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Post by lospud on Mar 10, 2005 19:06:32 GMT -5
Anyone here seen it....I was going to watch it when it came out and never got around to it. i know it got a lot of crappy reviews....and they slammed how Ashton made the film...and said the acting was horrible....and so on. i know from the previews I really wanted to see it...it looked awesome as hell. and love the plot....he could travel back in time and change the past but every time he did it messed things up even more than the last time. I've seen this film an i have to say its the best movie plots i have seen. It is by far one of my favourite movies and i advise you all to watch it, its very unpredictable and thrilling to watch... It really got me thinking about how the smallest thing can have a big effect on the future.
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Post by xkamelx on Mar 10, 2005 19:12:29 GMT -5
I've seen this film an i have to say its the best movie plots i have seen. It is by far one of my favourite movies and i advise you all to watch it, its very unpredictable and thrilling to watch... It really got me thinking about how the smallest thing can have a big effect on the future. I completly agree with that! I was very impressed with the movie, and it got me thinking abou little things as well!
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Post by lospud on Mar 10, 2005 19:18:31 GMT -5
I enjoy movies that get you thinking about the world around you, the matrix did that for me too and a few other films. I enjoy that feeling after watching one of those films where you're still lost in the film and thinking about wether where you are now, the time- space is real or not, can it change, what effects do we have on it etc
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Post by xkamelx on Mar 10, 2005 19:20:38 GMT -5
I am the exact same way. That is where the appeal of science fiction comes in, because it opens my mind and imagination to possibilities that are endless. I am one of the few out there who really loved Vanilla Sky, with Tom Cruise. That movie got me thinking as well.
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Post by valderra on Mar 16, 2005 7:17:53 GMT -5
I have seen it. Apart from Ashton Kutcher looking like a school boy and therefore can't really take him serious - it was a boring film. *yawn*
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Post by xkamelx on Mar 16, 2005 19:29:59 GMT -5
I have seen it. Apart from Ashton Kutcher looking like a school boy and therefore can't really take him serious - it was a boring film. *yawn* He was in college, of course he was a school boy. I think it was anything but boring.
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Post by valderra on Mar 17, 2005 11:01:36 GMT -5
He was in college, of course he was a school boy. I think it was anything but boring. No.. I mean, the guy is suppose to be in his late 20s but still looks 17. What on Earth Demi Moore sees in him, I have no idea. Anyway, I found the film boring. But we all have different tastes, so if you enjoyed it - good for you.
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Post by xkamelx on Mar 17, 2005 15:16:46 GMT -5
Ahh, you mean Ashton Kutcher the person, not the character. I don't know how old he is, but that is the new thing in Hollywood I guess, women with real young men, and men with real young women. Pretty soon we will see Clint Eastwood going out with Ashley Olson.
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Post by valderra on Mar 17, 2005 16:21:13 GMT -5
Ahh, you mean Ashton Kutcher the person, not the character. I don't know how old he is, but that is the new thing in Hollywood I guess, women with real young men, and men with real young women. Pretty soon we will see Clint Eastwood going out with Ashley Olson. Well, Clint's present wife is young enough to be his daughter anyway. And didn't men always have had women young enough to compete with their daughters? The thing is, I couldn't be with someone who is so much younger than I am because apart from the obvious, you also need to be able talk to each other. And it's no good me having a guy who wants to go to night clubs and boogie the night away and who talks about teen bands that I haven't got a clue who they are. I need an equal, and only with age you gain knowledge and wisdom and experience - and so, a 20something guy would never interest me. Sorry Myke. ;D LOL
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Post by xkamelx on Mar 17, 2005 17:55:00 GMT -5
Well, Clint's present wife is young enough to be his daughter anyway. And didn't men always have had women young enough to compete with their daughters? The thing is, I couldn't be with someone who is so much younger than I am because apart from the obvious, you also need to be able talk to each other. And it's no good me having a guy who wants to go to night clubs and boogie the night away and who talks about teen bands that I haven't got a clue who they are. I need an equal, and only with age you gain knowledge and wisdom and experience - and so, a 20something guy would never interest me. Sorry Myke. ;D LOL I am wise beyond my years though. ;D I did more by the time I was 24 them most people do in a life time.
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Post by valderra on Mar 17, 2005 18:07:45 GMT -5
I am wise beyond my years though. ;D I did more by the time I was 24 them most people do in a life time. Does that mean you are offering, Myke? ;D
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Post by Kmylove on Apr 29, 2007 12:36:39 GMT -5
Here comes one big bump:
I thought this movie was really good. I've always wondered how would it be if I could go back and change stuff in my past, how would it change my life, and this movie gave an idea that such an ability wouldn't bring any good in a person's life.
Now I have to say I am intrigued about Bad Ash's post: I don't remember any psychic scene and I'm quite sure I didn't miss any bit of the movie. At least I hope I didn't...
xkamelx, you had a very interesting theory back a few posts, it was something I wondered as well. I mean in the movie we see Evan as a kid with the knife not knowing why he picked it up and later we find out that he did it in order to avoid something from happening. It makes you wonder what timeline was actually true in all of that.
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Post by Bones on Apr 30, 2007 15:56:47 GMT -5
re-post from "last movie you watched" thread: Tonight I watched a film called The Butterfly Effect and was really really unprepared for what this movie was going to show me. The story was of this 7year old who kept having black-outs and waking up in different places not knowing what happened. He was told to keep a journal so he might remember the events but it continued into his teens when a really big incident at 14 with his friends and a dynamite stick in a mailbox went wrong when a woman and small baby who went to open it... It skips to his college days and he hasn't had blackouts for several years, but when he read his journals it started coming back. Memories of a girl he liked and her evil brother who took exception to him seeing her, their father who he had a memory of maybeing being a peadofile, and that brother (again) killing his dog when they were 14. I.E. putting the dog in the sac, putting lighter fluid on it and about to set it alit, which among other things is why i called the brother evil. Not just evil, one seriously f'ked up kid, in one many of thoe realities. This film has to be the most disturbing, sad, thought-provoking and hard to watch films i have ever watched. As he reads his journals aged 22, he gets flashbacks to what happened at either aged 14 or 7, but over the course of the film there are lots of different version, some worse then others resulting in the present day becoming from bad to worse to just gut-wrenchingly awful. In the end to change the future he'd read a journal to get a flashback and hopefully get a better outcome. It was a superb film, despite being very disturbing, sad, thought-provoking and one of hard to watch films i have ever watched. Aston Kutcher was very good. And i can't stand Aston Kutcher because of the MTV show p'unkd, he's so annoying. Yet in this film he was so incredibly good, i think i just gained a new respect for him. It is very hard to watch, but if you haven't seen it try it. I just feel completetly emotionally drained after watching it, but it's going to a movie that's going to stay with me for a long time. I have to say this instantly entered my top 50 films ever {at the high end too!} , it had that much effect on me. When watching i really thought that kid was horrible, {The brother of the girl Evan fancied}, not just evil with the things he did like the dog, getting tripped up then beating the hell out the older teen, but i thought this kid was really f'kd up! My heart actully dropped when his future changed when as kids the "basement film" scenario went differently and his friend - the girl had the dynamite and he's killed her. If that wasn't enough it just went from completetly bad to absolutetly grom where he changed it again - except he got his limbs blown off. Going back to that nasty kid{Tony?} is was even more unsettling in the future's where he was different and nice - that was just unsettling! Another moment my heart dropped - that answer message where he said his sister cried her heart out and now she's dead" It was quite a bleak film!
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Post by Kmylove on May 1, 2007 3:49:08 GMT -5
I agree, the girl's brother was majorly disturbed. It was also quite emotional when he learned that she killed herself because he reminded her of her past.
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Post by Bones on Jun 10, 2007 15:29:10 GMT -5
That was quite disturbing as well, when he got back and recieved the phonecall saying "What the [bleep] did you say to my sister, she was on the phone for over an hour crying to me, She killed herself last night, she's dead, and so are you"
The dog bit still gets me, when teenage Evan comes round fom a blackout and Kayleigh is next to him crying. The camera pans of to the carnage, but you can hear Evan's absolute trauma and despair.
This is only the second time i've seen the film but it blows me away again, easily in my top 20 films now, it has such a profiund effect on you. It also really makes you think about all the little thinks that perhaps you could've done differently and the choices you made in life.
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