It's actually worth watching. If my wife doesn't get home from her conference in time for me to come down, I might watch it with my son in solidarity with you :)
Nathan T. Wild Ralph Brown Community Centre Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Ron <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected]: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 10:15:16 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SkullSpace-Discuss] Movie tonight I'm curious how good of an adaptation the movie is - I really liked the book, haven't seen the movie. Ron On 2013-02-08 10:06, Justin Lacko wrote: > For those of you who were around last year to watch Colossus: The Forbin > Project (1970), I'll be playing a similar-styled movie tonight for anyone > who's interested in watching. It's called The Andromeda Strain (1971). > > Andromeda Strain is about a virus that comes to Earth via a returning > satellite that is deadly to life. A special team of scientists must work on > finding a cure in a secret lab deep underground in Nevada. The movie > focuses a lot of scientific procedure, and while some ideas are obviously > fantastical, a lot of it reflects the actual scientific process - this > makes the movie more realistic compared to some scientist in some movie > saying "Set maximum photo-discombobulation to max outputs!!" > > The original soundtrack of electronic music came in really neat hexagonal > packaging and was a very limited edition: > http://weirdwardhoblog.blogspot.ca/2011/03/sound-and-vision-andromeda-strain-aka.html > I will have a digital copy of the soundtrack available to share with anyone > who is interested. (Bite me, RIAA) > > Wikipedia page (warning, spoilers): > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain_(film) > > IMDb page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/ > > Rotten Tomatoes page: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/andromeda_strain/ > > Hope to see you tonight! > > ~Justin > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ _______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ _______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
