Jimmy Nugent

Just rented this over the weekend. Truly as horrible as everyone seems to think. Bad cgi. Actors walking on a treadmill (or "moonwalking" brilliantly) in front of bad green screen effects. Bad dialog. Bad acting (with Ben Kingsley being the possible exception).

Logic? What logic? The one grossly obvious lack of logic, in my opinion (and perhaps this was also a lapse in the original story)was:



Very disappointing as I was looking forward to seeing this. Very promising premise that unfortunately did not deliver. To add insult to injury, I made the mistake of watching "Flightplan" the next night. Just wasn't my weekend for watching movies...

Jimmy

My drug of choice...

todd s

Re: A Sound Of Thunder (2004)

Finally watched it last night. I also have a few questions.

-We see that the whole thing was caused by a butterfly...fine. My problem is this. We know that a few minutes after the buttfly floats by. A volcano erupts and a pyroclastic wall destroys the entire area. So unless that butterfly can fly over 100mph it will be incinerated anyways.

-Do they ever explain what the heck that walkway they are on is??

-In the last wave we see humans transformed into some kind of salamander. Wouldn't all of the buildings and tech be gone by then??

-Finally, the doc was trying to go back to get DNA to bring animals back and he couldn't take samples...Why? I understand if you took the animal. But, what harm would it be to get a few strands of hair or even some blood from an animal..especially if it just died?

Bring back John Doe! Or at least resolve the cliff-hanger with a 2hr movie or as an extra on a dvd release.

Henry Gale

Re: A Sound Of Thunder (2004)

How strange that I started this thread and now have 5!FIVE!5 posts in it.
Never saw the movie, probably never will.
I love Ray Bradbury.

Joel...Lane

Re: A Sound Of Thunder (2004)

Just caught this on HBO. All I can say is thank god I didn't pay money specifically to see this.

I agree, bring back MST3K!!!

Kevin M

Re: A Sound Of Thunder (2004)

I agree with Ebert that the film so wanted to be good and it actually has a confidence behinds it that shows.....but the horrible scripting and sub-par FX (aside from the Lizard-Apes....I imagine that they were created before the company went bankrupt) just makes this seem like a substandard Sci-Fi Channel "film" that should be starring Bruce Campbell rather than Ben Kingsley...come to think of it if Bruce had been in this it might have made it worth while!

-Kevin M.


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