Thursday, September 01, 2005

A Sound of Thunder

Remember that Ray Bradbury story where a travel agengy offers dino-hunting tours, and the only rule is you can't step off the walkways they've constructed, and this moron gets chased by a T-rex and stumbles off the path, squooshing a butterfly? And when he returns to the future, everything has changed so drastically because of one little butterfly that he can't speak the language anymore? It's a movie. But they Jurassic Parkified it so much I'd never recognize it if not for the title.
For the same Chaos theory premise without the action-adventure, though, I hear The Butterfly Effect is pretty good.

4 comments:

tshsmom said...

That was one of my favorite Ray Bradbury stories. Did you FINALLY read it or are you quoting me?
The Butterfly Effect is AWESOME; but then I'm the one that told you to start with. NYAH!!

S.M. Elliott said...

Yes, I read A Sound of Thunder. I recognized the title right away on Rotten Tomatoes and I thought, "Oh, they DIDN'T!" 'cause I knew they'd make it stupid. Which they did. Oh, well.

tshsmom said...

Look at the CRAP they've made out of Heinlein's books.

S.M. Elliott said...

I can't think of any offhand except Starship Troopers. That one wasn't bad, if you can stomach exploding giant bugs.