Crash vs Butterfly Effect

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In the same week, I managed to rent two DVD's Crash and Butterfly Effect that seem, at least vaguely, to have similar underlying themes related to the effects of the cosmos on our lives, or am I deluded?

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[nq:1]In the same week, I managed to rent two DVD's Crash and Butterfly Effect that seem, at least vaguely, to have similar underlying themes related to the effects of the cosmos on our lives, or am I deluded?[/nq]
Can't it be both?

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[nq:1]In the same week, I managed to rent two DVD's Crash and Butterfly Effect that seem, at least vaguely, to have similar underlying themes related to the effects of the cosmos on our lives, or am I deluded?[/nq]
Effects of the cosmos aside, B.E. was the sickest piece of **** I've seen in quite a while. Pretty good sfx tho. Can't speak for Crash, haven't seen it.

We do need more movies that delve deeper into the mysteries of the universe, however. You know, like women.

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[nq:1]In the same week, I managed to rent two DVD's Crash and Butterfly Effect that seem, at least vaguely, to have similar underlying themes related to the effects of the cosmos on our lives, or am I deluded?[/nq]
Similar, but differently done. Or, in the case of The Butterfly Effect, badly done. The major flaw of that movie is the title (and the opening quotation), establishing a pretense that it has anything to do with Chaos Theory.
The theory, of course, states that even the tiniest events can have enormous ramifications. The movie - which was otherwise a somewhat entertaining thriller - demonstrates this by having Ashton Kutcher's character go back to MAJOR turning points in his life, change them fundamentally, and then come back to the present to find that... his bed is on the other side of his dorm room. Yeah, that's deep.

A much better example of "The Butterfly Effect" as portrayed on film is Run Lola Run. Not that it necessarily portrayed the effect accurately, but it atleast got the basic concept right.

Stephen Mack
"Nobody's smart enough to be wrong all the time." -Ken Wilber

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[nq:1]a while. Pretty good sfx tho. Can't speak for Crash, haven't seen it. We do need more movies that delve deeper into the mysteries of theuniverse, however. You know, like women.[/nq]
That's a mystery that's certainly stumped my wee mind my entire life.

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[nq:1]snip A much better example of "The Butterfly Effect" as portrayed on film is Run Lola Run. Not that it necessarily portrayed the effect accurately, but it atleast got the basic concept right.[/nq]
How about Groundhog Day? I did wonder about the positioning of that quote in The Butterfly Effect to be both pretentious and cliché (I've heard that quote so much it feels like a stale **** to my mind). It stems from the Bell Theorem, if I'm not mistaken, and the film meandered from that big-time. It's like talking about Beethoven, then playing RAP. However, at risk incurring the wrath of this MWSM readers, I personally don't feel that the Butterfly Effect was badly done within the context of the reality it created (irrespective of how it stands up to hard science).

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