Andromeda Strain
May. 26th, 2008 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stickmakerI don't think any of this counts as spoilers, but folks who plan to see this who haven't yet might want to avoid looking below the cut.
Not a bad movie, though I have some quibbles, detailed below. So far I've found a number of interesting differences from the book and the first movie. For example, the decontamination scenes going into the base and the explanations of the technology were barely touched on this time. Even with this being a miniseries, the production feels a bit rushed in parts. I think this comes from making room for a subplot with a reporter. Also, the book and first movie emphasized the isolation of those in the lab by showing very little outside it. Here, they are showing much larger involvement in the world at large, including a distinct origin for the organism. This version has a very different feel from both the book and the first movie. That's quite understandable; these are very different times.
Now, the quibbles:
Buckyballs are described as an exotic and rare material, when they're actually found in any sooty flame. (Well, they do have some exotic physical characteristics, so they were half right. :-) That error is particularly odd, since they give a good - if brief - description of the C60 structure.
Later, a military officer apparently claims that no-one has air-dropped an atom bomb since Nagasaki. Some folks I mentioned this to say he meant as an attack, versus a test, but that wasn't what I got from the context.
Also, there's something which may actually be a plot point. A deactivated device reactivates at a really bad time. I'm wondering, from clues given in this episode and previews for the next, if this wasn't an accident.
These are minor, as I said, quibbles. I'm enjoying the show and planning to watch the rest.
Not a bad movie, though I have some quibbles, detailed below. So far I've found a number of interesting differences from the book and the first movie. For example, the decontamination scenes going into the base and the explanations of the technology were barely touched on this time. Even with this being a miniseries, the production feels a bit rushed in parts. I think this comes from making room for a subplot with a reporter. Also, the book and first movie emphasized the isolation of those in the lab by showing very little outside it. Here, they are showing much larger involvement in the world at large, including a distinct origin for the organism. This version has a very different feel from both the book and the first movie. That's quite understandable; these are very different times.
Now, the quibbles:
Buckyballs are described as an exotic and rare material, when they're actually found in any sooty flame. (Well, they do have some exotic physical characteristics, so they were half right. :-) That error is particularly odd, since they give a good - if brief - description of the C60 structure.
Later, a military officer apparently claims that no-one has air-dropped an atom bomb since Nagasaki. Some folks I mentioned this to say he meant as an attack, versus a test, but that wasn't what I got from the context.
Also, there's something which may actually be a plot point. A deactivated device reactivates at a really bad time. I'm wondering, from clues given in this episode and previews for the next, if this wasn't an accident.
These are minor, as I said, quibbles. I'm enjoying the show and planning to watch the rest.
