Film: The Butterfly Effect

[onetwothreefour]

^^^ oh come on, dude, where's my car? isn't exactly going to have everyone *raving* about his talents, is it?!

 

[Riot Grrrl]

^^ Plus he's dating Demi Moore. I don't see him as a serious actor either.

Enough said

 

[ll vapid ll]

i actually avoided watching it for awhile because i hate ashton kutcher and didnt think anything he was in could be worth my time. but i actually got into it and liked it for the most part. the acting could have been a little better on ashtons part but then again cant expect alot out of him, so i guess a different actor for the role maybe could have made it better?

 

[lostpunk5545]

This movie was sort of enjoyable and I liked the dark theme (nothing really goes right for him ).

Until of course the end. Which changed my whole opinion of the film. What a fucking waste of my time. A 3 year old could have written a better ending...

*Spoiler*

He went back in time and killed himself as a baby because of some wishy washy bullshit a 2 dollar fortune teller said about him having no soul.

And then of course after the film finished, and I was able to view it in the light of the ending, there were plenty of little things throughout the movie that when thought about again made absolutely no sense.

Fuck this movie...

Oh and I realise from reading this thread that there is some sort of directors cut with a different end, and...

Still not going to watch it again... Ever!

*Edit* Ok so some further research leads me to believe that the stupid ending I saw was the directors cut and not the theatrical version, and...

Still not going to watch this movie again... Ever!

 

[PlayBoy]

I watched it while tripping on Acid...I don't remember shit!

 

[Charlie Brown]

FUCKEN AWESOME MOVIE..ALLL I CAN SAY

 

[diegoblunt]

i enjoyed it, but it didnt really leave me satisfied .. these far fetched high-tech movies never seem to do leave me fulfilled.

 

[Dittohead]

Pretty decent movie, although I would have liked it alot better if it had ended with him in the mental hospital, and him coming to the understanding that his mind created the whole time travel thing. Because he felt guilty for killing the woman and baby.

 

[Neural Shock]

Quite a good movie. Better than I expected, with fewer plot holes than anticipated from time travel shlock. Something about the story reminds me of Donnie Darko but since the script was written before DD it's moot.

The biggest plot hole for me (the others can be waved away without gutting the plot) was why the inmate didn't change with the rest of the timeline after the stigmata trick. Kutcher - "Look, scars just appeared on my hands", Inmate (now altered after flashback) - "But they were always there. Piss off.". I don't think that plot point of gaining a believer was needed, and this way it could have been a way for Kutcher to learn that everyone else changes so tough shit. Much darker, and getting the journals on his own would have had more tension.

Time travel will always have paradoxical bullshit but the allure here is getting a second chance on decisions, and they sold that reasonably well.

I saw the director's cut BTW without any info on the hype or reviews or any other bollox. And I didn't know anything of Kutcher so I thought he was reasonably good. Yep, it's not too bad a movie. Flawed but engaging all the same.

 

[MissTwitch]

I thought it was great

 

[Riot Grrrl]

^^ May i ask why?

I wouldn't mind seeing this movie again. I saw it at a friends house and her kids kept blocking the TV and talking and my friend kept saying "i don't like this movie, i don't understand". I think we had to rewind it about 4 times cos the kids we're in the way

 

[for_sho]

I think everyone (before passing judgement) should watch the director's cut. There's one scene (***SPOILER***) where kutcher's character is in jail, and you see his cell door open and 2 inmates run in and grab him. The next scene he is mopping, slowly with his head down. They don't come out and say he got raped but it's pretty obvious.

Also, i'm confused, which ending was the theaterical ending and which the dvd? The dvd i watched had both endings.

sho

 

[deroxor]

the baby strangling one was the directors cut.. this is now one of my favorite movies... realy good movie

 

[Raz]

this movie had a lot of mistakes--like when evan told the creep dad to not harm his daughter anymore, and the daughter said don't ever touch me AGAIN. later on when they're older, she said her dad never touched her at all.

About that....she says that directly after Evan's character whispers something to her. I'm assuming that what he whispered was "Tell your dad never to touch you again". She didn't really have any idea what was going on, and if she just repeated ad verbatim what her friend told her to say, I don't think it matters whether the dad had done anything to her previously...she was basically reciting what she was told to recite.

This movie was WAY different than what I thought it would be...it was a hell of a lot darker, and nowhere near the cheesy C-grade scifi flick I thought it was going to be. I really enjoyed it, and I'm surprised they haven't made a series out of it to be honest...kind of a new-school Sliders or something.

I really liked it a lot--I would probably have been happy to watch another hour or so of it I liked it so much. And really, the only scene in the film that I really thought was a glaring error was the already mentioned Stigmata scene. Carlos wouldn't remember anything different about Evan's hands at all, because in that timeline Evan would always have had the scars. It wasn't enough to ruin my enjoyment, but as someone else said I don't think it was necessary for him to have a believer either...

 

[applesbliss]

Wow.

I saw it tonight without knowing what it would be about. For the first 20 minutes I was ready to shut it off, it just looking like either a kids movie or a boring horror B-movie. But I watched on through the whole flick.

I haven't seen a movie that made me think that deep in a long arse time! The story was told very well, and I enjoyed how there were many alternative sorts of path in the lead character's life.

It really made me think about my own life. I grew up in an abusive household, and so did a girl who I fell in love with as a teenager. Kind of makes me think about the different sort of variations that could have been. Having watched The Butterfly Effect with my wife was all the more interesting. Thinking about how life has changed so much from five years ago.

The girl who I loved as a teenager (Stephanie), there was one defining day when I was 16. I saw her get abused by her boyfriend and his friends, and that day I ended up getting with Stephanie's friend (Kathy), and it was also my first face to face experience with drug use. Stephanie's life went on to be really terrible (unhealthy drug abuse, physical abuse, several kids, trailer park, etc..). I often think back on what my life and her's would be like if I had done things differently. This was also a time when I was a very active poet. Sometimes if I read poetry from that time, I can almost 'go back' to that point in time (in daydreams, mind you ).

Perhaps this is a post that belongs more in Thoughts and Awareness, but as I mentioned, I really haven't had a movie which inspired me to think deep like this in such a long time. I love it. Great movie.

 

[AmorRoark]

Is anyone else annoyed to see that this film got the same rating as Napoleon Dynamite? We really should start using median instead of mean in our polls...

 

[dj.appeal]

one of ashton kutcher's best and very well written...the director's cut is a must see, forget the theatrical version, however it lost a star from my vote because i think a better soundtrack could've carried it farther...in hollywood you must have all integral pices for a perfect film and sound is so integral.

 

[mariacallas]

Hahahh I FINALLY saw this after all this time on VCD.
hmmm.....while I dont really care for Aston Kutcher and his gigantic adams apple sort of distracts me from time to time, I like this movie as a whole . It freaked me out a little bit. And so for that I give it 3 stars. Hey I read somewhere the Butterfly Effect isnt THAT far out of a concept....this whole concept of chaos theory really interests me a lot and maybe thats why I found this movie entertaining.

PS. When they glance at each other in a crowd at the end gave me HUGE goosebumps. Like it just totally explained why sometimes we are prone to dejavu or "maybe I've met you before" moments with certain people.

PPS. I was sober. :D

 

[xena]

despite my hatred for ashton, i enjoyed this movie. i liked all the plot twists and how everything kept changing. the whole idea is interesting too. how much of an impact could changing one event in time affect the lives of you and everyone around you? and would you do it? when would you stop trying to make it perfect?

 

[fengtau]

I gave it a 3 star. I am not sure why you guys hated Ashton, I think he is OK.