A Sound of Thunder

blamanj writes "One of the great sci-fi short stories, Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder is scheduled to be released on film next month. Links to the trailers (QT, Real, WMP) can be found here. The original story prefigured chaos theory in its 'small changes, large effects' premise. Indeed, when I first heard the term 'butterfly theory,' I assumed it was based on Bradbury's story. Unlike the original, however, the film won't be touching on dystopian politics, but appears to have been turned into a 'Jurassic Park'-style creature feature. Sigh. Oh, well, we can hope that the new Fahrenheit 451 will be treated with a bit more respect."

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Re:Respect? From whom?

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Great, now a title like this rings the bell of M. Moore instead of R. Bradbury. Great indeed.

It's like when I saw in a DVD review of TRON that it was the Matrix of the eighties. I shouldn't comment on this further.

I just guess today's bright minds can't take the burden of even just 10-20 years of cultural heritage. Let alone history.