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Film: The Butterfly Effect

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Excellent film.... I can't wait till this one gets out on DVD... I heard the DVD will have a different (darker) ending though... Either way, I can't wait to see it again! :D
 
REad this review by Michael Booth from the Denver Post. Its hilarious :p


Time traveling makes Ashton Kutcher's character dumb, dumber
Amy Smart and Ashton Kutcher star in 'The Butterfly Effect,' in which Kutcher's character learns time travel can have drawbacks.

"The Butterfly Effect" takes a unique approach to time travel: Each trip into the past makes Ashton Kutcher dumber.

Luckily, Kutcher's groundbreaking scientific technique for time travel is blissfully simple, so that no matter how dumb he gets, he and his bulletproof shaggy haircut can still escape the latest peril for yet more bonebrained time travel.

The technique is this, and please try to stay with me here: Kutcher looks at his diary, skwunches up his widdle eyeballs and thinks about the past weally, weally hard. The diary letters go all shaky and blurry, and suddenly he's a child again. I think his time machine is an Etch-a-Sketch, but I might have missed something.
The one interesting idea in "Butterfly Effect" is that Kutcher's character, Evan Treborn, goes back in time only to mess with the same three childhood memories over and over in an effort to improve his adult life. He's not swordfighting dinosaurs or playing backup for Elvis. But a dopey script personified by Kutcher's dopey, immutable hair style morphs "Rashomon" into "Dude, Where's My Karma?"
Employing some of the worst child actors since the last session of Congress, "Butterfly" recycles every blue-collar stereotype in the name of working-class authenticity. It then puts a vile spin on the class-ism by attributing everything from kiddie porn to dog mutilation to anyone with the audacity to live among the un-rich.

Forgoing time travel back to an era when 10-year-olds could act, "Butterfly" instead employs another promising psychological technique. When the screenwriters are confronted by the implausibility of their own words, they simply order Evan to black out. Little Evan makes a Cubist drawing of slaying his parents? Blackout! Scrawny Evan escapes prison rape by growing stigmata and convincing his cellmate he's Jesus? Blackout!

But you can't black out all of the people all of the time, so there are frequent spots where it becomes necessary to Etch-a-Sketch some dialogue. Little Tommy beats a teenager bloody with a bar stool and likes pulling heads off dolls, so his sister must observe, "Tommy's been acting real strange lately!" If only she'd thought to warn Evan's dog, who even as she speaks is becoming Fido flambé.

Failure to Warn might appear as a pattern to poor Evan if he weren't growing dimmer on every trip; at one point his mother dangles this sentence right before his bangs: "Just before your father was institutionalized, he ... oh forget it, it's not important."

Since the IQ-reducing time travel may have the same effect on the audience, plot summaries will prove a challenge. Yet we endeavour.

Evan's father is a psycho. We know this because he lives at a hospital called Sunnyvale, which, in Movie World, is where white trash go when their test scores aren't high enough for Bellevue.

After starring unwillingly in a kiddie smut movie directed by his friends' father, (Eric Stoltz), Evan and those friends do bad things. Blowing up a baby is bad, of course, but geez, the dog ... that's truly unforgivable.

Noble, hirsute Evan represses all this long enough to become a promising student at a university where awestruck professors declare he will "change how we humble scientists view memory association." Most of us would settle for changing how we associate that one frat kegger, but Evan is clearly special.

This is when the letters start shaking and Evan goes back to explore important questions, such as how exactly did that baby blow up, and why did his mom never cut his hair. We revisit that child-porn shoot often enough for us all to get arrested, and Evan gets to emote like a 12-year-old while swearing like a sailor.

Will Evan solve the crucial tangle of memories and germinate world peace? Will Evan's new skinhead pals in prison finally shave that tangle of follicles and germinate a new self-image? Believe me, you can sleep well without ever learning the answer.

The original theory of the butterfly effect was that a small movement somewhere in the world could eventually create chaos a hemisphere away. Here's to the theory that small movies instead dissipate somewhere in the larval stage.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
 
i've seen it!

i watched this amazing movie a few moments ago. outstanding, i must say. exactly my type of movie. i have to admit i had some serious doubts about this film, esp. w/ kutcher playing the leading role. eventually i got myself to watch it, and i will never regret doing so. kutcher wasn't so bad, and i wasn't reminded of the stupid stuff he usually does just once. if you liked cypher, or memento, watch this! a very philosophical film that might make you think.

-- spoilers ---

the flashs made me think about ketamine a bit ;) i have to say that i find such dramatic changes in different people to be a bit far fetched, but if you really think about it, the chains of cause come up with things that we'd never imagine. what really stood out was the end, when he had to give up the love of his life in order for everything to be alright. although she is not with him, he's certain that he wants to stay - and destroys his only way of going back. i have to admit that i would have preferred them to bump into each other at the end of the film --> fade to black.. maybe i'm a little cheesy ;) what i didn't think about the whole time (it just popped up in my head just now) was "that's not possible" (going back in time by reading) - imho a good sign that the movie really had me grabbed :)
 
I forgot to comment on this thread now that I've seen it. :)

I liked it, and I thought Ashton did a helluva better job than I was expecting. I liked the story idea, although some of the acting was shaky (the kids in particular). I was a little uneasy with the "young" Ashton calling people 'Fuckbag.'

I'm sure alot of people with they could go back in time and somehow change or undo something they've done, which is why I think so many could appreciate this movie. I wonder if the directors had casted another more experienced actor, say Leonardo DiCaprio would this have done better in the BO?
 
Watching it tonight...so did not really read the thread so I shall return with an unbiased opinion. Hoping that Ashton does something impressive as he has yet to impress me as an "actor"
 
Watched it a few days ago, coming down off some mushrooms. Good movie. Kind of strange though. Probably not quite as strange as I thought it was, because I was kind of mushroomy at the time... ;)
 
^^^since infinity mentioned that diassociative feeling one gets from watchin some scenes, i think i will definitely like this movie despite the iffy reviews (think: vanilla sky!)
 
Yeah i've seen it. As mentioned i was really surprised at Kutcher's *potential* acting abilities too.

Still, average movie i thought. Like it has its interesting moments because of the whole questioning the relativity of time and space in a way... but it was kinda like i generally left that movie going- what the fuck was that?

I was expecting one thing, got a hint of another, which spun me out a little and got me interested to a degree, but then of course as is usual for Hollywood, failed to do anything with that which was actually worth while...
 
the movie was really good, cept the story like was just about his g/f dies......that happens in like...half way thru the movie...there's alot more to it...and the theory...yes..it has a bit to do w/the butterfly effect...cause everything he went back to do...made a ripple in time...hence...the name...ashton..I dunno...I couldn't see him in a movie w/out a bit of comedy behind it...but..he did alright...
 
The first time i watched it i watched the directors version or whatever it is (alternate ending) and thought it was teh best movie. So then i watched the other ending and yes i would have to say the directors version is most definitly better. I do not cry in movies and i came close with this one hehe
 
I would seriously watch the theatrical version first and then watch the alternative ending. It makes the alternative ending even more powerful. Actually, I think I might watch this movie tonight again
 
This movie was....ok. Ashton, surprisingly, did a great job. I'm looking forward to seeing him in more movies. The movie, on the whole, was just a good fun watch. Nothing spectacular. There were some earth shattering ideas, but they were buried in a sea of cheese. Still fun, but not much more than that.... I saw the version with the alternate ending...
 
Film: Butterfly Effect

Thoughts on the movie Butterfly Effect?

i thought it was great but kind of scary. That one little evil boy was a bit trippy8o. but neways.. what did you think of the movie?
 
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