Did anyone catch "Tha Andromeda Strain" last night

[EchoWars]

Sucky and tacky.

...and a lot of things that are not so nice to print.

I can't believe Ridley Scott allowed his name to be attached to this dreck.

The original movie was superb.

[terra1]

I am so out of touch. I thought this was going to be about someone seeing the original Andromeda Strain for the first time.

I loved the original. One of those that leaves a lasting impression just from the plot and acting. Will always remember the lady scientist scanning and glazing over ...

Also Michael Crichton was on a roll writing and DIRECTING: Westworld with Yul Brynner, Coma with Michael Douglas, Looker with Albert Finney ...

[stuwee]

Welllll, That was a waste of time, except for the trailers for The Dark Knight and the Ben Bratt series with the haunting redo of the old Tears for Fears song

I know what song it is but, who redid it?

[WhiteSE]

so wtf happened...I missed it due to watching the my homies The Lakers

[gearhound]

God.....that was soooo BAD!!

I hope the North Koreans didn't see it!?

They'd re-start their nuclear program....again.

Steve

[Onkwood]

Ugh. That was 4 hours of my life I wish I had back. This one makes "I am Legend" (another '71 ripoff - Omega Man) look like an Oscar winner. 4 hours? I guess it took that long to successfully complicate the plot into absolute silliness. It also doesn't help matters to have the Silver Spoons guy play the serious - Army doctor - snarky - "your lives are in my hands" guy. Please.

As part 2 started, I was hoping that maybe the nuke was going to land on the movie set.

[ablethevoice]

Originally Posted by Onkwood

Ugh. That was 4 hours of my life I wish I had back. This one makes "I am Legend" (another '71 ripoff - Omega Man) look like an Oscar winner. 4 hours? I guess it took that long to successfully complicate the plot into absolute silliness. It also doesn't help matters to have the Silver Spoons guy play the serious - Army doctor - snarky - "your lives are in my hands" guy. Please.

As part 2 started, I was hoping that maybe the nuke was going to land on the movie set.

Yep. That about sums up the whole appalling mess.

[toxcrusadr]

Maybe I'm getting old, but the plots are so convoluted and fast moving I still don't know for sure why any of it happened. And I'm a veteran sci fi reader with a time travel specialty. The original was much better. The severed thumb was a nice touch. Ugh.

[WhiteSE]

so what the hell happened? did they nuke, did it die off, did we die off?

[gearhound]

The guy lopping his own head off with a chainsaw.....was the director after he previewed the movie.

Steve

[Fletch]

It was absolutely craptacular. Please do not buy this. It will send a message to the studios that we want more of this direct to video redone movie of the week crap.

I had high hopes. I should have expected as much from the commercial box, I mean TV.

[Eric H]

Well now I want to see it, I like spectacularly bad movies if they have some camp value.

Re: the original, I might have to give it another shot, I think I've only seen it on TV and VHS, if there's a widescreen DVD I might check it out.

[wajobu]

Quoted for Truth.

Originally Posted by EchoWars

The original movie was superb.

Also, on the DVD is a short about the making of the film narrated by Michael Crichton. The book ain't bad either

[willyrover]

FAR too long...FAR too many commercials (basically every 10 minutes)...and "Brought to you by VIAGRA!" so there was a VIAGRA ad at every break which I think was a full 2 minutes long.

Once it was over I felt like someone stole 4 hours of my life.

Oh...and I actually laughed out loud when the "Buy the DVD" thing came on at the end. Would ANYONE watch this more than once?

[ablethevoice]

Well we needed the Viagra to keep our interest "up" for this inhuman study in tedium.