Well, the original movie was reasonably well done. But the made for TV version is deeply rewarding, for all the wrong reasons, being "so bad, it's good".
SPOILER ALERT: Read no further if you want to truly enjoy the the silliest four minutes in the history of made-for-television movies, specifically those minutes during which: that thumb is cut off and tossed up four stories or so to a thumb-awaiting Benjamin Bratt, who then has to grope his way to the thumb-dependent fail-safe ATM machine. It's a good thing that Bratt lost his eyesight (to a broken steam pipe!) only after he had already caught the cut-off thumb. Thanks for the memory! I've saved that four minutes on a dvd, and I'll be sure to watch it again soon. On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:36 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Both the original movie and the made-for-TV movies of "The Andromeda > Strain" > had short references to crystallography, the first in how the strain was > organized, the second in how a message from the future was encoded in > buckyball nanotechnology crystal. > > Perhaps this is why they are my favorite sci-fi movies > > > James Phillips > > Duke University > -- Gary A. Ratner [email protected]
