Crichton's "Andromeda Strain" on A&E

[Yuppicide]

The Andromeda Strain drinking game
(from the SF Chronicle)

Drink, clap or kiss when ...

You should take action every time you see these things:
-- Someone says, "Computer," and the voice-keyed computers perform elaborate tasks.
-- A character spews geek speak. (Careful on those pours.)
-- One character barks out extremely complicated scientific theory only to be one-upped by someone countering with an extremely complicated medical theory. Pay attention!
-- Computer animation is used in ways that make you giggle when you shouldn't.
-- Color is used to illustrate the flow of the strain through fields or air.
-- Creeping color kills someone (no groping - kissing only!)
-- A series of miraculously fortunate events happen just in time to further the outbreak or the story (watch those hands - clap lightly).
-- The strain adapts within seconds of adapting some other way.
-- Bratt acts underwhelmed and calm when the situation calls for him to be insanely worried.
-- Every time Kim is racially slighted and/or adjusts his glasses.
-- Birds fall out of the sky, dead.
-- A buzzard appears.
-- Animals - not birds or buzzards - spread the strain in patently ridiculous ways.
-- The military takes a casualty not related to an armed enemy.
As a changeup to this game, stop drinking, clapping or kissing whenever the action stops for a faux-romantic moment.
Well, at that point, you're either going to be drunk, sore or pregnant - possibly all three. And there wasn't even one mention of "the thumb." You are not going believe "the thumb." In fact, here's two thumbs up for "the thumb."

TV review: 'Andromeda' strains its credibility

[nothingness]

Had I of been playing that game I would be getting my stomach pumped now due to those hordes of buzzards.

[mgeoffriau]

Not bad, on the whole. Wish they'd kept it more faithful to the book instead of inserting the patently obvious Homeland Security/environmentalism themes.

[cove702]

The Cron article sucked, this is a decent movie. I like the homeland security updates.