#ANDROMEDA STRAIN MOVIE SYNOPSIS FULL#
Outside of the Cinescript feature, which is a picture gallery presenting the full script (including the title page, preface, and appendix), the remaining features are all form the previous Universal DVD and Blu-ray. As usual he’s absolutely passionate about the subject so it makes for a fun and breezy viewing. Kim Newman next provides a 28-minute discussion that’s more specific to that disaster/contagion sub-genre (which includes zombie movies), giving an oral history, going over a number of films (which he feels includes films about real life events, like And the Band Played On), and pointing out the impact The Andromeda Strain has had. I found the track quite entertaining and it did get me looking at the film from another perspective. Impressively Reesman never lets up and he keeps the track entertaining and lively, even when he goes off on a few side tangents (a trivia night he went to, his own experience with a thrombosis-which I agree are not fun-and how he doesn’t understand why people would watch movies on their computer or phone).
Throughout he addresses various criticisms that have been lobbed at the film (even calling out Vincent Canby’s original review, which he found just before doing this track) and offers his own defenses, explains how he finds the editing and look pleasing, along with other technical topics. He gives some backstory to author Michael Crichton’s “first” book (he had written stories and novels previously under pseudonyms) and this film version, before placing the film in the context of other disaster/contagion films. The big new addition is an audio commentary featuring Bryan Reesman, who is clearly fond of the film. Outside of that the image is pretty spotless and if it wasn’t for the heavily dated aspects of the film you’d swear it was made recently.Īrrow’s special edition brings Universal’s previous features over and then adds a few of their own. Restoration work has cleaned up just about every bit of dirt and damage, the only things remaining being what looks like small bits of dirt that appear when those optical effects (the split screens and titles) occur. This then all leads to incredibly sharp and distinct details, right down to where you can make out the stones and pebbles on the dirt road of the town where everything starts. Moments where a split screen of sorts are applied or the “news alert” style marquee notices pop up take on a dupier look with grittier, heavy grain, but much of the film looks far more natural and cleaner, and the grain is rendered so cleanly and naturally. The film is grainy but, for the most part, it’s fine.
Blacks are pretty good if not perfect, but they’re deep and details aren’t crushed out. Colours can be a bit drab overall, but they are saturated well and there are some moments that pop a bit more to life thanks to the colour coded levels of the film’s central research facility. It is encoded here at 1080p/24hz.Īrrow has done a remarkable job with this title, delivering a stunner of an image despite the film’s fairly drab look. Arrow has conducted their own brand new 4K restoration of the film, scanned from the 35mm original camera negative. Robert Wise’s The Andromeda Strain gets an all-new Blu-ray edition from Arrow Video (after Universal released their own lackluster one), and is presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1. Realizing that the satellite brought back a lethal organism from another world, a team of government scientists race against the clock to understand the extraterrestrial virus codenamed Andromeda before it can wipe out all life on the planet.Īided by innovative visual effects by Douglas Trumbull ( 2001: A Space Odyssey, Silent Running) and an unforgettable avant-garde electronic music score by Gil Melle ( The Sentinel), Wise s suspense classic still haunts to this day, and is presented here in a stunning, exclusive new restoration from the original negative. The satellite and the two survivors are sent to Wildfire, a top-secret underground laboratory equipped with a nuclear self-destruct mechanism to prevent the spread of infection in case of an outbreak. Two years after the novel s publication, Robert Wise ( The Haunting) directed the film adaptation, a nail-biting blend of clinically-realised docudrama and astonishing sci-fi visuals that ushered in a new subgenre: the killer virus biological thriller.Ī government satellite crashes outside a small town in New Mexico and within minutes, every inhabitant of the town is dead, except for a crying baby and an elderly derelict.
See more details, packaging, or compare Synopsisīefore he created Westworld and Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton first blurred the line between science fiction and science fact with his breakout success The Andromeda Strain.
0 kommentar(er)
