Everything that made the original great, is missing. But all the **** that makes Hollywood movies disgraceful, has been added.
shareWorst writing ever. If we can't make a better move than this then maybe we deserve to die LOL.
shareEverything that made the original great, is missing.
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That's not true...there were a couple times i could have sworn they did a shot for shot remake of a scene or two...lol
You sir, are right. I am guilty of exaggeration - yes, there were a couple of identicly-shot scenes.
shareTo top it all off, it is really just too long to become a cult movie or to try to enjoy it for being a bad remake.
shareDid you really think any kind of remake would be good? People that can't think of an original idea, will not be able to make an entertaining movie.
shareDid you really think any kind of remake would be good? People that can't think of an original idea, will not be able to make an entertaining movie.
It's not really logical at all. Any cinema junkie knows that a surprising number of the "original" movies we now consider masterpieces were themselves remakes. John Huston's "The Maltese Falcon" was a remake. Vincente Minnelli's "A Star Is Born" was a remake of a remake! A remake isn't automatically or always bad. This movie we're discussing isn't as good as the first one, but it has its fans too. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.
"The value of an idea has nothing to do with the honesty of the man expressing it."--Oscar Wilde
Very good observtion. Well said.
shareAh, but the 1971 movie wasn't an original idea, either - it was based on Michael Crichton's book - and it was good. I'm not saying that the new movie wasn't extremely terrible, I'm just saying that you can't fully blame a lack of originality.
shareWell, I'm a very old sci fi fan, that watches almost everything in the genre, even the really bad stuff.
The show starts here in Sweden tonight, when they air the two first episodes of this serie. I have read through a lot of the comments here in the reviews and on the boards, and I honestly don't know what to expect. Hope it's watchable enough to give me a small sci fi fix at least. :)
the most significant error with this adaptation of crichton's novel is that it is completely too late to make it into another medium. with sci-fi, in particular, many of the themes and fears that are incorporated into a sci fi plot are era-specific. this is what was wrong with the keanu reeves The Day the Earth stood Still and more recently (and more disappointing), Watchmen... the original novels touched upon social fears and sensibilities that are outdated in 2008, 2009... post 9/11 and post y2k, the fall of the berlin wall and the crumbling of the soviet union.
when you "update" a sci fi story that is so predicated on staying as casually buoyant in its era and time capsule as andromeda strain, you're facing the potential of fragmenting the sense of the story... which is what happens here. the logic goes right out the window because we already know too much. changing the story to adjust to our present understanding weakens the plot.
who really expected this to be as redeeming as the book? i enjoyed it for what it was but admittedly, that wasn't much.
Oops! It's REALLY bad. Very over-written. And I so badly wanted to enjoy it. Oh dear!
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the logic goes right out the window because we already know too much. changing the story to adjust to our present understanding weakens the plot.
the most significant error with this adaptation of crichton's novel is that it is completely too late to make it into another medium. with sci-fi, in particular, many of the themes and fears that are incorporated into a sci fi plot are era-specific. this is what was wrong with the keanu reeves The Day the Earth stood Still and more recently (and more disappointing), Watchmen... the original novels touched upon social fears and sensibilities that are outdated in 2008, 2009... post 9/11 and post y2k, the fall of the berlin wall and the crumbling of the soviet union.
when you "update" a sci fi story that is so predicated on staying as casually buoyant in its era and time capsule as andromeda strain, you're facing the potential of fragmenting the sense of the story... which is what happens here. the logic goes right out the window because we already know too much. changing the story to adjust to our present understanding weakens the plot.
Um, wrong. The movie could quite easily have been updated and not destroyed as it was, especially as other than the actual science itself, nothing else has changed enough to matter. We could quite easily have a meteor land on earth with a small speck of an alien life form on it, and the life form could easily be deadly to humans.
Do not blame the atrocity that is the remake of The Andromeda Strain on the book. It was completely the makers' faults.