A single mistake in the past, by a time travel company in the future, has devastating and unforeseen consequences.A single mistake in the past, by a time travel company in the future, has devastating and unforeseen consequences.A single mistake in the past, by a time travel company in the future, has devastating and unforeseen consequences.
- Awards
- 4 nominations total
- Charles Hatton
- (as Sir Ben Kingsley)
- John Wallenbeck
- (as Armin Rhode)
- Newswoman on TV
- (as Nikita Le Spinasse)
- Onlooker
- (as Scott Bellefeuille)
- Chinese Man II
- (as Chou Ho Hon)
- Taxi Driver
- (as Antonín Hausknecht)
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From memory, Bradbury's story ends when it is discovered that evolution has changed because of a tiny alteration in a time-travel incident. But that would make the movie 37 minutes long, so the modern writers have to find a remedy, and stretch it out to a reasonable length.
Ryer (Burns) knows what has to be done and he has to get the inventor of the TAMI machine, Sonia Rand, (Catherine McCormack) to help, but New York is now a jungle and there are hordes of ape-lizards, and ape-bats and nasty eagles too. They have to get to a university with a working particle accelerator. What a challenge, through the flooded subway and always pursued by monsters.
Suspend ones reasoning, just take it for a way-out fantasy. And it looks better when watched for a second or third time.
The story is good, the characters are well-defined, the acting is good, (especially that of a support character Eccles (William Armstrong) who is absolutely terrified), and there is some memorable dialogue, so I've given it a 7.
For once, Catherine McCormack doesn't even get kissed!
So I saw a free screening of A SOUND OF THUNDER about six months ago. We were told that the special effects were just "mock-ups" and therefore to not judge those effects too harshly. And we were promised that for the actual release the special effects would look spectacular.
I just watched A SOUND OF THUNDER on its opening Friday and the special effects were EXACTLY the same. They used the mock-ups, the "pretend special effects," for the release.
Which leaves me to believe that the test screenings got such bad feedback that the studio decided to cut its losses. They didn't advertise this film very much and they didn't spend any REAL money on the special effects.
One thing they may have changed was some of the editing. The pace felt a little better than the original free screening. I mean the movie has a lot of problems but it seemed like some small things were cut or at least cut differently.
I'm hoping that the DVD will have a commentary track so we can hear the behind-the-scenes story of what really happened. But I doubt the studio will put any bells and whistles on the DVD release.
I agree with everyone else. This is a bad movie (with the exception of Ben Kingsley's interesting character work). But it was made worse by the studio's lack of commitment and backing.
Saw it in a theater with about 12 other people. 3 people left about 20 minutes in. I'm not sure if they left because the movie was so bad or because they couldn't hear the dialogue over the laughter of the rest of us.
Mediocre special effects don't excite me. Abysmally bad special effects are wonderful. I disagree with the previous commenter -- I don't think the actors were walking on a treadmill in front of the green screen, I think they were just standing in place and shifting their weight from one foot to the other.
Sir Ben Kingsley is clearly aware of the "quality" of this film and embraces the ridiculousness, having a great time reading his absurd lines.
The plot, the dialogue, the special effects, the creatures, the actor's accents -- each piece of this movie is worse than the last. There were at least three scenes that made me laugh so hard I cried.
I love dumpster-diving through bad movies in search of treasure. The recent crop of bad movies have been just plain boring. This one is the diamond that makes it all worthwhile.
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Did you know
- TriviaProduction was slowed when severe floods in the summer of 2002 in the Czech Republic caused considerable damage to the set.
- GoofsThe men go back in time 65 million years, where they are attacked by an Allosaurus. However, Allosaurus lived during the Jurassic Period, which ended 145 million years ago.
- Quotes
Sonia Rand: I don't have time for stupid idiots.
Travis Ryer: Well, why don't you make some time. How about we stop with the insults, because it is starting to get on my nerves.
Sonia Rand: You think I devoted my career to designing an amusement park ride for rich men to compensate for their little willies by shooting prehistoric animals, is that what you really think?
Travis Ryer: No, what I think is that if you were a guy, someone would have probably knocked you on your ass a long time ago.
- Crazy creditsOpening Card: In the year 2055, A new technology was invented that could change the world... or destroy it. a man named Charles Hatton used it to make money.
- Alternate versionsFor the Dutch DVD release the aspect ratio was changed from 2,35:1 to 1,78:1.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Troldspejlet: Episode #34.8 (2006)
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- Countries of origin
- Official site
- Languages
- Also known as
- El Cazador de Dinosaurios
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $80,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,900,451
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $917,398
- Sep 4, 2005
- Gross worldwide
- $11,665,465
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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