The movie is Something Wicked This Way Comes.
The book is also a classic that deserves a read if you haven’t. Heck, pretty much any Bradbury book for that matter.
I don’t understand why there have been so few Bradbury movies made.
Especially given his love for movies. I got to see him speak and he talked about how he and his childhood friends used to make stop motion movies in their garage, and how much that influenced his choice of career. He said the secret to happiness as an adult was to find a career as close to the activities you used to do for fun as a child.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ray-bradburys-uneasy-rela_b_6102430
And so few good ones…
Ugh. Personal memory unlocked.
Years ago, when I was teaching English Lit, I was doing a whole short fiction unit on Bradbury. A terrible, TERRIBLE adaptation of “A Sound of Thunder” had just been dumped on DVD. I hadn’t watched it, but I used to screen films for my classes after teaching the texts they were adapted from. 9 times out of 10, the films were garbage, but it was an interesting way to study adaptation.
So I grabbed the dvd. And watched it for the first time alongside my students and had to physically hold in my anger. Guys, it’s that bad.
The best part was reading my students’ papers on the adaptation, which were mostly on the lines of “why is this a thing that exists” and “how can cgi dinosaurs look this bad” and “this movie has baboonlizards, why does this story need baboonlizards” and so on.
Of course, being a classroom, there was still the requisite one or two responses of “I liked the movie better than the story because it was a movie and I didn’t have to read.”
But yeah, don’t watch “A Sound of Thunder.” And if you do, go back in time and prevent yourself from doing it. It’s that important.
“Predestination.” Underrated time travel movie, based on a story by Robert Heinlein.
Palate cleanser.
Something wicked goes down the memory hole.
I feel like if Disney was smart they would embrace this. I remember loving this movie when I was 11 or 12.
Nah they are in the unicorn and rainbow buissnes now . Also there are no villains everyone is just misunderstood
I remember the act of watching this several times as a kid, but I remember almost nothing about it. It did leave me with a bizarre, almost context-free association of lightning rods with grifters and the occult, however. I think I’d actually miss that feeling if I saw the movie again or even looked up the full plot.
I feel like if Disney was smart
We all know that Disney is as dumb as a box of hair.
Thanks for sharing!
