When you think about it. This is probably one of THE most realistic alien invasion stories ever.

I like how the actors look like real people rather than perfect hollywood models

The 1971 movie was 200 times better than the most recent remake.

The Andromeda Strain was one of my childhood favorite movies. I loved that real scientific equipment was used. It influenced my decision to select Chemistry as my college degree (later changed to Engineering).

This is one of my favorite movies of all time. For two reasons mainly. I was 8 years old when this came out and it was the first horror movie that really gave me nightmares. But mostly it was because Kate's character had an epileptic seizure in the movie, and as an epileptic myself, it was the first time I could connect personally to someone on TV. So her character became an inspiration to me, that even with epilepsy, I could still grow up to be someone important.

Michael Crichton has got to be one of the most underrated authors of the last century.

this holds up well after almost 50 years.

They left out the run on toilet paper.

Can you make a video on the tripods from war of the worlds?

Still holds up as a very frightening film.

I love this movie, never get tired of it. The actors were very believable, especially James Olson as a surgeon, non scientist, normal guy who was very frustrated with everything going on. RIP😥

This movie is rated G and as a kid, second grade, scared the Hell out of me. The monkeys ard rats dying were shocking, but the images of the virus GROWING gave me nightmares. Great movie and have yet to read the book. Love the score for this one.

Always loved watching this movie, Andromeda Strain is one of my top 10!

This movie terrified me as a kid. Like scare the living HELL out of me. More then jaws or alien or predator. CNBC warfare scare me more than actual combat. If I got a rifle,you got a rifle 50/50 I win. A nuke or bio or chemical weapon I can't fight

I loved the Andromeda Strain. It was one of those sci fi movies that freaked me out in the 1970’s. Some other freaky movies were: Soylent Green, Phase 4, Omega Man... needless to say, my childhood was TRAUMATIZED by these great movies.

7:57 “How would you know that?” He asked. “Oh doctor, I have a long criminal record …” 😆🤣😂

It's legitimately Christmas in July when you upload

I still remember reading this book in my 5th grade classroom.. Mrs Summers was the teacher. I was sat separately from my class as a disciplinary punishment, but enjoyed it so much I kept getting myself in trouble :D

Saw and STILL remember this Sci-fi. On a scale to 10, a 10.

Crichton's work was exceptionally scientifically literate.

I remember watching this on TV when I was a kid, and being really creeped out by that scene where they slit the wrist of a corpse, and nothing but powder spills out! 0_0 Also: Damn, I'm old! ^_^

I remember reading the novel when it first came out, I liked how the movie followed the novel instead of veering off on a tangent. I've recently read the newest novel ' The Andromeda Strain : Evolution' and found it to be extremely enjoyable in that it doesn't bombard you with over explained tech talk, it gives you enough to allow you to back reference to the earlier book and movie. All in all I would highly recommend it for anyone who enjoyed the originals.

One of the best sci-fi movies of all time!!! Such a classic and I never get tired of watching this great movie!!!

God, this movie is creepier than ever with this pandemic fueling such fear.

resistance: fall of man, i like this game and would love an explanation of it

One of my favorite movies. The town is Shafter, Texas where most of the location filming occurred. If you look closely you can still see the church. It is a very remote area in West Texas between Alpine and Panther Junction. I was in the area the summer of 1979.

It's a great movie even today it has credibility.

The way he says “capillaries” haha I’m sorry I cannot deal

Fun fact: The Andromeda Strain influenced the 13th episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion!

One of the best Sci fi films I saw. Another plague scare movie, a bit older, was the Satan Bug. Arthur Hill is excellent as the project head. My favorite scene is when the soldiers show up the the doctors house and say "sir we have a fire". Great Cold war era stuff. Reminds me of my old mad scientist days back in the 1980s.

One of the best movies of all time, tense, suspenseful and scarily plausible.

Watched this as a kid in the 70's. Loved it.

An intelligent, deliberate, suspenseful, and well-made film. An underrated Robert Wise film.

Love your videos, they both informative as well as entertaining.....as always, excellent work!!

My first exposure to this story was in my freshman biology class, when our teacher put the movie on one day. I was completely fascinated and terrified by every second of it. I ended up buying it on DVD (haha, remember dvds?) and was gifted the book (haha remember BOOKS???? 🤪) later that year. It seems like every 3-5 years I’ll suddenly remember that this movie exists and need to rewatch it- or look up videos of people discussing it and/or the novel, hence why I’m here now. Even though I’m mostly unaffected these days by scary movies, The Andromeda Strain continues to deeply unsettle me whenever I watch it. I think the music and sound design is a big part of it, but the novel definitely unnerves me too. Michael Crichton was a genius!

I remember at the time, thinking how wonderful it was that a movie actually stayed true to the book. That was rare and I reckon it still is.

I once had an English professor alternatively refer to the "Andromeda Virus" as "Moon Dookie," to convey how terrifying (and probable) it would be to encounter something like this in real life.

The book was amazing, thanks for covering this!

I love Michael Crichton’s books, hes definitely my favorite author

Nice treatment. The comparison to Dante's Inferno was interesting. I have always especially loved Kate Reid's work in this film.

Chernobyl happened in 1986, so it could not have been part of the opening montage of a movie made in 1971.

Saw this as a kid in the early 70's, scared the shit out of me.

One of my all time favorite movies.

My favorite sci-fi film of all time. Love it!

OK, I have the novel with my aunt's house. I need to read it. It piqued my interest years ago, but I kept forgeting to read it.

So glad you did this video. This is seriously one of my favorite films!

I read this book when i was a teenager. Very good. I love Michael Crichton.

Saw this as a young man, scared the heck out of me and then AIDS comes along!!

This movie is such a gem. It was remarkably well done and creepy

A superb film. It's one of those films that you NEVER forget 👍☺️ Kate Reid 💞💐💞

This movie is fantastic. My ten-year-old son was mesmerized and couldn't stop from watching. Paced and intelligent storytelling with deep characters and a motivated thesis rule. Take not Hollywood!

Just saw this movie for the first time last weekend and was genuinely entertained. I usually skip a little through movies because I get bored but this movie I sat and watched the whole way through.

A science fiction classic Very good pacing Lots to learn for those interested in writing

Talking about 1969: "...the then new field of biological warfare..." Biological warfare has been around since before the Trojan War. Flinging scorpions over walls, driving sick populations into enemy countries, throwing corpses into city water supplies, etc.

One of my favourite movies!

The 1971 Andromeda Strain is one of my favorite movies. I showed it a younger friend recently and he was amazed how well a movie that old held up.

Awesome Film! Good Analysis!

Thank-you for doing such a marvelous review of one of my favorite books and movie. This is one of those movies that doesn't need remaking.

My dad took me to see this movie in 1970, when it first opened in theaters. I was ten. I remember standing in the ticket line and asking him about it -- I'd seen trailers on TV in the weeks preceding but all they show is people running through curved corridors. Was it a monster movie? Dad said it was, sort of. What kind of monster was it? "A germ," he said -- and instantly I was transfixed by the novelty of it. The film was more than just novel -- it was intelligent, suspenseful, and a superior example of hard sci-fi. It was one of my most memorable movie-going experiences. I became a huge Michael Crichton fan instantly. The movie (and book) are still among my all-time favorites.

One of the best! A classic!

The Andromeda strain is a classic that's both very intelligently done and a visual treat. It's 1of my 2 always had movies and one of the best films ever made. The other is 2001 ASO.

Have always loved this movie. It's right up there with The Omega Man. In fact I'm gonna break out my DVD and watch it tonight.

Michael Crichton is criminally underrated

One of my favorite sci-fi movies! 😍

I love this movie, it's so smart and real.

Loved this film. Even after all these years I still find it captivating.

The Andromeda Strain is referenced in a season 1 episode of Stargate SG-1 where Cheyenne Mountain’s level 28 is infested with an unknown bacteria coming from a device that has Colonel Jack O’Neill (played by the OG MacGyver, Richard Dean Anderson) pinned against the wall in the Stargate room. General Hammond (played by the late Don S. Davis) orders Wildfire to be initiated, putting the whole Cheyenne Mountain complex under lockdown in a Defcon-2 style scenario. The rest of the episode revolves around life in quarantine while the researchers in the facility attempt to slow the progression of the bacteria which is eating away at the facility’s walls and spreading at an alarming rate.

Your channel was recommended by KZfaq just now. Saw 'Andromeda Strain', and opened the video. Boy, was I pleasantly surprised to see your excellent analysis. The book and the '71 film are classics, and you gave them their due respect! I'm definitely watching the film again today!

I had a thing a few years ago where read a lot of Michael Crichton's books including 'The Andromeda Strain'. Everyone of the books is different but there is a very heavy scientific bent to them. I recommend all of them to you, although 'Airframe' is a bit slow but comes good at the end.

Nice to see they fought it. Notice he said "human oversight", toxoplasma gondii flies under the radar here in life.

the thing none of the movies get across from the book is just how miserable the constant crying of the baby made everyone. not because they were annoyed, but because they werent allowed to comfort the child or give him anything to try and calm him down. they all had to stare and listen to the crying for days, putting them all in a deeper depression. though thankfully, them not comforting the child saved its life. there was a deeper theme along the lines of defining humanity in the book. the scientists trying to find the similarities between an elderly man and a newborn are central to this.

Thank you, that was one of my favourite Films/Books Look forward to more.

I think it's really cool to see the publishers watch your videos and wanted to see you cover the virus from the novel. That's super cool man.

I first read that book in 1971. It was one helluva read and have reread it many times since. I found the film one of the few films that actualy got close to what was in the novel and the intensity of the last few minutes of the film is still a nail biter. I've always thought that Dr. Crichton should have updated his novel to reflect the advances in microbiology since 1969.

I remembered reading this book in highschool. It was for my senior english class report. Chemical warfare/airborne military training afterwards. Covid-19 should be treated as such. Environmental pollution/degredation problem will create more disease outbreaks.

This is one of my favorite movies and one of my favorite novels. Crichton is an absolute genius.

I love Michael Crichton

I'm fairly new to the channel and I love the positive responses to this movie. So many people are quick to dismiss movies with shot lengths over five seconds. I must point out Richard Kline's superb cinematography--one of his specialties is the use of split diopters to fudge depth of field, providing proper focus on two subjects at different distances in the frame--hard to achieve with anamorphic lenses otherwise. One more thing: "601".

Michael Crichton is one of my favorite authors and several of his books are on my list of favorites. Jurassic Park, Andromeda Strain, Timeline, Sphere, Congo, Airframe, The Terminal Man, and Rising Sun were all phenomenal books with a fictional story filled with enough factual basis that it can be used as a study as well as entertainment. His books were so well researched that many of the facts in the book are actually accurate and many of the things in say Terminal Man were actually happening at the time and in the following 2 decades.

One of all time favorite films. Great direction, cast and direction.

I've never seen the movie, but the book is one of my favorites. Super nerve wracking! 😲

"The film starts by showing how technology was snowballing and there is bound to be a crisis caused by human over sight like Chernobyl" The Chernobyl incident happened over a decade after this movie was released...

This one and The Cassandra Crossing will get your virus feelers up. Good stuff.

Saw this in the theatre with my Dad. Awesome Movie, even today!

I remember watching this movie with my mother when I was 10, and freaking out. mom loved it but I ran upstairs and refused to come down till it was over.

This is a syfy classic and one of my favorites. This was a riveting on the edge of your seat thriller and really damn scary. To this day I remember the phrase code name "Wildfire."

Andromeda strain is one of my favorite classic sci fi movies. Glad to see it covered here

I remember reading the book and was so amazed by it. The idea that our first possible interaction with an alien lifeform is with a microorganism is interesting and terrifying at the same time.

Love the book! 📖❤️

Thank you for this. It raised long-ago memories for me, then confirmed or explained elements of them. I saw the film, in a theatre, when I was 8 years old. I lived in Belgium but was visiting family in Massachusetts so saw this American film My feelings from back then, which stayed with me, were that it seemed less trivial than other (especially sci-fi-ish)films, and that the woman scientist stood out. Much of the rest I didn't grasp all that well, given age and foreign-ness. So finding your discussion of Kate Reid's character and her performance, and her in general, explained so much about my old, hard to hold on to memories. You spoke eloquently, insightfully and to the point. What I reacted to, as an 8 year old in a strange country, was: seeing a really talented woman being given a role which in the normal way of life back then (and still far too normal today) would have just been given to some bloke; seeing her really shine; seeing her not being shown in the way 99.9% of women in films at the time (and still hugely today) i.e. as sex meat. And this had such a powerful effect on me - I realized that something very different was going on here, that this memory stayed with me all these years. So, again, thank you very much. I really liked and appreciated and was impressed by how you raised this and spoke about it. I don't mean to seem negative about men, but...there are a lot of men who would not have either picked up on this subject, or have verbalized, or have verbalized it so well.

That’s not quite how the book ends. Rather than the movie ending with the cloud seeding and ocean acidification scheme, in the book Andromeda floats into the under atmosphere and mutates into a form that “eats” the ablative heat shield material of spacecrafts. Essentially trapping humans on earth. The implication being an alien species purposefully sent it to earth to imprison us on the planet.

One of my old favorite movies!!! Great flick!

Love your breakdowns... Please do the Strigoi vampires from FX’s The Strain!! Please!!

Before the video even starts I got to say I remember watching this movie when I was a young kid this was an awesome freaking movie leastways when you're 7 it was

Another all round stunner. Love seeing these classics brought back to the front.

I just finished watching the original movie for one of my science courses, and this video really helped summarize and explain the parts I didn’t quite get. Thank you 🙏🏻

This is one of the very few movies that used the book almost as a script.

We need more screenwriters who are dedicated to the plot and characters of the original books. Movie adaptations like the Andromdea Strain are few and far between in their honoring the novel & author.

My favorite movie from back when I was in High School...my biology teacher back when I was a Sophomore actually decided to have the whole class watch the movie over the course of a week...I loved it so much that once we were done, I borrowed the exact same VHS from our teacher and took it home to share with my Mom and Step-Dad! 😍 I was actually hearing the main theme from "The Andromeda Strain" as you were discussing it...never have I heard anything so NOT music sound so...musically perfect...😍💖

This is an essential science fiction movie. No villains, no fights, just scientists slowly dealing with a scientific phenomenon. Not many more movies like this. Star Trek The Motion Picture by Robert Wise comes to mind, and maybe Demon Seed and Forbin Project...