Butterfly Effect

[FCWesel]

Just saw this DVD (free borrow from the public library).

It was different then I thought it was going to be, it might have been because of it being the Director's Cut, but I doubt that changed much of the story and instead was likely a few more of the more rating challenges.

Anyways, it was an interesting watch, though the title *really* didn't match the movie, all things considered.

The end was interesting. (I won't say anything here, as I don't like spoiling a movie.)

 

[Mark Chance]

I found it to be much better than I expected, despite at least one glaring plot error. All told, however, it's not going to be on my watch-again list any time soon.

 

[The Other Librarian]

It was different then I thought it was going to be, it might have been because of it being the Director's Cut, but I doubt that changed much of the story and instead was likely a few more of the more rating challenges.

The end was interesting. (I won't say anything here, as I don't like spoiling a movie.)

Without spoiling I'll just say that the director's cut ending ws quite a bit different than the theatrical release. Both endings are included on the DVD.

 

[FCWesel]

Without spoiling I'll just say that the director's cut ending ws quite a bit different than the theatrical release. Both endings are included on the DVD.

Really? Hmm, maybe I'll watch the TR to see what the differences are.

 

[velm]

The butterfly effect, used to describe many chaotic phenomena, was first described as such in reference to weather: that the beating of a butterfly's wings in Brazil might set off a tornado in Texas months later1. Chaos theory posits that complex systems such as the weather, or the stock market, are difficult to predict due to their sensitivity to small changes. The cumulative effect of these small changes, and their timing, makes it very difficult or impossible to predict future conditions with a high degree of certainty.

1 Edward Lorenz, in a paper in 1963 given to the New York Academy of Sciences, said: "One meteorologist remarked that if the theory were correct, one flap of a seagull's wings would be enough to alter the course of the weather forever." Later speeches and papers by Lorenz used the more poetic butterfly.

The expression butterfly effect itself seems to be based on the sci-fi short history A Sound of Thunder, written by Ray Bradbury in 1952. In the history, a time traveller accidentally steps on a butterfly, changing his entire future.