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Big and significant difference in 1st + 3rd

posted 16 years ago by blue_tofu126
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i never watched the butterfly effect2, but i saw the first one with ashton kutcher. one major thing that this movie left out was when sam comes back from his time travel, all the events that happened subsequent to what he changed was all forgotten. after every jump he goes through, he has no idea where he is when he returns to the present. but in the first "the butterfly effect," when ashton kutcher comes back, he has a small seizure and then remembers everything that happeend before and after he jumped, which is why after every jump, he packs about 40+ years of memory into his brain. however in this movie, they said nothing about what sam remembers after he time travels. this leaves a lot of holes in the movie. and why does he marry elizabeth in the end? i thought he was with rebecca

**spoilers*** i'm still confused as to how the sister is able to time travel together back with sam, there were a few times when he did it alone.

[–] TheBlueHairKid 16 years ago

You know if that happened then them warning him all the time about consequences would make sense, its funny though because he doesn't even know anything like you said.

Whats also hilarious is that Ashton at some times of time travel, is unaware of most of the changes made even though he gets the flash of memory.

And wait 40 PLUS!?!?!?!? HE WAS IN COLLEDGE!

"Welcome to...my pants"

[–] MWStallard 16 years ago

Well it was really absurd... His marriage with Elizabeth...
I like the three of this movie... It has its moment...

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[–] Sinnema 16 years ago

Well, since Rebecca had cheated on Sam in all timelines, marrying her was never a possibility. But Elizabeth was always friendly with Sam in the two timelines we saw her in, so without his sister around to kill one or both of them, the natural course of events was for Sam to marry Elizabeth and have a daughter.

As I recall, the guy in "Butterfly Effect 2" did not remember the new timelines, either. Each of these movies shows slightly different effects from the time travel. The only common connection in all three movies is that the characters jump back into their own bodies when they were younger, then return to the "present" in an altered timeline.

[–] MWStallard 16 years ago

you are right about your predictions...
but I guess...! It would be way better if this three movies was established under the same characters...

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[–] rrpostal 16 years ago

I need to watch the 1st one again because I don't necessarily remember it that way. That would be a pretty big difference. There are enough time travel conundrums without getting the easy things right.

The thing I noticed was that in the 1st one, things would get different each time and were better or worse depending on who you were. For some characters, the jumps were better. In other words, it was somewhat random what would happen and I got the feeling he needed to stop jumping at "good enough". In this one there seemed to be a precipitous drop from one jump to the next where things got *beep* so fast that it didn't take a genius to realize it wasn't a smart move. Plus he wasn't too bright to begin with (which may just be the actor?), so his transition wasn't very drastic.