This is one of the movies you just have to see for how bad it is. It is incredibly bad in every way, and the fact that it is not an "amateur" flick just adds to the awesome badness of it all.
This film is based on a classic short story by Ray Bradbury. This story is expanded here to make the plot "more exciting," I guess. Howvever, while the original story is an ingenious play on the idea of "the butterfly effect" (how seemingly unimportant events can produce impetuous effects in due time), the movie is one of the greatest shows of ignorance of scientific fact (and movie-making, to a lesser extent). At first it seems kosher, to explode in a feat of idiocy and take you on, laughing, till the end (? - of course). It's like a remake of a bad sci-fi movie from the fifties, but done in earnest. The casting choices are fine, I think, and the cinematography is OK, as well as the sfx - I don't know why so many people are dishing them, they're just nothing special. However, the script itself and the handling of it beg the question, and the question is - did you actually READ what you have written? The causal structure of the plot is insanely stupid, and the cliffhanger connections between plot element and setting are ludicrous.
Please get drunk before you watch this one and do not plan make it the highlight of your evening. It is a disgrace that great sci-fi literature (in this case, great for its plot, not really great in a literary way) is given such a bad treatment in some recent adaptations. This move is one of the glaring examples.
This film is based on a classic short story by Ray Bradbury. This story is expanded here to make the plot "more exciting," I guess. Howvever, while the original story is an ingenious play on the idea of "the butterfly effect" (how seemingly unimportant events can produce impetuous effects in due time), the movie is one of the greatest shows of ignorance of scientific fact (and movie-making, to a lesser extent). At first it seems kosher, to explode in a feat of idiocy and take you on, laughing, till the end (? - of course). It's like a remake of a bad sci-fi movie from the fifties, but done in earnest. The casting choices are fine, I think, and the cinematography is OK, as well as the sfx - I don't know why so many people are dishing them, they're just nothing special. However, the script itself and the handling of it beg the question, and the question is - did you actually READ what you have written? The causal structure of the plot is insanely stupid, and the cliffhanger connections between plot element and setting are ludicrous.
Please get drunk before you watch this one and do not plan make it the highlight of your evening. It is a disgrace that great sci-fi literature (in this case, great for its plot, not really great in a literary way) is given such a bad treatment in some recent adaptations. This move is one of the glaring examples.