Just finished watching The Andromeda Strain (1971). Incredible movie. Or maybe it’s just that Hollywood hadn’t gone as far astray back then as it was when they made Jurassic Park (both are written by Michael Crichton). Although, I must say they did a pretty good job with Sphere.

I just found out that they’re doing a remake of Westworld (announced) while browsing the IMDB pages for Chricton. Ugh. And the forum dwellers are posting topics like “Kiefer Sutherland for gunslinger” and “Schwarzenegger …”. Yeesh — Buff humanoids with distorted accents — do they never come up with new ideas for movies with robots? If someone out there reading this has contacts — tell them I have a brainful of fresh ideas.

But of course, they’re only making what we are willing to pay for. And unfortunately, if we were to stop paying to see buff-terminator-like-movies, the studio executives would probably be going “Hey, hey Meyer. That SciFi movie just flopped. I guess people don’t like science fiction any more — let’s just do another Rocky movie” — and we’d be all out of scifi. Movie trends are like green goo that grow with every amount of energy (our money) we give them, slowly mutating from killer-innovation-brilliance to just impotent green goo of crystalized repetetition — oh wait — they’re the Andromeda Strain.

To sum up; Andromeda Strain The Movie: Good — Present Day Hollywood: The Andromeda Strain itself, Bad.