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** Personally, I find "doing things in the womb" stuff unbearably silly. The Franchise/XMen comic did that with Professor Xavier, and I found it silly then too. I wouldn't be surprised if test audiences and/or execs shared my opinion.
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** Personally, I find "doing things in the womb" stuff unbearably silly. The Franchise/XMen ComicBook/XMen comic did that with Professor Xavier, and I found it silly then too. I wouldn't be surprised if test audiences and/or execs shared my opinion.
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* In the end, Evan locks himself into a room to watch the final video. Why make such a fuss about it, running from the guards and acting all secretive? He obviously had permission to watch the video, or his mother wouldn't have brought it. He could have watched it with the mom and the doctor sitting right beside him. Sure, at one point he would have shaken weirdly, but before they knew what was going on, he would have already been transported to the past. Or can people from the present "break your concentration" so you end up back in the present?
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** Two other time travels that didn't change anything: when he went back to talk to his dad, and when he unsuccessfully tried to get the knife to cut the dynamite.
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* When Evan was in the two alternate futures that were relatively OK (the one where he's a frat boy, and the one where the only problems are that he has no arms and his mom has cancer) couldn't he go back in time again and merely make small ajustments so that the problems (Tommy turning into a psycho, Evan getting blown up) not happen? Admittedly, with the first "good" future he is in a bad situation so he can't really pick where he jumps to, but couldn't he have jumped to the basement scene, delivered the same speech he did the first time except not tell Kayley and Tommy's father to discipline Tommy, and then go back to a future similar to the frat boy one except Tommy's not psychotic? Or he could jump to the mailbox scene and just stay clear of the mailbox.
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* When Evan was in the two alternate futures that were relatively OK (the one where he's a frat boy, and the one where the only problems are that he has no arms and his mom has cancer) couldn't he go back in time again and merely make small ajustments adjustments so that the problems (Tommy turning into a psycho, Evan getting blown up) not happen? Admittedly, with the first "good" future he is in a bad situation so he can't really pick where he jumps to, but couldn't he have jumped to the basement scene, delivered the same speech he did the first time except not tell Kayley and Tommy's father to discipline Tommy, and then go back to a future similar to the frat boy one except Tommy's not psychotic? Or he could jump to the mailbox scene and just stay clear of the mailbox.
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** And when he's in jail, he doesn't have the journal that leads to the basement scene. However, the next time around, he was back in his dorm (mirrored) and while it was a crapsack world for Lenny and Kayleigh, he himself was relatively fine (not jailed or disabled, and had all his journals). He should have fixed the basement scene then. However, it would have been irrelevant: he still needed to fix Lenny, who went insane due to the dynamite, so all his attempts to get rid of the dynamite would have played out in the same way.
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*** There's also no reason to assume he did.
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** If we believe that magic exists in this movie, which it apparently does, and his abilities are magic and are indeed a "curse", we might surmise that, not only does he have time-travelling abilities, but also a curse that makes people around him miserable in some way that's indirectly connected to him: Kayleigh stayed with her father because of him. The dynamite prank only worked cause he suggested using the cigarette as a fuse. If he didn't exist, he wouldn't have a dog, and Tommy couldn't have worsened his sadism by killing that dog. The butterfly-effects he's having on people's lives, which indirectly cause something to happen that indirectly ruins someone's life, are definitely not something which we should blame people for in the real world. But if there's a magic curse around him in a fantasy movie that's "deliberately" causing this, I guess it's different. If true, the happier ending where he survives receives some Fridge Horror in the realization that he might inadvertedly ruin people's lives again, unless he somehow broke the curse.
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Unless the father knew in advance that a male son would pass on the curse, so even just seeing Evan born was enough to bring him over the edge. If this is true, why didn't the father have a vasectomy done on himself so he couldn't pass on the curse?
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* Why did Evan's father go insane? Presumably because he couldn't stand the alternate timelines he created. But why then was he happy and sane in the version where Evan was never born? He's obviously already insane before Evan's first blackout happens, so Evan couldn't directly have had an effect.
Unless the father knew in advance that a male son would pass on the curse, so even just seeing Evan born was enough to bring him over the edge. If this is true, why didn't the father have a vasectomy done on himself so he couldn't pass on the curse?
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* I was positively surprised when I saw Thumper: finally, a goth who's depicted in a positive light: as the friendly buddy. But then I was disappointed when I saw the real reason they'd added him to the film: He's a marker for a crapsack world. In those realities where things are shit, Evan ends up with him as a dorm mate. In those where everything's fine, he doesn't.
