The Butterfly Effect (Infinifilm Edition)

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Summary: Awesome
Review: I got this movie like 3 weeks ago but i havent watched it until now due to i wanted to save it for a good time. and all i have to say is wow, good movie. Sad but good, and i dont care what the critics say this movie rocked.

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Summary: According to RS, one of the 100 worst movies of the year
Review: And yet, go read the reviews. Where does RS get off, anyway? While there are some bad reviews, mostly by people who didn't have a clue as to just what this film was about, most were four and five stars. And the film is all about changing the past in order to make the future livable. Just where do you go and what do you change? Hard stuff, which requires a lot of suffering until the right choices are made. Good film. Good acting, good story, good cinematography, good directing. If you don't understand it, well, that's not the fault of those who made the film. Whether or not we can seque into other dimensions is a question not yet answered by physicists; but in film we can. And what we can do if this is possible is the question posed by this film. How in the world is this one of the worst films of 2004? I think we are getting way, way, too critical of film and neither knowledgable enough about the medium nor thoughtful enough about what we are seeing. Everything nowadays is bashed to pieces, and I for one am tired of it.I'm also very tired of people telling me what I should think. I liked Dodgeball, and Hidalgo, and any number of other films that are ranked "The Worst". Read the reviews here, on Amazon, and find out that many, many watchers loved those "The Worst" films. So much for professional critics.

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Summary: The persistance of memory
Review:
A somber fable about the far-reaching and unforeseen consequences that ripple out from every act, screenwriters Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber's joint directing debut falters slightly under its weighty dramatic burdens.
Seven-year-old Even Treborn (Logan Lerman) lives with his hardworking single mother (Melora Walters), pines for his institutionalized dad (Callum Keith Rennie) and pals around with sensitive fat kid Lenny (Jake Kaese) and pretty Kayleigh Miller (Sarah Widdows). Kayleigh lives with her divorced father (Eric Stoltz) and brother, Tommy (Cameron Bright), a delinquent whose sociopathic potential is already apparent. Evan is the subject of blackouts that frighten his mother and leaves holes in his memories: What possessed him to draw a picture in class of himself standing over a pile of corpses with a bloody knife? What happened in the Miller's basement the day Mr. Miller persuaded Evan, Kayleigh and Tommy to make home movies? Why did Evan's father try to kill his son? As 13-year-olds, Tommy (Jesse James) instigates a prank that goes so horribly wrong that Lenny (Kevin G. Schmidt) is permanently traumatized; Evan can't remember what happened. Later, Evan (John Patrick Amedori) and Kayleigh's (Irene Gorvoaia) first tentative kiss incites Tommy to exact a revenge that persuaded Evan's mom to move away; Evan can't remember it, either. In the present day, brilliant psychology major Evan (Ashton Kutcher) is reading one of the journals he's kept since childhood when he's catapulted into a vivid dream of the past. He tracks down Kayleigh (Amy Smart) to compare memories, and finds her working at a diner, depressed and defeated. Their awkward encounter drives her to suicide and, convinced that what he expirienced WASN'T a dream, Evan tries to re-enter key traumatic junctures in his past in hopes of filling the holes in his memory and fixing the things that went so horribly wrong. But every attempt fails: Nothing works out better, just badly in different ways.
Bress and Gruber's attempt to make a spooky moral tale in the style of the TWILIGHT ZONE is ambitious, but their deeply disturbing material--murder, suicide, insanity, kiddie porn, animal abuse and more--mixes uncomfortably with the film's time-travel conceit, which requires some serious suspension of disbelief. Kutcher's lightweight presence makes surrendering to that suspension doubtly difficult. His performance certainly isn't terrible, but the brilliant, bewildered, increasingly desperate Evan is the film's center, and grounding its flights of fantasy in rock-solid emotional reality is a little more than Kutcher can manage.

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Summary: Butterfly Effect -intriging
Review: This is a great movie! Imagine being able to go back in time and change the traumatic times in your life... Sounds great right?...NOT! What if by changing your past you severly altered the present? One can not assume all will be without consequenses. Good or bad. As a child he had episodes where he would just "blackout" Evan(Ashton Kutcher) had no recollection of what had just transpired. Year later while in college studing to become a pschologist Evan discovers he has the ability to alter his past by re-reading his journals from childhood past. Clearly a thrilling movie, see it for yourself!

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Summary: See if for Yourself Before You Listen to Critics
Review: I had heard alot of diffrent things about this movie before I bought it on DVD, But I must say that it was much better then I had heard. I also must add that DVD is so great to have, This movie had this thing called "Alternative Endings" so you could chose which ending that you liked most. If you had seen it on the cinema, the ending was quite dark and unhappy, so to say. But here you can chose between 4 diffrent one's that suits you best. The Unhappy ending contradicted the story a bit and it surely must have made some people dislike this movie just because of it.

Ashton Kuther plays a guy called Evan that you get to follow from the days as a kid to his 20's. He got some terrible blackouts as a kid, just like his father and will end up not remembering what really happened. In order to remember he keeps a diary that he frequently writes in every day. His childhood wasn't the best and alot of terrible things happened that he either don't want to remember or can't because of his many blackouts. When he becomes older, he realize that he could go back in time and change things thanks to his diary's (and also video tapes later on) When Evan goes back in time, he changes small details that later comes to change how his whole life and his friends later became. No matter how he changes it, there will always be some things that turns out wrong, and as they say "One thing Leads to another" and when he comes back to reality there is a alternative world and certain things are totally diffrent from before, so he must go back again to make his world perfect.

It's not the most easy movie to follow, it can be hard to understand at times and you need to stay focused and remember diffrent details. It's even worth seeing twice to understand some things better. It got some flows from time to time and it isn't perfect but it's a very unique and also a exciting movie that it defenitely well made. Kutcher shows some good acting and Amy Smart as his girlfriend aswell. Now thanks to the Dvd version you get directors cut that is a longer and deeper version and you get to decide the ending aswell. A diffrent movie, that you should see cause you will remember it.

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Summary: Don't listen to the critics and those who don't like Ashton!
Review: I saw this film not really knowing what to expect but I can tell I did not expect it to be as good as it is. I always think I film worth watching and buying is a film that leaves you with a funny feeling and makes you think 'WOW!!' after you've seen it. This did it for me. I thought the story was superb and it had some intriguing twists aswell as one of the most memorable, sad endings I've seen in a movie for a long time (I'm referring to the directors cut DVD ending, the 'baby' ending as I didn't see the film at the cinema but I saw the two alternate endings on the DVD and they weren't nearly as unforgettable). I thought it has a great look and also a nice score that really added to it.

I personally couldn't see anything wrong with Ashton Kutchers performance and thought he proved how versatile an actor he is after seeing him only in comedy roles previously. I thought he helped create a character that I ended up really caring about.

It's true the film isn't perfect as there are a couple of little "boring" moments that seemed to drag a little but I haven't got anything else bad to say about it.

All in all, forget what the critics, anti-Ashtons and those who over-analyze too much think, 'The Butterfly Effect' is very under-rated and I would highly recommend to anyone who isn't easily offended and isn't just looking for a nice no-brainer to buy or at least rent this movie. It's a ride that'll make you think and one you won't forget in hurry!!