The Butterfly Effect (Infinifilm Edition)
by Eric Bress
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DVD Cover Information
Actor: Amy Smart, Ashton Kutcher, Elden Henson, Melora WaltersDirector: Eric Bress
Brand: NLV
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1 EX; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1 EX; Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-07-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: N7173
Studio: New Line Home Entertainment
Product features:
- A young man struggling to access sublimated childhood memories finds a technique that allows him to travel back to the past. Occupying his childhood body, he is able to change history. But every change he makes has unexpected consequences.Running Time: 120 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R Age: 794043717321 UPC: 794043717321 Manufacturer No:&
Movie Reviews of The Butterfly Effect (Infinifilm Edition)
Movie Review: Terrific movie; all portions of DVD fully accessible to deaf
Summary: 5 Stars
I knew I wanted to see this movie immediately when I learned it was taken from a previously published science fiction story about someone going back millions of years into time, accidentally stepping on a butterfly, and then returning to the present, only to discover the entire course of future history was changed because of that mistakenly killed butterfly.
I thought originally the movie would be based on the written scifi story due to the title containing the word 'butterfly', given the stepped-on butterfly in the published story. I was also told 6 months before this movie hit movie theaters by another friend who keeps up with the movie industry that it was connected to the published scifi story. When I saw the TV ads, they made me realize the movie would have nothing to do with the written scifi story; it would still touch on Chaos theory, but in a different way.
Now I realize the butterfly is also a reference to the fact that every time Chaos theory is described, invariably the example is invoked of a butterfly's wing's moving air in one part of the world that ends up causing a hurricane in another part of the world. So, two different sorts of butterflies being invoked here simultaneously in the title.
But I noticed that the DVD in its interviews refers to the butterfly of Chaos theory, and nowhere in the DVD is anything said about the science fiction story with the stepped-on butterfly in its plot, the only indication of its influence is how changing the past unavoidably changes the present too and the word 'butterfly' in its title.
(Sorry, I don't have that written scifi story's title or author of that story with me off the top of my head as I'm typing this. I don't think the title of that story is 'The Butterfly Effect', it's likely something else. Maybe someone else's review can provide that information.)
Back in college I had many talks with one friend in particular (we're both fans of scifi) about whether we could go back in time, but wouldn't that cause problems? When I saw this movie, I also watched with those past conversations in the back of my mind.
Because I'm deaf, however, I was forced to wait until this movie reached DVD format, because I did not hear of it being shown with captions in movie theaters anywhere in my area.
When I finally saw the movie on DVD, I felt it was well worth the wait!
There are some scenes in the first half of the movie that seemed to make no sense. When I got to the second half of the movie the logic of those scenes that I thought strange suddenly became clear.
I did hope that the real life Ashton, who plays the main character, would be a lot better than he is in his TV program. His program I don't really care for and have nearly always made a point of quickly clicking past it with my TV remote. I just don't understand how such drek is even allowed to exist on TV. Well, surprise! In this movie I think he's really terrific, a very serious and dramatic contrast to how he looks on TV.
Hard to believe how many different versions the real life Melora (who plays Ashton's girlfriend in the movie) can act, are they all really the same person?? In one time line I barely even recognized her, I had to look twice, she was that incredible. She's obviously a marvelously skilled actress. I don't think I ever saw her before this movie.
After Ashton goes back and changes time, there is a sudden rush of scenes in a brighter color, signifying new events and memories being formed as a result of some event in the past being changed, then the movie returns to normal colors and a newly-changed present. Those lighter-colored scenes occur very fast and I wasn't always sure of what I was seeing. When those particular scenes appear in the movie, you really have to have your eyes on the ball; look away just one instant or even merely blink, you've missed it. It was sometimes simply too rapid to cognitively process, at least for me, so I will have to go back and re-watch those scenes on the DVD to understand what I was seeing.
I have to doublecheck to make sure I'm right, I could very well be wrong, I think the first time those lightly-colored scenes appear, the scenes flash by a little slower, later on in the movie I think they go by faster now that we know their meaning.
About the three different endings on the DVD -- I didn't like the director's preferred ending that appears in the director's cut. I say this even though it was much more dramatic than the other two endings and left me thinking even more about what could go really wrong with changing one's past. In contrast, the theater release's ending, and the other ending that wasn't used, I preferred either of those. The best ending I preferred was the third alternative ending that was not used in the director's cut nor in the theater release, because it left open new possibilities.
I devoured the entire DVD, not only watching the original theater release but also the two alternative endings and all of the other extras such as how the movie was made.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, New Line Home Entertainment, for choosing to close caption the entire DVD including the interviews and how the movie was made! I really hate it when DVDs close-caption only the movie or TV episodes, then leave the rest of the DVD or DVD set (the interviews, etc.) virtually uncaptioned. (Perfect example: In Showtime's Queer as Folks' 2nd season DVD set, the episodes are all closed captioned on the first 5 DVDs, but nothing on the 6th and final DVD is closed captioned, and this is where the interviews, how the film was made, etc. are, and as a result, even though I enjoyed watching the first 5 DVDs in the set, in the end I felt upset and pissed off with Showtime.)
I liked the Infinifilm version of the movie, a new technology I haven't seen before, thought it was interesting. The movie can be seen both outside and within the Infinifilm format. Don't remember which cut is the main one shown inside the Infinifilm format, the theater cut or the director's cut, but you can see the other two possible endings while within Infinifilm. At various points in the movie where a certain indicator appears briefly, if you choose to click your remote at that point before the indicator disappears and the movie then resumes, you get automatically and briefly switched to a portion of whatever interview touched on that part or a film short about how that part of the movie was made. At the end of that clip you get switched back and the film automatically resumes where it paused before.
Speaking as a deaf person, the interview clips in the Infinifilm however are easier to understand and to follow only if the original interviews from which those clips were taken is seen in their entirety. (These interviews appear in full elsewhere on the DVD; I saw the clips first, before I saw the interviews, and then realized the clips had come out of these interviews.) The reason I emphasize being deaf here is that the close captions get messed up in the film clips inside the Infinifilm, while in the full interview format the same closed captions come across completely. Within the Infinifilm, sometimes the first sentence that's said and which should be closed captioned, doesn't appear in some of the film clips. The rest of the captions within each clip come out just fine.
I finally realized this is probably an artifact of the Infinifilm technology that definitely needs to be fixed, and not a result of sloppy captioning, because the clips were clearly taken from the filmed interviews after the latter were already fully captioned, since the captioning in both is virtually identical.
This problem disappeared if I ran the Infinifilm, and then used the remote to fast-forward straight from one short film clip to the next clip, and made a point of skipping watching any part of the movie itself within the Infinifilm format.
If you're someone who seeks or needs captions, or know someone who's either, and seek a DVD that provides full access to all parts of it, not just the movie portion, this DVD is terrific. The closed captioning is top quality, and the accessibility of this DVD (aside from the small problem with the Infinifilm technology) is 100%.
Summary of The Butterfly Effect (Infinifilm Edition)
Synopsis:Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: R
Street Date: 09/12/06
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve Please note: This supplier will be closed on 11/24, 11/25, 12/26, 1/2 for the holidays. The shipping cut off is 12/10 to try and have the products delivered by Christmas.
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