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Post by Phosphor Glow on Jan 28, 2010 21:26:09 GMT -5
So, I finally caught this movie 6 years late, and I gotta say...damn, it was awesome. Incredibly depressing, but so good. I don't really hear people talk about it these days, and I think it's deserving of a lot more praise than it's gotten. Seriously, it's so f***ing good. Discuss, or something. After reading a bit, it might be important to note that I watched the director's cut, whose ending is a hell of a lot more depressing than the theatrical ending, apparently. {Spoiler}Evan ends up going back to the day of his birth and strangling himself with his umbilical cord in his mother's womb, because he decides that everyone's life really would be better without him.
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Jan 28, 2010 21:41:59 GMT -5
I remember I saw this on opening night back in 2004. Highly underrated flick that gets way more flack than it deserves, and keep in mind, this is coming from someone who normally can't stand Ashton Kutcher. Some of the subject matter is pretty raw and unrelenting, which is rare to find in a mainstream production. I guess I'm one of the few who enjoyed it.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Jan 28, 2010 22:50:04 GMT -5
It had potential, but seriously, the best way for the movie to have ended would have been to end it during the scene {Spoiler}where he sneaked into the doctor's office and found out that everything was in his head, and he really was just a whacked-out nutjob.
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Post by VenomFang on Jan 29, 2010 2:36:29 GMT -5
I'd rather discuss the band.
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Post by Rorschach on Jan 29, 2010 2:41:30 GMT -5
I really dug it. It's sequels....not so much. I kind of dig movies that play around with the timeline of history in general, though.
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Post by -Lithium- on Jan 29, 2010 5:11:11 GMT -5
The "depressing" ending is the best ending, and is actually the real ending as well, seeing as how the directors (there were two) were the ones who wrote the movie. Good movie and I loved how it wasnt afraid to touch so many taboo subjects. The thing that stops it from being a really, really good movie to be, is the plothole that happened when he was in prison. {Spoiler}He goes back in time to slam his hands on the letter spike things, so that the prisoner will think hes some kind of profit, but if he really had done that, the scars would have already been on his hands in the new timeline. Otherwise, pretty awesome movie, one of those that "professional" critics missed out on...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2010 5:37:52 GMT -5
The "depressing" ending is the best ending, and is actually the real ending as well, seeing as how the directors (there were two) were the ones who wrote the movie. Good movie and I loved how it wasnt afraid to touch so many taboo subjects. The thing that stops it from being a really, really good movie to be, is the plothole that happened when he was in prison. {Spoiler}He goes back in time to slam his hands on the letter spike things, so that the prisoner will think hes some kind of profit, but if he really had done that, the scars would have already been on his hands in the new timeline. Otherwise, pretty awesome movie, one of those that "professional" critics missed out on... {Spoiler}It's not just that, if he'd really done that then the entire timeline would have changed. What kid would do that and then everything else would have happened the exact same way? Aside from that really gaping plothole, I love the film. No idea why they had to taint it by making sequels.
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Post by W?Y on Jan 29, 2010 10:21:15 GMT -5
Thank you! Totally think it gets waaay too much flack, and that it's a great film.
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Post by Big L on Jan 29, 2010 11:44:34 GMT -5
Yea pretty dang good movie
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Post by hollywood on Jan 29, 2010 12:45:34 GMT -5
It's not often I reference the Wayans Brothers, but I think the Men on Film can best sum up my feelings here. Guys...? Hated it!
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man, TF Fan on Jan 29, 2010 13:02:17 GMT -5
I've never seen the entire thing from start to finish, but I've liked what I have seen.
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Post by Firearm: Supposed Big Deal on Jan 29, 2010 13:07:30 GMT -5
People dismissed the flick because it was Ashton Kutcher's first non-comedic role. I haven't seen it yet, but from what I hear I need to find it on On Demand or something.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2010 13:16:51 GMT -5
Throw me in the list of "very underrated; doesn't know how it gets flack" category.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Jan 30, 2010 1:19:37 GMT -5
Yeah, there were a couple of plotholes, but that sort of thing never seems to bother me. Especially in a movie dealing with something like this, where it's kinda tough NOT to have plotholes. All in all, HIGHLY enjoyable. And yeah, the director's cut is where it really shines. The real ending is so awesome/depressing.
Also, Ashton Kutcher was really, really good in it. As were the other kids that played Evan.
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Post by Cela on Jan 30, 2010 2:07:03 GMT -5
I agree with hollywood.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Jan 30, 2010 2:39:50 GMT -5
I liked it, but I'll forever now link it with my psycho ex who cried when it was over.
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Post by Rob's No. 1 Fan on Jan 30, 2010 4:09:38 GMT -5
I love this movie's theme of 'collective destiny'. And its also cool when a movie has the integrity of being directed by its writers; especially when the writer/director gets 'final cut'. My only twitch about The Butterfly Effect, is that I can't get past wondering that Eldon Henson (the guy who played Lenny) looks like he should have been a dwarf. In real life! -- have you noticed? I mean... if I only ever saw his head... I'd swear he was a dwarf from the neck down.
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Post by Flying Leg Kicks on Jan 30, 2010 20:54:26 GMT -5
I'm a sucker for time travel stuff, but one plot hole that really bothered me: {Spoiler}In regards to the death of that one girl's brother, there's no way in hell he is convicted and ends up in prison in that short of a time frame. It was so obviously a self defense case he could've appealed the verdict as well. I would have also like to seen something that actually shows him going through a time warp. Not just reading pages than waking up in an alternate universe
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Post by MCMGM on Jan 31, 2010 0:47:00 GMT -5
Thought I was the only person who liked it.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Jan 31, 2010 2:59:25 GMT -5
Thought I was the only person who liked it. Apparently not. It's been a movie I've been absolutely dying to see since it came out, but something I never got around to. Seriously though, like, I loved every second of it. So great.
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