The Andromeda Strain List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $6.98 Your Save: $ 8.00 ( 53% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Universal Studios Starring: James Olson, Arthur Hill, David Wayne, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly Directed By: Robert Wise Average Customer Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: DVD Brand: Universal EAN: 0025192123924 Format: Anamorphic Label: Universal Studios Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Studios Region Code: 1 Release Date: 2003-04-01 Running Time: 131 Studio: Universal Studios Theatrical Release Date: 1971-03-12 Related Items Colossus - The Forbin Project Silent Running The Omega Man The Andromeda Strain Miniseries Soylent Green Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Andromeda Strain Comment: Sometimes when someone wants to update an older movie they try to add things. What was added here was hokey. The original book and movie made it seem like something like this could actually happen but this version introduced black holes and time travel and instead turned into a television version of a B movie. What made the original movie a classic was the writing. When updating don't get carried away, keep it simple stupid! If I had know the new version would have turned out like this I would not have bought it. This is a rental not a keeper. Customer Rating: Summary: Silver Iodine Cloud Seeding Comment: 1. Dr. Jeremy stone is retrieved by the US Air force because a wildfire is brewing. 2. Communications by Mrs. Stone to her father are broken for national security reasons. 3. Jeremy Stone open documentation on the Scoop mission 4. Dr Robinson is in charge of the Nations science project. 5. The citizens of piedmont are dead or dying. Their blood has dried up. 6. The military decision is to quadrant off the area, instead of destroying the area by thermonuclear denotation, order 712. 7. No MCM communications have been routed to the Wildfire facility. 8. Wildfire facility is equipped for a nuclear denotation. The odd man alone can arm the weapon with his key. Only the odd man can override detonation. 9. Hand print access, five levels of bacterial decontamination, and gastro intestinal decontamination prior to examination of a child and a old man, who have survived the catastrophe. 10. The infection in the vial killed the rat and the monkey within seconds. Ruth wants to isolate and identify. 11. The infection agent is 2 microns in size, black rock with properties like plastic and the green composed of basic elements necessary for life on earth. No amino acids and enzymes, yet the organism is alive and foreign and lethal 12. A phantom fighter plane and pilot was destroyed by an organism that completely consumes all the plastic and the pilot. 13. Andromeda strain is a crystal and can consume anything. Andromeda converts energy to matter, energy for growth. All the molecules appear to be the same. Andromeda can divide and mutate at the same time. 14. Wildfire was intended to use as a biological warfare. The strain was man-made. 15. Andromeda can only exist within a narrow range of Ph, too acidic or alkaline, the pattern of the crying baby or the old man on diabetic medicine. 16. Andromeda eats the gaskets and compromises level 5 and auto destruction by the computer starts. Andromeda could mutate into a thousand forms. 17. Self destruct has been canceled. Customer Rating: Summary: SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC Comment: THIS IS A GREAT ADAPTATION OF THE MICHAEL CRIGHTON CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL...THE MOVIE IS CERTAINLY DATED BECAUSE OF THE OLD TIMEY SPECIAL EFFECTS, BUT IT FAITHFULLY FOLLOWS THE BOOK...I BOUGHT IT BECAUSE I BOUGHT THE MINI-SERIES AND WANTED TO VIEW BOTH TO COMPARE HOW THEY HAVE HELD UP TO CHANGES IN TECHNOLOGY...SO...IF YOU'RE A FAN OF SCIENCE-FICTION GET BOTH AND COMPARE/CONTRAST THE OLD WITH THE NEW...I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT ANYONE WHO BUYS THIS MOVIE READ THE BOOK AND SEE FOR YOURSELF Customer Rating: Summary: Good - but dated Comment: This is a good story, but it is an old film and lacking in special effects. Also, I didn't feel there was much sense of drama or suspense. Almost the entire film takes place an a hidden lab. There is one semi-dramatic scene toward the end involving a fail-safe procedure. But you kind of get the sense that everything is NOT going to do to hell, so.... Basically, don't expect anything like Jurrasic Park. The interview with Michael Chriton, which reveals his personal background as it relates to his writing career, is a positive addition. Customer Rating: Summary: Sci Fi at its Best Comment: Made in the 70's, this movie still has the suspense and good acting as it did when it was first released. Moreover, the film does a masterful job of staying close to the book. Indeed, having read the book, I feel I can make this statement with a clear conscience. Whether the newer made for TV version of the Michael Crichton book is better, I will leave for the younger reader to decide Editorial Reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Andromeda Strain Comment: Sometimes when someone wants to update an older movie they try to add things. What was added here was hokey. The original book and movie made it seem like something like this could actually happen but this version introduced black holes and time travel and instead turned into a television version of a B movie. What made the original movie a classic was the writing. When updating don't get carried away, keep it simple stupid! If I had know the new version would have turned out like this I would not have bought it. This is a rental not a keeper. Customer Rating: Summary: Silver Iodine Cloud Seeding Comment: 1. Dr. Jeremy stone is retrieved by the US Air force because a wildfire is brewing. 2. Communications by Mrs. Stone to her father are broken for national security reasons. 3. Jeremy Stone open documentation on the Scoop mission 4. Dr Robinson is in charge of the Nations science project. 5. The citizens of piedmont are dead or dying. Their blood has dried up. 6. The military decision is to quadrant off the area, instead of destroying the area by thermonuclear denotation, order 712. 7. No MCM communications have been routed to the Wildfire facility. 8. Wildfire facility is equipped for a nuclear denotation. The odd man alone can arm the weapon with his key. Only the odd man can override detonation. 9. Hand print access, five levels of bacterial decontamination, and gastro intestinal decontamination prior to examination of a child and a old man, who have survived the catastrophe. 10. The infection in the vial killed the rat and the monkey within seconds. Ruth wants to isolate and identify. 11. The infection agent is 2 microns in size, black rock with properties like plastic and the green composed of basic elements necessary for life on earth. No amino acids and enzymes, yet the organism is alive and foreign and lethal 12. A phantom fighter plane and pilot was destroyed by an organism that completely consumes all the plastic and the pilot. 13. Andromeda strain is a crystal and can consume anything. Andromeda converts energy to matter, energy for growth. All the molecules appear to be the same. Andromeda can divide and mutate at the same time. 14. Wildfire was intended to use as a biological warfare. The strain was man-made. 15. Andromeda can only exist within a narrow range of Ph, too acidic or alkaline, the pattern of the crying baby or the old man on diabetic medicine. 16. Andromeda eats the gaskets and compromises level 5 and auto destruction by the computer starts. Andromeda could mutate into a thousand forms. 17. Self destruct has been canceled. Customer Rating: Summary: SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC Comment: THIS IS A GREAT ADAPTATION OF THE MICHAEL CRIGHTON CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL...THE MOVIE IS CERTAINLY DATED BECAUSE OF THE OLD TIMEY SPECIAL EFFECTS, BUT IT FAITHFULLY FOLLOWS THE BOOK...I BOUGHT IT BECAUSE I BOUGHT THE MINI-SERIES AND WANTED TO VIEW BOTH TO COMPARE HOW THEY HAVE HELD UP TO CHANGES IN TECHNOLOGY...SO...IF YOU'RE A FAN OF SCIENCE-FICTION GET BOTH AND COMPARE/CONTRAST THE OLD WITH THE NEW...I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT ANYONE WHO BUYS THIS MOVIE READ THE BOOK AND SEE FOR YOURSELF Customer Rating: Summary: Good - but dated Comment: This is a good story, but it is an old film and lacking in special effects. Also, I didn't feel there was much sense of drama or suspense. Almost the entire film takes place an a hidden lab. There is one semi-dramatic scene toward the end involving a fail-safe procedure. But you kind of get the sense that everything is NOT going to do to hell, so.... Basically, don't expect anything like Jurrasic Park. The interview with Michael Chriton, which reveals his personal background as it relates to his writing career, is a positive addition. Customer Rating: Summary: Sci Fi at its Best Comment: Made in the 70's, this movie still has the suspense and good acting as it did when it was first released. Moreover, the film does a masterful job of staying close to the book. Indeed, having read the book, I feel I can make this statement with a clear conscience. Whether the newer made for TV version of the Michael Crichton book is better, I will leave for the younger reader to decide Scientists rush to isolate an alien germ brought back by a space probe.From the michael crichton novel. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 04/01/2003 Starring: James Olson Arthur Hill Run time: 131 minutes Rating: G Director: Robert Wise Ask about this healthcare product "The Andromeda Strain" in the forum Give review on this healthcare product "The Andromeda Strain" in the forum Search related information in the forum