A Sound of Thunder
 

www.asoundofthunder.com

Anybody heard of this film? I know its a film about some future game hunter sent back to the past to hunt dinosaurs but one of them accidently step on a butterfly and thus setting off a ripple effect that change the future.
But.....my question, if a butterfly can cause a ripple effect that mess up the future, how the heck can they go hunting for a dinosaur??? Anyone??

Thanks for that. It helped a lot.

vhgong, the story is online if you want to read it:
http://www.sba.muohio.edu/snavely/415/thunder.htm

Appreciate it a lot. Thanks.

This story was parodied on the Simpsons when homer turns his toaster into a time machine.

Just caught the trailer on Apple. Looks good. Read the short story and it seems to follow it and take it one step further. Looking forward to seeing this one.

I liked it better the first time when it was called The Butterfly Effect.

Matt, I get the comment's point, but wasn't The Butterfly Effect the one ripping off Bradbury?

I liked this trailer although it seems to have been generally derided, i guess the Land of the Lost/Carnosaur looking T-Rex didnt help.

I dunno if I liked the trailer.. I mean the effects and even the acting seemed good but the premise for the story and all that, in the trailer anyway, just seems kind of dumb. But the explination of the short story makes it sound a lot better... but they just didn't get that point across in the trailer. I think they need to make a new one :)

My comment was sarcasm. ;) Hell, there are references towards Bradbury in the film (such as the name of the college that Evan attended).

And I'm not seeing Sound of Thunder for the following reasons: Peter Hyams. That man even gives Paul W.S. Anderson the chills.

But he has a character called "Spota" in every one of his films! He must be a GENIOUS.


Seriously though, he did put up the money to make The Monster Squad, so...

I do agree that the effects leave something to be desired, but for a popcorn flick it should be ok. Everything can't be Jurassic Park. And most movies nowadays have been done in some form before, it's just fun seeing a different take on it.

Well, I read that story, and I have to say that's one hell of a predictable, boring end.

I liked it better on the Simpsons. I think the whole theory is BS anyway so I'll be skipping this.

The movie is time travel...you "think" the theory is bunk?!?!

Shoved back to March now! How much confidence is there in this flick, I wonder...

So what happen to this movie?

Sorry about that, I accidentally swatted a fly while time traveling through the middle ages, and I think that may have caused the movie to get pushed back to a September 2, 2005 release date.

I saw this at a test screening back in November. Cheesy, but I enjoyed it. I'm a sucker for 'end of the world' scenario films.

The effects weren't complete, and I really hope they work on that dinosaur. It looked like they stole it from the show "Sliders". *Shudder*

The effects in the trailer were atrocious. However, I'm looking forward to this flick...have been since I first saw the trailer at least a year ago. I don't think Peter Hyams is a great director (rent an extra light kit, man!), but I enjoy his flicks, they have a cheesy likeability to them.

Labor Day weekend though, that is a ticket to $50 in BO.

I'm intrigued by the premise, but so far the f/x look incredibly bad.

i really look forward to this movie.

Been looking forward to this since September of last year. Hope it comes thru this time

Okay, I saw a sneak preview of this last night, and IT IS BAD. It reminded me of a made for TV movie. The CGI sucked, and there was very little background music, so I thought maybe they weren't quite done. Then my friend informed me it comes out tomorrow. I'm not surprised I've never seen a trailer other than the one I downloaded. Look for this to be at the theaters for about a week.

I too am intrigued by the premise. I've seen both trailers and am willing to give it a try. I enjoyed "The Core" so, this is right up my alley!

i been waiting too, the premise is cool and the trailer was nice, but i dont know not a good sign being delayed so long

I saw this and the Core, and I would rather watch this movie 10 times than to see the Core once more.

This film is very flawed, but for some strange reason I didn't hate it. I'm not sure why, because the people I was with didn't exactly love it. Honestly, it's not a good film, but I didn't leave with a negative feeling towards the movie. I kinda enjoyed the nonsensical plot, and I enjoyed the 'end of the world' setting that was going on.

The plot really just uses whatever is convenient for it. It makes no sense that I saw this at a November 2004 test screening, so I have no idea how it has changed since then. At least then they had an excuse for incomplete special effects. Sounds like they just never finished them at all.

AICN has two reviews up which pretty much trash the movie: http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=21145

I've said it before and I'll say it again...Peter Hyams movies aren't masterpieces, but hell if I don't like them. The Relic is nothing but an Alien retread, but I love the hell out of it.

Its getting my 8 bucks this weekend.

Haha, I saw it.

Definetely this year's Gigli.

"What's that?"
"An allosaurus blood molecule strand."
"Oh. Cool."

Check out the standing at rottentomatoes -- 4%!!! For context, "Gigli" got 7%, Uwe Boll's "House of the Dead" 6%, and "Battlefield Earth" 4%. I love reading all the horrid quotes on rottentomatoes -- it almost makes me want to see this. Note I said almost. My favorites: "Burns is the kind of actor you hire when a piece of wood is unavailable" and "Our advice: wait until its on the Sci-Fi Channel. Then watch something else".

CNN has an awesome review:

'Sound of Thunder,' smell of garbage

I've said it before and I'll say it again... Peter Hyams is a no talented hack who needs to stay out of Hollywood. :thumbsup:

I disagree on Peter Hyams - I really like several of his movies. Outland, 2010 (which, unfortunately, has dated badly due to the demise of the Soviet Union), Timecop, The Relic, End of Days, The Presidio, Sudden Death, Stay Tuned....OK - Stay Tuned wasn't all that good, but it was still very entertaining anyway!

I am very disappointed, though, to read all of the negative comments about A Sound Of Thunder - it's a great concept and has good source material. If they really have screwed it up then that's just pathetic. I hope it's not as bad as some people are making it out to be.

I'll spoiler-tag this one for those who don't know:

Funny how I never saw one piece of marketing on this movie....I guess I now understand why because of everyone's reviews here...Thanks guys! You've saved me a matinee and now a rental...LOL

Paid full price for this one. It was seriously on the level of a Sci-Fi Channel Original movie. The story had premise, the execution was horrible. There was one scene where characters were walking in an obviously CGI environment to the point it looked like they were walking in place. Bad movie.

Damn, I had some high hopes for this one, but it sounds pretty bad.

But thankfully it already had a great interpretation. Does anyone remember that NPR series in the 80's called <b>Bradbury Thirteen</b>, which were half-hour radio plays of 13 of his stories? A Sounds of Thunder was in there, and it was awesome.