Michael Crichton

The Andromeda Strain (1971)

The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Rating: ★★★★½
Jul 6, 1999Virus from Space/Michael Crichton Adaptation
Robert Wise's standout adaptation of Michael Crichton's first novel about scientists trying to contain a virus brought back from space. This does a very faithful job of capturing Crichton's fascination with the science
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Westworld (1973)

Westworld (1973)
Rating: ★★★★
Dec 24, 2001Android Amusement Park Amok
A hit for novelist Michael Crichton who made his directorial debut here. Themes of machines going amok run throughout Crichton's work and here he comes up with the ingenious idea of a Western simulation playground using androids that proceed to turn against the humans
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The Terminal Man (1974)

The Terminal Man (1974)
Rating: ★★★
Jul 5, 2001Neurosurgical Experiment Amok/Michael Crichton Adaptation
Adaptation of a Michael Crichton book about an experimental neurological implant that ends up going amok. This adopts the blinding white-on-white look that has chilling effect in the early hospital sections but stifles the drama when it is extended to the real world too
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Jurassic Park (1993)

Jurassic Park (1993)
Rating: ★★★★
May 9, 2001Genetically-Engineered Dinosaurs Amok
An enormous hit for Steven Spielberg who took new emergent CGI technologies and wowed audiences with dinosaurs brought to life in dazzlingly realistic detail. It doesn't hurt that he delivers a relentlessly suspenseful film too
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Disclosure (1994)

Disclosure (1994)
Rating: ★★★
Mar 22, 2001Michael Crichton Adaptation/Sexual Harassment Thriller/Virtual Reality
It is telling that the only film made about workplace sexual harassment up to this point is one that painted the male as a victim. This adaptation of a Michael Crichton book came mired in controversy
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Congo (1995)

Congo (1995)
Rating: ★★★
Jun 30, 2001Lost City of Intelligent Apes/Michael Crichton Adaptation
Following the success of Jurassic Park, a host of other Michael Crichton books were filmed, including this not entirely successful but not uninteresting work where Crichton attempts to modernise the lost world adventure
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Twister (1996)

Twister (1996)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 6, 2002Tornado Chasers
After the massive success of Jurassic Park, anything with Michael Crichton's name on it was hot property. This is made from his script about tornado chasers and is a rather entertaining film made with no other purpose that to keep producing a series of spectacular mass destruction scenes on an ever-expanding scale
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Rating: ★½
Aug 14, 2001Genetically Engineered Dinosaurs Amok
The first sequel to the massive success of Jurassic Park where Steven Spielberg returns to direct with a script that seems a mishmash of loose ends that only weakly rehashes the original
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Sphere (1998)

Sphere (1998)
Rating: ★★★★
Dec 16, 1999Crashed UFO Underwater/Michael Crichton Adaptation
Michael Crichton was hot property after the success of Jurassic Park but this was one flop. A by no means uninteresting film about a group of scientists in an underwater habitat making contact with an alien lifeform
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The 13th Warrior (1999)

The 13th Warrior (1999)
Rating: ★★★
Aug 31, 1999Vikings vs Neanderthals/Michael Crichton Adaptation
Michael Crichton was hot as a result of Jurassic Park. Although mostly seen as an historical spectacle, this is an adaptation of his novel that attempts to retell the legend of Beowulf with Vikings against Neanderthals
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Timeline (2003)

Timeline (2003)
Rating: ★
Feb 1, 2004Time Travel/Michael Crichton Adaptation
Michael Crichton adaptation that flopped at the box-office. Crichton tells a story about time travel to the Mediaeval period where he spends a good deal of time researching the era. The film ditches all of this to make no more than an historical film with an SF gimmick
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The Andromeda Strain (2008)

The Andromeda Strain (2008)
Rating: ★★
Jun 15, 2008Virus from Space/Michael Crichton Adaptation
TV series remake of Michael Crichton's novel about the attempts to contain a viral outbreak from space. Crichton's story was a straightforward work, whereas the mini-series has been absurdly overburdened with other plots
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