![]() Which is why the roster of characters provides us with all these military types who are agitating for dropping a nuke on the “quarantine area.” Because, you know, when you're making a miniseries it’s not enough to merely threaten the entire human race with a virulent new pathogen. The government wants us to eat fruit? Why? What are they putting into the fruit to brainwash us all while slowly poisoning us too? It’s not enough to take it for granted, even at the very beginning, that the government is mostly concerned about preventing a biological catastrophe. And of course the government should never be trusted. And they aren’t simply out for themselves. Because, you see, everyone has their own personal secret agenda. Conundrums within enigmas enfolded by mysteries. Plus the scientists at the heart of the story have lots of reasons to dislike and mistrust each other. Virtually every scene in the first twenty minutes includes some heart-felt family drama that accomplishes nothing except to bloat the total runtime. The LA Times said this version of Andromeda is “overwrought and dull.” Entertainment Weekly said this “cluttered remake mires itself in. Ridley Scott & Company obviously decided to do away with the silences, so that every instrument in the orchestra pit is blasting away at full volume without ever a pause for breath. ![]() A symphony, the experts will tell you, is a carefully coordinated combination of sounds and silences. Basically, this is a film produced by people who do not understand music theory. ![]() So, for the purposes of argument, I shall leave the writer out of the equation. But I am aware that the distance between a writer’s keyboard and a director’s cut can be long and arduous and full of acrimony. Now, you may ask how this miniseries could be so awful when it was written by a guy who writes plays that win Pulizers and Tonys. Now, you may ask how this miniseries could Had I known that Ridley Scott was involved in any way with the 2008 remake of the 1971 film directed and produced by Robert Wise, I would never have wasted the 10 minutes it took me to walk to the local public library to borrow the DVD for free. Had I known that Ridley Scott was involved in any way with the 2008 remake of the 1971 film directed and produced by Robert Wise, I would never have wasted the 10 minutes it took me to walk to the local public library to borrow the DVD for free.
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