This movie has haunted me for a long time.
One night when I was 7, my parents rented a futuristic dinosaur movie and watched it with me and my brother. The movie terrified me. To my little undeveloped brain, the CGI was lifelike — if not a little off — and the time-centric plot was existentially troubling. As I got older, images of swarming bugs, primate reptiles, a time path, and a hologram lion (which I vividly remember being a tiger) stuck in my memory like a half-remembered nightmare.
Last year I remembered the movie again and did some digging online. I couldn’t find anything and figured I never would. Then one day while watching YouTube, A Sound of Thunder popped up on a random video and I had an a-ha moment. I had rediscovered it!
Watching A Sound of Thunder tonight, I experienced something surreal. I got to watch my forgotten nightmare presented back to me onscreen in the form of a promising yet frustratingly plain sci-fi flick that I had so vividly visualized in my head for so long. And yet I was able to appreciate it through the lens of my impressionable, scared, young self.
It’s full of ambitious CGI, incredible futurism, and some fun creature designs, including an alternative-evolution human in the form of a whiskered fish person. I also love the overgrown decrepit look of the city. But despite these positives, the acting is terrible, the writing is worse, and the execution of the CGI is often laughable. Not to mention the science is all wrong.
It’s kinda fun though.
Next, I’ll have to read the short story it’s based on. Apparently it’s a classic and also very relevant.
This movie has haunted me for a long time.
One night when I was 7, my parents rented a futuristic dinosaur movie and watched it with me and my brother. The movie terrified me. To my little undeveloped brain, the CGI was lifelike — if not a little off — and the time-centric plot was existentially troubling. As I got older, images of swarming bugs, primate reptiles, a time path, and a hologram lion (which I vividly remember being a tiger) stuck in my memory like a half-remembered nightmare.
Last year I remembered the movie again and did some digging online. I couldn’t find anything and figured I never would. Then one day while watching YouTube, A Sound of Thunder popped up on a random video and I had an a-ha moment. I had rediscovered it!
Watching A Sound of Thunder tonight, I experienced something surreal. I got to watch my forgotten nightmare presented back to me onscreen in the form of a promising yet frustratingly plain sci-fi flick that I had so vividly visualized in my head for so long. And yet I was able to appreciate it through the lens of my impressionable, scared, young self.
It’s full of ambitious CGI, incredible futurism, and some fun creature designs, including an alternative-evolution human in the form of a whiskered fish person. I also love the overgrown decrepit look of the city. But despite these positives, the acting is terrible, the writing is worse, and the execution of the CGI is often laughable. Not to mention the science is all wrong.
It’s kinda fun though.
Next, I’ll have to read the short story it’s based on. Apparently it’s a classic and also very relevant.
