Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!

[lierdumoa]

Okay, so I got a vidbunny.

fandom: Butterfly Effect
music: "Spring Haze" by Tori Amos
summary: shipper vid (for the movie's heterosexual canon couple -- sorry slashers)


I don't own the movie, but just my luck, I found a DVD rip to download with BitTorrent. It was about 4.5 GB, so it took forever to download, but hey! When you're vidding, the higher the quality, the better, right? So I spent four days downloading this evil mother of a file, only to find I'd downloaded the director's cut.

The director's cut has an alternate ending from the version I saw in theaters.

The ending on the director's cut is depressing, predictable, moralizing, and generally bad, bad, bad all around (although it is directed well).

Now when I saw the movie in theaters, the ending was actually my favorite part. So you can understand that I HATE THE DIRECTOR'S CUT WITH A BURNING PASSION THAT CAN ONLY BE PROPERLY EXPRESSED IN CAPS.



So I deleted the evil mother of a file that stole four days from my life. I found a nice 700.2 MB version and tried to download that. And ONCE AGAIN, I found I had downloaded the director's cut.

It gets better. This version didn't even have sound. Okay, so you don't need sound to vid, but it's the principle of the thing.



I'm trying again, with a 481.8 MB version. The resolution is probably crap. And with my luck, it's the directors cut and it has no sound and Czechoslovakian subtitles, thereby rendering it the most unviddable version of the movie ever to grace the net.



Perhaps I should just stick to writing fic.



Happy 4th of July.



ETA: Spoilers in the comment thread.

Comments

[tehshiny.livejournal.com]

*is not mocking*

:|

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

X-(

*shanks you just on principle*

[tehshiny.livejournal.com]

Well, if you're going to shank me anyway.

*mocks and laughs*

[aiturnizzle.livejournal.com]

what was the director's cut ending like?
the one i saw at the movies was where he told that girl to get lost (i forget details) and they both had great lives seperately.

.eep.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

In the director's cut, he finds a video of his mom giving birth, goes back to the day he was born, and strangles himself on his umbilical cord.

It goes along with an earlier scene in the movie (which I don't think was in the theater version) where he and his mother visit a gypsy who tells him that he has no lifeline, he has no soul, and he should not exist.

To sum it up, he dies because he's an abomination against nature and the only way for him to right the world is to kill himself. No one should be able to play God. Good triumphs over evil. Blah, blah, blah. Way too much moralizing for my taste.

I really liked the theater version because Ashton's character actually got to fix everything on his own terms. He played God and won -- which is the last thing you'd expect to happen.

I was pleasantly surprised by the theater ending. I was really dissappointed by the director's cut ending.

[aiturnizzle.livejournal.com]

yeah the director's cut ending sounds shit.
i much preferred the theatre version. much sweeter.

.eep.