Anyone else besides me go see this stinkeroo? Judging by the box office (17th place), probably not. Oy! The CGI in Tron was better. Starting from the Land Of The Lost dino at the beginning, to the cartoon backgrounds in the city scenes, this thing blew.
What the heck is up with time-waves? I’m sorry but a change in the past wouldn’t cause changes suddenly 5 million years later, but immediate changes. You wouldn’t recognize the change unless you were the traveller.
Why shoot at the giant bats only until one is close enough to reach into your car?
Why are all cars in the future the exact same model? And speed, for that matter?
The premise was cool; I love time travel in theory. But man, if you are going to spend $80 million on a movie, how about spending it on something other than the catering?
And if you’re going to spend $80 million to adapt a Ray Bradbury story, maybe choose one that hasn’t already been parodied on the Simpsons.
BTW: didn’t see the movie, and don’t have any desire to. I knew it was going to suck when the release was delayed for over a year. That usually means big trouble.
The trailor looked like it was going to suck, and almost every review I’ve seen confirms that. Though strangely, one for a SF paper liked the movie. I wonder what he was smoking and where I could get some.
The people you expect will die, die; the people you expect will live, live. But thanks to the magic of time travel, they fixed everything and lived happily ever after.
I didn’t think it was horrible, but it sure wasn’t anything special. Nothing in the movie made it remarkable in any way. I’d give it a C-.
It ended by having the story contradict one of the rules of time travel it had set up as the initial premise of the movie:
TimeSafari (or whatever the name of the company was) offered a time travel trip to rich folks to go back in time and kill a dinosaur. Thing was they always went back to the same place at the exact same time so they would always kill the same dinosaur who was about to fall into a tar pit and die right before they got there anyway. That way they wouldn’t be disturbing anything in the timestream. Each time they went back they would go back to five minutes before a volcano would erupt. And everytime they went back they’d be in the exact same situation. BUT once they figure out that someone stepped on a butterfly and time/evolution had changed, they decided to send Ed Burns back in time to warn himself at the time of the hunting expedition in question. Now then, if he could go back in time to warn himself, why didn’t any other hunting expedition run into a previous (future?) hunting expedition, being as they all went to the same place at the same time?
Don’t get me wrong, though. This was a BAD movie, but we had a ball watching it. Two of my friends, my girlfriend, and I just groaned and whispered criticisms to each other (not loud enough for the other thre people in the theatre to hear, of course…we are considerate.) I do recommend this as a rental for a large group to MST3K the hell out of.
Ah yes, Mick LaSalle. Whenever there appears to be a glimmer of hope that he’s slightly less of an idiot than before, he pulls through with a real doozy.
Sadly it sounds like they mixed in L Sprague Du Camp’s very entertaining short story “A Gun For Dinosaur.” Pity, crap like that’ll stop it getting made into a movie one of these days.
