Butterfly Effect

That is the Cinema version, the Director's cut version is the one spoiled above.



IIRC, the R2 DVD shows just a brief clip of the ending of the scene not the build up beforehand of it. This segment contains a brief clip of the cinema ending.



Only the R1 version as far as I know is a two-disc set containing both director's cut and cinema versions of the film. Unfortunately I brought the R2 version when it first came out and have only just recently got a multi-region player but don't particularly want to shell out again for an R1 version. :(
 
Hehehe

I've got 2 copies of that, I bought it when it first came out, then i bough the Special 2 Disc Edition on special - cos its one of my favourite films :D

The special 2 disc one explains a hell of alot!
 
Sorry to bump such an old thread but..

Watched this tonight on E4, had seen half of it on sky box office a few years ago but my memory of it was vague.. anyway - I really liked it. Very dark and macarbe but an interesting concept and a bitter sweet ending that made me both smile and bought a lump to my throat.

Couldn't imagine having been bought up with and grown up with the love of my life from such a young age only to erase it all and let her go, fully aware of having made such a decision and my inability to reverse it while she is none the wiser.

Very sad :(

Haven't seen the director's cut but despite it sounding pretty gruesome, would have rathered that. Not as emotional, in a good way.
 
Indeed, brings me down just trying to imagine being in his shoes during that final (cinematic release) scene :(

Knowing that the woman you love so much and, in another timeline, grew up with, is within reach but not wanting to hurt her letting her carry on past.

Truely heart breaking. If I hadn't watched with my better half I'd probably have shed a tear or two :D.

However, he did the right thing :sleep:. Whilst I'm pretty sure that going up to her would have done no harm now that her brother had grown up hinged and they'd both turned out okay, you can never be certain and with his journals destroyed, he couldn't stop it another time.

I was reading through this thread, apparently the director's cut DVD doesn't even include the cinematic ending, as if it didn't happen.

Would it be naive and hopeful of me to assume that this was the director's undoing and changing it :eek:.
 
Sorry to post so late - just saw this thread now

I saw The Butterfly Effect, both in the cinema and bought on DVD.

I've seen both endings and think the Director's Cut is definitely the better of the two IMHO. However I'm confused about what got spoiled on here, has a post been deleted?
 
it looks very odd, i am going to watch it anyway but the description involving the phrase 'when his life is saved by a 6 foot rabbit who told him about the airplane falling out the sky...' really makes me think it is going to be an odd film.
 
If you havent seen this film, it Premieres on Sky Movies tonight at 8pm and 9pm well worth watching. Im interested to see which of the 3 endings Sky will use.
 
i rented this from lovefilm some years ago - it had the horrible, wonderful ending on that.

i thought it was absolutely thought provoking and well made script - a wonderful idea. but Ashton Kutcher was rubbish - but Amy Smart was just excellent.
 
Saw the film on DVD, and I have to say I didn't like it. It was too confusing to me. An hour or so into it, I got bored and walked away, leaving my Mom watching it.
 
i saw this for the first time last night, and i did quite like it. my husband thought it was quite predictable, although i wasn't sure if he'd come through it all like he did at the end. quite a dark story in many places.
 
I liked it too :) the ending I saw was
shocking, and I've seen some pretty shocking movies... in fact it was plain nasty :mad:
but I loved it anyway :D

I saw the post about sumbuddy spoiling the alternate ending... so I skimmed over a few of the posts, sorry if anyone has already mentioned this:
I remember catching Neighbours (I don't normally watch it, honest... :o ) and somebody refers to a shallow movie where "he keeps going back but his hairstyle never changes" - I guessed this was TBE, can anyone confirm if AK hairstyle remains the same? and in which case, should I tune into Neighbours for it's insight into movie flaws?



Donnie Darko is nice, share it with someone :)
 
I watched it last night - really liked it..

I guess most people who watched it were left wondering about how their own life would be if they could go back to specific moments in their life and change things... what would be etc
 
It was good right up until the end when they chose to have a Hollywood ending i.e. everyone lives happily ever after...this was more disappointing than the ending of the shawshank redemption...in both films the main lead should have died i.e. andy should have hanged himself, ashton should have killed himself in the psychiatrist room...
 
I watched this on DVD when me and some mates rented it. The ending (what I thought was the only ending) was the superior directors cut, and I thoroughly enjoyed the whole film. But when I watched it again - on Film4 i think - it was the 'Hollywood' ending and imo it ruined the entire film. I like how the directors cut ending kept in line with what the main characters mother said about
having lost her previous children, hinting that they went through the exact same experience as the main character (can't remember his name)
The other ending is just cheesy.
 
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