Butterfly Effect

Have you seen it?

Dude, where's my girlfriend?

BAN EM! BAN EM TO HELL!

Well, opinions are like assholes... everyone has them, and none of them prevent me from watching a movie and judging for myself.

Slight paraphrase there.

So what you're saying is that we should ban you from all movie related message boards?

This movie looks like it might not be all that bad if it wasn't for that Punk'd son of a bitch. Goddamn does he annoy me.

I don't know why anyone would want to see this movie. The trailers look horrible.

It has the fatass bully from "Boy Meets World", if you need any further deterrent.

Cabin Fever has Shawn from Boys Meets World and that movie RULES

Ah yes, Shawn. The trailer trash boy with a heart of gold, whose father returned about 12 times and ditched him at the end of each appearance.

Dunno. I think this can really be a breakout for Kutcher. If he can break the 'dude' mold this could be the start of a damn impressive career I think. Guess we will just have to see if he has the range.

but I think the trailers look decent. Easily as good as most of the other films we have been offered lately, and I like the whole Donnie Darko vibe movies, so I am thinking this might be halfway enjoyable to me. My hopes and expectations are not overly hgih, but I do think it will be a good flick on its own merits.

People here like Resident Evil... and you will fault me for seeing a movie like this?

Haha........

I don't think Kutcher can act his way out of a wet paper bag but that's just my opinion. He's great as a dumbass stoner on 'That 70's Show' but I think that's as far as his talent goes. Who knows maybe he's the next Kianu.

... so basically what you are saying is that he's perfect for the CABIN FEVER sequel ....

That's wrong.

This movie is actually getting good reviews. There are a few write ups at AICN and a few other places, mostly positive. Its suppose to be a mind fuck movie like Donny Darko and Jacobs Ladder. Ashton is suppose to be pretty good in it.

Jesus, I don't know why they're not just doing a proper adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder," seeing that all this movie is doing is stealing shamelessly from it. Hell, they oughtta give Bradbury story credit, for God's sake.

I liked it the first time I saw it


when it was called Back tothe Future

BTTF had a Delorean on roids, this movie has words on a paper. Advantage BTTF.

Edit, BTTF instead of BTF.

There's an adaptation of A SOUND OF THUNDER coming out this year starring Ben Kingsley. But from what I hear they now want to change the title to something hipper. A proper adaptation? No, the new film will not be a literal adaptation but how the hell do you film a proper adaptation of a story that is a whopping 5 pages long?

I just hope it has some gory dinosaur action.

But it will probably be PG-13 so fat chance ...

I think they probably lifted more material from The Simpsons 'Time and Punishment' episode than they did directly from Bradbury. I just hope Kutcher will be using a toaster at some point in the movie. I think there is an adaptation of 'A Sound of Thunder' coming out next year so that might be more interesting. Or maybe it's just in development. Anyway, I thought the trailer for 'The Butterfly Effect' looked pretty good so I'll probably go see it since I'm a sucker for time travel movies. I'll be interested to see if Kutcher's acting ability is up to snuff for a sci-fi thriller.

What exactly is 'That 70's Show' about anyway? I never even heard of it until Kutcher started dipping his wick into Demi and BUTTERFLY EFFECT came closer to release.

And can someone please explain to me why BUTTERFLY EFFECT is playing Sundance when it comes out nationwide a few days later? Indie my ass!

Above you.

The film is set for release August 20th this year.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318081/

It's being directed by the guy who did END OF DAYS and THE RELIC ...

Oh, and if anyone got curious, you can read Bradbury's A SOUND OF THUNDER online and free right here:

http://www.sba.muohio.edu/snavely/415/thunder.htm

It shouldn't take you more than 10 minutes or so ...

Damn! I just type slower than you do Wetbones. Thanks for the info on the Bradbury movie!

'That 70's SHow' is actually a great sitcom. It's about a bunch of teenagers from some city in Wisconsin growing up in the 70's and smoking alot of dope. Funny as shit.

Thanks, printing it now and will read it when I get home tonight.

Didn't you say this in the other thread?

Whatever. I'm goin' to watch Equilibrium. You know, the one that ripped off The Breakfast Club.

That was awesome. Thanks, Wetbones! I can't believe I'd never read that before.

A funny review



CHRISTY LEMIRE

(AP) - Few movies have made me want to get up from my seat and leave the theatre. The Butterfly Effect is one of them.



And it's not even Ashton Kutcher (news)'s fault, though he's an easy target - the Dude, Where's My Car? dude asking to be taken seriously in a dramatic role. Besides serving as one of the film's executive producers, he plays bearded, flannel-clad college student Evan Treborn, who goes back in time by reading his old journals in hopes of reversing his wretched childhood.


What Evan finds there is gratuitously disgusting: memories of molestation and brutal animal abuse, among the traumatic events that seem shocking for shock's sake. And because he returns to his past repeatedly, we're forced to watch all this over and over, with slightly varying results each time.


I kept hoping this would turn out to be one of Kutcher's elaborate Punk'd pranks - that the cameramen would pop out from behind the scenes, laughing, and that this attempt at drama/sci-fi/whatever would all be a joke on us.


It wasn't, but that reminds me - for fans of the MTV series, especially younger fans who deify Kutcher, The Butterfly Effect is probably inappropriate. It's certainly inappropriate for fans of film.


Kutcher himself isn't bad. Sporadically, the co-star of the Fox sitcom That '70s Show even shows glimmers of his trademark goofy enthusiasm - like when one of Evan's tinkerings with time turns him into a frat boy, and he takes a sort of wild-eyed glee in hazing the pledges.


The title of the film, co-written and co-directed by Eric Bress and Mackye Gruber, comes from the chaos theory - that a butterfly could flap its wings in Brazil and cause a tornado in Texas.


Evan seems to have a similar effect when he reads the horrific details in his old diaries, which he kept to jog his memory after having chronic blackouts. His words jumble and jump off the page, then everything around him gets loud and chaotic, and poof! He's back seven years ago, or 13 years ago.


He tries to save his longtime girlfriend, Kayleigh (Amy Smart), from her eventual suicide, his beleaguered mother (Melora Walters) from cancer and a childhood friend (Elden Henson) from a life of depression. Usually, though, his attempts at retroactive redemption lead to someone else's misfortune.


It's standard time-travel stuff - imagine Time Bandits, without the dwarves or the twisted sense of humour.


The film's philosophical and psychological twists won't leave much of a lasting effect - they didn't on me at least.


One star out of four.

I read that he cancelled all interviews after the movie got laughed off screens at Sundance


and that him and Demi acted like divas




I bet Bruce Willis is laughing his ass off

Are they going out? What's with these beautiful actresses like Demi and Nicole, was dating Spiderman, going out with the bottom of the barrel losers. Hell maybe if I get on Fear Factor they'll date me.

Well, he's laughing all the way to the bank. The movie's a hit - the tracking from the East Coast says it'll be 15-25 million (yes, a wide range) by Monday gauging off today's matinees. For a $9 million movie that could've been a big tankeroo, I'm sure New Line is dancing in the aisles.

Amazing. Sorry Mr. Romero no money for you.

I'm sure it'll be number one



but it is far far from a indy movie

can it be that bad

I....I liked it.

So did I.

This is one of those films that may be good, but probably sucks ass. I think I'll just wait and rent this one.

jah


I can't really dog the flick too much because I have yet to see it



But it has elements about it that I know to dislike



will wait for DVD......everyone else, enjoy

I liked it too. It's surprisingly good, in my opinion.

If Dolarhyde liked it I gotta see it now.

It sounds a lot like a movie I saw a couple of months ago called "Retroactive." It had an over-the-top performance by Jim Belushi and I thought it was rather enjoyable. Because I, too, am a sucker for a halfway decent time travel movie I'll probably at least rent this when it comes out. How bad can it really be in spite of Kutcher?

Well, I don't know if that's good or bad but I think if you're on the fence about seeing it definitely give it a chance. I'm willing to bet most horror fans will like it. Too bad the Kutcher factor will keep a lot of people away. The only reason I almost passed on seeing it was knowing the DVD would have a darker "director's cut" but as it turns out I really liked the theatrical ending. Now I'm curious to see if the "director's cut" will be an improvement or not.

I trust your judgment man. So we'll see.

lathe of heaven was made into a tv movie twice. one in the 80's and the other in the early 2000's (on a&e i believe).

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Well ... I guess I should be banned AND killed because not only did I pay money to see it ... I actually really enjoyed it! I'm not really a fan of Kutcher's either ... but I didn't mind him in this movie and actually thought he did a great job. I was entertained throughout the entire movie and that's all that mattered to me.

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I totally agree. My girlfriend and I were surprised that this film was entertaining. I like the theatrical ending, it seemed just right.

Looks like this board is going to be split down the middle with this one. Though alot of the people who are negative towards it haven't seen it. Give it a chance.....

I was just commenting on another site that it was a good flick, though not without it's technical flaws, which in all fairness are hard to avoid in time travel movies. Worth a watch.

I also mentioned that it's interesting to note that the authors identify the title The Butterfly Effect as a mathematical principle of chaos theory, when it was Ray Bradbury who actually came up with the idea in the context of time travel in his story, "The Sound of Thunder," twenty years before Lorenz used the phrase to describe chaos theory.

dmeister