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Originally Posted by Mr. Marshmallow
I saw it both in theaters and the DVD, so in fact I saw both endings and I actually prefer the original movie ending. Which if you didn't see that ending and don't intend on renting/buying the movie anytime soon, I'll explain what it is and why it is "happier":
Spoiler Below Ashton Kutcher gets out his dad's movie camera while hiding under the desk in the psychiatrist's office. He watches the tape back to when he first met Kaylee (I think that was the main girl's name), he then time travels back to that point and whispers to her "If you ever come near me again I'll kill you". This made her cry and walk away from him. Thus Ashton Kutcher never befriends her, never falls in love with her, and doesn't hurt/kill her. He then is shown living a normal life and burns his journals so to never go back and try again. At the very end, he's walking down the sidewalk and grown up Kaylee (Amy Smart) walks past him, she briefly turns around as if she's seen him before but shakes her head and walks off. Basically, this ending was happier because he lived and realized he could not be with her and be happy so he had to seperate from her for good.
That's basically the whole ending, and I do feel this was the better of the two. Even though it is a bit happier, like you said, you can still taste that bleak/depressing feeling. |
Thanks, Mr. M. I thought that the DVD version worked pretty well myself, but if I had any complaints it would be that it was perhaps a tad too reminiscent of the ending to
Donnie Darko (or at least one interpretation of it, anyway). There's another very sad movie, though oddly enough I didn't find it quite as bleak as I did
the Butterfly Effect, I suppose because with
Donnie Darko there was a stronger element of humour and character throughout, so it made the conclusion a little easier to swallow.