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Title: we think we're cool, don't we
Review: everything about this movie is unwatchable. while i think that cinema needs a few more good perverts, in the tradition of david lynch, david cronenberg and alfred hitchcock, the butterfly effect goes about it in a grossly obvious, conventional way, which kills the profound quality the movie wants to have. it has a plot which sounds a bit like blue velvet, what with the evil beneath the surface of the suburbs and whatnot, but blue velvet succeeds because its ugliness becomes beautiful and the evil becomes funny. every shot in the butterfly effect looks like the cover of an album you don't ever want to play, and it is done with a horribly straight face. it can't even be described as entertaining trash, because the feverish 'omigod we're the wachowski brothers we're such amazing college students' feel turns any dicerning moviegoer off immediately.
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