In this episode of Box Office Bucket List, hosts Tim, Andrew, Adam and Katie hold a heated debate between two time-travel films. Andrew defends The Butterfly Effect — a chaotic, mind-bending story about a man who repeatedly rewrites his past and must face how those changes destroy other people’s lives. Adam argues for The Flash, highlighting its clearer structure, emotional beats and visible consequences when one small change ripples through a timeline.

The discussion covers pacing, accessibility for viewers unfamiliar with source material, confusing timeline jumps, and a few controversial scenes that affect rewatchability. The hosts unpack themes of selfishness, sacrifice and the butterfly effect, and compare which film better conveys the moral cost of altering the past.

Doesn't The Substance deserve the hype?

On this episode of Box Office Bucket List the hosts Tim, Andrew Adam and Katie tackle the animated DC feature Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox.

Barry Allen wakes to a world where his mother is alive but the Justice League is fractured — Batman is Thomas Wayne, Wonder Woman and Aquaman are at war, Superman is imprisoned, and time has been horribly altered. They cover key set pieces including the Flash origin, the rogue gallery fight, the brutal battlefield confrontations, and the emotional choice Barry must make to restore reality.

We Discuss, the star-studded voice cast (Kevin Conroy, Justin Chambers, Michael B. Jordan, Ron Perlman and others), the film’s dark tone and graphic moments, comparisons to the original comic and to other time-travel stories. And we sum it all up in movie’s themes of grief, sacrifice and consequences of altering the past.

THE BUCKET LIST

The Way

The Cabin in the Woods

Orgazmo

Grind

Split

Dr Suess' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/jonny-boyle/crafty-crime

In this episode the hosts tackle the 2004 film The Butterfly Effect, walking through its time-travel premise, Evan’s blackout-driven memory gaps, and the journals he uses to try to fix his past. They recap major moments from childhood — the basement incident, the mailbox explosion, and the dog fire — and explain how those events ripple into multiple alternate lives.

The hosts debate key turning points and the film’s famously different endings, including the canonical choice and the darker director’s cut. They discuss characters like Lenny, Tommy, Kaylee and Evan’s father, the moral consequences of changing the past, and how small actions produce large, often tragic, results.

Evan really should have just let Lenny be happy

THE BUCKET LIST

The Way

The Cabin in the Woods

Orgazmo

Grind

Split

Dr Suess' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/jonny-boyle/crafty-crime