Sci-Fi as scientificly accurate ever since. I am not put off by dated computer technology: the film clearly illustrates the computing capabilities at the beginning of the '70, and I find something educative and strangely reassuring in that. I also thought the actors were good and the setting was brilliant. But there are other, probably subjective reasosn for my adulation of "Andromeda Strain": believable people and believable situations (no "last microsecond decision/action/occurance", no over-the-top behaviour, just human quirkyness, no one-man-does-it-all but teamwork and birth of ideas) and the avoidance of the cliche of only-1-will-survive. In fact, it's the most accurate of all Sci-Fi movies I have ever seen (and I have seen the great majority of Sci-Fi cinema). Today, as a MSC EE, I can see that the science in "Andromeda Strain" is accurate. I remember seeing this movie and being fascinated by the science and technology on display in it. I have always been attracted by science, since my early childhood. Ruth Leavitt: Another giant leap for mankind! Jeremy Stone: Perhaps! But this is hardly the time to organize a protest!ĭr. Directed by Hollywood journeyman Robert Wise, The Andromeda Strain is a big-budget blockbuster adaptation of Michael Crichtons acclaimed sci-fi novel which. Charles Dutton: Enemy? We did it to ourselves!ĭr. Jeremy Stone: Don't be an ass! That map only shows what Andromeda could do in the hands of an enemy!ĭr. Jeremy Stone: You're blowing your tops! We have no proof.ĭr. Charles Dutton: They already have Andromeda programmed! The purpose of Scoop was to find new biological weapons in outer space, and then use Wildfire to develop them!ĭr. Jeremy Stone: That's not true, Ruth! I learned about Scoop the same time you did!ĭr. Ruth Leavitt: That's not the point, for God's sake! Wildfire was built for germ warfare! Wildfire AND Scoop! And you knew, Stone! YOU KNEW IT!ĭr. Charles Dutton: Jeremy! These are biological warfare maps!ĭr. Jeremy Stone: According to this, there'll be a super-colony of Andromeda over the entire southwest in.ĭr. Michael Crichtons chilling story of a reporter who follows a deadly pathogen from a satellite after it tears through Utah.
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