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* TroubledProduction: Extremely. The film was effectively released unfinished, and it shows in things like the cheap and very obvious CGI.
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[[caption-width-right:300:Evolve or die.]]
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''A Sound of Thunder'' is a 2005 sci-fi movie loosely based on the Creator/RayBradbury [[Literature/ASoundOfThunder story of the same name]].
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''A Sound of Thunder'' is a 2005 sci-fi movie loosely based on the Creator/RayBradbury [[Literature/ASoundOfThunder story of the same name]].
name]]. It stars Creator/EdwardBurns, Catherine [=McCormack=], and Creator/BenKingsley.
In the year 2055, a company offers time-travel tours that allow tourists to hunt dinosaurs, provided they do not stray from the set path. Otherwise, they risk altering history with catastrophic ripple effects.
In the year 2055, a company offers time-travel tours that allow tourists to hunt dinosaurs, provided they do not stray from the set path. Otherwise, they risk altering history with catastrophic ripple effects.
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* DullSurprise: From the Agony Booth's review, "Pierce Brosnan was originally slated to star. Unfortunately, he was replaced by a wooden marionette that looks a lot like Edward Burns." (It's a running gag on the recap seeing how his facial expressions are the same for most of the film.)
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* DullSurprise: From the Agony Booth's review, Website/TheAgonyBooth's recap, "Pierce Brosnan was originally slated to star. Unfortunately, he was replaced by a wooden marionette that looks a lot like Edward Burns." (It's a running gag on the recap seeing how his facial expressions are the same for most of the film.)
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* MixAndMatchCritters: Many of the animals that show up in the altered timelines.
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* EvolutionaryLevels: Related: assuming humans are the last to evolve ties into the whole assumption that they're more advanced than other animal species.
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* TroubledProduction: Extremely. The film was effectively released unfinished, and it shows in things like the cheap and very obvious CGI.
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* DullSurprise: [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/A_Sound_of_Thunder_2005.aspx "Pierce Brosnan was originally slated to star. Unfortunately, he was replaced by a wooden marionette that looks a lot like Edward Burns."]] (It's a running gag on the recap seeing how his facial expressions are the same for most of the film.)
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* DullSurprise: [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/A_Sound_of_Thunder_2005.aspx From the Agony Booth's review, "Pierce Brosnan was originally slated to star. Unfortunately, he was replaced by a wooden marionette that looks a lot like Edward Burns."]] " (It's a running gag on the recap seeing how his facial expressions are the same for most of the film.)
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* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: In the book the main dinosaur was a ''TyrannosaurusRex'', while here it's an ''Allosaurus''.
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* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: In the book the main dinosaur was a ''TyrannosaurusRex'', ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', while here it's an ''Allosaurus''.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Hatton makes it clear in his first conversation with Ryer that he is there to basically make all the money in the world.
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* FailedASpotCheck: When Ryer attempts to go back to the original hunt, the approaching time wave brings him to a ground of Native Americans riding in the southwest. He does not seem to notice that he has materialized in a desert instead of the jungle.
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* FailedASpotCheck: When Ryer attempts to go back to the original hunt, the approaching time wave brings him to a ground group of Native Americans riding in the southwest. He does not seem to notice that he has materialized in a desert instead of the jungle.
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* VoodooShark: Apparently the reason big-game hunters are so eager to go back in time to hunt dinosaurs is because... wait for it... ''all animals are extinct'' in 2055. This is mentioned in one scene and then never referenced again, and doesn't explain why people wouldn't be willing to pay to use time travel for more peaceful sightseeing purposes ... or to retrieve healthy animals from the past and repopulate the Earth with them, for that matter.
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* VoodooShark: Apparently the reason big-game hunters are so eager to go back in time to hunt dinosaurs is because... wait for it... ''all animals are extinct'' in 2055. This is mentioned in one scene and then never referenced again, and doesn't explain why people wouldn't be willing to pay to use time travel for more peaceful sightseeing purposes ... [[YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood or to retrieve healthy animals from the past and repopulate the Earth with them, for that matter.]]
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* WalkAndTalk: A SpecialEffectsFailure thanks to the view suddenly switching to the actors against a dramatic CGI background of the future city once they've finished talking, walking at a completely different pace now they don't have to worry about running over the camera crew.
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* FailedASpotCheck: When Ryer attempts to go back to the original hunt, the approaching time wave brings him to a ground of Native Americans riding in the southwest. He does not seem to notice that he has materialized in a desert instead of the jungle.
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* PlotHole: If the time waves cause existing organisms to de-evolve (we know this because that one female character turns into a white naked mole-rat thing at the last wave), and all animals were extinct by 2055 then where did the originals come from?
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** If the time waves cause existing organisms to de-evolve (we know this because that one female character turns into a white naked mole-rat thing at the last wave), and all animals were extinct by 2055 then where did the originals comefrom?from?
** The safari travels back to the same point in time and kills the same dinosaur over and over again. But it is never explained how they never intersect with past jumps, until Ryer does so at the end.
** If the time waves cause existing organisms to de-evolve (we know this because that one female character turns into a white naked mole-rat thing at the last wave), and all animals were extinct by 2055 then where did the originals come
** The safari travels back to the same point in time and kills the same dinosaur over and over again. But it is never explained how they never intersect with past jumps, until Ryer does so at the end.
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* CuttingCorners: The whole situation started because of a "perfect storm" of 1) somebody panicking and stepping off the path and 2) Haddon shutting down the time machine's bio-filter (which ''would'' have prevented this) in order to save money on electricity.
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* CuttingCorners: The whole situation started because of a "perfect storm" of 1) somebody panicking and stepping off the path and 2) Haddon Hatton shutting down the time machine's bio-filter (which ''would'' have prevented this) in order to save money on electricity.
* SexyDiscretionShot: Ryer flirts with a client, and then the scene instantly cuts to the next morning.
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* ShoutOut: Haddon kiss-assingly compares his clients to "[[FamousFamousFictional Columbus discovering America. Armstrong stepping on the moon. Brubaker landing on Mars]]". The latter is a reference to ''Film/CapricornOne'', Hyams' debut film, where Brubaker was the captain of a faked Mars landing.
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* ShoutOut: Haddon Hatton kiss-assingly compares his clients to "[[FamousFamousFictional Columbus discovering America. Armstrong stepping on the moon. Brubaker landing on Mars]]". The latter is a reference to ''Film/CapricornOne'', Hyams' debut film, where Brubaker was the captain of a faked Mars landing.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Ryer tries to find a way to get into Rand's apartment, and there just so happens to be a delivery of fertilizer waiting.
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* ExtinctInTheFuture: The reason given for time travel being used to hunt dinosaurs is that all animal species are extinct by 2055. This is mentioned in only one scene and is never referenced again. [[VoodooShark It also raises many more questions than it solves.]]
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Middleton screams his head off when Past!Ryer tackles him, but is merely perplexed when he disappears.
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* ForgotAboutHisPowers: An important plot point is made early on that all the guns are linked to Ryer's, and they won't fire until he does. When his gun doesn't fire, putting everyone else's in jeopardy, he tells Jenny to take the shot... though her gun won't work.
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* PlotHole: If the time waves cause existing organisms to de-evolve (we know this because that one female character turns into a white lemur thing at the last wave), and all animals were extinct by 2055 then where did the originals come from?
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* PlotHole: If the time waves cause existing organisms to de-evolve (we know this because that one female character turns into a white lemur naked mole-rat thing at the last wave), and all animals were extinct by 2055 then where did the originals come from?
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** [[{{Whateversaurus}} Baboonasaurs]], that's where. Alternately "Baboonizards." There's also the flying "Batboonizards," and "miscellaneous underwater shark-eel-thing."
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** [[{{Whateversaurus}} Baboonasaurs]], that's where. Alternately "Baboonizards." There's also the flying "Batboonizards," "Batizards," and "miscellaneous underwater shark-eel-thing."
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* AbnormalAmmo: The protagonists use futuristic rifles that fire frozen water rounds (the sound, muzzle flash and the fact the rounds can break a concrete block implies they are some kind of [[MagneticWeapons rail gun]]) to hunt dinosaurs and eventually protect themselves as all hell breaks loose because of stepping on the ButterflyOfDoom. The fact that it's ice that will dissolve eventually technically takes care of a detail on the original story (that the hunting company actually dug through the remains of the ''T. Rex'' to take out the bullets and leave no evidence of their hunt behind that could disrupt history).
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* VoodooShark: Apparently the reason big-game hunters are so eager to go back in time to hunt dinosaurs is because... wait for it... ''all animals are extinct'' in 2055. This is mentioned in one scene and then never referenced again, and doesn't explain why people wouldn't be willing to pay to use time travel for more peaceful sightseeing purposes.
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* VoodooShark: Apparently the reason big-game hunters are so eager to go back in time to hunt dinosaurs is because... wait for it... ''all animals are extinct'' in 2055. This is mentioned in one scene and then never referenced again, and doesn't explain why people wouldn't be willing to pay to use time travel for more peaceful sightseeing purposes.purposes ... or to retrieve healthy animals from the past and repopulate the Earth with them, for that matter.
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* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: In the book the main dinosaur was a ''TyrannosaurusRex'', while here it's an ''Allosaurus''.
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** And we continue with the claim that lions are descended from Allosaurs. Congratulations.
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** And we continue with the claim that lions are descended from Allosaurs. Congratulations. Perhaps they meant "fill a similar ecological niche", but bungled it.
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* PlotHole: If the time waves cause existing organisms to de-evolve (we know this because that one female character turns into a white lemur thing at the last wave), and all animals were extinct by 2055 then where did the originals come from?
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''A Sound of Thunder'' is a 2005 sci-fi movie loosely based on the Creator/RayBradbury [[Literature/ASoundOfThunder story of the same name]].
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!!The movie contains examples of:
* AdaptationExpansion: Turning a short story into a feature film might be a good cause for the awfulness.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Where do we ''start''!
** [[{{Whateversaurus}} Baboonasaurs]], that's where. Alternately "Baboonizards." There's also the flying "Batboonizards," and "miscellaneous underwater shark-eel-thing."
** And we continue with the claim that lions are descended from Allosaurs. Congratulations.
** The claim that humans were "the last species to evolve." That's... nowhere NEAR how evolution works.
* CuttingCorners: The whole situation started because of a "perfect storm" of 1) somebody panicking and stepping off the path and 2) Haddon shutting down the time machine's bio-filter (which ''would'' have prevented this) in order to save money on electricity.
* DelayedRippleEffect: Taken to ridiculous extremes. Translucent blasts called ''timewaves'' come out of nowhere and start knocking people around. And each time they do more species become "devolved".
* DullSurprise: [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/A_Sound_of_Thunder_2005.aspx "Pierce Brosnan was originally slated to star. Unfortunately, he was replaced by a wooden marionette that looks a lot like Edward Burns."]] (It's a running gag on the recap seeing how his facial expressions are the same for most of the film.)
* SexyManInstantHarem: Ryer bangs a client.
* ShoutOut: Haddon kiss-assingly compares his clients to "[[FamousFamousFictional Columbus discovering America. Armstrong stepping on the moon. Brubaker landing on Mars]]". The latter is a reference to ''Film/CapricornOne'', Hyams' debut film, where Brubaker was the captain of a faked Mars landing.
* {{Tagline}}: "Evolve or die" and "Some rules should never be broken".
* VoodooShark: Apparently the reason big-game hunters are so eager to go back in time to hunt dinosaurs is because... wait for it... ''all animals are extinct'' in 2055. This is mentioned in one scene and then never referenced again, and doesn't explain why people wouldn't be willing to pay to use time travel for more peaceful sightseeing purposes.
** PlotHole: If the time waves cause existing organisms to de-evolve (we know this because that one female character turns into a white lemur thing at the last wave), and all animals were extinct by 2055 then where did the originals come from?
* YouGetWhatYouPayFor: The boss of the safari company shutting down a key component of the time machine to save power contributed to the catastrophe at hand.
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