the more reasonable & scientific version of The Butterfly Effect
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shareNope. It's a mess. At least in The Butterfly Effect, the time travel mechanic is consistent. Here we get all kind of stupid:
First, we learn that everything they change, has already happened by the time they use the machine. The toy car is already embedded in the wall while they are working on the machine.
Then we see that's not always the case, because the smiley appears on the guys neck in real time, while he's drawing it on his own sleeping self's neck.
THEN in the end we can see that established events can change. David's hand is clean on the video, and bloody when he actually gets there.
That's three, totally different approach to time travel and paradoxes, and a paradox in itself.
At least in The Butterfly Effect, the time travel mechanic is consistent.Well, I wouldn't go that far. The trick he does when he spikes his hands in grade school to fool his cellmate is one egregious example of where TBE doesn't follow it's own rules. There are other problems. MJY does a good job analyzing the movie's internal issues: http://www.mjyoung.net/time/butter1.html share
Ah, right. There are inconsistencies there too. I watched it a long time ago.
But clearly, Project Almanac is waaaay worse following its nonexistent rules. And with its stupid technobabble, it's not even close to being a "scientific" version of anything.
I'm reading that analysis...
What I don't really get, is the thing he writes about Evan's memory.
The essay says that he's not remembering the timeline he's currently in, but some destroyed timeline.
I distinctly remember a scene from the movie where the psychiatrist talks about his brain changing, like he's getting new memories. Since he already has a set of memories from the original, destroyed timeline, the new memories _must_ be the new memories from the recently altered timeline.
So I think the parts that are about his memory are wrong.
I'm afraid I don't recall that scene. I'll have to look for it when I watch it again.
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