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Old 12-29-04 | 10:51 PM
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Spoiler request: How does Butterfly Effect theatrical cut end?

My search skills are weak and I can't seem to find it anywhere.

I watched the directors cut a few days ago and some searching online reveals that the ending is completely different than the theatrical cut, I hadn't bothered thinking to check out the theatrical cut when I rented it. So to save me from having to re-rent it just to see the theatrical cut, can someone spell out in detail what happens at the end of the Theatrical cut vs. the Directors Cut?

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Old 12-30-04 | 12:10 AM
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Instead of watching a movie of his birth, he watches a movie from an early birthday party in which Kayleigh was present. He then told Kayleigh he hated her, so she went to live with her mother, had a good life, as does Evan and Lenny and Tommy. In the present, Evan and Lenny burn the journals and Evan is apparently some sort of besuited muckety-muck when he sees a grown Kayleigh pass him on a crowded street. He stops and does a double-take, and then the movie ends.


That's from memory.
Old 12-30-04 | 01:24 AM
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I saw the theatrical version. Whats the ending in the directors cut ?

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He also burns all of his photo albums and movies after he "fixes" things foor the last time
Old 12-30-04 | 02:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Thrush
I saw the theatrical version. Whats the ending in the directors cut ?
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In the director's cut, he watches a movie of his mother giving birth to him. He assumes the body of himself as a infant, still in the womb. He proceeds to choke himself to death with the umbilical cord and she has another stillborn baby, as mentioned earlier in the film(she said that she had 3 stillborns before he was born). He was never born, and everyone's life was much better. It goes through the same sequence of Kayleigh moving away, getting married, etc...It was a much better ending to the film.

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Old 12-30-04 | 08:04 AM
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They can end that piece of crap with Michael Corleone closing the door on Kay and it would still be a turd.
Old 12-30-04 | 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by cleaver
They can end that piece of crap with Michael Corleone closing the door on Kay and it would still be a turd.


I prefer the theatrical cut ending myself.
Old 12-30-04 | 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by cleaver
They can end that piece of crap with Michael Corleone closing the door on Kay and it would still be a turd.
Sometimes I fart in my sleep.
Old 12-30-04 | 01:34 PM
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I actually liked the movie inspite of Kutcher's performance.
Old 12-30-04 | 02:11 PM
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I agree with Rusty: the theatrical cut had a much better ending. The
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baby choking himself in the womb
was unintentionally laughable, while the theatrical ending was infinitely more poignant.

Not a movie to watch if your in a happy-happy joy-joy mood, to say the absolute least.

Roy?
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Originally Posted by cleaver
They can end that piece of crap with Michael Corleone closing the door on Kay and it would still be a turd.

cleaver, threadcrapping is against forum rules. If you don't like the topic of disucssion, then just don't post.
Old 12-30-04 | 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Matt Millheiser
I agree with Rusty: the theatrical cut had a much better ending. The
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baby choking himself in the womb
was unintentionally laughable, while the theatrical ending was infinitely more poignant.

Not a movie to watch if your in a happy-happy joy-joy mood, to say the absolute least.

Roy?
Did anyone else think that the directors ending resembled the ending in
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Donnie Darko
a bit too much? The theatrical ending was much better IMO.
Old 12-31-04 | 02:05 AM
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I thought the theatrical cut was better as well, although it was good to see the alternative version
Old 01-10-05 | 12:24 AM
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I read on imdb that there's no nudity in the US version.

What's up with that?
Old 01-10-05 | 12:37 AM
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Originally Posted by BizRodian
I read on imdb that there's no nudity in the US version.

What's up with that?
I recall some nudity on the DVD, after Ashton's character makes his first change and walks into the bathroom where a girl gets out of the shower.
Old 01-10-05 | 12:41 AM
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Yeah, that's all I can think of too. Was it in theaters? Perhaps imdb is just full of BS again.
Old 01-10-05 | 07:38 AM
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I remeber distinctly seeing lots of boobies on screen when I saw this in the theater. So female nudity was in the US version. IMDB lies.
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I'm glad we cleared up that very important matter then.

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