{"id":12205,"date":"2006-10-09T21:38:06","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T01:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=12205"},"modified":"2006-10-09T21:38:06","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T01:38:06","slug":"a-sound-of-thunder-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/09\/a-sound-of-thunder-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sound of Thunder (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A-sound-of-thunder-pic1\"<\/a>At the start of \u201cA Sound of Thunder,\u201d One was that the quality was on par to an average stinker on the Sci Fi Channel, and the other was that there couldn\u2019t possibly be that much truth to the suckiness of said film. At the start, our heroes are on prehistoric terrain and in enters a dinosaur; a dinosaur that is really intent on eating them. The whole time I watch this, I\u2019m thinking to myself \u201cThis couldn\u2019t be the special effects, they must be in a simulator\u201d which is usually the case in films in which we think one scenario is actual distress, and it ends up being a complete red herring.<\/p>\n

But no, unfortunately this was the height of the special effects we\u2019re being offered. The special effects are on par with a basic film you\u2019d see about a giant squid on the Sci-Fi Channel, and the story is just as boring. I wasn\u2019t prepared to bash this, I was in all honesty hoping to be surprised, but I wasn\u2019t. If you can believe that the white marshmallow puff on Ben Kingsley\u2019s head is actual hair, you can believe that Edward Burns with his Bahston accent is a scientist\/soldier. Many brilliant films get passed over and under-promoted, and that\u2019s a damn shame. But \u201cA Sound of Thunder\u201d is basically the exception to the rule. This is an awful piece of dreck, and I\u2019m not saying that to be funny. This is awful. The special effects are beyond sub-par.<\/p>\n

At one point Burns and the lovely Jemima Rooper are walking along the street (2055: the future), and it\u2019s so blatantly obvious that the entire landscape is computer generated, and they\u2019re simply walking on a treadmill, that you can\u2019t help but cringe and then proceed with a laugh of amusement and sheer embarrassment for the actors. It becomes too ridiculous to watch at many points. Its clear Burns and Rooper aren\u2019t walking along a street since they\u2019re almost motionless. But you have to wonder where the money for a $52 million dollar film went. Because it looks as if they paid off all the actors, and used three million for the film.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Sound of Thunder\u201d seems to want to tell a fun story about these people fucking up the future and the space time continuum, but it\u2019s so bogged down in horrible special effects, terrible direction, and cringe-worthy miscasting. But there\u2019s so much more to the terrible aspects of this forgettable and rather terrible sci-fi yawnathon. Reptile baboons, the \u201cJurassic Park\u201d inspired climax, Oyelowo’s hilarious hallucinatory breakdown, and the rather bland gun fights littered throughout. \u201cA Sound of Thunder\u201d doesn\u2019t seem to want to be a bad film, yet in the end it really just is. Hyams’ film is by no means the worst film ever made, but because of the atrocious special effects, boring story, unconvincing acting courtesy of Burns, and lame brained action sequences, “A Sound of Thunder” is really bad nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the start of \u201cA Sound of Thunder,\u201d One was that the quality was on par to an average stinker on the Sci Fi Channel, and the other was that there couldn\u2019t possibly be that much truth to the suckiness of said film. At the start, our heroes are on prehistoric terrain and in enters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[50,58,64,71,283,906,1098],"class_list":["post-12205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-a","tag-action","tag-adaptation","tag-adventure","tag-dinosaurs","tag-science-fiction","tag-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}