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The andromeda strain novel7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Messages from the future (I wish I was freaking kidding) - Note to you guys in the future: instead of the cryptic "739528", maybe "hey, look on the space station!" would get your point across a little better.Telepathic germs (you gotta be freaking kidding).Even if decently edited to tighten up the pacing, there's then the problem of reeediculous plot devices that were added to this adaptation. Trimmed to two hours, this just might have been a watchable movie. The problem is, when length is more important a goal than quality, nothing can be left on the cutting-room floor. ![]() all of these had the unmistakable feel of an effort to reach a predetermined running time. (How appropriate that I first saw a commercial for it while waiting for the lousy "Indiana Jones 4" to begin.) So, so, so much padding! (And even so, A&E managed to stuff in almost 80 minutes of commercials in the two night run.) Ridiculous plot lines that go nowhere (the Geraldo-style reporter, "vent-mining"), unnecessary time-waster shots of animals eating each other (all just to establish the infection vector of a rat dropped onto a group of National Guardsmen) family squabbles that go nowhere. This is another example of a movie that has nothing going for it but the good feelings a viewer might have about the original. Save yourself a few tedious hours, skip this crap and see the 1971 original. ![]()
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