I just finished watching the new "The Andromeda Strain" movie on A&E. Here are my thoughts on it:

There were a ton of differences from the book, especially near the end. It was almost like the writers decided that the book was too "boring" so they added a bunch of extra action crap to spice it up a little. Personally, I think the book was phenomenal and I wouldn't be writing this if they had just kept everything the same.

The ending was not that good, to be honest. Here's how I think it should have gone:

The symbol that was encoded on Andromeda's container should have been the logo for the terrorist group that took over the mining platform. In the future, that same group sent back a sample of Andromeda and their symbol as a sort of warning. Kind of like: "If you keep mining and destroying the ocean vents, we won't have a weapon to fight Andromeda." So, the scientists realize this, force the President to stop mining, and the future is safe from The Andromeda Strain.

But, noooooo. Instead, they made it into some kind of government conspiracy crap.

Oh well, at least the book is still good.