Corrected entry: Evan's mother drives a 2 door car. When Evan, Kayleigh and Evan's mom are in the car just before Evan's mom announces they are moving, Kayleigh gets out the back door. However, she can't do this - there is no back door.
Corrected entry: Every time Evan blacks out, it's a time when he could go back in time and change things. However, he didn't go back until AFTER he was grown up (e.g. the scene in the basement with Kayleigh's dad, the first time he didn't call him a f****ag). However, he blacked out just before he got the knife in the kitchen, and he was getting the knife to stop the firework from blowing his arms off. And, when he blacked out with his dad in the hospital, it was because he had gone back and told him he was going back, which is why the dad attacked him. Seems it's one rule one minute and a different one the next.
Correction: There are really no set "rules" to his going back in time. Rather, he only really tries to go back to when he has had a blackout, hence having the blackout. But at the very end, he is able to travel back using the video, but was not having a blackout at the time the video was made.
Corrected entry: When Evan does his second trip back (the one were he burns himself with a cigarette)the entry he reads says "the next thing I know I was running in the woods and Lenny fell on top of me". Thats not true, we can see in the scene in the woods that Lenny fell next to Evan.
Correction: The guy is going back in time changing this, so stuff like where someone falls can easily be affected......
Corrected entry: When we first see Evan with the knife in his kitchen his mother says "Evan, Evan what are you doing with that knife?" When he goes back to this point his mother says his name only once. This cannot be said to be an alternative reality because nothing before this sentence has been altered.
Correction: In those scenes when he goes back, a lot of it is focusing on what he sees and his perspective....it's possible since he was almost going nuts trying to figure out what do do he didn't hear his mom the first time so we only heard his name called out once that time.
Corrected entry: After the initial scene when we see the "crazy" Kutcher the next scene is said to take place "13 years earlier". This cannot be true because if this would be 13 years before Kutcher tries to get back a last time Kayley would die in her father's basement.
Correction: A lot of things can happen in one year (i.e. it could not have been timed to the day).
Corrected entry: In the scene in prison, when Evan goes back in time in order to prove to Carlos that Jesus talks to him, he stabs his palms so hard that the bruises remain in his adulthood. Wouldn't something as substantial as that also change his future rather unpredictably? At the very least because of all the therapy they'd sent him into. He couldn't be sure to return to the cell with Carlos.
Correction: None of the major events in his life would change. He would still go to therapy. He also drew that picture to make sure they send him to therapy. But even if he didn't end up in prison with Carlos, what's wrong with that? He would have escaped prison..
Corrected entry: In the prison part, Evan is going to talk to the two big guys in the cell. When his religious friend comes to help, you can see the four of them fighting in the cell. Suddenly, in a change of shots, the religious guy is closing the two big guys outside the cell.
Correction: The guys that Carlos is holding the door against are different prisoners, not the two that he and Evan just stabbed. If you look behind Carlos you can see that the two guys who live in that cell are lying dead or unconscious on the floor.
Corrected entry: When the kids put the dynamite in the mail box, young Evan's friend is afraid that he'll get blown up, so Evan uses his cigarette as a delay. When older Evan goes back for the first time, his cigarette falls out his mouth causing the nasty burn on his abdomen. This can't be possible because it's in the mail box. He returns to the past ONLY during his blackouts and he only blacks out after the dynamite is in the mailbox with the cigarette attached.
Correction: Just after Evan puts his cigarette on the dynamite, he lights a new cigarette and this is the cigarette that falls out his mouth in other timeline.
Corrected entry: At Mr. Miller's house, the young Evan blacked out while starring in the kiddy porn film. When he woke up his top was off. He went back to that day two or three times to try and change it. At the start of every flash back his top was on and he never took it off.
Correction: During the two times Evan returns to this 'blackout' Mr Miller asks both him and Kayleigh to "kiss like adults do, so take off your clothes". This happens during the blackout. When we see young Evan with his sweater covering his nakedness it is after he has woken up from the blackout and therefore after he had carried out Mr Miller's original instructions.
Corrected entry: When they all go to the movies, they see the movie Seven over Dumb and Dumber. Seven was released in 1995, while Dumb and Dumber in 1994.
Correction: This is small town America, who is to say that either Dumb & Dumber took longer to get to that town, or the cinema decided to show it again for some reason. It is perfectly plausible that they would both be showing in the same cinema. Maybe Dumb & Dumber was a popular film in that town, and they showed it every month, once a month.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Evan wakes up in Kayleigh's bed at the sorority house, he gets another nosebleed. Kayleigh tells him to go clean up, and as he's walking through the halls, you can hear some sorority sisters singing a little cheer. They say "C-H-I P-H-I B-E-T-A." It sounds like they are doing a sorority cheer, but the Greek letters they actually are cheering are those of Evan's fraternity, Chi Phi Beta (his letters can be seen on the green t-shirt he wears in later scenes). Isn't it a bit odd for the sorority girls to be saying a cheer for a fraternity?
Correction: Many soroities and fraternities are partnered up and do "team" activities. There's nothing usual about these girls singing a chant for their "brothers".
Corrected entry: After the opening scene, the next scene begins with two boys riding their bikes down a steep hill and through a "+" intersection toward the camera. The intersecting street on the right has a stop sign on the wrong side of the street. It looks like the filmstrip has been reversed.
Correction: It is unlikely that the filmstrip was reversed because in the same shot is a 30mph speed limit sign which reads correctly. The road on which the stop sign is located could be one-way so the sign would be in the correct location.
Corrected entry: In the scene when Even gets in jail, he is trying to get back by reading his papers about the day he had to draw picture but it doesn't make sense because he started to write in the diary only some days after this event.
Correction: Evan's mother took him get checked up that same day, which is when Evan started to write in the journal.
Corrected entry: During the movie the young Ashton character blacks out just before traumatic events happen. We find out later in the film that those blackouts are a result of the older Ashton character travelling back in time to change the course of history. However if the older Ashton had travelled back in time to change history causing the blackouts then why did the young Ashton awake from the blackouts having experienced the same bad events that the older Ashton was trying to change?
Correction: Young Evan only awoke after having experienced bad events in the original timeline. After that it is never shown what happens after Evan changes the past.
Corrected entry: If Evan goes back in time and changes the course of events, then wouldn't that change what's written in the journals? When Evan "wakes up" in a new reality, each time he doesn't really know what type of person he is currently or what type of life he leads, yet when he reads his journals, he knows right where to find what he's looking for. If he had changed everything that had happened in his life up until then, wouldn't what was written in the journals change also?
Corrected entry: Why is it that Evan can remember everything from his alternate lifetimes yet, supposedly, whenever he changes something, those lifetimes don't happen?
Correction: If you notice every time he wakes up after making the changes, his mind is flooded with 13 years of new memories, and he gets a nose bleed. When he's at the doctor getting his results, he explains that his brain is hemorrhaging because the brain is "overloaded" with too many memories at once. He can remember everything because when he changed the past, the memories that he would have had, had he actually gone through it all, come to him all at once.
Corrected entry: After Evan wakes up and falls off Kayleigh's bed, he has white boxers on. He then wraps a towel around him and proceeds down the hallway. Yet when he's in the girl's showers you can notice that when he discovers the naked girl behind him, he shows a little too much of himself to be wearing much of anything below it. (00:55:15 - 00:56:45)
Correction: He never loosens the towel that's around his waist, so nothing is shown. And the sink is covering him.
Corrected entry: In the first scene that Evan has the knife, the camera shows Evans Mom grab her purse off the couch and she is swinging it in her hand. They cut to Evan holding the knife and back to the mother, NO PURSE.
Correction: She probably dropped the purse when she saw her cheerful son holding a big knife in his hand from the shock of it.
Corrected entry: In the Director's Cut DVD version, in the scene after Evan's mother took Evan to see the fortune teller, she told him about two still-births occurred before he was born. However at the end of the movie, when Evan travelled back to the time when he was about to be born, the voice of his mother mentioned about three still births before him.
Correction: Since Evan was getting new memories showing a life without him and showing his parents with another baby, a girl, Evan could have been hearing his mother telling the girl after she grew up about the two babies and also about Evan, making it three babies.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Evan takes Kayleigh to the romantic dinner, look at her hair while they are seated. One shot has a flower petal that landed in her hair, but the remaining shots do not.
Correction: So the petal landed in her hair? Could it not have fallen out when Kayleigh moved her head or been blown out by the obvious breeze seen moving the lights in the veranda area? Petals aren't fixed you know...
Correction: If you look closely you can see that Evan moves forward to allow Kayleigh to exit. Afterward you see Evan moves back to his original position.