Movies

Eunice and I have seen a couple of movies lately that are worth talking about.

First, Eunice and I rented The Butterfly Effect. We had wanted to see it when it was in theaters, but we never got out to. I hadn't seen any ads for it other than at previews to other movies, which is usually a good sign. I've found that the suck-itude of the movie is almost always directly proportional to the size of its ad campaign.

Anyway, on to The Butterfly Effect. The title refers to chaos theory, which states that a nearly imperceptible change can have massive effects. A butterfly flaps its wings in central park and the coast of Indonesia is hit by a massive tornado, which to me shows butterflies to be a menace on global proportions, but maybe I missed a point.

Anyway, Evan, Ashton Kutcher's character, finds out that he can travel back in time to specific points in his life. The movie is all about him trying to fix various things with a "small" change, and then seeing what happens. Everything hangs together well. Everything is important. It's very well written, and I have new respect for Ashton Kutcher. A word of warning though --some pretty messed up things happen. Evan and his friends don't have a very nice life.

It appears that the second move will have to wait for another post (which will hopefully come in less than a week this time...).