West Hollywood.

It was 6:30 pm. After get off work, Peter Butler took his girlfriend Pegg to have dinner together, and the two hurried to the theater near their apartment.

Although he already had a good personal relationship, Peter Butler still failed to learn the official content of "The Butterfly Effect". Therefore, he rarely got off work on time today and couldn't wait to see it.

Peter's girlfriend Peggy is a tall and thin white girl wearing glasses and a gentle and gentle appearance.

The two sat down in the theater, and Peggy couldn't help saying, "Peter, it is said that the critics' evaluation of "Butterfly Effect" is not very good. Do we have to watch this movie?"

Due to poor feedback from critics for the first trial, Fox has been carefully concealing the preview effect of "Butterfly Effect" and has not held public previews before the painting started.

Therefore, until yesterday, the reputation of "Butterfly Effect" was only circulated among a few people in Hollywood. But now, the first batch of film reviews about "Butterfly Effect" in the afternoon and evening newspaper have been released, and the media response of the movie is naturally difficult to hide.

As a reporter, Peter Butler naturally learned about this earlier, but he still believed in his judgment more.

Scanning the audience in the hall, who were gradually increasing as the screening time approached, Peter Butler replied: "Page, don't you like "Run Lola" very much? Simon's movie shouldn't disappoint everyone."

Page is the same age as Peter, and is 31 years old this year, working as a designer in an advertising company.

Although she admired Simon's previous "Running Rolla", she has always been a very rational girl and is even more overwhelming as many young people.

However, considering the relationship between her boyfriend and the other party, Page did not have too much sarcastic words, but just shrugged and said, "Maybe."

I waited patiently for a few minutes, and the lights in the screening room were dimmed.

Peter Butler looked around again and the attendance rate in the screening hall that could accommodate 100 people has exceeded 70%, which is a very good data. Obviously, with the popularity of "Running Lola", the box office of "Butterfly Effect" will not be too bad in the first weekend. The key is to look at the subsequent box office trend of the film.

During this period, "Rola Run" unexpectedly succeeded, and Simon Westeros naturally became famous. Peter Butler also attracted much attention within the Los Angeles Times due to his series of interviews with Simon.

As the largest newspaper in the western United States, the Los Angeles Times has a huge team of editors and journalists of more than 1,100 people. It is definitely not easy for a young reporter like Peter Butler to attract high-level attention.

Correspondingly, Peter Butler unknowingly tended toward Simon in his personal position. Subconsciously, Peter Butler even made a decision that as long as the movie was not too terrible, he would definitely say a few good things to Simon.

On the big screen.

After the routine patch advertisement and label opening, Matt Dillon's protagonist Ivan carefully walked through a dim corridor and broke into an office. Then, as the security guards and doctors rammed the door violently, Ivan, who was hiding under the desk, quickly wrote down a string of last words on his laptop and started playing a box of videotapes.

As the scene sways violently, the camera has returned to Ivan's childhood.

In the screening room, watching the childhood scene of the hero who turned into a warm tone, Peter Butler is still recalling the opening wedge just now.

A very outstanding suspense creation, but this is the case that Brian de Palma has successfully attracted the audience's curiosity and attention. In the following twenty minutes, Ivan's various strange behaviors in his childhood appeared on the big screen one by one, continuing to attract the audience's curiosity. This way, until Ivan's adulthood, the answer began to be revealed one after another.

East Coast.

New Haven, Connecticut.

It's already ten o'clock in the evening and will officially graduate from Yale next month. Jennifer Rebled has been getting more and more busy recently. It's not until 8 o'clock in the evening to take time to watch Simon's new movie with his friend Lisa Collins.

At this time, as the abortion walked out of the theater, the two girls looked at each other in a daze, not knowing how to evaluate the "Butterfly Effect" just now.

Is this a good movie?

Compared with the stunning plot, shots, soundtracks and other aspects, "The Butterfly Effect" has not much to comment on except for the idea of ​​repeatedly traveling back to the past.

Is this a bad movie?

The plot of the film is very complete, and interspersed and intertwined. Compared to those really bad movies that make people find it difficult to remember the plot after watching it, many of the details in this movie are worth recalling.

To put it simply.

As two veteran movie fans who often enter cinemas, it is difficult for Jennifer and Lisa to get anything that can impress themselves from this movie. Moreover, to be fair, they don’t like the despair expressed in the movie from the bottom of their hearts.

perhaps.

This is just a random script written by that guy, and his next directing work is definitely worth looking forward to.

Jennifer was thinking this way, and a voice that was obviously deliberately raised suddenly came from beside him: "This movie is so cool, more exciting than "Run Lola". I think we should take the time to watch it again."

Following the sound, Jennifer turned his head and looked at her and Lisa, three young boys of seventeen or eighteen years old were following her.

When the three boys saw Jennifer turn their heads, their eyes lit up. Then the other two boys also agreed, and accelerated their pace together, beside Jennifer and Lisa.

If it were normal, Jennifer was completely disdainful of this kind of clumsy approach. But this time, she took the initiative to look at the boy she had just spoken and asked, "Do you really think "Butterfly Effect" is cooler than "Running Rolla"?"

"Of course, isn't this idea cool enough to rely on the diary to go back to the past?" the boy gestured without hesitation. "What's more, there is the butterfly effect, which changes life in an instant compared to the details in "Rola Run". This is the real butterfly effect. Moreover, in the end, he returned to his mother's womb and strangled himself to death. Tsk, Simon Westeros is such a genius."

Listening to the boy next to him excitedly gestured, Jennifer felt something flashing in his mind, but he couldn't catch it. Lisa's face, holding her arm, obviously had a little more clarity.

As he said this, he walked out of the theater without realizing it.

Seeing that Jennifer and the two were about to leave, the three boys caught up with him. The boy who just now offered to invite him, "Hey, girls, how about going to the bar together? We know there is a bar nearby that doesn't check the age."

Before Jennifer could answer, Lisa said to the three boys with some teasing words: "Forget it, little guys, we don't have the interest to date minors."

After saying a smile, she threw away the three boys, Lisa pulled Jennifer and quickly came to the parking lot.

After finding his own car, the two women got into the car. After Lisa, who was in charge of driving, suddenly reached out and gently grabbed Jennifer's beautiful golden ponytail. She still smiled and said, "You must be considered a little girl if you are tying this all day long."

Jennifer shook his hair, reached out to hit Lisa, and said, "Driving quickly, I'm a little sleepy."

Lisa drove the car out of the parking lot with the steering wheel, and saw that Jennifer still looked thoughtful and said, "You're not thinking about Westeros, are you?"

Jennifer's face turned slightly red, but he immediately retorted: "You think you are right, you admire him so much."

Lisa was not as shy as Jennifer and said bluntly: "That's awesome guy, I just don't know when I will see you again. I don't plan to go to California. Isn't your uncle his personal lawyer? I'll send me some autograph photos back then. And, if you can snatch Simon Westeros from Janet Johnston, I'll fly to Los Angeles to help you have a celebration party."

Jennifer heard Lisa's words become more and more outrageous, and blushed and reached out: "What are you talking about?"

Lisa opened her mouth, and bit her neatly white teeth on her little hand that she wanted to cover her mouth, frightened Jennifer, and then smiled and said, "I'm just saying what you think, come on, Jenny."

"I decided not to talk to you for the next ten minutes."

Lisa laughed and saw that Jennifer really ignored her and drove the car indifferently.

After a while, he glanced at his friend in the passenger seat again. Seeing that her blushing began to fade, he suddenly said, "There is no need to worry so much. I think this movie may be just for those young boys."

With the release of the film on its first day, reviews of "Butterfly Effect" have also appeared on various media platforms on a large scale.

"After "Running Roll", Simon Westero once again used his outstanding imagination to build a wonderful story for us that explores countless possibilities in life. "Butterfly Effect" made me realize that each of our lives is composed of countless bits and pieces in the long river of time. You cannot change, get rid of, and you cannot regret it. The real life is destined to have only one result."

This is a film review article published by Peter Butler in the Los Angeles Times the next day.

Although Peter Butler's impression of the film was similar to that of Jennifer on the East Coast during the movie, he still wrote an article expressing his approval.

However, in addition to Peter Butler, too many film critics in North America seem very impolite, and they are completely expressing their disgust for "The Butterfly Effect".

"No one can save these boring repetitions." - Variety Show

"Mart Dillon, who has performed wonderfully in films such as "The Edge of the River" and "The Outsider", selected this movie is really the biggest mistake in his life." - Entertainment Weekly

"Psychological themes, chaotic narratives, boring characters, this is the most boring movie in recent times." - "Movie Salon"

"Simon Westeros may want to express some deeper philosophical thoughts through "The Butterfly Effect", but it only became a boring film with no meaning." - "New York Observer"

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In this series of negative reviews, the New York Times contributor Mark Hollington, who had caused doubts about Simon, emerged again, and said bluntly that "Butterfly Effect" is a very stupid and pretentious chaos film. I can't understand what Simon Westero wants to express through such an annoying movie."

After all, there are too many accidental factors in the success of "Rolla Run", so the box office performance of "Butterfly Effect" is crucial to Simon's subsequent development in Hollywood.

Even on Saturday, facing one-sided negative reviews from "The Butterfly Effect", Ronald Goldberg couldn't wait to call, hoping to organize a production conference for "The God of Death" and he wanted to attend it in person.

This obviously violates the agreement signed by both parties.

It's obvious.

If "Butterfly Effect" ultimately fails at the box office, the three projects Simon is promoting will be seriously affected.
Chapter completed!