A Sound of Thunder

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Hi guys:

Last weekend I saw this movie: A Sound of Thunder.
It was an interesting movie to watch considering the 'time' we are living in, ie. the approach of the wave.

The movie is based on the short story, A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury.

The movie takes place in Chicago in the year 2055. It is about an agency called Time Safari that specialises in taking rich clients back in time on a hunting trip to the prehistoric age. There are 3 rules that has to be obayed while going back in time:

1) Don't leave anything behind
2) Don't bring anything back
3) Don't change anything in the past.

Obviously someone breaks one of these rules and the future gets changed and the staff at Time Safari has to figure out what they did in the past to set off these 'time waves' that alter the future.

I thought it was really entertaining and made me think, so I recommend it to all who enjoy a good sci-fi and a good thrill.

Here is the link to the official site.
http://asoundofthunder.warnerbros.com/#

Nina
 
I thought this reminded me of something. A Simpson's episode and one of my favorites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_V said:
Time and Punishment An adaptation of Ray Bradbury's short story "A Sound of Thunder". While attempting to fix a toaster, Homer accidentally creates a time machine. Every time Homer pushes the toaster's lever, he is transported to the time of the dinosaurs until the toast pops up, at which point he returns to the present. During his first trip, he amazingly realizes (thanks to some strange advice from Grampa on his wedding night) that he could cause unpredictable changes in the future by killing anything in the ancient past, but absent-mindedly kills a mosquito. The toaster returns Homer to the present, where he learns that Ned Flanders is the totalitarian leader of the world (reminiscent of George Orwell's Big Brother). Escaping a close call with "Re-Neducation", Homer travels back to the time of the dinosaurs in an attempt to set things right. Every effort goes wrong, however: Homer sits on a fish that has just evolved to walk on land (resulting in Homer's family being giant - a scene similar to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids), then later infects the dinosaurs with a deadly cold virus (similar to the ending of The War of the Worlds). One effort comes close to perfection: the family is wealthy and Patty and Selma are dead, but Marge does not know what "donut" is (ironically, immediately after Homer runs screaming to the toaster, travelling back through time again, it begins to rain donuts). Another version seems normal until Willie bursts in, claiming that he can help Homer return to his own world; however, Maggie kills Willie with an axe in his back, then takes off her pacifier and says, "This is indeed a disturbing universe" (voiced over by James Earl Jones). Returning to the prehistoric era for one last try, Homer takes out his frustration by smashing everything he can see with a baseball bat. After several changes to the present, including one where the house is transformed into the Sphinx with Bart's face, Homer eventually arrives in a present where everything seems normal: Ned Flanders is simply their neighbor, donuts are plentiful... but the family eats with long, snakelike tongues. Homer shrugs and mutters "Eh, close enough."
 
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