THAT. Was a good movie. I didn't see the theatrical cut, but the ending of the director's cut was perfect for the movie. There was about ten minutes of happy in it, and after the first major change he REALLY shouldn't have killed that guy, because otherwise that reality was fine. Except for the vapid frat-boy part, of course, but it was livable. Good stuff.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
I too watched the Director's Cut, then flipped over to see how the Theatrical Cut ended ... in a word, ugh. They go to a junkyard and burn the notebooks. Ick.
Hey, cool, Carnivale on DVD on the day which will live in infamy.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
That's way too tight of a shot on Larry Hagman. He should be viewed from much further away. And only with Barbara Eden standing next to him.
I watched the Director's cut of Butterfly Effect and loved the movie. I never saw the theatrical release though. Remind me of the diffeences between the two endings.
I remember that in the DC, he travels back to when he was a fetus and stangles himself so that he's never born, giving the impression (to me anyway) that possibly the same thing happened to the other two aborted pregnacies his mom suffered before him. Then we get a montage of how things happened after he prevented his own birth and everyone turned out very happy.
How does the TR end?
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Aban:
They go to a junkyard and burn the notebooks. Ick. Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Well, yes... I read that part. But I'm assuming there's just a little more to it than that... If they just replace the whole "Kelso in the insane asylum goes back to when he was a fetus" scene with "Kelso in the insane asylum and vague other people go to a junkyard to burn the notebooks", I'm quite lost.
Who burned them, and why did they do it? How did they even figure out they were important? Was Kelso still in the asylum? Discuss.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
In the deleted scenes there was a little something, something of an ending. Was that in the theatrical version? Netflix put a sticker on the disc so we couldn't actually flip it over and watch.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
Well basically he watched a home movie of a birthday as a child and first met that girl and told her he'd kill her and whatever so she would go live with her mom instead of her dad. So of course, her brother never turns into a psycho and they grow up happy while Kelso and the other fat kid become friends and grow up normal as well. He burns his diaries so he'll never be tempted to try to change things again. Then the final shot is Kelso and the girl passing each other on a busy New York-like sidewalk but she doesn't recognize him.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Got it. Yah... I like the Director's version ending better.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
I saw Larry Hagman at Michael Parkinson's, he was delightful. Not at all the Texas crazebuff I imagined, he had fairly sympathetic and constructive views on 9/11, war on terror and other things.
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