Butterfly Effect (spoilers)

[The Grumpy Celt]

Spoilers below - you no like spoilers, you go somewhere else.

It was a pretty good movie. A fairly good science fiction flick actually, considering the budget. Ashton is better than people want to believe, seeing as everyone in the universe (but Demi) hates him for sleeping with Demi.

Some have complained about the time travel changes only altering the lives of Evan and his friends. Well, A - the movie has a personal focus. B- None of the changes are likely to alter America in any substantial way in any event.

Ethan Suplee - who appeared in "Mallrats" as the guy who could not see the boat and in "Chasing Amy" as the guy who gushes at the convention - does a good turn as a super-sized Goth. Pitty he did not appear in the movie more, he was more interesting an actor and character than Evan's often catatonic friend.

One puzzle was at the end, where Evan see's Amy Smart's character, but walks away. At that point he could have approached her with out the time stream breaking, yet he walks away and no explanation is given.

Hopefully, if and when it comes out on DVD, there will be a few more scene with Suplee and something about Evan's decision to walk away.

I give it a thumbs up.

 

[Mog Elffoe]

I just saw it today. I enjoyed it. It certainly didn't deserve the critical dubbing it received.

I thought it was pretty clear why Evan avoided Kayleigh at the end--it was the same reason he went back to when they first met and drove her away--he knew that he was no good for her and that she was just plain better off without him in her life.

 

[KChagga]

Yep, I thought that this was a pretty good movie. I too thought that he walked away from her because he would just end up screwing up her life.

In the one scene towards the end where he didn't have his journals I kept expecting him to scream, "Dude, where's my journals!?"

I did feel that the ending was a little too happy though. I felt like this must be a new ending to appease screen testers, but good none the less.

 

[2d6]

I've seen the trailers and I'm wondering, is this a vehicle to demonstrate Ashton's range as an actor outside of goofy comedies?

 

[Mog Elffoe]

I've seen the trailers and I'm wondering, is this a vehicle to demonstrate Ashton's range as an actor outside of goofy comedies?

Yeah, he does okay. He's not super great, but he CAN do more stuff than just the goofy idiot routine. I thought he was convincing in Butterfly Effect.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

he knew that he was no good for her and that she was just plain better off without him in her life.

That is what I gathered but there was no dialog to say it, just 5 seconds of him walking away. A down-beat, but not tragic, ending.

As I said, maybe there will be more on a DVD version in the future.

 

[reapersaurus]

I did feel that the ending was a little too happy though. I felt like this must be a new ending to appease screen testers, but good none the less.

Too HAPPY?!?

He was forced to have the person "he loved more than anyone's ever loved someone" denied from his life, and you think that's a happy ending?
Either you missed a major portion of the movie, or your idea of a happy ending is radically different from the normal person's....

I thought the movie was great. Just saw it tonight.

 

[reapersaurus]

That is what I gathered but there was no dialog to say it, just 5 seconds of him walking away. A down-beat, but not tragic, ending.

As I said, maybe there will be more on a DVD version in the future.

I don't think there's anything more that need be said.

I had to think about it a bit, but that last scene is just a coda to the movie:
when he approached her at the kid's party and scared her away, he said "Goodbye" to her then and there for the rest of his life.
He gave up all possibility of happiness with her, sacrificing that for all the others he was trying to help.

The last scene just showed that they felt something close, even in this other life, but had already moved on...

 

[Welverin]

The last scene just showed that they felt something close, even in this other life, but had already moved on...

I think you also have to consider the fact that she wouldn't recognize him, since the last time the saw each other she was at most six.