[quote name='RedvsBlue'][quote name='bmsdaddy'][quote name='karsh']It's not necessarily my most anticipated movie of 2005 (Either Revenge of the Sith or Batman Begins), but two movies that look damn interesting that haven't been mentioned are Sahara and A Sound of Thunder. Sahara is the first of the Dirk Pitt books by Clive Cussler to be translated into a movie, where Dirk Pitt is basically sorta like Bond if Bond liked the ocean and scuba diving, while A Sound of Thunder is based on a Ray Bradbury story about a group who goes back into the past to hunt dinosaurs, but because one member steps on a butterfly, the whole world in the future will be destroyed if they can't find a way to fix it.[/quote]
Actually, "Raise the Titanic" was the first (1980). Clive Cussler had at one time said he would not allow any more Dirk Pitt books made into movies because of how bad this one was messed up (and it was). That being said, thanks for mentioning "Sahara", I was not aware of this movie. I guess somebody must have left a bag of money for Cussler to change his mind. Hope this one is good. Check out some info on raise the titanic here:
http://www.stomptokyo.com/movies/raise-the-titanic.html[/quote]
I'm a huge Cussler fan and I hadn't heard about Sahara either until I saw the preview before Flight of the Phoenix. It was kind of funny cause the whole time during the preview I'm sitting there thinking "wow, they completely ripped off a Cussler novel for this" then I'm thinking "yep, this is almost exactly like Sahara, wow they just rip ideas off don't they?". Sure enough right after that I heard "based on the best selling novel Sahara by Clive Cussler" :shock:
It looks like it has some real potential but my only complaint is that Matthew McConaughey seems too young to play Dirk Pitt, but then again Sahara is one of his older novels so I suppose Dirk would be younger in it. Also I was just looking at the IMDB movie listing for Sahara and apparently Clive Cussler's daughter is going to be in it.[/quote]
After watching the preview a couple more times, I'm feeling a bit better about Matthew McConaughey as Dirk. I'm still holding judgement on how good he is as far as kicking ass like Pitt would. Though he definitely has the sense of humor down. The casting call I'm still worried about is Steve Zahn as Al. He just doesn't fit the role I see as Al. I'm not sure who I would see as Al, but it's not Zahn. I still say this movie would have been awesome if the original actor got the role of Dirk, which was Hugh Jackman.
