Andromeda Strain

[shipperx]

While I find the whole viral sequencing/binary code bit interesting, I find a few things bad to the point of being laughable.

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* Jeez, these people are cold. Barely reacting as co-workers drop like flies.

* The girl from Scrubs is a really, really bad actress and has no chemistry with Benjamin Bratt.

* I'm reminded of Galaxy Quest - Ducts? Why is it always ducts? I mean, seriously, why don't super-secret labs ever have an elevator that works? Seems to me that an elevator to the auto-destruct button is something which should require design redundancy. I'm just sayin'. I don't think it'd pass codes without two means of egress.

* Why is it that the annoying reporter keeps improbably escaping death?

* Sure, throw in talk about wormholes being portals to different areas of the galaxy or different places in time, but could there at least be a nod as to the improbability of anything with actual mass passing through one intact? Even a virus and/or bacteria. Viruses have mass too, y'know.

* When they changed the plot from the original Adromeda Strain, did they decide that they could just sorta forget about the baby and the sterno drinking old man in quarantine?

* The ending... Well, look, I watched the X-Files for years. X-Files did this sort of thing better. 'Mkay?

And, even if it amuses no one but me, I'm using my Rimmer "Quarantine" icon.

Comments

[rahirah]

I saw the promo when we went to see Indy, and I came away with the impression that it wasn't just an alien virus, it was a MAGIC alien virus that could do aaaaaaaanything! I never saw the original, but I wasn't filled with desire to rush out and see this one.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

The original was actually kind of scary because it was realistic. The whole thing (to my memory) was trying to find a cure before it was too late.

This one... well, hell, forget trying to find a cure. The alien/future virus literally spelled out the cure (Why? We don't know. They didn't bother to explain why.) It's all exposition dumps as characters try to figure out "Is it a government conspiracy? Is it from outer space? Is it from the bottom of the sea? Is it from the future? Are we ripping off the X-Files or The 4400?" And it devolved into a poor X-Files rip off with dark ops shooting government agents. People dying improbably. And the government farming world-deadly viruses that they can't control... for no apparent reason.

Basically, they took hard science fiction and turned it into a dated sci-fi cliche.

Truthfully, overall, it was not good. The original is worth viewing, though.

[missus-grace.livejournal.com]

I saw part of this. It was so..slow...so....very.....very......slow........

*zzzzzzzz*

[acristleo.livejournal.com]

(* Jeez, these people are cold. Barely reacting as co-workers drop like flies.)

Not to mention "dude - I know your friend is laying here with a hole in his head, but can I get on that bike" Morgue!Guy. Sheesh.

(* The girl from Scrubs is a really, really bad actress and has no chemistry with Benjamin Bratt.)

I kept tyring to figure out if she had a botox mishap or something. She was bad, but honestly it seemed like *everyone* was bad. They all seemed like this was thier first days of acting when we know that these people have been doing this successfully for years, and doing it well.

That self-destruct sequence was painful to watch and full of WTF'ery. Why was the place falling apart anyway? Missed that part I guess.

I really wanted to enjoy this and kept waiting for it to get better.

[sp23.livejournal.com]

I was so bored by the first half, I didn't even bother with the second.

On another note, ya gotta love Rimmer! :)