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The ending makes no sense - ! MAJOR SPOILERS !

posted 15 years ago by johnslegers
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The ending makes no sense for two reasons :
--) The whole reason Sam never went back in time to try to save his girlfriend a second time was because according to his friend Goldburg he couldn't go back to the same point in time without frying his brain. So he had to go to the time of later murders to figure out who the killer was. Now how the hell did he manage to get back to the time his parents' house burnt a second time? Didn't he say he'd already gone back through time to save his sister? Shouldn't it have driven him insane rather than turning everything to normal?
--) Why would his sister become a nutjob if her parents stayed alive? Wouldn't saving both his parents and his sister have solved that problem as well?

Overall, "The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations" is far superior to the second film but the ending pretty much desroys the film.

[–] Strazdamonas 15 years ago

if teenager has a mental disorder like his sister did parents will not help it, especially not knowing about it. as for the paradox, it was very much like he found out that rules can be broken.

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[–] Megaman2005 15 years ago

for the thing about him not being able to time travel to the same timeline twice - it was due to the "theory" that the more you do it, the more it would damage your brain because of memory overload. Which actually makes it the PERFECT thing to do at the end of the movie - because the main character would be taking a risk because of a last resort and be a dramatic ending, which all endings should be. No ending to a movie should take "the easy way out."

So in that aspect, it was perfect!

[–] TheBeardedWonder 15 years ago

Yeah, him frying his brain to save all these people actually would be an interesting ending, I thought the same thing. But why didn't that actually happen? Why warn us about it only to have it NOT happen? But the 'sister is crazy and incestuous' twist was weak and lazy.

It was obvious the writers had worked themselves into a corner, and the only person left to be the killer was the sister, so they had to go with it. She didn't exhibit ANY traits of being insane until the very end, when it was needed. As I said, lazy all the way around.

Still, light years ahead of the second movie. My god, what trash that was, at least this kept my interest until the silly ending... 6/10

"I squeezed a turd for you, and all you care about is this mystery." - Mystery Team

[–] radb707 14 years ago

Didn't seem lazy to me. They pretty much set her up to be the killer the whole time. Someone was protecting Sam while also killing off people, and obviously had time travel abilities. They made it too obvious that it could've been Future Sam, so it made sense it was his sister. The incest crazyness made the seemingly random (up to that point) murders make perfect sense.

[–] jmbwithcats 14 years ago

I'm pretty picky about time travel movies, but I think this movie had a pretty good ending.

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[–] ChazzJazz 14 years ago

Actually, in saving the sister, he didnt have the time to save the parents, he made the choice that made his sister "fall in love with him"?

As for the other replies: the sister was setup from the getgo as the murderer...Every time he jumped with her assistance, dead bodies turned up, and no bodies when he jumped by himself.

which suggests to me that she could jump ONLY when he did...

[–] AlexMorgan13 14 years ago

i didn't realize she jumped wtih him though... guess i didn't pay enough attention.. it was unexpected twist to me..

[–] scarletminded 14 years ago

I thought the killer would be Goldberg because he mentioned time travel. There wasn't enough back story for him or Jenna for me to understand their motivations. Why did Goldberg know about time travel? And how did him and Jenna keep their memories (in the first Butterfly Effect, all the people around Evan didn't have memories of what happened before)?

I thought the end and lack of back story killed the movie. Instead of a soft porn sex scene they could have had Goldberg tell his story or learn how Sam got his powers. None of this was explained. It is hard to enjoy a movie with this much suspension of belief.