Posted on 07/29/2023 11:10:56 AM PDT by V K Lee
A team of top scientists work feverishly
in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover
what has killed the citizens of a small town and
learn how this deadly contagion
can be stopped.
Stars:
Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid (con.)
(Excerpt) Read more at archive.org ...
Wonderful movie—still worth seeing today.
Michael Crichton was the man.
Fantastic book.
He was...and gone too soon. He was at one time a proponent of all this “global warming/climate change” garbage...but he changed his views and was strongly against the notion that man can change the climate.
I loved that movie. I caught it by accident on the Sci-Fi channel one day. Certainly not what Hollyweird would do nowadays, but it was somehow very interesting.
Plus it had that one quirk of one of the lab ladies who was formerly a prostitute.
This is an interesting movie. Michael Crichton was a stickler for realism, and he consulted state of the art experts on biological warfare both in and out of the government both when he wrote the book and when he was involved in the production of it.
He was insistent that they purchase state-of-the-art equipment (in 1971), such as that used in the efforts to isolate and identify the virus. That was how they figured, in that day, what kind of filters would be effective protection.
They were really upset at the budget impact, buying real equipment, but he was determined.
Crichton wrote a great novel called “State of Fear”, in which a team of researchers try to stop a conspiracy by environ-MENTAL-ists to create disasters in order to hype climate change.
Good movie. First of the late, great Michael Crichton’s novel made into a movie.
State of Fear. Great. He died at a young age shortly after. Hmmm
Great movie, and if we do ever find off world life, sadly this is most likely how it will manifest.
Good talk by Crichton:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOu8akBowTg
From Wiki:
To mix environmental concerns with the frantic fantasies that people have about one political party or another is to miss the cold truth — that there is very little difference between the parties, except a difference in pandering rhetoric.
The effort to promote effective legislation for the environment is not helped by thinking that the Democrats will save us and the Republicans won’t.
Political history is more complicated than that. Never forget which president started the EPA: Richard Nixon. And never forget which president sold federal oil leases, allowing oil drilling in Santa Barbara: Lyndon Johnson.
So get politics out of your thinking about the environment.”[117
If you’re bored, my link in 12 is good. 52 minutes...
One of my favorite SciFi flicks ever. And scary as hell...since it is something that could actually happen.
Saw the original back then and the sequel played everyday for nearly four years already
A very well made movie.
Which one was the prostitute? I know it wasn’t the lead lady scientist.
Why would I watch that, we’ve already lived through one like it.
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