Any of you guys (besides a_silver_rose) ever seen "The Butterfly Effect"? It was on FX last night and that's the first time I've ever gotten to see all of it. FREAKY.
I couldn't figure out right away if he really had blackouts or if that was just his older self popping in and taking over each time. In that case ... you have to wonder if he was moving around even more than we saw in the movie!
I liked the concept - I've never seen time travel work quite that way. Usually it requires a man-made machine of some sort or even an outside agent like a black hole.
To be fair, there's plenty in everything we all like to laugh at. I enjoy the concept of time travel, and this was done without an outside agent or manmade machine, which intrigued me.
I did not see it. I can't remember if we have the FX channel or not, but if we do, I wish I'd known it was on. :-P I remember watching the commercial for it, way back when: a guy realizes he can change either the past or the future: he fucks up, decides to try and fix it; he inadvertently kills his gf with the fix, then tries to bring her back, makes the situation worse; and it escalates until *insert freaky climax that I have yet to be spoiled for here.*
I really wanted to see it when the commercials were circulating. I just... never did. :-/
When I got home last night I had to check it out. I can't quite believe I found the whole movie (including alternate endings)! Woohoo - thanks! :D
How freaky was that? Such a unique way to fuck up your life, over and over and over again. (And it's genetic. Somehow that strikes me as such a Clarke-ian way to look at it. Very "Childhood's End.") The way they laid out the ability, if the character had been a bit more imaginative, he probably could have simply called up a memory to 'go there.' Though it hardly seemed a healthy activity; how may 'remapping' episodes of hemorrhaging could he (erm, realistically) survive anyway?
Looks like this is my night - ainsoph15 may be on, too ...
It's interesting how each time he "fixes" things, somebody's situation has to get worse for somebody else's to get better. I've heard that before, in life, but it's sort of depressing to see, anyway. And at the very end, with Kayleigh on the city street - what I want to know is, if he went back and made his young self tell her to get lost, and then vacated that brain/body, would his resulting older self still know her? Because he asked Lenny about her after his "memory alteration" and nosebleed that last time. (And also, the journals were prescribed *after* that point, when he was having all kinds of blackouts - would he have had need for blackouts if he hadn't gotten mixed up in hers and Tommy's lives? And did older!Evan still visit his younger self all those times? There would've been no need to, right?)
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IIRC, it's essentially a cross between Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies.
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I really wanted to see it when the commercials were circulating. I just... never did. :-/
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To paraphrase J.D.:
Book it now, thank me later. :-)
Or just come chat.
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How freaky was that? Such a unique way to fuck up your life, over and over and over again. (And it's genetic. Somehow that strikes me as such a Clarke-ian way to look at it. Very "Childhood's End.") The way they laid out the ability, if the character had been a bit more imaginative, he probably could have simply called up a memory to 'go there.' Though it hardly seemed a healthy activity; how may 'remapping' episodes of hemorrhaging could he (erm, realistically) survive anyway?
I'm working again today, but I might be on later.
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It's interesting how each time he "fixes" things, somebody's situation has to get worse for somebody else's to get better. I've heard that before, in life, but it's sort of depressing to see, anyway. And at the very end, with Kayleigh on the city street - what I want to know is, if he went back and made his young self tell her to get lost, and then vacated that brain/body, would his resulting older self still know her? Because he asked Lenny about her after his "memory alteration" and nosebleed that last time. (And also, the journals were prescribed *after* that point, when he was having all kinds of blackouts - would he have had need for blackouts if he hadn't gotten mixed up in hers and Tommy's lives? And did older!Evan still visit his younger self all those times? There would've been no need to, right?)
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