Envy me. I am about to catch a sneak preview of “A Sound of Thunder”

This Wednesday, I am going with one of my RL friends to see a preview of “A Sound of Thunder ”, at Arundel Mills mall, biggest temple to capitalism I have ever seen. I won free tickets. Had he declined to go, or if I had more than one set of tickets, I would have offered it to a MAD area doper, but I do not, so ah well.

It is based on a story by Ray Bradbury, and hopefully, it will not turn out so badly, unlike most movie adaptations.
P.S.S. Anyone ever see the animation version of “The Halloween tree” ?

P.S. Sorry for stealing your thread title, Evil Captor.

Pity you is more like it, unfortunately. From what I’ve seen and heard so far, the movie has very little in common with the Bradbury story, has subpar special effects, and a trite and cliche script. It was supposed to have come out some time last year, I think, but the release date kept getting pushed back time and again, which is rarely a good sign. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you, but I would caution you to not get your hopes up too high…

I reluctantly must agree. It’s a great short story but will almost surely be Hollywoodized, i.e. ruined. I’d love to be proven wrong, though, so let us know how it is!

Yeah… I’ll have a hard time enjoying this, especially with that Simpsons episode rattling round in my brain. In fact, whenever anyone mentions A Sound of Thunder, and they are unsure about its premise, I mostly find myself explaining “It’s just like that Simpsons episode where Homer has a time machine, only…y’know… worse”

I like the short story, but the preview looks pretty bad, not to mention stupid.

Maybe this will encourage them to do a ood job on “A Gun for Dinosaur”, if they ever get around to it.

Well, others may not envy you, but I do. The opportunity to see a major science fiction movie for free, and see it before any of my friends have seen it? Priceless.

Steal my thread title, will you, you whippesnapper? Well, it just so happens I’ve see the movie a half a dozen times, and I was PAID to do it by hot strippers!!

(OK, that was a lie. I duly envy Scott.)