Poll: Donnie Darko

[DoctorNick]

It's fairly high up my 'good movie' bell-curve but not quite in the 'great movie' top ten percent outlier of it.

I would recommend everyone see it once.

 

[TheLastCylon]

By far the trippiest movie I have ever seen.

And I loved every minute of it.

 

[Lono Shrugged]

If by "gives to much away" you mean "adequately explains the story but still leaves intrigue" then yes, it does do that.

The fans are lying, the Directors Cut is vastly superior. They're trying to be cool by acting like they didn't need the Director's Cut to know what was going on.

Oh you misunderstand, these people are not cool. But I might check it out sometime. I enjoyed it but I never got why it was such a film snob classic. I know the Evil Dead reference have something to do with it.....

 

[dmase]

Seen both donnie and samantha. Donnie was funny and fun to figure out, but Samantha was boring and just hard to figure out without a good way to wrap things up.

 

[Chancie]

I saw it because a friend of my Dad's recommended it to him. I've seen it 5+ times now and I've seen both the normal and Directors Cut versions. It's one of my top most favorite movies and I love it completely. It may be a hit and miss movie, but it's the kind of movie that everyone should at least see once in their life.

And about the squeal, I simply refuse to watch that. The first was far too good and a sequel is completely unneeded. I prefer to keep my love of this movie unsoiled.

Good Plan S.Darko is the first film but with his sister instead

Except...that it makes almost no sense and tries so hard to be a good and in-depth movie that it falls on its face. xD I dunno. I just thought it was a terrible hybrid of The Butterfly Effect with some Final Destination and just a tad of the original Donnie Darko. Disappointing.

By far the trippiest movie I have ever seen.

And I loved every minute of it.

Have you ever seen Requiem For a Dream? That is a freaking weird movie. I would definitely define it as trippy as well.

 

[Acier]

If by "gives to much away" you mean "adequately explains the story but still leaves intrigue" then yes, it does do that.

The fans are lying, the Directors Cut is vastly superior. They're trying to be cool by acting like they didn't need the Director's Cut to know what was going on.

Oh you misunderstand, these people are not cool. But I might check it out sometime. I enjoyed it but I never got why it was such a film snob classic. I know the Evil Dead reference have something to do with it.....

Check it out. It is much more fleshed out than the non directors cut.

And the reason is that it's a film snob classic is because it's so difficult to understand, so if you "get it", you're special. Although it's really a faux-film snob classic.
Real film snobs probably like some French film.

For some reason I immediately thought of Lila Says, but I doubt that's snobby either.

 

[Jaranja]

where main character Donnie has schizophrenia. He keeps getting visions of a demented bunny named Frank, who slowly leads him into what the "dark side" of what life is really like and also tells him "when the world will end," which he constantly brings up.

I love how it seems like that quite a lot but it's actually the complete opposite at the ending. Like, what you just said has nothing to do with what actually happened.

In case you couldn't tell, I love the movie and it's up there with A Clockwork Orange and Watchmen.

 

[Chancie]

where main character Donnie has schizophrenia. He keeps getting visions of a demented bunny named Frank, who slowly leads him into what the "dark side" of what life is really like and also tells him "when the world will end," which he constantly brings up.

I love how it seems like that quite a lot but it's actually the complete opposite at the ending. Like, what you just said has nothing to do with what actually happened.

I know, but I can't really say what happened. It'll spoil everything. xD But I see what you mean.

I absolutely love movies with endings like that, the ones that throw you for a complete loop.

 

[UAProxy]

... Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?

 

[Lono Shrugged]

Check it out. It is much more fleshed out than the non directors cut.

And the reason is that it's a film snob classic is because it's so difficult to understand, so if you "get it", you're special. Although it's really a faux-film snob classic.
Real film snobs probably like some French film.

For some reason I immediately thought of Lila Says, but I doubt that's snobby either.

Your not a real snob unless you can last through the Andrei Tarkovsky collection.

 

[tijuanatim]

How does one exactly suck a fuck?

I love that movie, and none of you will ever be able to change my mind.

 

[Hurr Durr Derp]

I never really understood why everyone is so confused about the ending...

Spoiler: Obvious spoilers inbound!

It seems pretty straightforward. The whole movie, Donnie was supposed to die when the plane crashed, and because of Frank, he didn't. It was pretty much the inverse of "It's a Wonderful Life". Rather than being about what would have happened if the protagonist had never been born, it was about what would have happened if he never died. Sort of like an alternate reality that he got to experience firsthand.

Loved it, BTW. Great thinking movie.

To me it wasn't confusing as much as it was annoying.

It's, as I mentioned before, very similar to the ending of the Butterfly Effect. The people you care about are better off without you. Not only is that a very disturbing thought to begin with, it's also very short-sighted. He knew what was going to happen, but in stead of trying to fix it he just decided to remove himself from the story. At least the Butterfly Effect guy made some (very stupid and ill-prepared) attempts to fix things, but in the end reached the same conclusion: I fucked some stuff up (without meaning to), so the world is better off without me.

That's just a lame way to end things, in my opinion.

 

[Jaranja]

where main character Donnie has schizophrenia. He keeps getting visions of a demented bunny named Frank, who slowly leads him into what the "dark side" of what life is really like and also tells him "when the world will end," which he constantly brings up.

I love how it seems like that quite a lot but it's actually the complete opposite at the ending. Like, what you just said has nothing to do with what actually happened.

I know, but I can't really say what happened. It'll spoil everything. xD But I see what you mean.

I absolutely love movies with endings like that, the ones that throw you for a complete loop.

I've showed it to people that think your summary would be right at the end of the film. Blithering idiots, I say.

It's all about the little message that come onto the screen, they basically tell you what's actually happening.

 

[The87Italians]

Donnie Darko was brilliant and I wish I had a dvd copy of it. It did not warrent a sequel, however, and S. Darko was shite.

 

[regallmighty]

I have heard of it, it sounds like a love it or hate it movie

 

[Chancie]

... Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?

How does one exactly suck a fuck?

I love that movie, and none of you will ever be able to change my mind.

I love both of those quotes. xD Along with the follow-up of "Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?" to the first one.

The quote of "No, I don't think about fucking my family. That's gross" (or something like that) makes me laugh too. Just the way he says it, though that entire scene is funny to me. An awkward time to be woken up. -laugh-

 

[Acier]

Check it out. It is much more fleshed out than the non directors cut.

And the reason is that it's a film snob classic is because it's so difficult to understand, so if you "get it", you're special. Although it's really a faux-film snob classic.
Real film snobs probably like some French film.

For some reason I immediately thought of Lila Says, but I doubt that's snobby either.

Your not a real snob unless you can last through the Andrei Tarkovsky collection.

I need to stop, or my I'll nerd out about cinema.

 

[Morderkaine]

I never really understood why everyone is so confused about the ending...

Spoiler: Obvious spoilers inbound!

It seems pretty straightforward. The whole movie, Donnie was supposed to die when the plane crashed, and because of Frank, he didn't. It was pretty much the inverse of "It's a Wonderful Life". Rather than being about what would have happened if the protagonist had never been born, it was about what would have happened if he never died. Sort of like an alternate reality that he got to experience firsthand.

Loved it, BTW. Great thinking movie.

Good synopsis. I thought of it a little differently, but they way you put it really makes sense.

 

[tijuanatim]

... Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?

How does one exactly suck a fuck?

I love that movie, and none of you will ever be able to change my mind.

I love both of those quotes. xD Along with the follow-up of "Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?" to the first one.

The quote of "No, I don't think about fucking my family. That's gross" (or something like that) makes me laugh too. Just the way he says it, though that entire scene is funny to me. An awkward time to be woken up. -laugh-

Of course possibly the greatest quote from that movie.
'I am seriously starting to doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion!!''