I just rented this and watched The Butterfly Effect last night.
I've read mixed reviews and expected the worst, but I was pleasantly surprised. 8)
Yet, I can easily see how some people would not like it.
Like some of the better time-shifting films, you have to do a LOT of thinking to follow the alternate time threads and how everything is affected.
It's NOT a fun/funny/adventure movie like Back to the Future at all, and felt closer to Memento to me (in it's film noir story presentation).
I had never seen Aston Kutcher before, so I didn't have any notions of him other than in this character, and I thought that he did a good job, like the other actors.
I saw the Director's cut, which had a not-too-happy ending. I am curious to see the alternate endings now.
I may end up buying this DVD used from blockbuster, but I'd say that that for most people it's safer to rent it if you didn't see the movie in the theater.
-Dean.
I've read mixed reviews and expected the worst, but I was pleasantly surprised. 8)
Yet, I can easily see how some people would not like it.
Like some of the better time-shifting films, you have to do a LOT of thinking to follow the alternate time threads and how everything is affected.
It's NOT a fun/funny/adventure movie like Back to the Future at all, and felt closer to Memento to me (in it's film noir story presentation).
I had never seen Aston Kutcher before, so I didn't have any notions of him other than in this character, and I thought that he did a good job, like the other actors.
I saw the Director's cut, which had a not-too-happy ending. I am curious to see the alternate endings now.
I may end up buying this DVD used from blockbuster, but I'd say that that for most people it's safer to rent it if you didn't see the movie in the theater.
-Dean.
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