Posted on 05/15/2022 6:49:12 PM PDT by ValleyofHope
The Andromeda Strain in entirety on odysee.
One of my favorite movies, science fiction/drama, great acting throughout!
https://odysee.com/$/download/the-andromeda-strain1971/92c38cba7fabc02d6414fa98a71f1b915ef44cc9
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“Establishment fall down go boom.”
I love “State of Fear”. Perfect.
What really hooked me was, instead of the bad guys in black sedans chasing the good guys, they trail them in in Toyota Prius’s.
Brilliant!
One of the interesting things about that movie, is that it accurately displayed in both equipment used and the portrayal of their use in trying to pin down the pathogen the state of the art at that time when the movie was made.
He consulted with the top experts of the time, and actually purchased the real equipment they would go on to use in the making of the movie, and it made a big to do because of the inordinate amount of money he spent on it (the backers were upset IIRC).
That’s great... and so appropriate! He sure had those frauds figured out.
I’ve been watching clips on YouTube this weekend! Talk about timing.
The ending was very intense!
Wjhy did you post this??? Damn you! I am going to stay up all night watching it now. One of my all-time top 5.
My father took to to the drive in for a twin bill, Andromeda Strain and Colossus the Forbin Project. I was 13.
I don’t recall my parents taking me to see it in the theater (I was 8 in 1971), but I remember seeing it not long after and I read the novel when I was around 10 or 11. I wonder how long after the theatrical release it was on TV, because I think that’s how I first saw it (though I might have seen it on a re-release to theaters, just don’t recall).
It’s been many years since I read the novel, but I remember there being some phone numbers in it, at least one of which I think was supposed to be a classified phone to the wildfire facility. What was amazing was that Crichton didn’t use the usual literary device of making the fictional numbers begin with 555, but instead they appeared as if they were real phone numbers. Well, that, combined with the “War of the Worlds” hyper-realistic style in which it was written, was way too much for a young kid’s imagination. While I understood that it was fiction, there was also the nagging question of “What if it’s real?”
So I kept thinking about it, building up my courage until I finally tried calling one of the numbers. If I recall correctly, it rang a few times and then played the standard recording that it was not a valid number, but those few seconds while it was ringing were terrifying and exciting at the same time.
I remember not only going to many movies at that age that most kids today couldn’t even comprehend (just imagine them trying to decipher 2001 A Space Odyssey), but also reading constantly. I even watched the Watergate hearings (I was 10 at that time), and read the newspaper every day. My grandmother gave me Johnathan Livingston Seagull for Christmas. I would have been about 9 when I read it. I hated it, not because I didn’t have an intellectual curiosity about what it meant (I did), but because I just thought it was stupid in the end. Had I known about the New Age Movement, and that Richard Bach was to become one of its pre-eminent gurus, I would have hated it even more. I was conservative and had common sense from a young age.
We as a society have really failed today’s kids. The dominant “culture” today is an absolute intellectual wasteland that offers them nothing but failure and despair.
A while back, when everybody was talking about ‘The Omicron Variant’, I always thought it sounded like a movie title, like ‘The Andromeda Strain’.
Moon Zero Two was a fairly good movie.
Some of the visuals it so much.
L8r
Thanks! I was tickled to find it. You really have to know the movie to recognize the scene.
RIP. Hadn’t heard that.
I, too, enjoyed Moon Zero Two.
Colossus speaking to Professor Forbin while they play Chess.
"Forbin!
The system programming units under the supervision of John F. Fisher with the assistance of Jefferson J. Johnson have attempted to overload my circuits.
This was a deliberate and premeditated act. The penalty is the death of the men who organized this action. At this moment they are being executed.
Bishop to rook three."
A gunshot is heard as the men are executed...
BTTT for Andromeda Strain.
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