A Sound of Thunder (film) - a podcast by Chris, Sean, Jeremy | Force Fed Sci-Fi

The fun thing about bad movies is that you can laugh at how terrible they are and that's what we would categorize A Sound of Thunder (film) as ... oh wait, did we just give our rating too early? Meh, oh well. Hopefully you'll still stick around for the fun at just how terrible A Sound of Thunder is, how unmoving the A Sound of Thunder movie cast is, and finally, our overall A Sound of Thunder review. On your marks, get set ... hopefully you haven't left yet ... go!
Differences Between A Sound of Thunder Short Story and FilmThere are several differences between the A Sound of Thunder film and short story (written by Ray Bradbury).

Some of the subtle differences that didn't impact how terrible the movie turned out included:

Eckels steps on the butterfly in the short story, while his partner in the film, Middleton, was the one who stepped on it (Middleton was not in the short story)The short story has the safari team go back in time to shoot a Tyrannosaurus Rex, while the film has the safari team go back to kill an Allosaurus (while the film had terrible graphics, it would not have mattered which type of dinosaur was used)

Some of the HUGE differences that did impact how terrible the movie turned out included:The short story is about 10 pages long and the film is an hour and forty minute movie - so why does this make the film terrible? This short story was NOT meant to be dragged out into a new story as a film, or at least the one the filmmakers gave us. Still, we think filmmakers need to be cautious on adapting a short story like this into a full, featured-length film.
The science in this movie seemed a bit odd. Granted we don't know how the future would change if someone was able to travel back in time and alter future events, and while the idea of time waves wasn't a terrible way to slowly change the present time (still not good, in our opinion) ... the"changes"that happened didn't make sense to us.

We get random changes to certain types of vegetation as well as animals (evolutionary changes), but yet nothing happens to the humans until the final time waves are occurring? In addition, what was up with the character of Rand turning to a humanoid cat-fish? We were baffled, but also laughed hysterically at the same time :)Politics are discussed in the short story, and is actually one of the bigger topics the characters mention. However, was the topic of politics discussed in the movie? NOT AT ALL.

It's actually one of the biggest things that change as a result of a butterfly being stepped on in the short story - instead of the moderate and gentler politician being elected, a fascist politician had risen to power. YIKES! But, that's an actual interesting part of the story! (and again, this was nowhere to be seen in the film)



Essentially, there's a better story in the short story itself than there is in the film.
Franchise Pictures: A Fraudulent Production Company$80 million was budgeted for this film; however, Franchise Pictures went under investigation by the FBI for fraudulently inflating their budgets on their films. This all happened around the time A Sound of Thunder was being developed. As a result, the real budget came down to $30 million as that is all that the investors could provide for the film. Essentially, Franchise Pictures went out of business during post-production of this movie, surprise surprise!
One of the worst graphics we've seen in a film
As the amount of funding and actual budget went down, the computer graphics in this film were crazy bad! Words cannot describe how many effects were done terribly. Since words cannot describe it, maybe this clip of the Allosaurus can give you an idea of the quality of computer graphics infused in this film... (it looks like SyFy channel movie of the week to us honestly) ...A Sound of Thunder Movie Cast
By David ShankboneEdward Burns as Travis Ryer: This character was actually originally going to be play...

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