• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    192 months ago

    The butterfly effect.

    I saw it when I was rather young but I thought it was pretty good, apparently people thought it’s edgy.

    Should watch it again now and see if it holds up.

    • the post of tom joad
      link
      fedilink
      English
      5
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      I saw a version with a different ending (cuz piracy) than that what was widely released in theaters and i really liked it. Have you seen both? Do you know what I’m talking about?

      • thermal_shock
        link
        English
        4
        edit-2
        2 months ago

        there’s 3 endings. theater one was where he told the girl at the party he hated her, and they never met.

        second is he goes back to a baby/fetus memory and kills himself or his mom from the womb I think?

        third he runs into the girl as an adult after never meeting her, she went to live with her mom instead of the abusive dad.he recognizes her on the street and starts to follow her, roll credits.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          32 months ago

          second is he goes back to a baby memory and kills himself or his mom from the womb I think?

          there’s also a cut scene earlier in the movie where the mom talks about having had multiple failed pregnancies before him

          • thermal_shock
            link
            English
            32 months ago

            yeah, he was the “miracle” child

        • @bitjunkie
          link
          English
          12 months ago

          Hmm I don’t think I’ve ever seen the first… And in the fetus one he strangled himself with the umbilical cord. Fucking dark, but definitely the superior ending.

          • thermal_shock
            link
            English
            22 months ago

            first one is the most common, was theatrical release

        • the post of tom joad
          link
          fedilink
          English
          52 months ago

          I’ve heard in the theatrical version he goes back and ends his friendship right? In the version i saw

          seriously cw warning i warned you

          He goes back in to the womb using a sonogram and wraps the umbilical cord around his neck killing himself so he instead never meets her


    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      52 months ago

      Saw it as a teenager. Its edgy but I enjoyed watching it.

      Until the prison/stigmata scene that completely broke the movies own rules. The whole fuking point is he goes back in time to change something and he is the only one who knows it. To everyone else that is just how the past has always been. But not in that scene! People actively see the world change due to him changing the past. (Oh and him mutilating himself as a kid changes nothing about his live except for the scars? He ends up in the same jailcell with the same cellmate 25 years later? Sure.) Even as a teenager i realised the gigantic plot hole.

      With that scene its a 3/10 movie for me. But not because it is edgy.

    • @abbotsbury
      link
      English
      3
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      I saw it when I was rather young but I thought it was pretty good, apparently people thought it’s edgy.

      That’s me, I’m people. Same as you, I remember watching it when I was young and thinking it was a cool mature thriller, but I rewatched it last year for the first time and I was honestly a little shocked at how edgy it seems. Like the first 30 minutes really hammer how much trauma Evan went through, and it just felt really heavy handed.

      edit: to be clear I don’t hate The Butterfly Effect, I just remember distinctly thinking how edgy it was on review

    • thermal_shock
      link
      English
      12 months ago

      saw it a week ago. found out there are 3 different endings. holds up with a few plot holes, but decent.