This weekend I watched A Sound of Thunder. The movie starts off with a group of people 65 million years ago, hunting a dinosaur. They can only kill the dinosaur because it is about to die from a volcanic explosion, they are only allowed to change past events to a certain degree. The weapons that they are using can only be shot if the leader shoots first, this a safety feature so the guests do not shoot anything they are not allowed to. They kill the dinosaur and go back to the present. This trip nothing out of the usual happens.
The next trip is not as normal. The weapons malfunctioned and the guests panicked. One of the guests steps on a butterfly and he brings it back to the present. The present starts to change. Prehistoric plants start to grow out of the cement, animals start to evolve back to what they would have been millions of years ago. The people in charge of the company, Time Safari, take away they technology so they can no longer go back in time. They have to get in contact with the person who designed the time machine, so they can make time right. They woman who designed the time machine tells them they have to find out what is different from their other visits. They find out that the weight of their group was .03 units greater than when they left, they decide that they need to go talk to the clients. On the way to the first client they come across some plants that inject a toxin into the body, the person who is injected is killed by the evolved animals. The first client says that he did not step off the path, he is telling the truth. They have to travel on foot to the other client and they are once again attacked by the animals. They get away alive, reach the man's apartments and find more of the same plants, the toxin attacks the nervous system and drives the person insane. The second client was injected with this toxin and starts shooting at them. The man ends up dying, they find the butterfly on his shoe. They go back to the lab to find it uninhabitable, they have to go to the nearby university where the prototype for the time machine is. They get there and send the leader back with a video of what happened so this sort of thing can never happen again. The leader gives the video to one of the female group members, then disappears. The woman gives the video to her leader, he watches it and goes to speak to the inventor of the time machine. It ends there and we have to come to our own conclusion. Is the company going to be shut down or will it continue on its dangerous mission? From what I have heard the movie is very different from the book. The book seems to focus on the political and language changes, the movie just focuses on the changes in the environment that never happened in the book. The theory for A Sound of Thunder is: if you change anything in the past it will have a significant impact on the future even if what you did seems to have nothing in common with what happened. I do not like this theory, is does not make sense to me. I like the idea of going back and changing something and then seeing the effect of what was done, for example let's say you go back in time and kill Hitler, what will happen to your present?
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