Chandler’s Trailers: “A Sound of Thunder” (2005)

           “A Sound of Thunder”  (2005)

     Based upon the Ray Bradbury short story of the same name, “A Sound of Thunder” is that rare science fiction film which ambitiously expands upon its source material, yet emerges a shadow of its former self.  Time Safari is a corporation specializing in time traveling excursions in which the rich may venture back into prehistory to shoot an Allosaurus; a proposition so extravagant in its necessary disciplinary limitations to prevent the slightest alteration of history (mindful of the possible undefinable evolutionary effects that might subsequently take place) that the entire enterprise defies common sense.

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I've been a puppet, a pirate, a pauper, a poet, a pawn and a king, not necessarily in that order. My first major movie memory was being at the drive-in at about 1 1/2 yrs. old seeing "Sayonara" so I suppose an interest in film was inevitable. (For those scoring at home- good for you- I wasn't driving that evening, so no need to alert authorities.)Writer, critic and confessed spoiler of women, as I have a tendency to forget to put them back in the refrigerator. My apologies.
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