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Hubby and I watched the above movie on Wednesday night at GSC Midvalley. Though I really wouldn’t dignify it with the term ‘movie’.

Why did we choose it, then? Well, we were at Midvalley on Tuesday evening, and since there weren’t many new shows to watch, we decided to watch this one cause the poster looked interesting. We managed to get really good seats, furthermore, the show was being shown in cinema #12…the big one! So I was quite excited…it has been some time since we went for a movie, and this one looked like a good action/thriller (contrary to what you may think, there are girls that like action movies, yah!), and we get to leave work early cause it was our take-a-break day (we get to leave 1 hour earlier than usual!).

Well, the first sign that it was going to be a sucky movie was the review I read in Star Online on Wednesday morning. But since I was in a particularly optimistic mood, I decided to ignore the review…I mean, it’s usually based on personal opinions, right? (And so is this post, by the way…).

The second sign that we shouldn’t have gone for the movie was the massive jam from the office all the way to Midvalley (well, I took it as a sign)…but still we presevered.

Of course, we arrived late, plus we had to ta-pau dinner to sneak into the cinema (hubby bought 1901 hot dogs, I bought the crispy popiah…love ‘em!). Third sign that I should’ve just gone straight home was me feeling extremely nauseous due to the start-stop motion of the car during the jam, compounded by hunger pangs. But nooooo..I sat my butt down on seat E12…just in time to see Sir Ben Kingsley looking very very tanned in a orangey sorta way, with a god-awful hair-do. Hmm…sign #4??

Well, to cut a long story short…it totally sucked. It couldn’t have sucked any better. It was the king and queen of sucky shows. Everything mentioned in the Star Online review?

“The bad effects are immediately obvious in the opening moments when an allosaurus knocks over some pretty stiff-looking trees and menaces a group of time-travellers.” (It literally looked like those amusement park rides where you sit in a moving boat or mine barrow or something and the fake trees fake-fall on you…) - CHECK.

“It doesnâ??Ã?ôt get any better when the scene shifts to the present and actors are plonked into the foreground of poorly executed futuristic street scenes.” (Even fake studio backgrounds for wedding photos look more real) - CHECK.

“Stupid Question #1: If they keep returning to the same point in time, wouldnâ??Ã?ôt they encounter the previous hunters who were there? The fact that this doesnâ??Ã?ôt happen makes the ending kind of absurd.” (Loopholes galore…) - CHECK.

“Stupid Question #2: If the whole area is about to become a red-hot lava bed, whatâ??Ã?ôs the big deal about not killing anything else in the vicinity?” (More loopholes…) - CHECK.

(SPOILER AHEAD…but then again, if you’re smarter than us…you probably wouldn’t watch this movie anyways…)
“If youâ??Ã?ôve already watched the trailer, then you know the dopey hunter stepped on a butterfly â??Ã?ì so much for the whole â??Ã?úbig mysteryâ??Ã?ù subplot of the movie.” (The butterfly looked weird…and hubby brought up a good point…if the volcano was going to explode anyways, and kill everything in sight, why would killing the butterfly change anything? Oh wait…unless the butterfly wasn’t killed in the hot spot that it was suppose to die in…*smacks head*) - CHECK.

“Along the way, they do stupid things like step on unknown foliage, fail to put on their seatbelts and venture into flooded sewers where giant undulating things dwell.” (Ah…the usual Hollywood ploy to kill off one character at a time…) - CHECK.

So there you have it…the recipe for the worst movie in the year. No…wait…make that probably the worst movie I’ve ever watched. Ever.

And the title! What sound of thunder? Where? Why “A” sound of thunder? Why just one sound of thunder? Why not more? Why didn’t lightning just strike down the producer and director of this show for actually daring to make it in the first place?!?