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The Butterfly Effect
Directed by J. Mackye Gruber, Eric Bress
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences. From TMDB
132 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Oct 18, 2026 · last updated Oct 27, 2026 · How this works
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| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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The Butterfly Effect is a 2004 science fiction thriller film, directed by J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bress, starring Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart and Melora Walters.
- 123 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon
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60 of 132 · most liked firstJust watched this movie tonight for the first time with @dizzisenpai.bsky.social and holy shit what a rollercoaster ride! We enjoyed it! 🎢😱 #TheButterflyEffect 🦋 #FilmBlueSky 🎞️
positive · AI labelView post →THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT (2004) was a sci-fi movie that dared to ask the question: what if ashton kutcher could read
neutral · AI labelView post →A small error in the initial calculation has led to an outsized and unpredictable change in present circumstances. I call this The Butterfly Effect because Ashton Kutcher was big on Twitter early on and he was in a movie called The Butterfly Effect (don't know why it was called that).
neutral · AI labelView post →Overhated #262 is up! I got music genius @shadowtodd.bsky.social to talk movies, and he chose The Butterfly Effect! Thanks to Todd for a great chat, to @effinbirds.com for sponsoring, and to all patrons for making the podcast possible.
neutral · AI labelView post →imagine SWORD OF SHANNARA was your sweet, shy next door neighbor with a laugh like the tinkling of distant bells and a constellation of freckles across her nose. but then there's a movie adaptation and now she's a scarred up hooker in a trailer park like in THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT and you're very sad
neutral · AI labelView post →So I wasn’t allowed to watch R rated movies so freshman year of high school a friend took me to Blockbuster and we rented The Butterfly Effect. It was. Maybe not the best choice for a first R rated movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →if you had told public health nurses working 10 years ago that we would have SEVEN HUNDRED cases in ONE state with numerous other states with outbreaks on top of that number would either not believe you or suddenly become acutely invested in the 2004 film The Butterfly Effect & to change this fate
neutral · AI labelView post →#HorrorWritersChat Time Travel IS horror. The Butterfly Effect, both effect and movie, are scary as all heck. Imagine: Going into the past and making one small change...that changes everything about your present. Nope. I don't want it. See. Excellent horror.
neutral · AI labelView post →Is The Butterfly Effect the most sensationally pessimistic time travel movie ever made? I revisit a shockingly unique film, hellishly wild and dark
positive · AI labelView post →Anything could lead to anything. I saw this movie called The Butterfly Effect, and
neutral · AI labelView post →Time for breakfast and a movie! Today's breakfast is Dunkin Donuts, which my wife just left to get And the randomly selected movie is... The Butterfly Effect, 2004
neutral · AI labelView post →Now I wanna see a movie like The Butterfly Effect but with a female lead like that could be some interesting psychological horror. Like instant jump I have 3 kids and no memory of the past 15 years I have to change the past
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched The Butterfly Effect again after what, maybe 16 years or so? And man, that movie is such a weird mix of shoddy and traumatizing.
neutral · AI labelView post →PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED is an Isekai. THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT is an Isekai. FLUKE (the movie about a dad that gets reincarnated as his son's dog) is an Isekai
neutral · AI labelView post →D11. The Butterfly Effect film has always stood out for me as something different. It's an uncomfortable watch, very dystopian in tone, but a smart exploration of how an ability to time travel can go horribly wrong, with no way of putting things right again. #timetravelauthors #timetravel
positive · AI labelView post →This movie puts a new spin on the Butterfly Effect! #hatm
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching The Butterfly Effect (2004), directed by J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bress. It has been a long time since I last watched this film. #FrightClub
neutral · AI labelView post →Such a good video! The butterfly effect and dog connection made me think of the Ashton Kutcher movie The Butterfly Effect (1/23/04). He travels back in time to redo past traumatic events, one of the events is the murder of his dog. I remember I had to leave the movie theater bc I was so distraught.
neutral · AI labelView post →As a kid my favourite movie was The Butterfly Effect Directors Cut and it's very much not a movie for kids. Has lots of fucked up shit in it. But I rewatched it a lot. Anyway as like a 12 year old I made my dad watch it with me and I wonder what went through his brain when he watched it with me.
positive · AI labelView post →Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters. #FilmSky Day 04 The Butterfly Effect
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie on the plane yesterday. I think he’d like it. It’s kind of meta, references other time travel films like BTTF and the Butterfly Effect.
neutral · AI labelView post →Eight movies to get to know me by: 1) Tank Girl (1995) 2) Chess Fever (1925) 3) Keep Cool (1997) 4) The Movie Hero (2003) 5) Drop Dead Fred (1991) 6) The Butterfly Effect (2004) 7) Kamikaze Girls (2004) 8) Be Kind Rewind (2008)
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie night : The Butterfly Effect
neutral · AI labelView post →15 movies to know my sorry ass The Crow Labyrinth Highlander Ferris Bueller's Day Orf Inside Out Golden Child Shawn Of The Dead Your Name The Girl Who Leapt Through Time The Cat Returns It Follows The Babadook It's All Gone Pete Tong Transformers The Movie The Butterfly Effect
neutral · AI labelView post →I have such mixed feelings about The Butterfly Effect because that movie is such a downer #FrightClub
neutral · AI labelView post →The Butterfly Effect still holds up so well! Originally released January 23,2004 #movies #film
positive · AI labelView post →Movie locations for #FrightClub tonight! #TheButterflyEffect (10ET/9C/8M/7P): www.netflix.com/title/60033299 #YoureNext (12aET/11C/10M/9P): www.netflix.com/title/70211045
neutral · AI labelView post →hey this reminds me remember that 2 year period when Pop Culture at large thought The Butterfly Effect was a deep psychological movie instead of just 2 and 1/2 hours of bland shock value
negative · AI labelView post →Your Very Own Consciousness Can Interact With the Whole Universe, Scientists Believe. **FULL ARTICE** By Susan Lahey When people talk about consciousness, or the mind, it’s always a bit nebulous. Whether we create consciousness in our brains as a function of our neurons firing, or consciousness exists independently of us, there’s no universally accepted scientific explanation for where it comes from or where it lives. However, new research on the physics, anatomy, and geometry of…
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand. Chitlins (pork chitterlings) The Butterfly Effect God Bless The USA
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching The Butterfly Effect again 🦋 It’s been so long. This movie is so fucking good but so fucking sad 😭
positive · AI labelView post →Thinking back to an hour ago when I was typing and deleting the words 'croissant', 'baguette' and 'macaron' trying to decide which would be the funniest French delicacy to post and now I suddenly understand the plot of the movie THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
neutral · AI labelView post →What movie did you see way too young? My youth group put on The Butterfly Effect and I nope'd outta there after ten minutes. And then everyone else joined me at like minute 15-20 😂 I think we ALL thought it was gonna be something different!
negative · AI labelView post →Day 22 of this challenge: A film you like from the 2000s There's plenty of those, but let's choose one that I have never talked about here and say The Butterfly Effect. It's a fantastic movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight the illustrious film he picked out to watch for himself was THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
neutral · AI labelView post →What is the movie The Butterfly Effect
neutral · AI labelView post →Every now and again, I think of The Butterfly Effect, a movie I saw once, twenty-one years ago, and I lose. my friggin. mind.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Butterfly Effect directors cut is amazing. Amazing movie and premise. One of my favorites.
positive · AI labelView post →CDs, Bandcamp, Soundcloud, and YouTube. But then I also mostly listen to the same soundtracks whenever I feel like music while driving. Sonic Adventure 2, Digimon: The Movie, Secret World soundtracks and various additional Secret World songs like the Butterfly Effect or Sleepless Lullaby...
neutral · AI labelView post →45. his favorite movie is The Butterfly Effect, an American science fiction thriller movie released in 2004
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember that movie The Butterfly Effect how in the director's cut Ashton Kutcher quantum leaps into himself as a baby in the womb and strangles himself with his umbilical cord? I think about that sometimes
neutral · AI labelView post →3. do you have a favorite movie or anime? fave movie would be The Butterfly Effect and the Saw series and favorite anime is Kill la Kill and Parasyte
neutral · AI labelView post →"Chris Cabin and I watched that movie in theaters on an awkward double-date one time, and I was more upset that we were watching The Mothman Prophecies than about the situation we found ourselves in." -The Butterfly Effect
neutral · AI labelView post →Alright fine. The 2004 film The Butterfly Effect is a fun piece that doesn't deserve its negative criticism. The scene in the third act when Evan (Ashton Kutcher) breaks the time travel rules set by the narrative is unneeded and could be removed, thereby rendering the main point of contention null—
neutral · AI labelView post →Let's go ahead and throw The Butterfly Effect in there too There's a good movie there stuck in & struggling to get out of a bad movie
neutral · AI labelView post →"Now back off, fuckbag" -- The Butterfly Effect. Fascinating movie, convoluted but tied together with the only solution possible out of the mobius strip. If you haven't seen the movie, it touches on the abject futility of trying to chart the future as if any of us are in control of our own destinies
positive · AI labelView post →@robbotron.bsky.social thank you for shining the light on the Butterfly Effect special edition on Realms Unknown! It also traumatised me when a (now ex) put it on as a "cute" movie for valentines day 2018! @alicefraser.bsky.social
negative · AI labelView post →The movie tonight is The Butterfly Effect on DVD tonight. Got it at the Hobby Store for $2 love this movie
positive · AI labelView post →The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009) The first kamige movie ever made. Mid for a lot of it but the core premise and execution feels like a mix of an eroge and a seinen manga. Pretty entertaining and the twists near the end make it legendary. If you like odd VNs you gotta watch this.
neutral · AI labelView post →She starred as Wanda Henrickson in HBO’s Big Love (2006–2010) and Kathy Kone in Hulu’s PEN15 (2019–2021), demonstrating her range in drama and comedy. Other notable film credits include Dead Poets Society (1989), The Butterfly Effect (2004), and Venom (2018).
neutral · AI labelView post →The Butterfly Effect is, imho, a real thing, although the film greatly exaggerated the concept. Intention & Focus also matter. [Getting Ancestor help✨ seems to be a natural Thing for me.]
neutral · AI labelView post →Question 5: "Houston we have a problem" is a quote from which film? The Butterfly Effect Love Story Apollo XIII The Big Lebrowski #scottstrivia
neutral · AI labelView post →Along Came Polly for worst film. The Butterfly Effect for worst experience - a jump scare made him crack my rib. I should have called it there but I was a teenager 🤷
negative · AI labelView post →The Butterfly Effect: Leo would have been in “ Rock of Ages”making that film much better.
neutral · AI labelView post →Actually watched some movies recently. Caddo Lake is a familial drama dressed in some plot shenanigans borrowing from The Butterfly Effect of all things. Ideal lazy night streaming movie. Solid acting and a patina of authenticity.
neutral · AI labelView post →There was a movie called The Butterfly Effect but it reminds me of a psychological condition like another movie what was it?.. It wasn't HANNA was it what movie was that disturbed, shattered, no somethimg like broken it gives you that broken sense what was it called
neutral · AI labelView post →Books - Toms Midnight Garden. The Stephen King book 11.22.63. Films - Looper, the Butterfly Effect. I saw a film called Primer at the cinema when it first came out, remember being fascinated by the complexity but only being just on the edge of understanding what the hell was going on 😂
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬Today in #FilmHistory🎬 "The Butterfly Effect" (2004) was released. The movie earned a Teen Choice Award nomination for Choice Movie: Thriller. Four different endings were shot for the film. #OTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Nice pickups! The Butterfly Effect is a great movie. 😁
positive · AI labelView post →A movie called The Snowball Effect should be a weirdly Christmas themed version of The Butterfly Effect. It actually appears to be a weirdly Christmas themed version of Footloose.
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