The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Saturday, September 24th, 2005Day six of my own little Robert Wise Film Festival
There’s a fire, sir
The Andromeda Strain is the greatest science fiction film ever made. I know that is very sweeping statement, so I’ll qualify it by adding that The Andromeda Strain is one of the few films made that genuinely deserve the label of “science fiction,” stories in which speculative science is at the core of the plot.
2001: A Space Odyssey is probably a better film, but it really only qualifies as science fiction if you consider metaphysics to be a science. Most all other films we normally classify as science fiction, or SF, are really just fantasy, action or horror stories set in a futuristic setting.
