Movie Banter: The Butterfly Effect

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This was an awesome movie. plain and simple. By awesome I mean that it acutally creeped me out...sort of. It's very rare that a movie can do that to me. This is a WTF?!-type movie.

*****

FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY OF THE PLOT, DON'T READ IF YOU LIKE GOING IN FRESH!!

The main character has some problems. As a kid he has these blackouts when his stress level gets too high. He cannot remember what happend during these blackouts. They disturb his mother enough to where they see a doctor, who suggests he record everything he does in a journal, to possibly jog his memory. He does this all of his childhood, which is pretty disturbing and depressing in its own right. All the time he's having these blackouts, until we skip ahead to his college years.

In college, he breaks out these old journals and starts reading through them. As he does, he basically transports himself BACK to his childhood, but he is aware of himself while doing it. So all of a sudden you have a seven year old boy with the mind of a twenty year old (and the vocabulary, hehe!) In doing this, he makes small changes in time, which changes everything about his future. As he returns from his travel (at the end of the blackouts) everything goes horribly wrong. This is why the movie is titled such as it is; you can change one little thing somewhere or sometime, and it will have an exponential impact on you or the people you love.


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This movie will keep you on the edge of your seat, as it were. I was very abosrbed into the story, and was always wondering want was going to happen next. It is rare in these days that a movie like this is actually made. Most movies are designed in a disposable fast buck type fashion, but not this one. GO SEE IT!

please, anybody else who has seen it, post what you thought!