Science Fiction Film Name

"rk" wrote in message
...
OK, need a bit of help here. Old movie, a spacecraft lands, all the
people in
the city are killed, except for two people, the craft is brought into a
place
in the desert, buried deep, multiple levels, way down, and they try to
isolate
what the bug is and then neutralize it. I thin two people survive the bug
in
the city, a baby who is crying and an old geezer (drunk?) and that
provides
the key to the solution.

Andromeda Strain

Michael Chriton



They have a contamination of the facility, really a germ warfare place,
and
the hero with the key had to get it into a station and then disarm the
bomb
that will destroy the joint, attacked with lasers and all, makes it with
seconds to spare.

Thanks in advance - I did try searching on the www but couldn't find it.

--
rk, Just an OldEngineer
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public
relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
-- R. Feynman, Appendix F.

"rk" wrote in message
...
OK, need a bit of help here. Old movie

As others have already told you., the movie is
The Andromeda Strain.

However, do yourself a favor and buy the book
instead. It's MUCH better than the movie.

I've been waiting for the past few years, with
Michael Crichton a hot Hollywood property
and many remakes being done, that someone
would remake this movie... with today's new
special effects and a good dramatic director,
I think you could really have a tense movie
akin to Outbreak.

Bruce

"Bruce Sterling Woodcock" wrote in message
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"rk" wrote in message
...
OK, need a bit of help here. Old movie

As others have already told you., the movie is
The Andromeda Strain.

However, do yourself a favor and buy the book
instead. It's MUCH better than the movie.

I've been waiting for the past few years, with
Michael Crichton a hot Hollywood property
and many remakes being done, that someone
would remake this movie... with today's new
special effects and a good dramatic director,
I think you could really have a tense movie
akin to Outbreak.

Bruce



I doubt it would be better, just dumbed down a few notches. The "bug"
would mutate into a 19 year old female that men could not resist, and she
would suck their brains out of thru their ears (this is where the special
effects would come in with lots of gory detail). The nuke would come into
play, when she escapes (thanks to stupid men not listening to the the
enlightened female scientist/activist(/lesbian?)) and the really mean
military people want to use a nuke to take out all life within 100 miles.
At some point the 19 year old female bug would have a showdown with the
military general. This would take place right after the general orders
peace protesters/human shields beaten (good guys). The general would be cut
in half (with a stupid, surprised look on his face) then his brain consumed.
After eating his brain, the bug now knows everything the general knows. It
can now get on the general's cell phone and order any city nuked (this is
done in order to further point out how stupid the military is). Meanwhile
the female scientist/activist develops (by develop I mean pulls out of her
ass, in the best tradition of Star Trek) a drug that can kill the bug if she
can just get close enough to jabb the needle into its arm. She will explain
the process by which she developed the poison by using a lot of technobabel
(again like Star Trek, the next generation). If she is not a lesbian, then
you can bet her boyfriend is some sensitive pussy with a beard. Well to
shorten this tangent that I have gone off on, I will say that the remainder
of the movie will be gunfire, explosions, catchphrases (make my day, feel
lucky punk, time to die bitch), and a reflective speech on the futileness of
war.

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:23:07 +0000, JNICHOLS wrote:

I doubt it would be better, just dumbed down a few notches. The "bug"
would mutate into a 19 year old female... ... ... the remainder of the
movie will be gunfire, explosions, catchphrases (make my day, feel lucky
punk, time to die bitch), and a reflective speech on the futileness of
war.

And when did they clone Pat?

--
Chuck Stewart
"Anime-style catgirls: Threat? Menace? Or just studying algebra?"

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"rk" wrote in message
...
OK, need a bit of help here. Old movie

As others have already told you., the movie is
The Andromeda Strain.

However, do yourself a favor and buy the book
instead. It's MUCH better than the movie.

I've been waiting for the past few years, with
Michael Crichton a hot Hollywood property
and many remakes being done, that someone
would remake this movie... with today's new
special effects and a good dramatic director,
I think you could really have a tense movie
akin to Outbreak.

I think you'll wait a long time - with very few exceptions, films and
especially remakes have got a lot dumber. The Andromeda Strain film was
a remarkably good translation, IMO. I liked the Apollo 11 reference -
this should be going to sci.space.history, not sci.space.shuttle. I
could have done without them killing a real monkey, though.
--
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Chuck Stewart wrote in message ...
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:23:07 +0000, JNICHOLS wrote:

I doubt it would be better, just dumbed down a few notches. The "bug"
would mutate into a 19 year old female... ... ... the remainder of the
movie will be gunfire, explosions, catchphrases (make my day, feel lucky
punk, time to die bitch), and a reflective speech on the futileness of
war.

And when did they clone Pat?

Dunno, but surely the real Pat would have caught on to the "Michael
Crichton hates Scientists" theme, and would have had the Chief Bad Guy
be not the General but the Chief of Design at the Rocket Bureau (with
initials BvW).

/dps

The Andromeda Strain (1971)
A U.S. Army satellite (Scoop VII) falls to earth near Piedmont, New Mexico.
The recovery team experiences difficulties as it becomes clear that the
satellite has performed its intended function all too well, and has brought
back something from space. A team of scientists is assembled in a high-tech,
underground facility to identify and defeat the "enemy" before it is too
late.
"rk" wrote in message
...
OK, need a bit of help here. Old movie, a spacecraft lands, all the
people in
the city are killed, except for two people, the craft is brought into a
place
in the desert, buried deep, multiple levels, way down, and they try to
isolate
what the bug is and then neutralize it. I thin two people survive the bug
in
the city, a baby who is crying and an old geezer (drunk?) and that
provides
the key to the solution.

They have a contamination of the facility, really a germ warfare place,
and
the hero with the key had to get it into a station and then disarm the
bomb
that will destroy the joint, attacked with lasers and all, makes it with
seconds to spare.

Thanks in advance - I did try searching on the www but couldn't find it.

--
rk, Just an OldEngineer
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public
relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
-- R. Feynman, Appendix F.

Bruce Sterling Woodcock wrote:

As others have already told you., the movie is
The Andromeda Strain.

However, do yourself a favor and buy the book
instead. It's MUCH better than the movie.

I always felt that the movie was amazingly faithful to the book.

The casting was simply brilliant.

--
Dave Michelson