The Butterfly Effect

Just watched it the other night.
I really like the idea and to be honest the film too.
Although gaping plot holes are annoying it didnt distract from my enjoyment.

What did was the p**s poor effort of a dvd we get in the UK.
Only the directors cut? I never saw it at the cinema, it would have been nice if they could have included both cuts on the dvd like the US version.

For me the baby ending is pure ****! But films of this nature always have difficulty delivering a suitable ending.

What I don't get:

1. Did his dad time travel and ruin his brain like evan was doing?
2. Were the other babies products of themselves time travelling? Or his Dad maybe?
3. The doc says evans brain was bursting and he was not looking good, so how does the cinema ending hold up? Being OK again at the end?

This movie was weird because Ashton finally played a serious role, it was great. I think it just finally came to show him that he doesn't have to be ditzy Kelso anymore. If his first serious role would've been a bomb it would've been awful, but I liked this movie, it was great. 😉

OMG!!!!!!!!!! I bought the american DVD which has both endings but the DVD that came to New Zealand only contains the directors cut! why would they do that! all my friends are seeing the wrong endings!!!!!!!! why would they only show the shit ending!!! 😠

Here's the theatrical ending:

Spoiler:
Evan goes back in time to when he first met Kayley at a party when he was seven. He says to her "I hate you and if you ever come near me again I'll kill you and your whole damn family!" upset, Kayley runs off to her mother. When Evan returns to the present he finds out he is roomates with a normal Lenny and that everybody is normal and nice. Kayleigh is alive and Tommy is nice and they both grew up not knowing who Evan was. When Evan gets older he moves to New York and walks by Kayley. The both stop in thier tracks and Kayley turns round but Evan doesn't, she walks off and so does Evan.

Evan did have brothers and sisters who could time-travel.
His father didn't end up in a mental hospital because of brain damage,
he probably just went crazy from the horrible things he saw when he screwed things up so doctors through him into a mental instiute.
I'm pretty sure he could time travel a lot more without his brain exploding, but it would cause him a bit of damage.

I can't beileve they left out the theatrical ending on the NZ DVD, when I talk to my friends they told me they only saw the directer's cut! and I say 'No! that's not the right ending!'

Hold on............my Aunty was telling me that she saw it and she told me the theatrical ending.......so maybe they released two DVD's.............or just everybody I know flips the disc the wrong way and watches the directors cut ending.

OK so i once rented butterfly effect i liked it and at the end

Spoiler:
ahston kutcher, goes back in time when he was about 5 years old, and told the girl that he hated her, and other mean things, so the girl moved away with her mom and had a new life and so did ashton

Spoiler:
the movie was the same tho' the end was REALLY differebt, ashton kutcher went back in time till he was a fetud and strangled himself

the two movies have the same cover same name everything but they have diff ends... weird.... 🤪

You watched the Director's Cut side of the DVD. The original theatrical release was on the other.

Yeah, but that's the american DVD. I bought that off Amazon awhile ago so I have both endings 😄

Theatrical is the best by far.

Originally posted by Morbid4Daniel
I cant wait either, Ashton Kutcher is hot, and a wonderful actor. But its also gonna be a big change for me, and im sure as well for him, because im actually seeing him in a serious movie..lol, its gonna be quite wierd, but a wonderful movie.
I like on viva la bam when don vito goes "Im gonna stick ashton koosher on your butt!!" "Bam goes haahahah ashton koosher!!"

Cant believe I made that post....

I never was fond of this science theory.

I killed a butterfly when I was five, where's the extinction of all things airborn?

Holy ridiuclous plotholes batman!

The reason I put off this film for so long was Ashton Kutcher in the lead role. I thought that watching him in a dramatic role would be funnier than watching one of his comedies. But Kutcher is actually watchable in this film and delivers all that is required for the role (which, granted, isn't really a helluva lot). Kutcher suprised me... I enjoyed him much more in this film than I have in any other... usually I just find him in his comedies arrogant and unfunny.

Though, the film itself I'd like to have liked much more. It was boring. It felt long and drawn out. I think part of my dislike for it comes from there being too many mixed genres... there was thriller, drama, romance, comedy. And during the dramatic and romantic scenes I was just thinking "come on, will someone kill somebody already?!". And the plothloes...! If the film is based upon the theory that something as insignificant as the flutter of a butterfly's wing can change the future in drastic ways, then why does Ashton impaling his hands with spikes in a room full of school kids not have any affect on the future (present, whatever) other than scars on his hands? And by this theory when he changes something shouldn't it be as if the previous reality never existed? So then his prison mate would have seen the scars on his hands the moment he arrived at the prison...

And the DC ending was icky. Really icky.

The movie is really more of an exploration of character (and only the main charactrers of the film) rather than time travel. And the latter interests me more. But it just felt too jumbled and messy. It should have stuck to one genre... And my guess would be that it would work best as either a thriller or a comedy...

Bleh.

My rating: 5.5/10

Something interesting about this film is that on RottenTomatoes the critics gave it 34% and the users 80%. That's quite a difference. And I think the reasoning behind that is that people (especially internet movie geek people) think anything that is even remotely clever in plot is brilliance... Which is so not the case, especially here.

Originally posted by DeVi| D0do
And the plothloes...! If the film is based upon the theory that something as insignificant as the flutter of a butterfly's wing can change the future in drastic ways, then why does Ashton impaling his hands with spikes in a room full of school kids not have any affect on the future (present, whatever) other than scars on his hands? And by this theory when he changes something shouldn't it be as if the previous reality never existed? So then his prison mate would have seen the scars on his hands the moment he arrived at the prison...

Agreed, that was the major plothole in the movie. If he went back and impaled his hands, his cellmate would have went, "What? Those scars? What about them?"

However, a butterfly flaps its wings ultimately leads to a tsunami on the other side of the world. Something so insignificant leading to something so huge as that takes millions of years. What could have changed? So Evan missed a day of school. His mother missed a day of work. If there were any effects that we see in such a short period, they just weren't visible from inside the prison.

For example:
Evan impaled his hands.
Evan is taken to the emergency room.
The doctor could have gone home early if it hadn't been for Evan's incident.
The doctor avoided a car accident he would've been in had he been able to go home.

See, that could have happened but we don't know because Evan is in prison. And for such a short time until he changes something drastic.

Well, yeah, I see what you're saying... and that's probably the logic the writers used as well. But I still don't agree with it... It should have had a much larger affect on Evan and the world (on a smaller scale of course).

Evan missing a day (or most likely days) of school should have enormous effects. Everything that brought him up to the point where he was in prison in the previous reality would have been delayed for him, and therefore, even if he did wind up in prison somehow in this new reality it should be under very different circumstances...

I agree that these kinds of films invite plotholes, but I just think that if you're going to call a film 'The Butterfly Effect' it should obey the laws of said theory... And even the smallest change should have drastic consequences on the future (present).

I saw that movie and I didn't like it, in spite of the fact that Ashton played the leading role.

i just liked the movie mystery and torture always a good mix like saw and i want to see saw 2 😄 they remind me of donnie darko lol.