| I went with a small group on Saturday night to see "The Butterfly Effect." I was mildly interested in seeing before I went, but I never thought I would enjoy it as much as I did. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I do feel awfully sorry for Ashton Kutcher, though. I've never seen a single episode of "That 70's Show," but going by the audience reactions, it's hard to take him seriously. That's really unfortunate because he really pulled off a very weird and twisted roll. Then again, the younger actors that also played his character did a wonderful job, as well. The movie is all about what would happen if you could change certain moments in your life and make things turn out differently. It did a lot of focusing on the inherint risks involved in doing that, even when you have the best of intentions. It really could have been a very over-complicated storyline that was kept pretty simple, but not dummied down too much. It actually got me thinking quite a bit about my own life, specifically how different it would be if a few things were changed even just slightly. I'm sure that's not what they were going for (making you think, that is), but that's what it got me doing. It has a little bit of "Back to the Future"-type flair to it, in that the main character is tinkering with his current surroundings by changing events in the past. The ripple effect of the changes he makes in "The Butterfly Effect" are more like effect waves. By simply changing one event, the course of several lives were forever altered... well, until he went back again. If you like a good thriller, with very little gore (although you THINK you see a lot, you never do), this is a great movie. Like I said before, I thoroughly enjoyed it. |
