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7y7y7y7y
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May 27, 2008 11:38 PM
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Remy1962: having just watched the conclusion, I concede the point. More GEICO gecko, less Andromeda...
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Remy1962
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May 27, 2008 8:19 PM
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I think it needed more commercials. MUCH more commercials! Anything is better than this horrible movie!!!!!
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7y7y7y7y
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May 27, 2008 12:56 PM
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Somehow, I missed a lot of the hype for this Andromeda Strain remake, and just happened to see it mentioned in the Sunday paper. So I tuned in.
Is it just me, or was this the most commercial-packed two hours of television broadcast to date? Made the whole thing pretty much unwatchable in real time. I probably will watch the second part, but bet I'll be taping it specifically so I don't have to sit through all the inane (and LOUD) mass marketing.
I hope A&E loses money on this one, and that their advertisers think twice about supporting productions with this many commercials. The lesson they should take away is that if you try to force feed too much marketing during a movie, people will push back and skip the commercials altogether. A&E crossed the boundaries with this one.
As for the production itself... ah, so it isn't close to the book or the first movie, I don't much care. It's just Michael Crichton. Yeah, he's written some decent mass-market novels, but he's written some real crap, too. "Sphere" comes to mind (the novel, not the [even more dreadful]) movie: suspenseful read, silly concept, absolutely ridiculous laugh-out-loud ending. Gave up on him after that.
My expectations for TV are low, and getting lower, I guess.
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