Allow yourself to be seduced for a moment by that plastic environment, which is air-conditioned and indirectly lighted and self-monitoring and automated and God knows what else, and ask yourself if this is really the direction human interior decorating is moving in, or if the Holiday Inn has been wrong. But if you find yourself experiencing 'Andromeda' on only the story level, pull back for a moment and watch those people and those machines. On the level of fiction, 'The Andromeda Strain' is a splendid entertainment that will get you worried about whether they'll be able to contain that strange blob of alien green crystal. (Im pretty sure the original movie didnt use 'Shock the Monkey' on its soundtrack. It included this somewhat disturbing scene of a rhesus monkey being 'killed' (actually briefly asphyxiated with carbon dioxide). Sometimes movies come along with buried levels, and I think this is one. The 1971 movie version of The Andromeda Strain kept much of the focus on the scientists. But when the going gets tough, they become abstract and machine-like even toward each other. They occasionally lapse into humanity (particularly in the case of Kate Reid, as a crusty lady biologist of a certain age). What's fascinating is the way the humans pick up the computer state of mind.

No such effort is made to humanize the computer in 'Andromeda,' and they go about their business with the efficiency of a Honeywell salesman. Their relationship with the computers that run Wildfire is, if anything, more intimate than the friendship between HAL 9000 and his human colleagues in '2001.' HAL was a computer intelligent enough to think, but he 'related' with humans in a folksy sort of way that made him half-palatable. of two breakaway regions lost in 2008: South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The director, Robert Wise, would go on to direct Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and at the end of the film when discussing the cloud seeding, a caption on the video monitor reads out 'Nimbus 3'.This was the name of the planet on which Sybok takes prisoners in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. purchased in 1968 by Robert Redford, who founded a namesake film festival there. The human characters almost seem an embarrassment to the Wildfire Project, a hermetically sealed laboratory on five levels below ground. Trivia: Unknown at the time, two future Star Trek references are made in this film. 'The Andromeda Strain' does that absolutely brilliantly. '2001' put all that behind, and made it necessary for science-fiction movies (ambitious ones, at least) to create a plausible environment. The low in these matters was reached with Captain Video on the old DuMont network, whose ship actually rocked up and down as it sailed the sea of space, which presumably had waves just like the ocean. We're asked to believe that our heroes are somewhere beyond Alpha Centuri and picking up steam, but their control panel looks like a 1949 Studebaker that's dropped acid. One of the problems with science-fiction movies has always been the hardware.

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