A Sound of Thunder

[PolkThug]

Got to see a sneak preview of this. It was like Timecop meets Butterfly Effect meets Jurassic Park.

Half-assed special effects killed this movie. I could tell they spent all the money on the "primates", but the rest of the effects were laughable.

****HOWEVER****
There are some "Jurassic stomps" that are better than Jurassic Park.

My advice, rent it 6 months from now (if it doesn't go straight to video), and just copy the stomp part, then don't waste your time watching the rest.

Hopefully, the version I saw was not the finished movie....

P-Thuggy

[Ron-P]

That's too bad, I was looking forward to this.

[PolkThug]

That's too bad, I was looking forward to this.

I felt sorry for the Warner Bros. employees that had to sit through this with the rest of our crowd, it had to be embarassing.

[begbie]

Wow?! How long have they had this movie on the shelf? I remember the "coming soon" preview over a year ago !

Matter a fact, I read an interview where Ben Kingsly had a hard time in recalling the making of this movie. ....doesn't look good

[PolkThug]

Wow?! How long have they had this movie on the shelf? I remember the "coming soon" preview over a year ago !

Matter a fact, I read an interview where Ben Kingsly had a hard time in recalling the making of this movie. ....doesn't look good

They've postponed it a few times because they didn't want to compete with the "good" movies that were out.

[PolkThug]

"Warner Bros. clearly has no confidence in A Sound of Thunder. Based on a Ray Bradbury short story, it was filmed in the summer/fall of 2002, and has had its release date delayed several times over the last year and a half.

Maybe the shabby treatment it's getting has something to do with the fact that it's one of the last films produced by Franchise Pictures, whose distribution deal with Warner Bros. supplied the studio with a lot of box-office bombs such as Battlefield Earth, Get Carter, Driven, and 3,000 Miles to Graceland, to name just a few.

Franchise Pictures finally went out of business last year with head honcho Elie Samaha being investigated for swindling money from a German company that financed their films. Samaha is accused of telling German investors that films cost more than they actually did, and pocketing the difference.

Samaha's Franchise Pictures always reminded me of Cannon Films, but with more capital.

A Sound of Thunder reportedly cost $80 million, but supposedly had trouble getting its special effects finished because of Franchise's financial woes. It's the last Franchise film Warner Bros. will be distributing theatrically. And since Warners is only the distributor, they have little riding on it. These factors might explain why Warners is dumping it on Labor Day weekend on just 816 screens with little advertising support."