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Mark 2012-05-25 13:00:27

Thought-provoking

I went to see this film with 3 friends, none of us expecting too much, andwe were all very surprised. I found the film to be thought-provoking and itis one of the few films in recent memory I've seen where I actually gave adamn about the characters. I found myself actually flinching at parts of thefilm and wishing certain bits wouldn't happen, even though you knew theywould. The best acting jobs in the entire film are done by the children.Those playing Kutcher and Smart and especially William Lee Scott in thiertroubled years do outstanding jobs. My advice to anyone wanting to see thisfilm is to go into it with an open mind and don't try and pick holes in thetime-travel theory. Suspend your disbelief and just allow yourself to say"well maybe this is how it would happen", only then will you get the trueexperience. It may suffer from "Back To The Future" syndrome regardingtime-travel, but that's only an annoyance if you let it be. Don't. In mymind this film will deserve more recognition than it gets.9/10

jon_romeo03 2012-05-24 19:51:14

This is everything a movie should be!

All I have to say is Bravo! This is what Ashton Kutcher is able to do butIbelieve that he can do so much more. Someone needs to look passed all thestupid things that people are hung up on. This is a smart movie and withallof the comments I read I can say that they were answered in the movie butIdon't have enough time to explain them all. Ashton and the kids thatplayedhim were EXCELLENT. I think we are going to see more from Ashton and Ihopethat he just doesn't do comedy because he drama is as good as many othersout there if not better. This movie had all the bases covered and I can'tthink of anything I would have changed about it. By the way one comment Idohave is that someone was complaining about murder, pedophelia, animalabuse,insanity, ect. What did you expect from this...a bunch of butterfliesflyingaround Ashton and Amy Smart with them skipping through a field? Comeon...ifyou can't handle these issues in movies then you have nothing to worryaboutbecause Home on the Range and Shrek 2 are coming out very soon!

seaorchids 2012-05-21 01:28:10

Chaos Theory keeps you guessing

Although the movie is not high budget, it's an untraditional Hollywoodthriller that keeps you guessing. Ashton Kutcher surprisingly does anexcellent job in his acting and throws us all for a loop! I've seen itthreetimes already, and I consider it one of my top 10 all-time favoriteflicks.Based around the Chaos Theory, the film illustrates what might happen ifwecould change our past, and how it would affect those around us. 10stars!

ArizWldcat 2012-05-20 06:52:26

Make it STOP!!

I bought tickets to a Sundance screening of this movie, only todiscover that its theatrical release was less than a week after theSundance screening. I thought that at least the director would show upto the screening. Frankly, I probably wouldn't have chosen to see thismovie had it not been at Sundance. I was horrified that some peopleactually bought young children (elementary age) to see this!Thankfully, after the first ten minutes and several disturbing images,they chose to leave. THIS is definitely not for children...Now to talk about the movie itself: I wanted all the horrible images tostop! How many awful things can happen to one person? After a while, Ifound myself laughing because this was such a ludicrous story. I thinkit was supposed to be suspenseful and horrible, but after a while itgot so bad it was funny. Ashton Kutcher does a passable job, I suppose,but there were lots of things in the movie that I still didn'tunderstand when it was over. For instance (SPOILER) what was with thegrisly drawing the kid made in school? Did it have anything to do withanything? Or was it just his fantasy? I guess I really don't care, butit was just kind of left up in the air. Or perhaps I missed something.I cannot recommend this movie in good conscience. But I know there willbe people who like this sort of thing. It was not for me. 1/10

Rachel 2012-05-17 06:38:17

I recommend you see this movie!

This movie had an excellent storyline, unexpectedly great acting,suspense,and most of all--originality.Some people say that this story has been done before and the ButterflyEffect didn't do a good job copying it. I think this script was veryoriginal. It didn't have the same ending where everything is perfect andeveryone is happy. It showed that some sacrifices have to be made to savethose you care about. The moral is not everything can be madeperfect--youcan't play God. That was not a very original moral, but the movie was aunique way of portraying it.I believe that the reason a lot of people say the acting in this movie wasnot very great was because Ashton Kutcher was playing a serious role foronce. It's true, Ashton has been know to play the stupid hot guy in,well,all his movies. But you need to look past the fact that he was the oneplaying a mature guy with more troubles than where his car was. This wasaserious part in a serious movie which was in no way unintentionallyfunny.I would also like to mention that this movie was not supposed to be scary.I've read a few reviews and heard people say that it wasn't scary. It wassuspenseful in a way that some things would pop out and make you jump alittle. But it was supposed to be kind of a suspenseful drama.In conclusion, the Butterfly Effect was an outstanding movie and mostpeoplearen't giving it credit for the awesome film that it is.

chrystal_heart 2012-05-17 03:34:10

watch ONCE...then,twice then over again!

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECTThe complexities within this movie are beyond imagination, as a firsttime viewer I was entranced, superglued to my set, take other movies,for instance: face off, Fight club and sliding doors and you will neverget near the dimensions that THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT could take your mindto...the possibilities are endless within your own imagination ( never mindthe writers and directors mind's) From the context of this film!.. BEeach character!, I was and I will never look back, the way it sends themessage across that, what each of us 'DO' affects each person and life!ITSELF! I am awe struck, and still have much more to say........ I donot want to rave too much and give high expectations, just watch as ifyou are each person, is all I can say, ( without spoiling the movie )and then watch again!!!! and by GOD on the second viewing I wanted totear some dumb mis-cuts apart, BUT the movie took over again!!!!!! andI had no quibbles to write, maybe on the third viewing I might pointout mistakes.............!!!!!!!!!!!11 BUT I highly doubt IT, As thisfilm has me so engrossed that any defornmalities it had died within thebrilliant script and direction of this movie!, BEST OF 2004! LIE DEAD!IT BLEW MY MIND!Chrys

2012-05-11 03:17:25

Excellent

The Butterfly Effect is by far the best film of the year so far. This filmattacks many issues relevent in our socity today such as child crime,pedafilia and mentel illness. I think the cast and crew deserve alot ofpraise for this film. It was nice to see Ashton kutcher take on a moreserious and mature role any play it off so well. John Patrick Amedori wassuperb and i think this film will get him alot more well deservedattention(he sure caught my eye) and we will hopefully see him around alot more.Someof the issues rasied in this film are very touchy subjects and you have tobe carefull about how you approch them but i think the makers of this filmdid a very good job and deserve alot of praise for all there hard work.Overall i think this film was excellent and i hope it gets the praise itdeserves.

raxxel 2012-05-10 09:53:48

Watched it and can't stop thinking about it

Being used to Kutcher's more comedic roles, this movie was sort of a'will watch but won't expect too much' sort of thing. I was very wrong!Kutcher gives an amazing performance.I never knew how well he couldpull off such a mature,deep role. The scenes were well-thought out, andI loved the way the camera moved for different shots.It was very smoothand its flow meant you could follow the story easily. The movie itselfmakes you ask yourself how your life could've changed if you went backto alter just one little thing. It also makes you wonder what you'dsacrifice for those you love. An amazing movie, and one I wouldn'tregret watching again

cirkeline80 2012-05-10 02:22:36

what is the real end.. read this

Hey there.. I'm danish so bare over with my spelling..I have seen the butterfly effect twice.. both times with different kindof ending.. 1) where Evan in the end is laying under the table and riding his lastletter" if anyone reads this i'm dead ......" then he goes back to hismothers belly and kills himself...2) again under the table riding the last letter, he goes back to wherehim and Kayleigh meet each other for the first time.. Here he decidesto say something to the girl that he at this time don't know yet, andshe decides to move to her mother and not her father, that was Evansplan, so they never get to know each other.. And many years later theypass each other in a street in new york, they turn around for a sec,but move on..I don't understand why there are two different kinds of endings to amovie, and it irritates me.. WHY?Next to that, my comment to the movie is: * GOOD movie, gives mesomething to think of, and helps me to make the right choices in life.* The blackouts cause's, Evans in and out tours... * Yes the journal isexisting cause he is traveling all over in the past and in the future,so the journals is coming with him all over. thats it.. Hope you'llhelp me understand why there's to different kinds of endings.. HI fromDenmark

2012-05-09 15:21:59

Fantastic!

I went into the theatres not expecting much, but looking forward to a nice time travel movie. Man, was I surprised. This is the best movie I've seen all year! Now, I'll admit I was a little skeptical of Ashton Kutcher in this role, simply because his past characters have been....idiots. But I gave him a chance as I would with anyone, and he didn't dissappoint. The begining is a little bumpy, going over Evan's childhood, but once we get caught up it moves to a much quicker pace. There's nothing in this movie I didn't like, and I can't see why anyone wouldn't like it.

john in missouri 2012-05-01 04:43:30

One heck of a movie.

At our house, a great movie is one that you think and talk about for daysafterwards, and that contributes something meaningful to your life - eitherby providing a wonderful, fun, refreshing entertainment experience, or bygiving you meaningful things to think about in regard to living life. Bythat standard, "The Butterfly Effect" is not just a good movie, but a greatone.That said, most of the content is very, very, dark, violent, graphic, anddisturbing. Seeds were planted into the lives of four children that, in thiscase at least, will lead inevitably to destruction, despair, and death.Still, this is a movie well, well worth viewing. Yes, there are a few plotholes (although in reality they're generally different from the supposedplot holes some others have mentioned). The scene with the knife doesn'tfit, somehow. The fact that the psychologist tells Evan he has previouslyasked for the journals doesn't fit, either. But such holes don't come acrossas terribly gaping (unlike the mind-numbingly idiotic scene in the otherwiseauthentic "Titanic" where Kate Winslet hands Leonardo diCaprio a Rooseveltdime), and in movies today such small holes are, alas, all too common.There are several alternate endings, but for me there is only one realending - the theatrical release version one. I've read all about the"Director's Cut" version of the film, and that ending to me doesn't reallymake sense, is basically unnecessary, and is totally predictable based onthe inclusion of the earlier "life line" scene that's present only in thatversion. No, the theatrical ending is perfect, and the place that endingbrings you to emotionally is THE perfect conclusion of this film.All in all, an *excellent* film. While I won't be buying the video anytimesoon, and it'll be YEARS before I ever let any of our kids watch it, you canbet that I'll be renting "The Butterfly Effect" again.

kianfish 2012-04-30 13:53:35

the cost of love, who knows ...

We can't play God, unless we sacrifice ourselves. Who says, anything isbetter than nothing. Who knows, the price of that anything. We can'tchange the past. Then how can we change the future? Coz what we willhave tomorrow, all depends on what happened yesterday.I met you, a beautiful and wonderful love started growing in my heart.But it hurt you, it hurt everyone I care, it brought only sadness andbroken hearts. I went to the past, trying every way to work it out. AndI found, the perfect beginning, for the perfect ending, was that Inever fell in love with you, you never fell in love with me. We saidhi, and we said bye, just like we never met before.

philiphpatel 2012-04-29 22:24:34

Quite entertaining

Not sure why it has gotten some bad reviews. Maybe it had to do with hisrelationship with demi moore? To bad that we viewers cannot just enjoy amovie for what it is: entertainment, a temporary escape from our ownreality. People, critics, are so vicious sometimes and it only creates somuch negativity. Let's just enjoy the movie, and if it isn't entertaining,fine. Just don't get so angry as if it were a crime to not have beenperfect in the acting or the directing or the writing. Remember what ourparents used to tell us when we were kids? If you don't have anything niceto say(in this case, constructive rather than plain vicious), don't sayanything at all.

2012-04-29 09:27:06

Spanish subtitles?

From what I have seen in the previews, and from what I have been told, this is a good movie. I bought it because the box says spanish subtitles are available. My girlfriend doesnt speak english and we watch movies together. Only one problem. I cannot find the subtitle option. Then I tried changing the subtitles as the movie played, but it did not let me do so. If anyone can help, please let me know. Maybe I'm just having a brain fart.

Bluemnmluver 2012-04-26 22:40:38

The Butterfly Effect

Evan, a boy growing up with his single, struggling mother, suffers fromtraumatizing "blackouts" in his life. They're moments when he swears hewas in one place, then finds himself in another - disoriented andconfused. His mother is deeply concerned, namely because her husband(Evan's father) used to suffer from the same predicament whichultimately led to his incarceration in a mental facility. The movieshows Evan at 7 where he is in trouble at school for things he can'tremember. And at 13 where he is suspected for a huge crime committed inhis neighborhood that he blacked out for. But all through his life, hisfriends, brother and sister Tommy and Kayleigh, and Lenny have beenwith him. Kayleigh always held a place in his heart. Seven years afterhis last blackout, at the age of 20, college student Evan findsjournals that he has written throughout his life detailing moments ofwhen he blacked out. He also finds that reading them can make himtravel back through time to the place of the memory. He first goes tovisit Kayleigh back in their hometown. The past has had it's toll onher, like Tommy (a demented psycho for living with his father) andLenny (who after being pushed around by Tommy has deep emotionalscars). Evan then decides to use the journals to time travel andrewrite the past - hoping to make his own life, and that of Kayleigh,Tommy, and Lenny's, better. But every decision he makes, turns outworse and worse later on in life. Making Kayleigh, his one true love,suffer from each choice he made in his alternate reality. "Change one thing, change everything."I thought the movie was superb, excellent. While not yet a tearjerker,it certainly makes you cry and while not completely a sci-fi, it hasthe incredible power to make you think and feel strongly about thefilm. Some parts were truly disturbing, but all tastefully done. Themovie was all around genuine and wonderful. Ashton Kutcher and AmySmart played well-depth and believable characters that make you hopebeyond belief for the best. John Patrick Amedori was brilliant; he andLogan Lerman are young and fresh yet talented. Other great characterswere Irene Gorovaia, Melora Walters, Elden Henson, William Lee Scott,Kevin Schmidt, Jesse James, and Ethan Suplee. The end will have youtearing up and feeling and cherishing every memory and choice that Evanand you have made in life.

browneyedgrl73 2012-04-26 07:02:18

2 or 3 other births ? **SPOILER***

hi all i just watched the movie for the second time and i have aquestion.after evan and his mom see the palm reader she tells him shehad 2 still borns before him and he was her miracle baby , but in theend when he is killing himself he is remembering certain things thatwere said to him in his life.one of them being his mom saying she had 3still births. did any one else catch that??? i would like to know itwas a flaw or if he is counted as one of them and time was beingchanged as he was dying or what?other than that i thought the movie was great!!! definitely one of myfavorites!!

elfflame 2012-04-25 09:49:24

A thriller the way thrillers should be done.

I need to preface this review by saying that I do not like AshtonKutcher. That said, I do remember seeing the preview for this movie andthinking, "hm, that doesn't look too bad." But I stayed away. Becauseof him.So when I watched it, I was completely blown away. It's very well done.Maybe some of the ideas weren't fully explored, but they did anexcellent job with what they did explore, given the time constraints ona feature-length film.By the end, I'd totally forgotten the main character was AshtonKutcher. And that's a very good thing, if I can forget who the actor isand start to enjoy the film in spite of that. Particularly when theactor is someone I dislike that much.The ending was perfect. Not happy, but not sad, either. Just a touchmelancholy. Perfect. Definitely a movie to see.

lands1992 2012-04-25 01:15:45

Great movie

This movie was very tastefully done. Considering that this movie had acouple of disturbing spots in it, it was never something that you couldn'twatch. They showed enough that you knew exactly what was happening butnottoo much. I thought Ashton was great and showed that he can play seriousroles as well. Oh and great ending!

aticus-3 2012-04-24 03:37:12

Surprisingly unique and well done picture

This picture reminds me of the Dead Zone(tv) and Final Destination 2 inonepicture. Not quite as bizarre as Memento, and a fuller visualization thanTime Code or Paycheck. The present being able to be changed by a crazyperson. It's kinda a hard pitch to the movie execs but it's the 21stmillenia, no more back to the futures. This is well done. In many ways thewriters that come up with some of the coolest s*** are able to pull itout,dust it off and do it again. For example, the ground Quentin Tarantinoopened up, or the Farrelly brothers, The Coen brothers. It comes down totheminutia that can help to twist and make something cool. When details areburied deep, or even just nonstop. The Family Guy, Futurama. Anyway, in afield of reality changing pre-cognitive manipulation, there has beenelbowedsome room, and Bress and Gruber, or is it Gruber and Bress. Gruber/Bresshasa nice Grab her breast, kinda ring to it. As good or better than FinalDestination 2, keep it up Gruber/Bress.

2012-04-23 15:16:21

Excellent movie, but kind of depressing

I saw this movie when it came out on theatres and I was amazed of how good it was. But the worst thing about it is that the trailer didn't go with the movie. I bought the DVD and I really like the Director's Cut.