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speaking of bad movies, skip "a sound of thunder." i know it's ray bradbury. that's why i went to see it. but it was awful.

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If it's based on the same story I'm thinking of, then I would have predicted that it would be bad.If you want to see a great bad movie, Howard Hughs produced a movie called The Conqueror, starring John Wayne as the Mongol Temujin before he became Gengis Khan. It is so bad that it is great! Bad dialogue, more wooden acting than a lumber yard, and Susan Hayward in a part that only exists to prove the John Wayne is a heterosexual.Funny thing is, that my buddy saw this in a video store and wanted to rent it. I tried to talk him out of it because I had already heard how bad it is. But when we watched it, it was so bad that I thoroughly enjoyed it, although he ended up hating it.

company with a time machine that takes people back in time to shoot a dinosaur. someone steps off the path, kills a butterfly, and changes the future. (oh, btw, i just ruined part of the movie for everyone)bradbury's story was subtle. the change was a small political thing. a different candidate wins, etc. this one, changes come in "waves" (i'm not making this shit up) that look like giant tidal waves of nothing, and slowly change the present in incriments.i mean, never mind the fact that you can't change the past, period. (there's not "first draft" -- something either happens or it does not) if you COULD change the past, time still works like it normally would -- change from your perspective would be instantaneous.plus, in this one, they change the entire process of evolution. i'm sorry, but a single butterfly would not make or break the evolutionary outcomes on such a massive level. it's not a single individual thing, it's a species thing. also, i doubt that convergent evolution works in such a way that you'd get baboon-faced velociraptors.also, a particle accelerator cannot become a time machine "with the right software." and if it could, i doubt that the hard drvie from your super-computer will connect to it with "plug-n-play." i can barely get my pc and my printer play nice. ...so bad science all around.special effects? well, the cg was sci-fi channel bad. and it was really apparent in the "walking on the street" scene, because the city was all cg. so it was that fake walking-in-place walking. with bad digital rotoscoping. well, he was a little eccentric... WOW!This message has been edited by arachnophilia, 09-04-2005 10:45 PM

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company with a time machine that takes people back in time to shoot a dinosaur. someone steps off the path, kills a butterfly, and changes the future. (oh, btw, i just ruined part of the movie for everyone)

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Yep, that's the one I was thinking of.

good story, of course. coulda been a good movie, too.this is why i need to go direct movies.

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Up there with the Worst Ten Sci-fi Movies, has to be the b/w 'The Thing from Another Planet'.
Survivor (after trying every extermination method)-'How do you kill a vegetable?'
(Not so dumb) Blonde-" You fry it?'

I've yet to see anything which tops "One flew over the cuckoos nest"...and I have tried. Great story, great characters, great acting ... and the chance to see Jack doing Jack before it became just "Jack doing Jack...""Medication time......"

i saw "sin city" this weekend - it's a brilliant movie. it proves that you need to engage a graphic novel's writer (i.e. Frank Miller) to make a great movie from it.