_A Sound of Thunder_ slagged
- From: tmcd@xxxxxxxxx (Tim McDaniel)
- Date: 2 Sep 2005 12:36:38 -0500
I hadn't heard that a movie version of Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder"
was coming out. Apparently, there was a reason I hadn't heard.
<http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/02/review.thunder/index.html>
Review: 'Sound of Thunder,' smell of garbage
Movie a waste of everybody's time -- especially yours
By Paul Clinton
For CNN.com
(CNN) -- That sound you hear while watching "A Sound of Thunder"
is actually audience members thundering toward the exits in an
effort to get away from this ghastly film.
People at the studio screening I attended began fleeing after 10
minutes -- and they got in for free. Indeed, while the credits
rolled I heard a guy shout out, "I want my money back."
Based on a story by renowned sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury, "A Sound
of Thunder" has sat on a shelf at Warner Bros. (like CNN, a unit
of Time Warner) gathering dust for two years -- and it should have
stayed there. In fact, Bradbury should be given James Bond's
license to kill and mow down the three screenwriters -- Thomas
Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer and Gregory Poirier -- who wrote
this piece of junk.
The movie's basic premise isn't bad, but the dumb script, combined
with Peter Hyams' inept, heavy-handed direction, has mangled the
original story beyond recognition. ...
And it's all downhill from there.
If the plot's execution isn't foolish enough, "A Sound of Thunder"
also wins the award for the worst green-screen special effects
ever put on film. Watching the actors walk on treadmills with fake
scenes of a futuristic Chicago behind them is almost painful. The
dinosaurs look like something you'd see on an amusement park ride
called Dino World, and the overall look of the film resembles a
cheap video game you could find at your local mall back in 1984.
Midway through this train wreck of a film, one of the characters
returns to the Time Safari offices (which are now covered in a
prehistoric jungle) and says, "This can't be good." The entire
audience -- what was left of it -- broke out in laughter.
If you're not laughing, watching "A Sound of Thunder" could
possibly lower your IQ into the single digits. It's the worst
movie of the year -- this year, 2055 or even one that featured
living dinosaurs. ...
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Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd@xxxxxxxxx
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