The Butterfly Effect

Started by stinkfist46213 pages

yeah .. but its all about a girl .. jus like every damn movie .... except a few .. and those few rule !

Yeah, but every movie needs a love part to it,and i mean, that is just how it goes....i like them kinda movies...they are great,they make me cry...i like movies like that

i dont .. they make me sick .. why cant they jus have it with no love ... then it would be great .. and by no love i mean .... i mean not all about a girl

The movie was awesome (other than a few parts that didn't make sense).

the movie is awesome .. some parts were really confusing like

Spoiler:
when he blacks out ... then he ifnds out he can go back and he is actually liveing out his blackouts
... now that was confusing

Originally posted by stinkfist462
the movie is awesome .. some parts were really confusing like
Spoiler:
when he blacks out ... then he ifnds out he can go back and he is actually liveing out his blackouts
... now that was confusing

Those parts weren't confusing to me.

Spoiler:
He can live out memories other than his blackouts, not just what he has in his journals. What was confusing was the things that he changed. Like the part with the knife and his father were changed before he went back, yet nothing else was changed.

recently on spike tv, i saw a show where a lady was interviewing ashton and amy. from what ashton said, sounded like he wrote or co-wrote the script. is this true?

Originally posted by The Unknown
Those parts weren't confusing to me.
Spoiler:
He can live out memories other than his blackouts, not just what he has in his journals. What was confusing was the things that he changed. Like the part with the knife and his father were changed before he went back, yet nothing else was changed.

yes that was confusing to

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i jus wanted to see mroe boobies .. lol ... the funniest part was when her toes go numb after she has an orgasm ... im still laughing at that ...... why did i hide this up ??

oh god tho i saw it ans its awsome!!! but beware there are naked chicks in it and tons of swearing ..(if your under age) but it is a awsome movie and plus the kid who plays Ashton at the age 13 is very hott!!

Originally posted by The Unknown
Those parts weren't confusing to me.
Spoiler:
He can live out memories other than his blackouts, not just what he has in his journals. What was confusing was the things that he changed. Like the part with the knife and his father were changed before he went back, yet nothing else was changed.

Actually...

Spoiler:
he can live out the blackouts too, that's how he figured out that it wasn't a dream. When Lenny told him about what happened during his blackout when Tommy set the dog on fire. He quoted from that incident when Evan "dreamed" it. Also, with the knife, the reason he didn't know why he had the knife is because the future (our present) him was trying to destroy the firecracker.
I hope that made sense.

I have yet to see the movie because I think that Ashton is a major goober... is the movie good enough that I can forget about that and actually enjoy the story?

Originally posted by Melani
oh god tho i saw it ans its awsome!!! but beware there are naked chicks in it and tons of swearing ..(if your under age) but it is a awsome movie and plus the kid who plays Ashton at the age 13 is very hott!!

I totally agree drool

Originally posted by Wolfie
Actually...
Spoiler:
he can live out the blackouts too, that's how he figured out that it wasn't a dream. When Lenny told him about what happened during his blackout when Tommy set the dog on fire. He quoted from that incident when Evan "dreamed" it. Also, with the knife, the reason he didn't know why he had the knife is because the future (our present) him was trying to destroy the firecracker.
I hope that made sense.

Yeah, I know why he went back with the knife, but it didn't make sense because that was changed, yet nothing else was.

i saw it last night.

IT IS SO GOOD!

i totally loved it. really, really amazing. i'm not a fan of major swearing and nudity, but in a way it adds some realism to the movie. 'cause... well, i don't need to explain it. 😛 people swear. people get naked. *shrugs* although it was slightly disturbing... not for guys i guess, but i didn't like it all that much.

great movie nevertheless, Ashton did a SUPERB job. 😄 😄 😄 and the kid actors were really great too. 😄

Just a bump to remind everyone that "The Butterfly Effect" was released on DVD today. I would have posted this in the DVD Forum, but I figured it would get better exposure here.

The DVD itself is absolutely loaded, being an Infinifilm. When I say loaded, I mean LOADED. Commentaries, deleted scenes, "pop up" interactives during the movie, FOUR alternate endings, and best of all, it includes BOTH the theatrical version AND the Director's Cut of the film, with an additional 6 minutes.

As for the Director's Cut, this is basically what was added:

Spoiler:

There is a segment where teenage Evan stumbles upon his fathers case file, which shows that he, too, suffered from the same blackouts as Evan did. While Evan kept a journal, his father kept a photo album.

The other addition ties into the alternate ending of the Director's Cut. Evan and his mother visit a palm reader after the dinner segment. The palm reader informs Evan that he has no lifeline (the fold in your hand near your thumb?), and that he was never meant to be born. His mother explains that she had a couple of stillbirths before Evan.

Now, the ending. Evan crawls underneath the doctors chair and begins watching a home video of his mother being rushed through a the hospital, to give birth to Evan. True to what the palm reader said, Evan wasn't born in this alternate reality! The movie is all about how Kayleigh and her brother ended up actually moving back in with their mother, and in the end, Kayleigh getting married. In the theatrical version, Evan and Kayleigh met at the party, where Evan told her to stay away, thus never meeting her. This time, however, he was never even born. Crazy, crazy ending.

The other 2 alternate endings, in the deleted scenes, are basically the "corporate" versions of Evan and Kayleigh, as they pass each other outside. One, Evan truns and follows her, then fades to black. The other, they actually speak, and go out for coffee, which is weird for 2 people that never met.

So, if you haven't already seen the film, I encourage you to do so. It's very underappreciated, IMO, and don't let Ashton's name fool you. This is his crowning achievement.

My mom rented it, I didn't bother watching it. She said the premise was dumb, but the movie wasn't too bad.

I might rent it tomorrow im a big fan of ashton 😉

Im going to buy it tomorrow, I really liked this movie.

the premise of the film was a fine idea for a movie, a bit common, but it lacked depth. It felt like the movie diddnt believe itself to be as riisk It is enjoyable for what it is, but a failure for not being what it could have been

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
It felt like the movie diddnt believe itself to be as riisk taking as it could have been

Examples?

I thought it exploited the most extreme of circumstances with every fluctuation in time.