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The Andromeda Strain (1971) Full Length Reaction (Patreon)

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2026-02-02 03:29:47
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2026-02-02 04:14:33
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A 70's sci-fi that goes HARD on the sci! Didn't expect this to be such a realistic portrayal of scientists doing science but it was cool to see. Quite a scary scenario and I wonder how realistic this actual scenario is. Has anyone read the book and is it any good?

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T An St 1971 Full Length Reaction

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Geoff S.

You look stressed in the thumbnail! Should be a great reaction!

Tom W.

The real pandemic was Disco Fever. Lest we forget the fallen.

Dylan

“The Andromeda Strain” has my vote for the most graphic G-rated movie ever.

Steve Holton

The only prescription was more cowbell. 🎶🐄

Ian

Never seen this one but your expression looks tense so just might be edge of the seat stuff 😬 unsure when I will get to this as it's over 2hrs so probably be next weekend as it's hard finding time with long movies but looking forward to it when I do 🔥 cheers Jen 🙂

Rob Nichols

Never read the book, not much of a reader really, but I know this was the first Michael Crichton novel to be adapted into a movie. Very eerie and disturbing, I don't know how realistic is is but it certainly feels realistic. The Six Million Dollar Man had an early episode that had a similar opening, where the whole population of a small rural town seemed to be dead, though from a very different cause.

Steve Holton

The book is also heavy on the science known at the time. Micheal Crichton's father was a very prominent journalist and like a journalist, Micheal Crichton enjoyed investigating scientific wisdom and methods and simplifying them for a lay audience. Many of his other books are more accessible, but if you generally enjoy his work even his subpar efforts are like eating poorly made pizza. It's still pizza. 😊

Marcus Hicks

Crichton was such a talented writer......its just a shame he became such a massive conspiracy nut and science denialist in the final years of his life.

ChrisJayR

I've listened to the audiobook multiple times, its one of my favorites. Looking forward to this reaction!

James Lewis

The possibility of a virus from another planet wiping out all human life on Earth is a staple of science fiction, but based on our current understanding of biology and astrobiology, it's highly improbable—though not entirely impossible in the most speculative scenarios. Viruses aren't independent life forms; they're obligate parasites that rely on hijacking the cellular machinery of a host organism to replicate. On Earth, viruses are highly specific to their hosts, often evolving over millions of years to target particular species or even cell types. For an extraterrestrial virus to infect humans, it would need to recognize and bind to human cell receptors, evade our immune systems, and use our DNA/RNA/protein-based biochemistry for reproduction. If alien life evolved independently on another world, its biochemistry could be fundamentally different—perhaps based on alternative nucleic acids, amino acids, or even non-carbon structures—making compatibility with Earth life vanishingly unlikely.

Curran Dobbs

Speaking of 70s sci-fi, NIght of the Lepus has DeForest Kelley (the original Dr. McCoy ) in it.

Major Peril

Great reaction! Hope the hard science didn’t put you off too much. 😁 I remember this being one of my favorite science fiction movies when I was younger. Yes, the book is a great read, just the right amount of “hard” science fiction I like. I’ve enjoyed most of Michael Crichton’s novels that I’ve read. I only wish that some of the films he directed would have been done by other more “visually-oriented” directors. Not saying that they’re awful but I often wonder what others might have done with Westworld (1973), Coma (1978) or Runaway (1984). Hmmm… it seems that in ‘60s and ‘70s science fiction films it was mandatory that all U.S. SECRET government facilities had to be built underground. We saw this in Fantastic Voyage (1966) as well, probably a few others I’m forgetting at the moment. 😆

Jessie Caldwell

It was vogue in a lot of movies from the 70s to use what are called Split diopter lenses. This is a special lens that can spit two sides of the lens into two completely different focal lengths, which enables something in the extreme foreground to be as as sharply focused as the extreme background. That's what you were seeing when it looked like a composite of the foreground on one side of the frame, and the background on the other. Also, it was fairly popular in the late 60s to mid 70s to do the trick where the storytelling was broken up into a collage of different rectangles on a black background. One of the more famous examples of this was The Boston Strangler. And, one last note, effects for this movie were done by the amazing Douglas Trumbull, who did effects for Close Encounters and Blade Runner.

John DiGiantomasso

Mom was a huge scifi fan, so she took us kids to see this on the big screen. I guess I was 11 or 12, and it scared me pretty good. As a kid the lab animal scenes really hit hard. The details of producing this film - before, during, and after - are pretty amazing and this is a fascinating look into that: https://youtu.be/f-qEeL-WU4A?si=hP82q8Rz1sxj4kgF Fifty years later it holds up pretty well. Change "space slime bioweapon" to "mutated bat virus bioweapon" and it all gets really scary. But I'm sure that never REALLY happened. We're too smart for that.

Rob Nichols

Split diopters were also used in Star Trek The Motion Picture which cinematographer on this film, Richard H. Kline also worked on. Douglas Trumbull also did effects for 2001 and ST TMP, and directed Silent Running and Brainstorm.

Noremac

This was my first time seeing this movie. I liked it. Though I didn't understand why the stairwell had lasers in it. And did the resolution imply andromeda became non-infectious on it own, so the outcome would have been the same if nobody did anything? It's like an inversion of War of the Worlds. Jen didn't pick up on the polycron thing, did she? Odd, she usually doesn't miss that stuff. Maybe she was a bit bored, haha. I agree it was gratifying seeing most everyone being competent. Star Trek: TNG has that same kind of feeling. You know, 1970's film wasn't afraid to challenge the audience. Very different from now. I wish we got more films like this, even if the audience was smaller it would keep me more interested in new movies coming out. You know, rewarding you for paying attention and not insulting your intelligence. It's not a sin to confuse the audience every once in a while.

Joel

Yes, in the book, Andromeda mutated on its own both into and out of the dangerous conditions

Darryl Low

Thanks for another epic 70s sci fi reaction today Jen 😊 I remember the first time I saw this was on late night tv and the opening with the deserted town definitely left an impression on me. The rest of the movie does tend to get a little technical and you do need to pay attention to what's happening, but it's really well put together as it builds towards the finale. I've watched this movie several times, but this is the first time I've noticed Michael Crichton's cameo. When the doctor is just about to operate on the patient and he's interrupted by the military men on the other side of the glass, Crichton is sitting on the far right. He's probably sitting because he was so tall, all 6ft 9 inches of him haha. Another great 70s medical / science fiction / thriller, directed by Michael Crichton himself this time, is Coma. It's one of my favourite 70s movies with another amazing score by Jerry Goldsmith 😊

Jen Murray

U mean that it mutated to consume plastic? Ya i got that, they said it outright in the movie 🤷‍♀️

Mastervodo

Interesting show. Just not the most entertaining for me. Just so slow paced. Doesn't keep my attention.

The Fly

Crichton didn't 'deny science', he questioned people in the field of climate science. Any school of thought that cannot endure scrutiny is not science, but dogma

The Fly

But the Boogie Nights soundtrack is ace

The Fly

Michael Crichton is primarily known for writing Jurassic Park, but as well as his other books directed many good movies of his own—a really important figure in modern sci-fi

Tom W.

All I remember from that movie is Heather Graham's insanely hot body.

Marcus Hicks

Wrong. I heard and read the things he said. He went beyond reasonable skepticism into full blown denial-making the same bogus claims as the fossil fuel industry. Interesting how the guy that made a billionaire the villian of Jurassic Park ended up becoming a mouthpiece for billionaires in his final years.

Major Peril

Would love to see Jen's reaction to Silent Running (1972) and Brainstorm (1983).

Joe R

You may want to check out the 3-part miniseries of Childhoods End from the Aurthur C. Clarke novel on Amazon Prime. It has the same kind of vibe as 3 Body Problem, and I enjoyed your reaction to that.

Stefan Klement

Love these kinds of movies that focuses more on people trying to figure out the solution to a problem instead of action sequences! Another one I would recommend is Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970).

The Fly

And you are a mouthpiece for 'the first climate billionaire' Al Gore, an elite who made a film featuring a bunch of climate doomsday BS then profited from selling green technology to governments that doesn't work According to your High Priestess of the Climate Apocalypse Greta Thurnburg, who gets her script from another billionaire George Soros, we should all be wiped out by now. A whole generation of children were terrified with climate propaganda to believe they would all be dead before they reached the age of 40 giving them anxiety and fear Meanwhile the rich got richer, kept on buying beachside mansions, and we paid for it through taxes and rising energy prices

Marcus Hicks

Oh, go f**k yourself you ignorant anti-science troll. You sound like those high school dropouts who believe everything you hear on Fox. You do realise that the science of climate change predates Al Gore by at least 100 years? Oh, but you probably missed that info because they conceal it in books. Now, be a good little troll and go watch some more Faux News.

Marcus Hicks

Wow, you really have bought into the fossil fuel industries bullshit hook, line and sinker. Well, they do love terminally ignorant morons like you.

The Fly

I don't watch FOX, I'm not even American. I live in Britain where we pay the highest energy prices in the world, thanks Al Gore And yes I do know climate doomsday terror goes back 100 years—and it all proved to be BS. That people still blindly believe 'the science'™️on climate proves you can fool some people all the time. For a laugh go and watch Leonard Nimoy on youtube warning people of the imminent ice-age—yeah that's what they were using actors to terrorize us with as recently as the 1970s, now it's Leonardo DiCaprio telling us we're all about to burn as he flies around the world on his private jet collecting climate activist awards 😂

Jay

This book and movie are special to me. This was the first "grown up" book I ever read. Really made a big impression. I also had great memories of seeing this movie on TV. From a "making of" video I saw they put the monkey to sleep with a gas and you can see right before they cut the shadow of a person moving in to save the monkey. That made me feel better.

Zapp Rowsdower

I needed to know for sure, how they did the scene where they "killed" the monkey. According to IMDB: The monkey was contained in a cage filled with normal air. The cage was then placed in a set filled with carbon dioxide (CO2). When the door to the monkey's cage was opened, the CO2 rendered the monkey unconscious for a few seconds before it was immediately resuscitated. This was all performed under the watchful eyes of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA).

Over50Gamer

Saw Runaway as a kid and I loved it. As a burgeoning rocker going into his teen years, I thought it was cool seeing a bass player from a hard rock group playing a villain and doing a good job of it!

Carlos Stevens

OK... if I may be so bold to suggest (and please forgive me if I already suggested it)... The next time you're in the mood for a '70s Sci-Fi... watch "Colossus: The Forbin Project." As I watch what is happening with Artificial Intelligence today, that movie worries me.

Carlos Stevens

Michael Crichton was very much involved in the making of this movie.

Carlos Stevens

No monkeys or rats were harmed in the making of this movie.

Carlos Stevens

The movie wasn't made to keep your attention. It was made to make you think.

Carlos Stevens

The movie was Rated G, but they're showing teats and arses. For the record, PG was just instituted the year before movie was made. The exposed human anatomy wasn't the definitive factor back then. According to Grok: Standards were much more lenient back then, especially for non-sexual content:The rating system was brand new and focused more on avoiding government censorship than on strict "family-friendly" rules. G didn't mean "for little kids only"—it just meant "nothing that would offend parents for general viewing." Non-erotic nudity (especially brief, in a horror/sci-fi/medical setting) was often tolerated in G or early PG films. Think of it like how 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) had some implied stuff but stayed G, or how Westerns and dramas occasionally showed bare skin without issue. The MPAA prioritized overall tone: minimal profanity (just "damn" and "hell"), no sex scenes, no graphic gore, and a serious, intellectual thriller vibe. The nudity was framed as part of the sterile, scientific investigation, not titillation. Even the original posters had a disclaimer: "Rated G—but may be too intense for younger children," acknowledging the creepy dead bodies and tension. It was one of the "edgiest" G-rated movies ever, and forums still debate it as "the least G-rated G movie."

Robert Durant

Movies like this are very rare, where the thrills and suspense lie in real world things like science, chemistry, biology, etc. And you remarked about the casting, this worked because everyone in the cast were believable as scientists and doctors, if it starred someone like Leonardo Dicaprio or any A-list actor you wouldn't take things as seriously. By the way the actor that played Mark Hall is the actor who played Arnold Schwarzenegger's boss General Kirby in "Commando".

Kevin Torrence

Area 51 comes to mind when discussing covert facilities. Art imitates life vice versa. It appears that the 601 at the end represents how insidious the alien life form is. Something so small could easily wipe out all life on earth because of man’s destructive nature.

Carlos Stevens

OMG! This was early 70's... LOOOONG before Disco was even a thing. But, Funk was alive and well ;-)

Carlos Stevens

Michael Crichton's first book. The movie so did it justice.

Carlos Stevens

YES!!! Colossus! Another great book/movie from that era. They really need to do a remake of that and the other two books of the trilogy; ESPECIALLY since AI has become more real than it was back then. Can you imagine... Colossus... The Fall Of Colossus, and Colossus And The Crab all being made into a movie today?

Steve Holton

You are both correct and incorrect that it his first book. He wrote excellent bestsellers like "A Case of Need" under the pseudonym Jeffery Hudson prior to "The Andromeda Strain"

Carlos Stevens

No animals were harmed in the making of this movie. They used carbon dioxide to make the monkey pass out. It lived a long and happy life.