This movie should’ve deserved a 7/10 from me, but they screwed up the ending and broke the main rule of time distortion. There’s something about time distortion movies that always gets screwed up. The only one I can think of that worked pretty well was Terminator and Terminator 2. The main rule that time distortion movies need to follow is that if the past has changed, the future can not have occured. I never analyzed the 3rd Terminator movie, but the 1st 2 kept stuff in check where the means may have changed, but the end results remained the same. There was an alternative ending to Terminator 2 which would have broken this rule, but like I said, it was an alternative ending.
The Buttefly Effect didn’t break this rule, but they did cheat by magically adding different ways to change the past at the end and added a memory that was not shown before in order to make it a “somewhat” happy ending. Speaking of which, it appears The Butterfly Effect 2 is out.
The story was originally a Korean film called: il Mare and have been adapted by the directory as an American story.
Official Site
IMDb: 6.9/10 (7,552 votes)
Yahoo! Movies: The Critics: C+ / Yahoo! Users: B
Rotten Tomatoes: Rating: 36% / Average Rating: 5.1/10
Apple Trailer
Amazon.com DVD
Amazon.com Soundtrack
MY RATING: 6/10
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If you change the past the future could not have occurred. So if the future changes, no one could be sent back in time from the original future to alter the past in the first place… Right??? >_
I would actually agree with what you said, that a good time travel movie shouldn’t allow any changes to occur that would ultimately change the future.
However, Buttefly Effects had an interesting way to deal with this. He altered the past, but his future was altered also and his new future had nothing that conflicts with the past.
I’m actually okay as long as there’s nothing that will conflict the future with the past.
For example, in Terminator, if changing the past either meant no future robots or no future John Conner, then the sending of the robots back or trying to stop Skynet would not make sense.
In the Butterfly Effect, it used it’s blackouts as a “save point”, something you can return to and continue the game, but the new future created doesn’t conflict with the past.
However, in Lake House, there is no timeline that would make sense.
//krunk (^_^x)