What was that movie?

[John Dlugosz]

Speaking of time travel...

I recall a time-travel movie advertised a while back, that reminded me of a classic story: they go back in time, have to stay on the path, but someone kills a butterfly.

I don't recall what it was called, but I guess it wasn't great if it didn't stay in theaters long. But I want to check it out now, in the DVD bargain bin if I can find it.

--John

[skrap1r0n]

your thinking of the Butterfly effect I believe.

No one killed a butterfly. It was an OK movie. Personally, along a similar vein, I think The Jacket was better.

Both movies use a "Somewhere in Time" concept behing the time travel.

[pumpkinpie]

No, I believe the story was called "A Sound of Thunder." (author escaping me right now, I'm sure someone knows.) I was excited when "The Butterfly Effect" came out because I thought it would be based on that story, but it wasn't. (I wasn't disappointed in the movie, though.)

"A Sound of Thunder" is being made into a movie, last I heard was out this fall.

[Lycus]

No, I believe the story was called "A Sound of Thunder." (author escaping me right now, I'm sure someone knows.)

Ray Bradbury

[John Dlugosz]

your thinking of the Butterfly effect I believe.

No, that is not it.

[John Dlugosz]

No, I believe the story was called "A Sound of Thunder."

Searching on Amazon, "A Sound of Thunder opens nationwide on September 2, 2005." I guess that's why I never saw it. So was showing one commercial trailer a year beforehand just to see if anyone cares?

[Inferno]

Wasn't there also a Twilight Zone episode that used this as its premise? Or at least I know there was a Simpsons halloween episode that did a take off of the twilight zone using this premise!

[hippietrekx]

Wasn't there also a Twilight Zone episode that used this as its premise? Or at least I know there was a Simpsons halloween episode that did a take off of the twilight zone using this premise!

"Oh, I wish, I wish I hadn't sat on that fish." --Homer Simpson

My all time favorite episode.

--hippie

[Van Rijn]

It was done in the short lived "Ray Bradbury Theater" show and they also did a story based on it on the Simpsons. And I knew that before I looked it up, but see here for details:

http://www.answers.com/topic/a-sound-of-thunder

The "Butterfly Effect" movie was really based on the same idea, but is named after the phrase popularized with "Chaos theory" - that small changes in starting conditions in chaotic systems (such as in weather) can have large effects.