The Butterfly Effect

Rented this one tonight. Pretty good movie once I figured out what the hell was going on. Sort of "Momentoish".

 

I havent seen it, but I'd marry Amy Smart tomorrow if she asked nicely

 

The original ending blew chunks. The director's cut was much better and almost saved the film.

 

Haven't seen the director's cut yet. Part of me wished he would have acknowledged her at the end of the movie but that would have probably started all the crap again.

 

Was the ending the only part that was different?

 

No. There were several smaller differences. And I cant remember if he and his mom went to see the fortune teller in the theatrical cut and if so, what was said. That scene is very important to the director's cut. Like I said, the endings are completly different. The theatrical one is typical hollywood garbage. The director's cut is quite a bit more ballsy and unsettling.

 

Yep I totally agree with that ending. If that would have been the main ending in theathers there would have been tons of shit over it. I will have to watch the entire directors cut in a few months then. Too hard to watch them both back to back.

 

saw it this weekend. Good movie. Didnt want to see it b/c I cant see kelso doing anything serious but he did a very good job.

 

Yep, that was my main deal about waiting for it on DVD to rent. He did a lot better job than I thought he would.

 

hmm.. yeah, i saw the director's cut. didn't see the theatrical release. it made perfect sense in the director's cut. i figured it out pretty early (well, having seen the previews you knew the movie was about some sort of time travel and it's disasterous effects). everything led up to him aborting himself. the implication is that he had to do it a few times already.

i could swear his mother tells him she had two stillbirths prior to him and then she says three in the end montage. it would have been nice if that was what she was telling the new kid that she ends up having and it's him (only not him in the sense of memories, just him in the sense of all the kids she's tried to have would all have been him).

i'll have to see the other version to see how it ends, now. i don't see how else it could work.

also, it was bit strange that when he stabbed his hands in the classroom that didn't make a serious alteration of his circumstances. that seems like the kind of thing that would change your life (like coupled with the drawing of the dead skinheads who raped him, ramming his hands onto those paper holder things would probably get him locked away.)