Well, that was a waste of two dollars.
Yesterday was Trip To The Video Store night. We rented four, and last night we watched A Sound of Thunder, very loosely (key word: loosely) based on Ray Bradbury's short story of the same name. It started out with promise-- as in, the first ten minutes were good aside from some questionable acting by a few bit characters-- but after that it went waaaay downhill. Fast. I mean, this fucker snowballed like an unfortunate alpine vacationer with bad motor control. We're talking the works, here: bad plot, poor pacing, cringe-worthy acting, lame dialogue, insipid special effects, shoddy soundtrack. I mean, even the lighting and camera work sucked. This film had literally nothing going for it-- even the science was vastly incorrect, and the entire concept of the original story was twisted backward and flipped inside out.
The charm and draw of Bradbury's works lies in its subtlety, and this film ran roughshod all over "subtle" with a lawn mower and covered it in the fertilizer of blatancy from which to grow a loud, colorful, poorly-rendered stinkweed of failure.
Yes, I'm spewing vitriolic rage all over a bad summer blockbuster that didn't really do anything to deserve it other than suck. But damn it, Bradbury is one of my chief literary heroes and he would be fucking disappointed, and that depresses me.
At least I got to see ~Nina~, the cute video store girl who has pinstriped pants and kind of smiles like Jessica Alba. (I don't particularly like Jessican Alba, but her smile looks pretty damn cute on video store workers, apparently.)
The charm and draw of Bradbury's works lies in its subtlety, and this film ran roughshod all over "subtle" with a lawn mower and covered it in the fertilizer of blatancy from which to grow a loud, colorful, poorly-rendered stinkweed of failure.
Yes, I'm spewing vitriolic rage all over a bad summer blockbuster that didn't really do anything to deserve it other than suck. But damn it, Bradbury is one of my chief literary heroes and he would be fucking disappointed, and that depresses me.
At least I got to see ~Nina~, the cute video store girl who has pinstriped pants and kind of smiles like Jessica Alba. (I don't particularly like Jessican Alba, but her smile looks pretty damn cute on video store workers, apparently.)