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Andromeda strain movie summary11/7/2022 ![]() Maybe others will like the technical jargon and the attempts at manufactured drama, but I needed just the little bit of emotion. It may be considered as the most microbiological film of the Seventh. In the long list of Michael Crichton novels translated to the screen The Andromeda Strain is a miss and an easy one at that. Summary The Andromeda Strain is a cinematographic adaptation of the book of the. I couldn’t really get behind the picture in picture approach that Wise went with at times, nor did I enjoy the jumbled time line, especially when it became so jumbled that you didn’t know what person from what time was narrating the story. I never once felt a sense of danger because every second was presented so matter of fact that it felt like I was reading entries in the dictionary. The biggest problem I had with The Andromeda Strain was my inability to connect to the emotionless and clinical approach that Robert Wise took to presenting the material. There are whole chunks of The Andromeda Strain that I tuned out because the script went so deep into technical jargon that I didn’t care for what I was seeing. Technical jargon is a tricky thing to handle, even the best of sci-fi can go too heavy on the technical jargon front and lose their audience. Unfortunately the only time when I was interested in The Andromeda Strain was when it was in Piedmont and moving amidst the dead city. When they are traveling through the dead town of Piedmont the movie is sufficiently eerie, creating the type of dead atmosphere that is hard to create but when done well is engaging. The movie version of The Andromeda Strain is compelling at times, but then they hit the lab and I tune out. ![]() I’m not going to get into a book versus movie debate, my example of the novel The Andromeda Strain was intended to show how stories can be compelling even if they are clinical in nature. In his prose Michael Crichton understands how to compel his readers, and while The Andromeda Strain wasn’t the best book I ever read, at the very least it was interesting. Along the same lines, the work of Robert Heinlein also draws me in, because even in his hardest stories he knows how to craft a compelling story. Movie 38 - The Andromeda Strain Review - Michael Crichton, reviewed by Andrew Kaufman on T18:35:00+00:00 rating 4.0 out of 5 This entry was posted in Uncategorized. I could care less how soft Babylon 5 and Fringe are considered, because the stories they present draw me in. I am a fan of all science fiction styles, but I do require that the story presented interest me. I don’t know how hard it actually is, science isn’t my bag, but I do know that it presents its story in a clinical fashion that is reminiscent of so many hard science fiction tales that I have read over the years. The Andromeda Strain comes across to me like more of a hard science fiction story. There are two types of science fiction fans, those who are willing to accept any and all science fiction and those who can only accept hard science fiction. ![]() Nothing beats futuristic technology as imagined in the 1970’s! ![]()
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