Butterfly Effect
This movie was incredible for its premise, but terrible for its vulgarity and sexual crudeness. I'm glad to have seen it, but I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. Leah recommended seeing it, but she did so without memory of the reasons for the R rating. I don't blame her and I'm not upset by it because the movie was very impressive in many aspects.
The idea goes like this: The main character is plagued by inexplicable black outs during his life. They occur during the most traumatic moments in his life, so he's deprived of the emotional damage that his friends experience around him.
As the story begins he begins writing from day to day into his journal. When the story becomes interesting instead of confusing, you are shown his amazing curse. Upon reading his past journal entries, a thing he'd never done before, the world around him begins to shake and change. Suddenly he finds himself experiencing that moment in time over again, which happened to be during what he remembered as a black out, but now he had the complete ability to do as he pleased. I thought that it would certainly be some sort of dream at first, but when the memory ends, his life has changed significantly. This leads to an ever worsening alternate reality each time he tries to change his future.
It's a radical ride, but I was unimpressed by the overusage of harsh language and sexual references. It really subtracted from the movie in a way that finally reduced its ability to redeem itself. I've taken from it what I enjoyed and prefer to remember it that way, but, as I've already said, I could never recommend it in good conscience.
13 Going On 30
13 Going On 30 was actually a very enjoyable movie. There wasn't much about it other than some language and a few innuendos. I don't condone those things, but the movie redeemed itself overall. It was very funny in a great many ways and actually reached a real level of emotion instead of a completely cheesy movie. In other words, the movie had some good meaning to it. I'd recommend it, so I don't want to give too much away.
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