We Hate Movies - S4 Ep156: The Butterfly Effect
Episode Date: May 6, 2014In this week's episode, the gang gets super extreme and totally has their minds blown while watching The Butterfly Effect! With this trumped up student film, who thought it was a good idea to put up t...he money? Why does there have to be so many bad things happening to these poor kids? Pick one! And who really thought that Directors' Cut ending was worth even shooting? PLUS: A peek inside the writers' room for this film. The Butterfly Effect stars Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Elden Henson, William Lee Scott, Melora Walters, Ethan Suplee and Eric Stoltz; directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber. Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies
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Hello, I'm Andrew Jopin.
Steven Zedak.
Chris Gavin.
And we hate movies.
Hello, everyone. Welcome to We Hate Movies. Thank you for tuning in, as always. If you're new to the program, thank you for joining us. And we apologize that you're jumping in while we talk about the butterfly effect from 2004, directed by a team of fellas. Two people responsible for this film, Eric Bress and Jay Mackie Gruber. This is one of those things where we realize, like, oh man, times flying by on the show. And, like, it's two.
It's 2014, so now all of a sudden all these new movies are available.
And this is one we just had to snatch up as fast as we could.
Wait a minute.
Guys, I just read my notes and I time traveled.
Oh, shit, dude, you did it?
You looked like you blacked out for a little bit.
Yeah.
Did everybody get molested?
Everybody in the room?
Round the horn, everybody?
We were still molested, so you didn't do it.
You have to go back again.
I got to go back then.
Keep going back.
this film is utterly horrendous
it was a super smash at the box office
uh this was ashton kutcher's like first serious thing
never in my life did i think for a second i'd be sitting watching a movie going
man you know i really wish i was watching dude wears my car right now
it would have been a saving grace i was i was just i was like you know is it on
netflix can i just watch it after this i was hoping i could watch jobs give that a spin
to this fucking piece of garbage dare
ever watch that movie
it's that's I mean that's my problem
with Ashton Coucher
if he could just stick to the stupid
shit yeah I'd be so fine
I thought he was very funny on that 70s show
that's a show that ran like five years
longer than it should have but
he was always very funny on it as
Kelso I think he's got good comedic
timing he just he gets sidled
with these romantic
comedies that no one could possibly
care about or you're doing stuff like this or jobs they have the same beard and you know both
characters have the same beard uh and you're just like what do what do you do i mean i'm laughing at
you in this movie but i'm not supposed to you don't want me to be but i am laughing at you
sincerity does not help ashton kutcher no and and the and i mean there's a lot of like the sincere
scenes in this movie are out like outrageous well that's this movie is outrageous and this movie
should be a balls to the wall
like not even a comedy but like
just like it you
can mind actually comedy from this premise
and like how silly and over
the top it gets but
it's so sincere and it's so like
if this movie thought it was a comedy it's one of the best
comedies I've ever seen but it thinks it's this
movie where it's gonna make you think
it's a real noodle scratch of that butterfly
effect hey man I was watching that
butterfly effect I was uneased
it's like what it's a supernatural threat
it's like the mothman prophecies right
Oh, Ben, fuck them off.
That's a trick.
You just tricked our audience.
And I was like, hey, you know that Mothman Prophecies?
That's a supernatural thriller.
No, it's a boring movie.
Dude, okay, here's one for the fans.
Me and Chris Kavan watched that movie in theaters on an awkward double date.
And I was more upset that we were watching Moth Man Prophecies than the situation we found our son's in.
It's just nothing happens than a bridge collapses.
Man.
Yeah, that is a real snooze of a movie.
But Steve the mothman might have killed the fucking bridge.
I want to see the moth man, if that's the case.
I want to see the jeepers creepers moth man.
Fly it around and at the end, Bruce Willis has to put a fucking steak in his heart.
Not Bruce Willis, whatever, Richard Gear.
Richard Gear.
You know what this movie is, I mean, this movie is a really bad student film that got an executive producer in Ashton Coochard and a star in Ashton Coocher
and was able to wrangle some money
for a budget. And that's a big problem
because this script is outrageous
because it's filled with all the things
that a bad first-year film student
would write into his script. Like, oh man,
what if this one guy's a fucking child
molester? And then this other girl
tries to kill herself. And by the
way, they go to the movies. Oh, they
go to the movies and they are watching seven.
Oh, yeah.
It's even worse than that. Oh, dog
gets burned to death.
Oh, yeah. Oh, you know what, man,
And this character I wrote, he's so sinister.
Guess what I came up with last night?
He's going to burn a dog.
You know how they usually put a sack of dogs in the river?
Burning him.
Fire, motherfucker.
There's two guys in the room writing it, and one guy would write like,
okay, so then Evan gets his dog burned.
And the other guy's like, dude, that's fucked up.
And he's like, print it.
That was the test.
That was so fuck.
Oh, yeah, that's so fucked up.
Oh, man, Chabalestation.
You, you just blew my mind.
I mean, so the movie starts with a garbage quote about chaos theory, bro.
Like, it's like, oh, man, you ever hear about that butterfly thing?
We're like, the butterfly's wings flap its wings, then a guy in Asia has a heart attack, right?
Like that shit happens, dude
You ever think about that?
That shit'll keep you up at night
Because that's the other thing, right?
It's like, how are we going to get people
To take us seriously?
You gotta start with a really rocking quote
Not attributed to anyone.
It's attributed to chaos theory.
I mean, you know, Jeff Goldblum's really upset right now
that Ian Malcolm didn't get credit
at the beginning of the butterfly effect, I guess.
It's probably literally, it should be like, you know,
of a butterfly flaps its wings
in one part of the world
such and such and such and such
and then it's dash
that one's treehouse of horror episode
like they might as well quote
the fucking Simpsons episode
they got the idea from
Bruce I had this awesome idea
for a quote you see
I had this idea that like
butterfly flies
and then somebody dies somewhere
what could
did somebody say something like that
well that's theoretical
and it's chaotic
chaos theory there we go
we did it
I mean it is part of chaos theory
etc etc etc but like find the
fucking scientists that wrote that shit down
where's your bibliography butterfly
effect it's not a fucking urban
legend someone figured it out
it's not like the mothman prophecy
it's a real thing
maybe it was the mothman that did it
if a butterfly flaps its wings
in one continent
then a typhoon hits another
continent dude again
where's my where is my cobra
commander mothman if that's what i'm paying fucking nine bucks for i don't want to watch
richard gear and laura litty fucking stared dully at each other i want a mimic creature yes exactly
that's what i thought we were getting into i was like it's a mimic but it's with dick
gear so you're classing it up a bit oh what a bridge fell down oh the credits
fucking you know what that's a state tune yeah at some point
ha so he he being ashton kutcher uh is is a as a fella named evan is it evan treeborn which i was
looking on the i mdb you know that's the you know what that spells event reborn yeah that's fantastic
yeah no problem bro i just i just blew your mind again man and i do apologize for everyone who
hasn't seen this movie i would stop your car because your mind's going to get blown about five or six
time. This really is one of the coolest stories I've ever heard. I'm about to skip a stone
of your brain mounds. So he's a kid. We start off when he's a little kid and we go through his
very tumultuous, very tumultuous childhood immediately. Wausa. Like you had that one kid in your grade
where you were like, oh man, that kid had that happen or whatever. That kid's got a bad dad or
something, something. These kids have everything happened to them. It's. It's.
Any horrendous shit that can befall a child happens to all of these kids, this group of friends.
I'd rather be a Stephen King kid than Evan Treeborn.
You know what I mean?
Oh, yeah, because you're just getting bullied in your underwear.
You're not getting fucked by Eric Stultz.
And then eventually you can fuck back with your mind powers.
Yeah, at least you get mind powers at the end of the deal.
Yeah, I mean, so Evan has his mother, Hollywood's punching bag, Melora Walters.
Hollywood damage goods, Malora.
I mean, like, she's probably got a super sweet life,
but every time I see her in a movie,
I'm like, I just feel bad for her because the events that befall her every time.
I mean, that's her type.
What is she known for?
Magnolia's the big one.
Oh, yeah.
Speaking of people getting touched.
She gets a raw deal in that movie.
She sure does.
And then actually, it's funny because, actually, for research for the show,
at least that's what I'm saying.
I was watching Beethoven the other day.
Dude, no, no, no.
You know what happens in Beethoven.
You know whether or not Beethoven is an episode.
I was re-watching Beethoven and she, for real, plays the lady who attends to him at the pet store before he gets kidnapped.
Oh, that's nice.
That's a nice turn for her.
So she's his mother.
And like, the first thing we see is Evan draws this totally fucked up picture in school where it's all these bloody dead bodies, bro.
And it's an annoying movie thing where this doodle is way too good for like a seven-year-old.
old kid. It's like
if that kid drew that
I'd be like if I was the teacher right I'd be like
well the content is clearly
disturbing but the brush
strokes here from this crayon
this is a specialty school
stuff here man this this I mean
it looks like Todd McFarlane doing a caricature
so exactly yeah I'd be like dude
you should fucking call up image comics
you got a deal man you got
you got something no one ever
looks at messed up child
drawings for the actual craft behind
them and that's something that we really should be doing the formal ability exactly well i'd say
99 out of 100 of those child disturbed drawings are like angry scratch drawings sure but yeah if you get
that one where you're like hey you can make a cartoon out of that hey you know what the line on this
carcass is extraordinary oh the perspective of i love this looking down shot you're holding the knife
i mean this is all really well this is really in frame look at the shading going on while this
this half tiger, half man is skull-fucking, this dead woman.
I wish.
You wish that happened in this movie.
It's just a kid with a knife over a pile of dead bodies,
which is actually never explained in the movie why he was drawing it or what.
Well, it is explained.
It is explained.
Oh, I apologize.
Because he didn't draw it.
It was the friend who is actually disturbed.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Well, so he's got a posse of friends.
It's him who grows up to be Ashton Coucher.
there's a girl who grows up to be Amy Smart
There is her brother who grows up to be some fucked up guy
And the actor nobody knows
And then there's the other friend who's like the fat kid
Because you have to have a fat kid
That's why it's almost like a Stephen King group
Because it's two white boys, a girl
And then a fat kid
And the fat kid grows up to be one of the
The dude who played one of the Bash brothers and Mighty Ducks
Elvin Hanson
Yes
So that's like their little posse or whatever
Two white boys, a girl and a fat kid?
kid. I smelled a fantastic four. I don't know about you guys. I was going to say that's half
a it. And so like, you know, Malora Walters is like, oh my God, my son's so fucked up. I have to go
to luckily his father is in a loony bin, a good old fashioned movie loony bin. Yeah, this guy's
just great a crazy. And, you know, he, they, you know, his, his psychologist, they bring him
the psychologist, like, you know, his father had blackouts. It seems like Evan's starting
to have blackouts. Maybe he should keep a journal. And like, that's the thing. It's like,
Evan should keep a journal so he remembers what goes on and blah, blah, blah. And, you know,
maybe one day it'll allow him to travel back in time. We'll just see what happened. He may use
these journals to forget the whole thing and stop having seizures or he might be able to travel
through time. Try to guess which one. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. I mean, he could
turn into Bishop. Could turn into Bishop. Just saying, if this little kid just turned into this
hulking black gentleman. Yeah. With a big M on his?
I'm into that idea.
And, yeah, so
we're writing these
journals down and the first
little, the first tragedy to befall
him is
you go to Eric Stoltz's house.
Of course. That's how it all starts.
This movie should be called a laundry list of
tragedy. It is.
Butterfly effect, colon, a laundry list
of tragedy. And here's number one.
With a bullet. And you know what? I've
said this before on the show about rape
and it goes the same for child. It goes more
for child molestation. Child molestation, it's a big, heavy spice to put into your pot. You know what I mean?
Like, now everything tastes like saraje. That's your sound like you just used way too much of it and now I can't taste anything.
Right. Unless the movie's about child molestation, which this movie's not. No. Let's just keep it out. Let's just totally throw it out of the movie.
Here I am. It's a nice Friday night in the year 2004. I just snagged myself a hot date and we're going to go to the movie theater to go see the new Ashton Cutchman.
vehicle, the butterfly effect.
I don't know, baby. I heard
it's about time travel or something.
You stopped by coconuts, picked up a Huba
Stank CD?
You're goddamn right I did.
And the reason is you, hon.
And man, you're just
in that theater and then you see Eric
Stultz and I'm like leaning over like,
hey, he almost played Marty
McFly, but he got fired for being
shitty. That's cool
right? He's one of my
top five favorite bit parts
in Pulp Fiction.
And then he has some line where it's an off-the-cuff,
hey, I just got this camcorder.
You guys like making movies, right?
And I know right away that this girl in 2004
is never going to go out on a date with me ever again.
Because I took her to a child molester movie.
It's a fucking secret child molester movie.
You can't do that.
No, no.
If that's what you want to do
and you want to blindside me with child molestation,
you have to see that shit through to the end yeah exactly we need the court case we need like you know what i mean like the chemical castration the being locked in a box for the rest of your life whatever it has to be all the psychological trauma i need to be in there man and he can't be played by eric stultz
that's the other thing don't ruin eric stultz for me okay he's kind of he's a bit ruined i i watched nymphomaniac jamy bell is now ruined for me forever yeah that's a problem i mean i wasn't gonna watch turn anyway
but, like, Jamie Bell is ruined for me.
And Eric Stoltz, who's actually kind of good in this movie
as a boozy child molester?
He is, like, kind of the coolest child molester I've ever seen.
I mean, the clanging glass, the clangin ice in his glass,
it's really heavy in the mix.
It's like they app that one up there, like above the dialogue.
They're like, here.
Because you need to know he's just drinking scotch, like a really hip guy.
He's got a pretty smooth-looking red polo.
shirt talked into non-pleaded cackies, by the way.
Oh, yeah. And we're down to the, we go into the movie studio, i.e. his basement.
And he's like, yeah, we're going to make a movie about Robin Hood. And everyone's like,
oh boy, Robin Hood. And he's like, all right. And this scene, yeah, Robin Hood and Made Mary and got
married. Ice clink. Ice clink. This is the wedding night. You know, when they kissing stuff
like adults. And I'm like, how much of this do we have to see?
Like, I got it.
I don't need you down in the basement.
When you say, like, you know what?
Let's go down to the movie studio because the lights better.
I just know, man.
I just know.
You know what you have to do?
You have to go into the basement with the kids,
shut the door behind you, and just hold on the shut door for like five seconds.
And you're out of there.
You hear action and a smack.
And you're like, I got it.
I totally got all of it.
Yep, that's it.
No, no, no, no.
Because this movie is going to blow your fucking mind.
You need to be in there, man, because if you're not fucking hardcore enough to handle this scene,
you're not hardcore enough to handle the Butterfly Effect, motherfucker.
But like, fucking Eric Stoltz is like Douglas Cirque giving these guys direction.
Like, it's a kid porn.
Just fucking do it.
Now remember, you're in love.
By the way, are you criticizing his directorial efforts in child pornography?
I am just a little bit.
Man, once a film critic, always a film critic.
I can't help myself.
which is exactly what he said
no we don't know
because he never has to fucking defend himself
because there's never anyone calling him out on his shit
yeah he's he black
Evan blacks out and we cut forward
and like everyone's kind of half naked
it looks like a Larry Clark movie
and he's like what happened
and the girl's like it's okay
and it's like it's not okay
there's just a bunch of slint playing
on the soundtrack
Ew, Larry Clark movies, ew.
Yeah, that's going to be the biography I write of Larry Clark.
Ew, portrait of a filmmaker.
So the next thing, the psychiatrist is like, you know, he's got, which is hilarious, and it just speaks to how little the filmmakers actually research in psychology, which is he's got a missing father complex.
I'm sure there's a more technical name for it.
He's like, and you know what's going to get over his missing father complex is we're going to bring his father in from the looney bin, straight from these, you know, playing fucking cards with Christopher Lloyd and Danny DeVito, and they're going to bring him in, and he's going to meet his father.
And, you know, and he actually says, no more missing father complex, and what could possibly go wrong here.
Cut to this dude strangling this child, outright strangling him, and he's yelling like, you must be the one to die or something like.
He's just, like, babbling at him.
He's played by Leobin from Battlestar Galactic, everybody.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, oh, yeah.
And he's great on that show.
He's kind of actually pretty good in this movie for the six seconds.
Well, I'll tell you this about this guy.
Usually you would have this guy, like, kind of back off of, like, oh, it's my son.
I can't.
This guy wants his kid dead.
Oh, yeah.
Just in the ground.
He's got his reasons, though.
He does have his reason.
He's got a couple.
I mean, he knows that he's going to turn into Ashton Coucher.
So, I mean, you've got to really.
I have to believe you.
I have to stop.
Dude, where's my car.
No, three and a half men must end with trolley, sheet, it must.
There can only be one job, bitcher.
You know, I mean, if that's not traumatic enough,
your father choked you at the second after you meet him.
And then him getting killed.
He just gets murdered by this security guard in front of him.
And it's like, come on, everybody.
Oh, man.
So, you know, it's not even a fortnight.
after he was sexually molested by
Eric Stultz. He's at his father's
fucking funeral. By the way
the funny thing is, he winds
up totally fine, and Amy
smart winds up the basket case.
Yeah, right, everybody.
And
the next one, now we
kind of cut forward maybe three or four years,
all the kids look totally different,
which is... Totally different. And it's a bad
casting job. It's tougher.
And I think, because we were talking about this
earlier today, I think what that is is like,
You want these teenage kids who are going to be on screen more than the seven-year-old kids.
You want them to be closer to the adult actors.
You know what I mean?
So it's, I mean, it's still not good.
The kid who they have playing young Ashton Kutcher looks like a brahm from Game of Thrones,
the little kid who's getting carried around by Hodor there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's got that.
You've got Amy Smart's surrogate looks like a busted teen of the others.
I was saying this girl looks like she got stung
by a whole bunch of bees
You're like, man, I got stung by a bee
This girl's like, I got stung by all the bees
Every last one of them
I'm sure she did it.
You said she looks like a busted tina yuthers
And I said she got stung by a few bees.
I regretted it immediately.
So there you go.
But
And Amy Smart's younger brother
is the shortest person they could find.
He's really hilariously tiny.
Because they're all like fucking five foot six.
They're all in the puberty spurt.
And like this kid's just like three foot two.
Well, because the whole thing is like I think this character,
you know, this boy is supposed to have this complex already.
Yeah.
He does turn out to be.
You're right.
Yeah.
The littler versions of them,
the kid who's playing Amy Smart's brother is Cameron Bright from birth.
Yep.
So that was something.
And godsend, not a stay tuned, speaking of a show research.
What is that? Robert De Niro?
Yeah, yeah, it's not a.
Yeah, it's the pet cemetery ripoff, right?
Kind of sort of cloning something, something.
So and so.
So and so.
Yeah, but I mean, so we get there and these kids are up to no good.
How much of a no good are they up to?
Let's put a firecracker in somebody's mailbox.
Pause.
It's not a firecracker.
It's a stick of dynamite.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a full-fledged U.S. Army-issued stick a dynamite that they took from child toucher Eric Stoltz, by the way.
What is that the fucking emergency switch?
Yeah, that's the eject button right there.
Yeah, he hears sirens when he's down in the basement, light that fucker up and put it in your mouth.
Everybody's got to have one.
You put it right on the hard drive and you put your head up against the computer.
And it goes.
So they're like, okay.
kid you want to be badass you put this what they think is a firecracker in this mailbox
and it's one of those dumbass novelty mailboxes that's shaped exactly like the house that's
in front of so it should be blown up in the first place yeah by teens sure or a baseball bat
you know ben affleck's gonna hit it with a baseball bat they drive by listening to erosmith or
whatever how to fucking colehauser miss it it's the biggest one on the blog and so kid puts it in
there and you don't like they go back and they're going to watch this thing blow man but because this
movie is so suspenseful you don't know right away what happens but we're going to tell you to
save everybody fucking 150 useless minutes because really the truth is is that you could have cut
as we're going to find out you could cut all this up to when we get to ashton kutcher because it's
going to be repeated so many times that you're going to get the idea completely but let's say it
anyway. So because let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, this movie is the most
badass movie. It's extreme dude. It's so mountain dew levels of extreme. It's not just a
firecracker. It's a stick of dynamite, which we learn later. It's a code red stick
of dynamite. It is a Baja blast stick of dynamite. And this this thing blows and you're
thinking like, oh, it just blew up, whatever. But you're trying to figure out like, why is this
fat kid traumatized? You know,
You know why the fat kids traumatized?
Because a mother and her baby went to get the mail, and they blew the fuck up.
Oh, shit, man.
Dude, I don't know if we could write this.
No, man, it's our duty to write this.
Hollywood's so pussy right now, bro.
Nobody's blowing up babies and mailboxes anymore.
And that's reality, bro.
Hey, man.
We are leading the charge.
Man, the 21st century is just underway
And we are going to take Hollywood to the next level
Dude, we're like Donnie Darko on steroids
Man, you remember that time we watched Fight Club
And I was like, this is for pussies
Oh yeah, no, these are, this is the team that watches all the David
Fincher movies wrong
You know, like
Yeah, exactly.
They watch those movies wrong.
Don Draper's the coolest fucking guy in the room.
Yep, yep, yep.
And they read all the Chuck Polonic novels wrong as well.
Well, no, actually, probably accurately.
Reading them at all is reading them wrong.
They're the ones that'll tell you chokes a good movie.
Yeah, I mean, because it's got the balls, man.
I mean, you've got to have the balls to, you know,
if you're going to put it up on the screen,
I'm going to put my heart on my sleeve, you know,
and blow up a baby in a mailbox.
It's like, come on.
Yeah, I've got guts.
I'll blow up that fucking baby.
It's like, come on.
We just literally in succession
A kid gets molested
It gets choked out by his dad
He blows up a baby in a mailbox
And it's not even done yet
It's a new mother
It's a double
Double pack
And the way they film this baby blowing up
Is such horseship
Because the mother's like
Oh what's that
You're gonna get the mail
Do you want to get the mail?
You're such a big girl
You want to get the mail
And you see the baby's little
baby hand touch this mailbox and then the screen goes white fuck you man are you serious just stop it like
at that point you got to leave the theater right but that's the problem you're putting your i can't
fucking believe this and not out of disgust because you're so cool because like i've been in high school
and i'm tired of it honestly like i've read those fucking short stories that my fucking classmates wrote
And I said, fuck you.
Well, I'm starting to fight in the middle of the theater just to have something to do.
I'm looking over like, do you want to go bowling?
Like, I know you wanted to go to the movies, but would you like to go bowling?
This won't happen at a bowling alley.
Maybe the bartender at Pizzerino Uno will serve me.
I don't know.
It could happen.
The worst thing that happens at a bowling alley is someone's going to sell us bad weed in the bathroom.
I don't have to sit through this shit.
And then Eric Stoltz shows up in the bathroom.
Hey, you want to make a movie about Robin Hood?
Clink, clink, clink, clink, clink.
This movie stinks.
Next scene, we're actually watching Seven in the movie.
And it's like, we go, these kids go to watch fucking Seven.
It's, Amy Smart Surrogate, Ashton Surrogate, and the fucking Psycho Kid.
Is the Fat Kid not there?
No, no, the Fat Kid's in a coma because he blew up a movie.
baby and he's fucking catatonic
I forgot
he's now and now he's
in the loony bin yeah oh the
pooky clock
you know
they go to watch seven
and this fucking little
loud mouth is drop it all sorts
of f bombs and not the ones that I like
to say on this show
yeah it's the homophobic ones because again
this movie is so
extreme we have
we have so much of that
and we've also got so much
useless child profanity.
Now, this is a real Stephen King
situation.
So we're watching
seven. And it's a weird, like,
it must have been opening
weekend of seven when they went, because there was
like, they passed by
no less than five, seven
posters on the way to go see seven in the
movie theater. Well, New Line Cinema
put this movie out. So
they were just lying around. And also
all these notes that he's
making to himself in his journal are
all composition notebooks just like you see in seven oh shit bro i didn't even realize that
oh my god did you connect the dots just laid it right out there for you oh oh you're welcome
dude you got to put lip biscuit back on go back to the first track and it's only three dollar
bill y'all because that's the good one now we're all in together now i'll show you what
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oh man
I know a guy that sold it Beth
so we've got it
in there
my neighbor's cousin does his face
paint
she says he's really got an attitude problem
so we're watching
Seven in the theater. And you know, weirdly enough, watching the movie seven, three days after you blew up a baby is a bad idea.
This girl's like, you know what, this movie's a little too much for me. And they're watching, and it's the scene where they uncover the fat guy, right? Yeah. And he's like the brother who's clearly like a problem child, because he came up with the idea for the dynamite and so on. He's like, look that fat fuck up there. Yeah. Look that fat fucking slob.
you're really watching this wrong
So they go out
Ashton and
Surrogate Ashton and Surrogate
Amy Smart
And they kind of start making out
He's like you're so beautiful
And it's like
The kid comes out
And he's really weird about his sister
Because they've all been molested
By Eric Stoltz
So every
Yeah only he can kiss his sister
Yeah exactly
He was Robin Hood first
All right
You know what I mean
Then he got fucking
He got ousted
He got Terence Howard and out of the role
Well because what I think it is
He looked at her and said,
Next time, baby.
Well, because I think what they do is
I think Eric Stelts is just trying to remake all the
Disney titles as child porn.
So I think the brother was probably Prince Charming.
Or maybe he was the fox and the sister was the hound.
So I'm going to make the whole box set.
It had a little fit.
Clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, cling, cling, cling, cling.
I got to set down a couple of tapes to some of my pals.
Jay Jones in Hollywood, California.
I don't know how I'm going to do Jungle Book.
but I guess I'll figure it out.
I can play the slurpy snake.
Oh, my God.
The brother comes out and he's like,
don't kiss my fucking sister.
And some other dude trips him in the lobby.
And he just lays way.
This little kid lays waste to this teenager.
And you're like, all right, now that kid's got problems.
And it's like, oh, fucked up, you know.
And it's like, uh, and so the next scene,
Lenny comes out of the loony bin,
to which he says, and again, like,
these people have never been in a mental institution in their lives.
And he's like, I couldn't go to sleep because of Alda screaming all night.
Like, no, actually, when a little kid goes to a fucking mental institution, I'm pretty sure it's pretty nice and supportive.
It's not a bad house.
Oh, it's such a madhouse.
Oh, my God, Evan.
It was so terrible.
I had to bunk with two-phase.
Oh, you thought Robin Hood was bad.
They kept calling me baby boomer.
And I was like, that's not me, man.
I swear I'm not a super villain.
just made one mistake.
I just blew up one baby
and all of a sudden. I'm all over
the news, Evan. All over
the news for one baby. You ever blowing up a baby?
It's a mistake, Evan.
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So they're like, okay, fat kid, you just got out of the nut house.
Let's go play outside.
You can't be in here making model airplanes all day.
Yeah, sure.
Let's go play in the woods.
Nothing terrible happens there.
And because it's been six and a half minutes without some wretched.
thing happening to these children.
They come across the badass little brother
who's put Evans' dog in a fucking sack,
tied it shut, and is dumping kerosene all over it.
I mean, when I saw this dog,
you see him in the first scene,
Evans just having breakfast with Melora Walters.
And he's like, oh, Crackett, I love you so much.
And I'm like, yeah, I can tell by the blue tinge on this shot,
that that dog ain't long for this world.
I've seen a film filter before
And I know what that shit mean
Oh, cracker, you're everything to me
Oh, cracker, we can live forever, can't we?
My childhood innocence, I hope you never get burned.
So this kid is just like,
You know what?
You're fucking kissing my sister
And the fat kid's the one that got to blow up the baby
And I didn't even get to do that.
Well, guess what?
I fucking hate your guts, Evan.
And he just lights this dog up.
And like, they try to stop him
And he beats the shit out of him.
like hits Evan in the side of the head with a board.
And it's another one of these blackouts.
Yeah.
So you don't really see what happens.
But then you see like a pile of dog smoldering and everyone crying.
And you're like, oh, I get it.
And then the next day, Malora Walters, like, yeah, we got to move.
And I'm like, great idea, Malora Walter.
It is a smash cut to a shot of a U-Haul truck.
Right out front.
You know exactly what's going on.
Because the kid is no longer a backseat psychopath.
Yeah.
He got in the driver's seat.
Absolutely.
He's got his license.
Yeah, you get away.
License to kill.
I mean, usually you say, leave those kids alone.
Don't go down to the, you know, the whatever house anymore.
It's like, no, we got to move.
We just have to move.
We're going to take a loss on the house.
We're going to move.
That's all there is to it.
I mean, I know one thing.
We can't call the police.
We absolutely cannot call the police.
We can't, I mean, we can do anything but call the police.
Well, actually, you can't, though, because you're definitely an accomplice on that baby murder.
Like, that shit, they're going to put you away.
Yeah.
like you roll over on him about the dog
then they're gonna be like
oh yeah well guess what
that fat friend who's accusing me of dog
murder blew up a baby and a mother
well one of the six lives
that he lives in this movie
he ends up in like four institutions
between the hash of it
and like man if that's just one
fucking deal with it and finally
Ashton Coucher shows up we cut
to the future or the present it's very
important though as they're driving
away he scribbles in his
composition notebook from seven
and he writes, I'll come
back for you and puts it up on the window
so Amy Smart's surrogate
character sees it as they
drive away. Smash cut
to 13 years later. He's in
college. He's a real brain.
He's a psychology major.
And he is
rooming with
a cartoon character. With Jabba
the hut.
Jabba do hut.
It's as big, I mean
Ethan Sopplea, I think he's a lot of fun.
he's a really funny guy
he's a good comedic actor good comedic actor
he's great in mallrats and he's pretty big in mallrats
he's a big kind of fat guy actor in this
movie he is
enormous he's surprisingly
large yep and the whole
gag is he's like obese
but he's also a lethario
he's like this obese goth dude
but he's just getting all these
babes and he's like hey man
personality no
he's paying these girls like I'm sorry
because there's just
no other way it's happening. I mean, yeah, I mean, the fact that we both like
Mushuga and Pig Destroyer is quite, I understand, you know, two stars in the night, but
this is a bit much. No, yeah, exactly. He's the guy that talks to these girls. He's on
aim all the time talking to him. Maybe, maybe, like, with a lot of persistence, he lands
the one. You know what I mean? Like, and he just, no, but every other scene, man, he's got
to do broad. And like, there's so much big surprise, unnecessary nudity in this movie. Yeah.
Like just, oh, cool, bro, tits.
You know, it's also about psychological thrillers?
Tits.
You're right, dude.
Congratulations.
It really boils your brain juice, man.
We get some tits on screen.
Yeah.
Oh, man, this movie's so extreme.
Dude, we could totally direct tits now, man.
Awesome.
Also, the other thing that this movie has a lot of, and it's obnoxious, is fucking in front
of your roommate.
Yes, not missing a beat.
And I feel like, that's another, like, bro, if you wanted to do that,
with me in the room man
whatever
yeah but I mean
you're right
and because
Ashton Cutcher
is A
like he's like
totally fucking pig shit
happy he's like
he's straight a student
he's good looking
like he's getting late
he's having to
and like he's got
no psychological trauma
whatsoever
my ass
because they say like
he repressed it or whatever
like the second
you see Ethan Supply
like mounting someone
you start shaking
and convulsing
no I won't make a movie
I won't make a movie
and you're like
what?
Dude, I'm trying to fuck in front of you.
Could you keep it down, please?
Or just be like, hey, man.
The camera's on.
The camera's on.
I can hear your screams of terror over this Marilyn Manson CD.
Let's get a dog collar on the doorknob rule going here.
You know what I mean?
Guess what?
Here, make it simple for everybody.
You hear mechanical animals in there?
You don't come in.
Yeah, just don't.
If you hear antichrist superstar, come right the fucking.
Mechanical animals, that's for the fucking.
Antichrist superstars just for when I study or jerk off, which I don't mind if you find me doing.
You can go ahead and flip a coin on that one.
So we go out to a club, to a bar, and, like, you know, they're on a double date, and Ashton Coucher is, like, talking up some lady, and, you know, Ethan Zupli looks like him, and he looks like an ICP member.
And, like, some townies are making fuck like a juggalo in this movie.
Some townies are making fun of him, and he's so tough.
you almost fights him and they get scared we go back and like the girl's like oh my god he's so weird
luck and he's like dude he fucks all the time she's like that doesn't make a whole lot of sense and he's
like i didn't need to know that i just want to be here with you right you're absolutely right on that
much so like the thing with Ethan supley this is because i hate to harp on it but it's like
it's one of the situations where he's lying on a bed and you can't tell there's a bed there
no it's just a massive fuck yeah it could have
just been like a bunch of t-shirts that he
built up into some
kind of you know area
so he's like
putting on a record like even
the best part of the movie from me even so
please like for once not fucking in
the dorm room so ashton kutcher's like well
it's my time to shine and he's putting
a record on they're like kind of making out
they're having a good time putting on some guster you know
oh yeah absolutely dude
he's got this crazy live gustor
set where they were opening for
DMB at the time and then at this one
show, man. Dave came out
and played a couple songs with Guster.
No way. Oh yeah, dude. That happened.
And I got the boot to prove it.
Phil Esh comes in
in the encore.
Deal with that shit. Oh, got some old
school Ben Harper on here, bro.
So,
he's just putting the moves
on, light some candles and she's like,
oh, I dropped an earring. Hey, look,
journals. And she's like,
and she starts going
through them. And instead of being like, hey,
you want to leave put those down we can talk or something he's just like what are you doing she's
like read me something from your journal and he's like what and you know what it is this girl's fault
because he's like okay i'll read you a little something and he at random picks a page well
at random it's all terrible you know what i mean well yes exactly there's no better part than
others so he just opens it and it's like well and then mr mcgillicuddy's cock and he's like
Like, you know, I don't think I can read this.
And she's like, no, keep going.
What is your end game, lady?
And it's like clearly disturbing him.
He starts like, we're getting into the time travel thing a little bit and his like
heads hurting and he's clearly having trouble.
And she's like, no, just keep reading.
And we should be clear here, the way he time travels for no reason.
I mean, it's never explained.
And I mean, chaos theory be damned is he looks at his own journal.
the camera starts to shake really coolly
and he just travels back in time
and he's inside his body
at whatever point
in the journal we're reading.
Yes, exactly.
So whatever part of these
this horrendous childhood tone
we're reading he goes to.
You're making a time travel movie
I'm going to compare it back to the future.
And the insults in your movie.
This is all a problem
and when I saw this
I realized that the whole
I guess it's the conceit
but I call it the joke of the movie
is that he can travel through time
by reading and it's Ashton Coutcher
in my head
that's a big laugh
In my head it was this
88 words per hour
These aren't magical notebooks
It's not any like
The only thing that's even kind of supernatural about it
is it only takes place
He can only do it at points when he blacked out
Like in his
In journal entries where he describes his blackout
he can access some super highway it makes somehow and i like this movie it makes less sense than
donnie darko i mean it would which is really tough to do honestly i mean donnie darko's got
an old witch drawing a physics equation for you to explain things this is just reading a composition
notebook and the only explanation they even bother to try to give you is oh also the dad has it so
like whatever it is like the dad wasn't crazy
the dad was also
he kept going back in time
trying to fix something
and eventually got himself
institutionalized
The father was a future rabbit monster
Yeah exactly
What are you doing?
Get out of the road, huh?
We love doing that
And so he travels back at time
And he comes back at the girls
Like oh weird
Where'd you go?
You just totally blacked out on me
I love you
Yeah she thinks like
It's because of drinking
And she's like
Oh I totally do that all the time
you're such a cool partier
keep reading your dark journals
that's interesting
like can we have sex
or could you please leave
like that's one or the other
you know
maybe and maybe it will go out
we don't have to have sex right now
and that's not what I'm getting at
I literally just don't want to be in my room
reading my dark journals to you
it's nothing on you but I need you to choose A or B
yeah that's fine it doesn't matter
or go to sleep we'll go to sleep
we'll get breakfast in the morning
that's also a fine option
I just don't want to read
my fucking journal to you, you total stranger.
I will even be a cuddled buddy.
That's what I'm willing to go through for this.
And he's like, oh, you know, I should look up the old gang.
And of course, like, he goes to Amy Smart and she's a fucking waitress.
Loser!
You know, she's a waitress and a diner, which is, like, the worst thing that could ever happen to anybody.
And she's like a bad waitress, too.
Like, the first thing you see is her just dropping plates everywhere.
Oh, yeah.
She's got a horrible life.
And the fat kid has grown up to be crazy.
He goes and visits him first.
Oh, yeah, you're right.
And, like, the mother lets him in, like, oh, look, who's here?
This kid that kind of ruined your life.
And, you know, he's, like, kind of, like, sort of catatonic, not really.
He's building a model airplane and not saying anything.
The room has about 50 model airplanes hanging.
He sleeps in a race car bed.
Like, his development stopped at the point when he blew up a baby, which it would.
I mean, yeah.
We don't know again, by the way, at this point in the film that he's blown up a baby.
Now it looks like a set from the tarnished angels.
And like, dude, where is the scene of the mother just being like, listen, Ashton Coucher?
We don't talk about the stuff before the planes.
Yeah.
Pre-planes, we don't talk about.
It's got to be laid out that clearly.
Yep.
It's just, it's not good.
Okay, got it.
Good.
So I'll go in and you'll leave me alone with him.
Okay, perfect.
Hey, you remember that time
when that baby's entire body
blew up? And like this dude
freaks out and he like pushes him up
against a bookshelf and he's like, you
fucking did it. I hope you fucking die.
If you get out of here now,
kill your whole fucking family.
And then he like goes and sits back down very
quietly and like starts painting again
and you're like, okay.
Pretty good performance from Eldon Hanson
in this. Yeah, yeah. He's fine.
He's doing damaged well.
Yeah, and I mean he's acting against a white sheet,
is ashen kutcher so that's that's difficult too so yeah so then we're at the diner amy smart
you know gets off of work and he's like talking to her like oh you know what's going on oh well
i i walk home because i don't have a car okay well can i walk with you and then hey remember that
movie we made as kids yeah again him with these bad segways he's like so remember that time
we're in your basement like your dad bought that video camera like you remember that
Because I've been trying to get an acting portfolio together, and I was thinking maybe.
I mean, the last 40 minutes of that footage is not useful, but, you know, the first three, that the setup is pretty good.
When I come in and I have to say, I'm Robin from Lockley and so on.
I mean, we need a reel.
Like, you don't just go and try out and not have a reel.
So she's like, why are you bringing that up?
You know, nothing ever gets better.
Oh, my God.
Why are you such a jerk?
And it's one of my favorite things, which is the, the, uh,
I'm going to run away from you crying,
but you don't have a clear exit.
You know what I mean?
Like, if you're going to do the Kron Rye walk away thing,
you need a door within 10 feet.
In front of your house.
You got to be right in front of your house.
You can't be outside and you're just crying
and running down a dark road.
For a mile.
Where you can,
it's just a clear flat country road
and he can just watch you go
till you hit the horizon.
This is my exerciser teeth.
Like, it's embarrassing.
It is.
you need, or even like go into the bushes
and hide until it goes away.
Like something, you need a clear exit.
So he goes back to, in case you're wondering.
It goes back to his dorm room and Ethan
so please smoke in a bong.
Yeah. Hey, bro. Someone
left a message for you, man.
I'm writing this short story called the
butterfly effect. I think I'm going to turn it into
freshman cop.
And he listens to
the answering machine message and it's the brother
of Amy Smart being like, what did
you fucking say to her? She
said that you came over and then she
killed herself and you're
just like man oh man this movie
the hits just keep on coming
and then he's got the balls
to go to her funeral after everyone leaves
because he's the brother's like I'll kill you you son of a bitch
which he's kind of right to and you know
he throws in the I'll come
back for you thing to her fucking
grave maybe she doesn't want it
in her grave Ashton Gitcher
yeah that's very presumptuous
of you it's also really bad for worms
to be eating paper with Sharpie all of
for it. Worms can't have Sharpie.
Go get sick.
Make those worms all sick. Also,
it was a lie. You didn't come back from her.
You don't want to just throw, toss a lie down
into a grave. When you came back for her,
she committed suicide.
Look at the good you did. It didn't
work out so well. So what happens
is when he was with the other
girl in one of his flashbacks
and one of his time travels, a cigarette
burned him and he was like, and he came back
and he's like, oh my God, I still have the scar
So I can affect, I could change the past, change the, you know, he's like, if I could, if I could cause scars, maybe I could heal some.
Oh, aren't you just the Jesus of, of main town USA, wherever this takes place?
And that's the, that's kind of, unfortunately, the thrust of this movie is he's got to save her.
And it's like, you know what, maybe, like, and in every situation they go into, like, she's a prostitute, she's a fucking, you know, crack whore.
She's a prostitute.
Seriously, like, three times out of.
Five, she's a prostitute in these alternate
suicide. Never ever
in any of these alternate realities
does she write a fucking
short story collection in, you know what I mean?
Like get her master's in something.
Well, there's one, but
it involves Ashton Coucher being
what, amputated double.
Oh, man. Yeah, that one's bad.
Well, there's also the one where
they're together and it's all seemingly
cool and like he's a frat brother
and she's part of a sorority
and like they kind of have their lives together
pretty well. But that one also doesn't end
fantastically for her. No, it does not end fantastically
for her. That's the first one. So he goes back, he's like, all right,
where can I pinpoint? And like, again,
you're really taking shots of people that
don't, really can't speak for themselves,
which are people, victims of sexual
abuse. And there's, you know, you can,
there's a lot of different ways you can go from. Not
just fucking suicide movie
makers. You can, you know, put that
shit behind you, you know, build a blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah. Whatever. No, he's like, but you know what?
If you had it where, like, he
he went and brought it up and she was
like, that upsets me.
And then she went and, like, went to a meeting or, like, sought outreach or whatnot.
Yeah.
That's not extreme.
Well, the only extreme is suicide.
Nope.
Wait a bit.
Jeff.
She goes to a psychiatrist.
Psychiatrist tries to rape her.
Dude, that's like, oh, man.
I think, do you think this is a feminist movie, bro?
Like, that's all.
almost like, I think we cracked it.
Oh, we're going to get so much pussy.
So he travels back in time to the molestation.
Which also, by the way, like, we have no inference that the Robin Hood plot, I'm pretty sure
Eric Stultz has been doing stuff for a while with these kids.
That's the one thing I was thinking, I was like, this isn't the first time.
It can't be.
No, you don't just start making movies
You start that shit in-house
And then once you're successful
You branch out to friends coming over
Yeah, I mean
Is how I would imagine that works
You gotta have a lot of fucking
Notches on your belt
If you're gonna take somebody else's kid
You know what I mean
You've got to be pretty confident
I mean but I don't think he's got a full library
It's got a good like drawer going
He's working on that box set
So we cut back and it's Eric Stilts again
And he's like all right
Clickling cling cling cling cling cling cling cling cling to
It's something to say
to clinket clink you can you touch a clink and clink and i didn't and you know ashen and it's
really uh logan lerman is the kid that uh percy jackson and so other oh is he percy jacks
oh i've never seen those no nobody has don't worry nobody has and uh perks of being a wallflower
he's the main guy kid from that and you know he it's a really kind of i mean it's it's really
aping you know what i mean like because he's like hey fuck wad you shouldn't touch your kids fuck
what? I'm going to call child protective services.
Fuck what. Yeah, that's the thing, right? Is when he travels
back in time, he keeps, even though he's in the same, you know, he's in his body, but he's
younger. Yeah. He keeps all the future information. Yeah. You know, so he knows, like,
why he's on this mission. And yeah. So it's like a little kid talking like Ashton Kutcher,
which, again, it's just this little kid, you fucking fuck face pervert. Oh man, this dialogue's
really cutting deep. And like, man, do you think Eric Stultz can't handle a mouthy kid?
That's literally, mouthy is in my notes. And we were in two different fucking states when we wrote
them. Because literally, yeah, of course. This kid's like mouthing off and like, this guy's a
fucking real deal child molester. Like a couple of complaints ain't going to hurt him. No, no, no, no, no.
And he's like, oh, blah, like he saw a ghost. How are you doing this? And like, what do you mean? How was
cursing?
Anyone can curse Eric Stoltz.
What are you a Mormon, too?
Mormon, alcoholic, child molester?
Dude sounds sick.
Oh, man, we're really saying something.
Jeff, that's the hat trip.
So, yeah, I mean, he does that.
And he's flash forward to the future.
And, like, he's in bed with Amy Smart in a frat house at Bradbury University,
the way. Hello.
But the thing to keep in mind...
We got to pay homage to the master.
Got plenty of Philip K. Tick.
The thing to keep in mind
is that
when he's telling off Eric Stultz, the language
that he uses is you need to
not do this to your daughter. Because it's just
It's just the Ashton Cochers surrogate and the Amy Smart surrogate.
The brother is told to go upstairs.
And so the kid doesn't go upstairs all the way.
He sits on the top of the basement steps where Eric Stultz can't hear him or see him rather.
And he's literally like twisting a doll's head.
Yeah.
And he's like, you need to discipline your fucking son because he's crazy as shit.
Yeah.
And you got to stop fucking with your daughter.
So keep that in mind because that's the butterfly effect.
You say the thing the wrong way.
And it's not what you intend.
Part in this part of the wind.
And as if, like, you know, fucking Eric Stoltz was only molesting his daughter because he thought it was good for her.
Like, he's like, oh, wow, wait, this is psychologically damaging.
I better stop that.
I thought we were growing closer as father and daughter.
I thought this was, you know, special time.
So he wakes up as a frat boy.
And you know what?
A problem with these alternate realities is, and with the butterfly effect in general, like, there should be fucking crazy world.
Like, you know what I mean?
like if a butterfly's wings, you know, can, if it goes the other way, you know what I mean,
can cause all these ripples.
Like, it's only this very linear, distinct timeline.
Like, it's like playing, like, I don't even know what.
Like, you're just playing one of those things where you dress up a character in different
ways.
You know what I mean?
You're saying, like, at the start of this movie, if a butterfly flaps its wings,
somewhere on the other part of the world, a typhoon or a monsoon happens or whatever
it is, right?
But what you're showing me in this movie is, hey, man, if a butterfly flaps its wings on one
side of the street, a little
kid on the other side of the street might
see it. Like the stakes are
so much fucking lower. Exactly.
And not even, yeah, like, you know,
they should be like different presidents every time
and like, you know what to be different wars going on
and like fucking... Not one single donut
rainstorm. I got to tell you, I was really, really
disappointed. And speaking of donut rainstorms,
Ethan Soplee
is the same
in every reality. Like, wouldn't
that be a fun thing? Like, one time he's, you
he's a greaser and the other like you know what i mean like it's it's easy enough to do that and
be like oh wow he's having so many unfrasy no it's just literally him and the three people he's
he's trying to affect he affects yeah Ethan supley just continues to look like a morbidly obese
robert smith throughout the entire movie actually i think donut rainstorm is the name of his
glam metal band you're god damn right it is and you know he's a frat boy and like you know he's
we spend a lot of time in this frat reality and like building up like what it and he's
oh you I'm a frat boy and it's like nobody cares you know what I mean like hey just
stop being a frat boy or whatever you know just stop wearing fucking Fubu get it over with that and
and and that's a that's a thing that comes up in this is because Amy Smart calls him out on
it she's like what's been going on with you lately you're talking differently because
he he still has the all the same mental all the same memories of like oh it was the
fucked up universe and I fixed it now yeah like his brain doesn't change like the memories
don't, like he gets the additional
memories. This is so, Jesus Christ
Andrew, he gets the additional
memories of the new timeline, but
he also keeps the shit from the old timeline.
So he's just talking like himself and she's like
basically saying like, why aren't you talking like a
duchy frat boy? Like what's going on? You're
being so different. And only a brain, the
size of Ashton Cochers can hold all that shit.
That's the trick to it all. You got that much
space, Chris.
Move in, you know, the elephant and everything else
can go in there. You could put three living
rooms in that living room
and you know
I mean the brother shows up but he's like you're
fucking my sister no one can fuck my sister but me
that's his whole speech
this entire movie yeah and it's a thing
where like they're having a romantic dinner he's about to
propose to her you know college by the way
yeah mistake yeah totally
you know it's the early 2000s because he
opens the door and the party starts with a very emotional
Jimmy World song and you know he's about to do it
And then it's like, hey man, someone's fucking with your car.
And he's like, oh, I'll get that fucker, you know.
And so she's like, oh, it must be my brother.
And he's like, what?
And she goes, oh, I forgot to tell you.
He got out two days ago.
And he's like, oh, fuck.
You know, like a good old fashioned off fuck.
And basically they get to a scuffle.
And Ash and Coucher, who's at least two and a half feet taller than this kid.
Oh, yeah.
Needs to use Mace to subdue him, which,
Doesn't make sense.
Yeah, this dude's like got a bat and he's trying to come at him and he maces him.
And this is what's crazy is.
And it's a game I want to play called Who's the Crazy One Here?
Because this dude's getting out of jail.
He's coming at him with a baseball bat.
Nobody fucks my sister but me, all that stuff.
And he swings at him.
Ashton Coucher maces this guy.
He goes down.
He's down and out.
And Ashton Coucher takes the baseball bet and beats this dude.
This dude is down.
more and then he fucking pommels
him to death
he just caveman kills this guy
and he goes to jail like he should
he's still the hero of this movie
in case you were wondering yep and like
he's never going to pay remorse for this dead body
he's just like oh I'll just fucking fix it you know what I mean like
it's easy enough so he
he goes to prison and of course he's immediately almost raped like six
times because it's prison man that's what fucking happens
God damn it
Hey man
I got that box set of Oz
You want to do some market research
Oh I hate it
I fucking hate it
And the funny thing about this prison
It doesn't make any sense
But like it's breakfast
And he gets a muffin and pancakes
When has there ever been a muffin in prison?
It's always like the powdered eggs
Half an orange
You know and broken dreams
Maybe it's like Barbie's
prison set
it looks
a pretty good muffin too
look pretty moist
I mean it gets stolen
by Nazis
but hey
it's a pretty good
these things happen
I mean
that's going to happen
in prison
so he makes friends
with the dude
who played blob
in X-Men
Origins
Wolverine
and he also
played Kemi on Lost
this guy I believe
is either like
a New Zealand
or Australian actor
I think his name
it's gonna kill me
but I
I remember him
he's in
Cosmolmon
Oh, yeah. He's the bodyguard from Cosmopoulos.
And he is playing this Hispanic cartoon character.
And like, you know what, dude, you don't have, you have a movie with all white cast.
There's a black psychologist because there's always a black psychologist and a black principal because it's always a black principal.
But essentially an all white cast.
Yeah.
The one Spanish dude, you have to go to a white guy for?
Like, come on.
What are you doing?
What was Clifton Collins Jr. doing?
Absolutely.
Clifton Collins Jr. could be in this movie.
I think this was around his time.
Spada Jr. could probably fucking be there.
Well, I mean, I guess the whole thing is he needs
the dude for protection, so I guess in
that regard, you know, he can't be.
And he's a big jack dude. He's like, you gotta protect me, got to protect me.
And he gets these journals
from his mother. And like, what I love
about this Aryan Union is they're not
like, you know, hey, they're picking on white people,
which does happen. But
they're like bullies essentially. They're like,
hey, freshman. And they take his notebooks
and like start tearing them. Oh, yeah.
They're like tripping him and tearing the
pages out of these notebooks. Also with the threat of rape. But still, they're like high school bullies with rape. And so, you know, he's like, I got to get these notebooks back. Like, he manages to rip away a couple of pages. Yeah. And it's nothing doing. There's none of the blackout stories in there. So he can't do anything with these. He's not going to be able to travel back in time, thus getting himself out of prison. Sure. Sure. So, yeah. So he goes into the, to the bully's locker room, i.e. their cell. And they're actually, it's just these two Nazis sitting around reading somebody else's.
diary, which I do,
and they're not Hitler's diaries. No.
They're just, just regular. Hey man,
according to this diary, he was
molested, and then his dad tried to
kill him, and then was murdered in front of him.
Then his fat friend
blew up a mother and her newborn
baby with a mailbox full of
TNT. Oh, and then
another one of his friends burned his own
dog alive in a bag
and then tried to kill.
You know, I think he's one of us.
He has earned it. No.
Keith, you know what that is?
Easy pickings.
Take more than his muffin.
You know what, Earl, I feel like this is a bit, you know, it's a bit contrived.
You know, I can see the puppet strings here.
I don't feel like the narrative is really achieving much without, you know, I just, I can see, you can see through it, right?
It's pretty thin.
We don't need another guy in this telephone booth.
Man's been through enough.
you know what i'm just gonna let's call it a day with this guy i'm gonna go give him in his
notebooks back oh here he comes and he comes and he comes in he's like i want to be a nazi and
you know let's why not throw in some racial epithets for no reason every one in the book yep
every goes around the thing and like you know if again if it's a movie about nazis then i'm
fine i don't mind that in american history acts because we've earned it and that's the spice
we are working with absolutely it's a spicy sandwich
That's what this chili has to taste like.
Yeah, exactly.
You know, like, this time travel chili doesn't have to taste like American History X chili.
No, it shouldn't.
It should not.
It shouldn't taste like sleepers chili or American History X chili.
You can go with the Serrano.
You don't need the hebranero.
Yeah, exactly.
Just fucking deal with it, guys.
This movie doesn't need to be flavored with LIE starring Brian Cox.
Anybody remember that fucking thing?
Nope.
or robber stump
I almost said Raoul
Julia which I wish
Russell Crow
I know it's Russell Crowe
I thought you were really stumped
but so he's like hey
all of the total
fucking terrible racist things for no reason
they're like hey cool
and he's like
I'll suck your dick man
it's prison I'll suck your dick
speaking of which now we're again back to American
History X
my favorite line
is in this, I believe.
It's either
shit on my dick
or blood on my knife.
Yeah.
Good job, guys.
Round of applause.
Kiff,
we did it again.
We did it again.
Cogs.
Turning,
forking over time.
So he's
going to suck these dudes off, right?
And then he murders
one of them, like, no, he murders him both, right?
It's a big, like, we're just knife and
stomachs. This is what I didn't understand
about this blowjob situation.
Sure. Now, he's
going to do both of them.
Sure. Both of them, like, pull
it out at the same time. Yeah.
And, like, he's clearly in front of the one gentleman
who's, like, their leader. Yeah. And then there's
the other guy who looks like Kevin Nash, you
know. Yeah, which is the guy you don't want to mess with.
No, but Kevin Nash is whipping it out.
And I'm like, Kevin Nash, you're going to have
to wait a minute. You know, like, what do you
going to do? Or is it
like a simultaneous? You know, it's just
another detail that this movie glosses
over. Because they need to see how much talent he
has. If he's ambidextrous,
he's their number one girl.
So he stabs these
Nazis and kills him.
And then, you know, the
bunk mate runs in. Because he's
convinced the bunkmate, by the way.
Oh, whatever. He's convinced the
bunk, the bunk mate that he has
Jesus powers. This guy's very religious.
He's an Hispanic character. Oh, absolutely.
He has to be super.
Oh, Mother de Dios.
Yeah, he's got to be super in love with De Jesus.
Yeah.
While he does his fucking best Cheech Marin impression of this guy.
And so he travels back to a day in school.
When he's drawing the picture.
Yes.
Oh, yeah, right.
He's supposedly drawing this picture.
Todd McFarlane's sitting there.
No, I got it.
You go, Evan.
I'll do this one.
The clowns almost got to get the shade.
And so he goes up to like the teacher's got a bunch of like hall passes laid out on the desk.
And they're, like, being held together by those, like, paper pinholder things.
Which would never be in a grade school classroom, by the way, for just this reason.
Yeah, and he's like, hey, teacher, and slams his hands down on them,
jumps back forward in time, because at this point, somehow he's got control over them.
Also, that, exactly, that, that, that's what's interesting about this is he, he stabs, he stabs both his hands, right?
He gives himself stigmata, but the reality doesn't change at all.
No, he's somehow still, like,
That would change your life.
That would totally change your life.
First of all, that's the teacher is dead.
You know what I mean?
Like, this teacher you just decided to have fun with, she's gone.
She got fired, and then she couldn't pay her bills.
She became homeless.
She was an alcoholic.
She tried heroin once.
She kind of liked it.
She really got into a routine.
And then six months later, she died under a bridge.
And you know what?
Her little nephew, Barry Obama, was never the same.
And that's a fucking butterfly.
That's how the butterfly effect.
should work. But in this case, he just gives himself some
hand scars. And this dude
doing Cheatsman's like, hey, man. Oh,
look at that. It's this digmata, man.
And you're like, oh, Jesus. So that's how he
convinces him to do this thing. So this
dude runs in, slams the door close.
He's holding it there. So Ashton Coucher's
like fast reading through these notes, trying
to find one so he can go back in time
and get out of this whole mess. And like
he eventually does it right before there's
a whole cell block riot.
Cell block riot, riot.
And the next reality is my, is kind of when I, I call it good, leave well enough alone because he comes to, and he's just regular old Ashton again, you know what I mean?
He's rumored with Ethan Soply.
Ethan Soply is having sex with somebody never could have sex with, even if he was Ethan Soply.
And, you know, he goes to see, he goes to visit his buddy Lenny who, I forget, oh, that's right, because he flashes back to the fire.
this is my favorite part of this is pretty hilarious because he's like I got to make sure
that the that Amy Smart's brother doesn't grow up to be fucked up yeah so he doesn't come
trying to kill me so he flashes back to the dog burning and he's like I have to have something
that the fat kid will be able to have in his hand to cut the rope on the sack and let the dog
out so the burning doesn't happen so here's Optimus primes shiv yeah he finds this like
hunk of scrap metal and he's like hey fat kid
just trust me when the time comes lenny
just cut the rope swing away merrill
that's all you have to do you know
so they go the whole thing plays out
he's got the dog tied up in the sack
he starts hitting he beats amy smart
over the head he starts fighting ashton kutcher
ashton kutcher blacks out
there's this kid ashton kutcher blacks out
he wakes up and
the fat kid has successfully freed the dog
Like, it doesn't have, oh, that's what it is, because he says to the kid, the brother, he doesn't even get a chance.
He's like, listen, man, don't set this dog on fire.
You know, you're going to do juvie.
Just don't do that, man.
You're better than that.
Don't do that.
And he's like, all right, you know what, fine.
And he doesn't burn the dog.
His fat kid comes out of nowhere and puts this scrap metal in this kid's spine.
It's fantastic.
He murders him.
And then Amy Smart, I guess, cuts her face open.
Yeah, the kid has hit her or something like that.
And she's got a big Joker scar on her face.
And that's when we flash forward.
and, like, Eldon Hansen is totally just, like, tied up for life.
Like, he's, like, fucking Loki at the bottom of the fucking thing.
It's just, like, nothing left to him.
It's, it's real shock therapy time for this guy.
And he's just, like, you ruined my life.
And I'm, if I'm Evan, I'm like, no, I didn't.
I just, I told you.
Yeah, I didn't.
I said cut the rope, not cut his spine.
Exactly.
You idiot.
Like, you kind of deserve to be in jail right now, bro.
Yeah, exactly.
You took that shit too far.
we had a plan you didn't stick to the plan
and then he's like oh I should check on an Amy smart
with by the way just call it a call it a wash baby
you know like you're not in jail dude
you did it you're not in jail this girl's not dead
you know what I mean yeah exactly
all positives and you know
obviously she's a crack whore prostitute
and like she's all scarred up
but she's like she's an indignant
fucking oh she yeah
she's got some words for him
but she looks I mean like here's the thing
and the makeup department went way too far
with this crack whore business.
She looks like the Cripkeeker.
You know what I mean?
She does not look like someone
that's done hard drugs.
She looks like a Skellington.
You know what I mean?
Like it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
He takes her out for dinner and she's like,
you better pay me.
And he's like, yeah, I will.
And there's this great thing.
She's like giving him shit the whole time
and he tells her the whole thing like,
oh no, I'm going to fix your life.
I'm going to have time travel and fix it.
He's like, yeah, good job you've done so far.
This is my favorite line in the movie.
He's like, next time you,
do it you're probably
you're probably going to be in some mansion
somewhere and I'm going to be in Tijuana
doing donkey shows
man
hey man
donkey show
put it in put it in put it in I don't care where I just put it in
I just heard about it I just heard about it man
I just watched clerks too I totally just heard about it
wait
wait
maybe
make the whole movie about a donkey show
and then
no man you're going too far
I spell
sequel
Butterfly
Effect 2
The Donkey Show
The donkening
Maybe
Maybe that's what that movie
Donkey Punch is about
Remember there is that period of time
Where everybody was telling you
To watch Donkey Punch
Well everyone is either telling you
To watch Donkey Punch
Or do a donkey punch
Or tell you
Oh dude do you know what a donkey
Yes I know what it is
It's fucking 2005
And I'm 21 years old
Dude my cousin's
friend totally tried to donkey punch
it totally worked. No, he did. No, he did
not. That's an urban legend. No, bro, he told me
himself, it totally worked. Maybe
it was a swing and a miss, but no.
I don't know why you have nothing better to tell me
but absolute lies, but
you never did the nasty Sanchez
either. No, yeah, the dirty Sanchez.
The Rust or Trombone? No, none of those
things happen. It's just
one of those things where you could not escape
someone telling you to rent
Donkey Punch on DVD.
Nope. Donkey Punch. Available.
on Netflix. And so he's like, oh man, I got it. And again, like, I'm just regular old, whatever.
Like, I would try and get this girl into counseling if I could. But if not, that's her choice, man.
She's made her choice. That's her life. Those are the choices she decided to make.
Here is the problem, though, and the reason why he doesn't let it be. And it's completely
unearned is that he somehow, the movie leads us to believe, has always been in love with
this girl. And that's just not
a thing that's happening when we
meet Ashton Kutcher at the beginning of the
movie. You know what I mean? He doesn't even think about her. He doesn't
even think about it until he realizes the whole like
burning himself with the cigarette thing. And it's
like, I got to save her. Why? You haven't thought about this girl
one minute for 13 years. And maybe
she's a fucking adult that could make her own
fucking decision. And every sign
of romantic inclination other than the kiss at the movie theater
isn't like these shitty fucking flash
When he does the flashback, there's also a short little montage that goes along with the flashback to tell you what's happened as if I didn't fucking put the puzzle piece in the goddamn puzzle already.
And what's worse is not even that he's in love with her, is that her whole life is a wreck because she loves him.
Because she's like, oh, you know, when my parents were getting divorced, I had a choice.
Me and my brother had a choice to live with my mother or live with my father, who was a creep and a pedophile.
and I decided to live with my pedophile father
because I thought this boy was cute.
I loved him that much.
I chose to continue living with a child molester.
I chose wrongly.
You drank for the wrong cup, Missy.
She just turns to dust.
And he goes back and in this reality
we go back to the baby blow-up scene
and he's like, okay, maybe if I fix the baby blow up.
So he goes and he tries to push the lady out of the way
and he gets caught in the crossfire.
now it's time to make fun
of amputees. Like it's about
it's high time in this film
to make fun of amputees. Good, but you know
what? Because I've been sitting here tapping my foot.
Everybody else gets it in this movie.
And how about the physically disabled?
And he wakes up in his college bed
and, you know, he thinks Thumper
who's Ethan simply is having sex next to him.
But it's actually Eldon Hansen
having sex with Amy Smart. He's like,
wait, that shouldn't be. And then he realizes
he doesn't have arms.
And I mean, this is
This movie did not have a huge budget, so you can't really rip on it for this.
But, I mean, these are some silly bad arm effects.
Yeah, oh, yeah.
This is not Forrest Gump.
No, no, they didn't have Lieutenant Dan money.
No, they did not.
He didn't get Robert Zemeckis money for this.
Ashton Kutcher did not meet JFK.
So it's, he's got no arms.
And also, he's in a wheelchair.
He can't walk either.
Yeah, he's paralyzed.
He doesn't have arms.
And, like, he's disabled.
And in this reality, you know, Eldon,
Hansen. Everyone's doing great in this reality.
B.T. Dove. There's a whole lot
of gap sweaters. Yeah. Everybody's
fantastic. Eldon Hansen has
gorgeous blonde locks. He's lost
weight. He looks fantastic. He looks exactly
like the singer from Three Doors Down.
Oh, you can call him Superman, baby.
And
they're wheeling Ashton
down the hallway, and
he falls out of his chair.
In college, and everyone
in college is laughing at him,
total bullshit. Dude, my
my notes when that happened
I just wrote who laughs at this
no nobody does this zero people dude
nobody laughs in high school
a fucking person with no arms
falling out of a wheelchair
is the least funny thing
of all time 25 people are rushing
to the scene oh yeah
and that is a low-balling estimate
and the people who aren't rushing to the scene
are putting their hands over their mouths like oh my
god I hope he's okay
dude this hallway is a
Twitter with people laughing at him
Even the loser that likes Slipknot that finds this funny is holding it in and laughing at it later.
No one in public would ever laugh at that.
They are pointing and laughing at him like he's the kid in Billy Madison who peed his pants.
It just doesn't make any sense.
And he's like, oh my God, this reality sucks.
And then he goes to visit his mother, Melora Walters, who is like, has cancer.
Because she picked up chain smoking after the accident.
Oh, stop.
Stop it.
And there's also a horseshit heart to heart with him and Amy Smart where she's like,
I'm just going to, you know what, I'm just going to go talk to him for a second.
Like, you go to class or whatever, you know.
And he's like, so let's say there's an alternate reality where I love you.
And I told you that I loved you more than anyone's ever loved anyone in the history of love.
Do you think we could be together and flash back to the writing of this screen?
screenplay, like, bro, that shit's real.
High five for believable dialogue.
And she's this monster who's like, no.
And then she starts baking out Eldon Hansen again in front of this dude.
Right in front of him.
And it's like, come on.
She can't be.
And you know what?
She's not worth that much if that's the case.
If in this reality, she's like, fuck you, dude.
And like makes out with somebody else.
Like, it's not like, she doesn't have to go out with him, but just be like, no.
you're my special friend
I mean she does say to him like
yeah you know what when we were younger
like I did have a thing for you
But then you lost your arms
And I was like gross
Ew
It's like you know
Lenny you know turned out to not grow up
To be crazy and fat
So I got with you
Now you're the one who's disabled
Like that's what's going on
He's got a steady delivery of pot
I mean he can go most of the night
It's a real slam dunk for me
Oh and you love me?
Oh, I'm sorry.
In this timeline also, the brother has become like a real Bible thumper kid.
Shut up.
So when Ashton Coocher is trying to commit suicide in the bathtub, because what else could you do if you're disabled, Andrew, you'd have to kill yourself, right?
What's that wheelchair?
Oh, amputee, better just commit suicide.
Sorry.
That's what this movie's fucking telling you.
Your life is invalid.
I apologize, but that's what the butterfly effect says, so that's it.
And then, like, the brother comes in and saves him from suicide, so he realizes, you know,
I'll get
I'll butterfly myself
Yeah I'll get Eldon Hanson to
prop up a composition notebook
on my lap and I'll read some more
pages and
and we'll go back in time and
you know guys we are just going to give it one more try
we're just going to try once again
to straighten this shit out
and this is when we go back again
to the Eric Stoltz moment
and he's like you know what
I have to get rid of the dynamite
I get rid of the dynamite everything
will be just fine
so does he light it on fire
What is he?
He lights it on fire.
That big mistake.
So, like, what,
Ashton,
you've done this six times already.
Why would you then think this is a good idea?
Like,
he's threatening Eric Stoltz with it.
He's like, come on fuck bag!
And, you know, all this shit.
And then he lights it on fire.
And I'm like, what?
Just run out of the house with it.
And bury it somewhere.
Just get it.
We're out of here, man.
No.
Again, go out the door with the dynamite.
Throw it in a fucking garbage can.
or just buried into fucking ground
and call the goddamn police
and say there's a cancorder in a basement
in Eric Stolt's house.
That's it.
And something bad is about to happen.
Look, step on the gas
because this guy's got a black market
blockbuster video in his basement.
We have a timetable here, cops.
We've got to go.
And he's got a bottle of J.B.
That he is just getting through.
And he's like got a quarter of that bottle left.
So, oh my goodness.
Instead of all of this,
he drops the stick of dynamite on the ground in this tiny basement mind you and it goes off and kills only amy smart
everybody's dead everyone's at least an that house is going up the house is going up but little thing
it doesn't just blow her up it rolls as if it's like on a slanted billiards table to minnesota fats is
cheating to amy smart abe's little amy smart picks it up oh yeah you're right what
It's this.
Co-boom.
You know what?
If you're at that point,
this movie is that stupid,
she may as well put it in her mouth like Daffy Duck.
Like a cigar?
Yeah.
Yep.
Exactly.
And then she turns to the camera and goes,
brashy,
and the fucking frame blows up.
No, basically,
Eric Stolt says,
Wabit season and takes the dynamite
and Ashton says,
Duck season.
That goes on for a while.
Then Amy Smart blows up.
So we go,
back to present day and he
is locked in a mental institution
and here we are
we learn that in the crazy house
the walls are brown and the whole thing
why aren't mental institutions clean
anywhere in movies like
they are I get it the New York State
facilities aren't pristine but this is
like in the middle of fucking Montana
I mean I don't know it's just
they're always dirty because they always have
to be terrible places
terrifying oh so scary so
it turns out now you guys
this is a real boner jam
Oh no
There are
No composition notebooks
Because in this reality
After the whole thing with the dynamite
The doctor never advised him
To start writing down information
Well fucking sharp objects
You can have the pen or a pencil near you
Yep
Exactly right
So he's fucked
He doesn't have any way
To get back in time
Amy smart's dead
He's in this mental institution
You know
and now we know by the way that we know we're at the finish line here because the film does start
with him running around a mental institution he's leaving this note and you don't really know
what's going on and then we flashback dude we should start at the end and work backwards
yeah i'm with you there i think that's a really great way to draw everybody in
Jeff
I was reading this book today
and he said something
about elliptical structure
I don't know what that is
but I'm writing it down
it just means that we recycle
a shot
that's all it is
don't worry about it
okay
you're freaking me out for a second bro
sorry
yeah
no I think we do that
I think we go for that
so yeah
I mean, like, he realizes, but there are home movies.
And he's like, you don't think.
And he finds that the way his father used to do it was he would go through pictures.
Right, he had a photo album.
Almost anything could work because it's all bullshit.
There's no rules to this anyway.
Right, right, right.
Because just quick, he goes back one more time and tries to hash it out with the dad again.
And the same exact thing happens.
What you start realizing with all this crazy shit, by the way, is that when he's flashing back to some of these moments,
you are getting
at the beginning of the movie
like when he's having these blackouts
when he comes to
sometimes he's in a weird peculiar
prediction you know like one time he blacks out
and then he wakes up and he's holding a knife
and the mom's like what are you doing with that knife
it's because in the blackout
it's present day Ashton Coucher
saying I have to find something
that I can cut the rope with for the dog
for example that's one of the things
so the dad's strangling
him is because he goes back in time and he's like dad i'm actually me as an adult and the dad's like
oh man i thought this curse would end with me no and then it's like cut back dude we got to remember
that he's got to call it a curse it's kind of like being a werewolf the butterfly wherewolf
i wish so the dad's like the dad's like well it couldn't stop with me it's got to stop with you and he lunges
over the table and that's why he's trying to
kill him because he's like this guy's going to
keep having you know kids and this disease
is going to be spreading or this curse
and all these people are going to be fucking up the space time
continuum and so on all roads
lead to my dad choking me to death
yeah
and sure as fuck we're at the beginning he's like
okay and I don't know why
he like he starts writing and he like
breaks into the doctor's office puts on the
fucking tape and he's like
he writes a note to no one
this is such
unbelievable horse shit
because he's writing this note
like if you find this
I've blah blah blah and I'm doing this
and I'm going to save her but
dude if you're going back
in time this reality doesn't exist
no one's finding that fucking letter
why are you wasting your time
put the film strip on and let's get going
I guess if he's going to get like knocked out
in the middle of watching the thing
but also like dude
that's not helping your case
no it's not the doctor looks at it and he goes
yep still crazy
up the dosage.
Yeah. And then you're just, you're still crazy.
Three more years. Here you go. Yeah. So he does it and he, for some reason, it's so stupid.
And this is when we get into five different alternate endings in the theatrical cut, the one I watched.
He watches a film of him and Amy Smart meeting for the first time. For some reason, somebody was filming this, sure.
It's probably Eric Stoltz was filming this. Hey, child's birthday.
party. He's like, happy birthday
to me. Eric Stiltz, screen tests.
You know what? The thing is,
my handheld work is not great.
I need a tripod is what I really need.
So yeah, it's like, I'm going to go back to the first time I
met her. And he flashes back to this party.
And, you know, Malora Walters is like,
oh, Evan, this is Amy Smart. You'll be best friends.
And he's like, I have to just get her away from me
forever. And this little kid
leans into another little kid's ear.
and goes, like, if you come near me again,
I'm going to murder your whole fucking family.
And the girl's like, ew, no, and runs away.
And that's that.
And then we cut through the montage of how the timeline plays out.
And she's like, you know what, I guess that boy was totally cute, right?
But he said he was going to murder my family.
So I guess I should get away from my child molester father after all.
Yeah.
Sure.
That's what twisted her arm to get in the right.
You know, she turns out to be a success or something.
Let's wrap up this horse shit.
I mean, he's in business school.
He becomes a so-and-so hot shot.
They fucking pass in the street.
And it's like a, was that?
No, just keep walking.
End of movie.
End of movie.
But there is an amazing alternate ending.
Let's get to it really quickly.
Because it's, this is where they were smoking some really great weed.
This is the director's cut, oh, yeah, dude.
Because this is the way I, this is my fish in.
This is my.
design, by the way.
And, you know, we cut
to, he's back in the room
and he puts, instead of it being
a film of him
meeting Amy Smart, it's
Malora Walters getting rushed into
the, rushed into
the surgery. Yeah, yeah. She's
giving birth to him. The dad is
filming and it's like, get out of here, I'm trying to have a baby.
So he flashes back to the womb
and strangles himself with the umbilical
cord. And there's something or
she's like, not again, not again.
This happened twice already, apparently.
And he fucking strangles himself in the womb and dies.
And that's, there you go.
Fuck it.
Sick, bro.
Nice one.
Slam dunk.
Oh, man.
That is the butterfly effect.
Would anybody recommend watching this movie?
I would not.
It's just, it's college, it's high school level garbage.
You know, like it's just the narrative.
narrative is just so thin and obvious and like it's dudes that you know read way too much chuck
palanuck watched it too much david fincher read too much allen more and just did not get the
subtleties in any of those things mhm chris cabin absolutely not um it's i had a i watching this
movie is only an hour 47 minutes i had to stop it five times and like take a break because i
was a bored and
B, just
there's so much
like excess to it.
Like you didn't, you didn't, there's,
you don't need five of those.
There's, there's, this is an hour
as I said, an hour 47 minute movie.
This could be a quick 80 minutes.
Oh yeah, you could be in and out.
And this, it would have been fine that way,
but this, it's, and I mean,
Ashton, Ashton Coucher.
We haven't talked about him,
we haven't talked about it.
And I mean, he's just,
if you have to have him do anything where he's
supposed to be straight-faced, you've lost the game already.
You just can't do it.
You can't do it.
The scene where he does propose to Amy Smart, in that, and that's, he's laughing the whole
time.
It's supposed to be this big romantic moment where, like, you're supposed to be like, look,
you're the love of my fucking life.
We should be together.
And he's just like half smiling to himself the whole time.
He's always half smiling to himself.
It's just, it's a 24-7 giggle fest.
That's all it is.
Because it's just, like, inside, it's like, I got them all fooled.
Like that's, you know what I mean?
And the movie does, to me, it's like his real.
It is his real because it's like, oh, if I had to, like a war veteran, no arms, here we go.
You know, oh, if I want to play comedy.
You're totally right.
This is me and Amy Smart as fine, like, as doucheback dressed up as douchebags.
I could do this.
Sure.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
You're totally right.
And that's why he's the exact producer of this movie.
I mean, it was his movie to lose, you know?
I mean, whatever.
I do think the guy is good comedic timing.
You know, he's, like, married to Milakunis now or dating something.
So it's a nice, like, that 70s show circle.
It all worked out.
You know, I think he's a funny dude.
He's fine.
I mean, I don't hate him, like, people hate him.
I got no reason to hate him.
There's nothing to hate, but he's just somebody I don't want to watch a movie.
Yeah.
I won't watch that 70 show, the first couple seasons of that 70s show.
That's, uh, that no strings attached picture is supposed to be good.
That's supposed to be funny.
No, it's not.
No, whoever told you that lied to you.
It was my wife.
But she lied to you.
That's the butterfly effect from 2004, directed by cinematic Wunderkins, Eric Bress and Jay Mackie Gruber.
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