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 Oct 17 2006, 5:01 pm
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I dont know about you guys. But this is my favorite movie of all time. The story line, and everything is great. Just how changing 1 thing in your past, can change the whole future. It really makes you think about things.
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Oct 17 2006, 5:05 pm
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Silent Sage
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what
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Yeah, they are making a sequal to the movie.
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Yeah, I loved the butterfly effect. THe acting was fantastic, too.
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THe acting was fantastic, too. -------------- Excluding the parts where Ashton Kutcher clearly forgot how to show emotions. Or where he had that weird smirk on his face when it was an inappropriate time. | |
Or that hard on the little kid had during that kiddy porn scene.
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I'm not talking about Ashton Kutcher. he did just fine but he wasn't the person I was thinking of mainly.
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This is kind of anal, but they didn't actually show the butterfly effect correctly, even though the movie is named after it. =P
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Yeah but it's in the name of entertainment. I had that anal moment as well, as the whole movie has a lot of plot holes and right at the beginning they say "A butterfly can flap it's wings on one side of the planet and cause a hurricane on the other side. -- Chaos Theory" First, that's not what Chaos Theory states, and "The Butterfly Effect" is way overexaggerated in that no butterfly is going to create a hurricane no more than a bacterium is going to.
But it's one of those movies where you just have to ignore all of the falacies, and you can enjoy it :P Did you notice in the prison cell scene with the mexican guy, how he "travels back in time" and impales his hands and the mexican guy sees the scars appear? If he did that, he would have had scars on his hands the whole time he was in the prison, and the mexican guy wouldn't have seent he "miracle", and chaos probably would have made him never kill Tommy at that moment. | |
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you obviously have 0 taste in movies if you could even stomach that peice of crap let alone enjoy it. You must be an alien in disguise or something | |
yeah, it was a good movie, but i just don't like it because it doesnt give you a fuzzy feeling inside.
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Oh no! I twitched! It caused a tornado in Arizona!
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Afghanimal, I think you dont have good taste in movies. That was an original movie. And I think they made it great.
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My mom couldn't watch it. She said it was too sad. I definately liked it for the drama and plot put together, regardless of however they butchered theories or not.
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I didn't mind it... It wasn't the greatest movie, but I didn't feel like it wasted my time...
The funny thing I just noticed is that we have the DVD sitting on the table right next to me as I type this (about to be "backed-up", most likely...) One thing notable about that movie is that it's one of the very few in recent years to actually disturb me... It has quite a bit of things in it that get under my skin... As for the theory that it is named after, I think it is decently believable... The "Butterfly Effect" basically boils down to the potential chain reaction of events that can be set off by seemingly insignificant occurances, which snowball through larger and larger effects to result in some much more powerful result... I believe the namesake Butterfly-to-Hurricane example includes some of the middle points, like the butterfly moving causes some pollen to fly off of the flower it is sitting on, causing a nearby buffalo to sneeze, which sets off a stampede, which blah, blah, blah, until you get a change in the weather patterns that escalates until it triggers a storm somewhere across the globe... Might sound like a stretch, but this sort of escalating chain reaction is possible (that bacterium could be the cause of the buffalo sneeze that causes the stampede, etc... so your counterpoint might not be as far off as it seems, Kunark...lol) The movie attempts to show this through the unexpected ripples each of his actions ultimately causes... He thinks he sets something right, but the resulting chain of events causes something far worse to happen... I actually think this is an offshoot of chaos theory, anyways, so that tie is a good one... Aw heck: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect [EDit:] Apparently, the actual Butterfly Effect theory is even simpler than my interpretation... It basically says that the initial conditions of a chain of events can radically alter the end point of that chain... Hence, the butterfly's wings flapping cause an almost infinitely small change in the global air currents, but enough to throw off the momentum of the entire system, resulting in the eventual emergence of a storm... It obviously takes a long time before things build to that, though... It's not like they're saying a butterfly's wings flapping instantly causes a hurricane somewhere...lol | |
