10 Deaths That RUINED Movies
2. Evan Treborn - The Butterfly Effect (2004)
There are two endings to 2004's underrated sci-fi thriller The Butterfly Effect - one which works brilliantly and was used in the theatrical release, and one that can only be found in the Director's Cut and should never have been released.
The basic gist of the film is that Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher) can travel through time and inhabit the body of his younger self. He uses his power to go back in time and attempt to fix the lives of his deeply troubled friends.
Though a very difficult film to watch in parts, it at least makes the most of its inventive and outlandish premise, and ends on an ambiguous high which teases a happy ending for Evan and his old pals.
The Director's Cut completely ruins this, though, by having Evan go back one last time to when he was still in his mother's womb... and kill himself, so his friends will be okay because they'll never know him. It's both tasteless and all kinds of wrong, and completely ruins the movie in particularly sickening fashion.