Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:26:27 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] A Sound of Thunder (the movie)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Recall this bomb of a movie arriving and going away?

A recent review by past Disclave GoH Lucius Shepard:

"There are some movies men are not meant to see. Movies so poorly
mounted, so crudely edited, so ineptly acted, so devoid of entertainment
value that even studio executives, men and women accustomed to grinning
through the most hideous excrescences of the motion picture industry,
turn pale and tremble on being exposed to them, and subsequently hide
them away in some cobwebbed corner of a film vault, never again to be
touched by human hands . . . unless, that is, they have made an output
deal with the production company that obligates them to give said movie
a release. Then they will release it, but just barely, just widely
enough to satisfy the contractual minimum and with scarcely a whisper of
publicity, slotting the picture into a handful of out-of-the-way
theatres, many located in godforsaken suburbs surrounded by cornfields
hung out in by one-eyed crows who quote Garner Ted Armstrong and
landfills that can only be reached by taking the 666 bus, the one whose
driver's eyes bleed continually, to the end of the line, to an ancient
deserted multiplex in an ancient deserted mall, where the cashier speaks
Latin backwards and the teenage ushers bear pentagrams sketched in acne
blemishes on their foreheads. Only they who sport this mark can endure
the evil power of such a movie . . . a movie like Peter Hyam's A Sound
of Thunder, which is a grossly mutated take on the Ray Bradbury story of
the same name.

The rest is here:
http://www.electricstory.com/reviews/review.aspx?title=new/soundofthunder

mjw