Well it just took about 2 years, but I finally got around to renting it.
Seeing as I've heard rave reviews my expectations were high, so I was a little disappointed.
I still dont know what the hell is going on.
I've read 50 different interpretations, but I guess everyone comes out with their own meaning of the film.
And for that reason alone I think it acheived its purpose.
I wonder what ever happened to Ms_Saigon?
I believe she had cancer, hopefully it didn't get the best of her.
I agree with Darth! its was rubbish! How you can say that its a brilliant film amazes me! If you havent watched it, please read no more!
OK, firstly, time travel films never work. there are too many flaws in them, eg terminator (doesnt work), Timecop (not even worth going into),etc.
Secondly, he goes through the whole story just to think "hmm better that i die" and kills himself. So what was the point in the whole film? better to die then live? whats the meaning? where was the writer going with this? If the rabbit was visions of the person he kills in the end, how did he know the rabbit would be there unless he went back a previous time before the one we watch...therefore it loops and the only way to kill the loop is to kill himself.
The only thing i think this film achieves is to get people to talk about the film....hence it worked!
Its probably the 3rd most pointless film i have ever seen. 1st being Ice Storm (Kevin Kline), 2nd Sliding Doors. and now this...anyone shed light on why its so good please clarify!
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Donnie Dorko...oops! I mean Donnie Darko is nothing but a cross experiment between 7th heaven and the Twilight Zone. Plus add some 80's tunes and you get this film. Man! I couldn't believe the hype behind this movie.
So by sacrificing himself Donnie actually saves Frank, Gretchen, his mom and little sister?
Although when the engine falls into the bedroom when Donnie is away sleepwalking his mom and sister are safe. And then at the end when the engine falls into his bedroom and kills Donnie his mom and sister are safe.
if the tangent universe that the movie takes place in hadn't been destroyed (by donnies sacrifice) it would have created a kinda feedback loop that would have sucked the "real" world into nothingness.
(SPOILER WAR..oh too late... if you havent seen DD yet and you are reading this - **** you)
Its a good question: Sometimes I blow stuff like that off, but in the case of a movie I like as much as DD I do try to work my head around it.
Lord knows if the film makers agree, but...
Engine comes off plane:
WOULD HAVE - fallen to earth killing Donnie and in a cruel twist also his mom and sis (as they were on the plane)
INSTEAD: What happens is that (perhaps due to the fact that the plane and donnie are connected via his mom and sis) a worm hole glitch sci-fi BS deal occurs and send the engine back in time 28 days.
It still falls on the house - but 28 days earlier: This creates a glitch, a mini parallel universe thats only got 28 days to live (before it catches up with "real" time...)
In this tangent universe different shit goes down - this happen differently than they "did" in the "real" world. The main one being frank.
Donnie works most of this out during the life of the tangent universe and manages to undo the events that caused it in the first place by force of will. To-whit: accepting his own death, laying in his bed at the moment he would get squished in the "real" world - uniting the two threads and dying.
That undoes a lot of the events - most notably the ones that placed his mother and sister on the plane. They live, he dies and we all go to heaven in a little row boat.
It really was an awsome movies, and i really really liked it. i mean the theory of time travel was just awsome.....it makes so much sence if your into it.
Thats what makes it - and why all the people who say it's overrated are nubbins - because even without the cool weirdness factor and spooky shit, it's a good movie about a teenager going through a very dark catcher in the rye moment. It's not a cool film about a scary bunny, its a great film about schizophrenia.
I'm all about the DD - and the directors cut is a honey.
whats in the director's cut Mr Zero? I haven't seen it.
Yea i love Donnie, I mean Jake Gyllenhaal really plays his character and shows so much like a hero during this and him dying for his girl freind and that.........excellent
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