donnie darko

[smokingrobot]

hey following up on your brilliant post, i thought maybe you should consider writing your own movie! I bet it'd be full of intelligent criticism and social commentary. Dark and mysterious, a living, breathing contradiction!

[dibbs]

I remember liking it when I saw it, almost positive I didn't understand all of it. I sure as sick as hell of the hype this has been getting since as some serious "deep" sht, but maybe I need to see it again. I thought Enternal Sunshine felt too forced too though and people revel in the "intellect: of that one, perhaps I have poor taste.

[smokingrobot]

for those of us who arent handjobs who can only say "this movie sucks. or this isnt creative", there's another really interesting film called Primer dealing with time and the social & psychological issues of being able to excercise a level of control over time.

Its called Primer. i thought it was pretty interesting for an extremely low budget indie flick. the guy who made it pretty much handled almost all aspects of creating a movie.

[oddjob]

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it sucked. Lots of people go on and on about how its the greatest movie ever. I think roughyl half of those people only say this because they think if they talk about how great donnie darko is, it somehow makes them cool

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i think most all people who bash on people who loved the movie, do it because they think it somehow makes them cool.

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really? you think that? i think the people you're describing could find much better sacred cows to knock. i think most all people who bash on people who loved Donnie Darko do it because they have eyes and a brain.

tangent universe, omfg, i hope he gets hit by a truck.

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nah, you're wrong.

[smokingrobot]

i liked eternal sunshine for a lot of reaons, but im also a huge fan of Charlie Kauffman's ability to create a realistic scenario that spins off into the surreal.

i felt at its most basic level (and im just talking the script here) it was a very touching movie in terms of relationships, their failures or succeses and our propensity towad for possibilities even when confronted with the rational inevitable. i thought it was a very interesting statement.

[smokingrobot]

lmao.



(i too am sick of unsubstantial/unsupported critique.)

It made me like Tears For Fears for about a day.

[DasLeben]

I love this movie, but didn't understand much until I read the chapters of "The Philosophy of Time Travel" on the DVD. Now it makes just about perfect sense. Very cool.

Here: http://www.tonystuff.co.uk/darko-time.htm

By the way, I don't at all see this as a "deep" movie. I see it as an entertaining and complex storyline, but that's about it.

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i think most all people who bash on people who loved Donnie Darko do it because they have eyes and a brain

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Yeah, I'm stupid. Everyone who likes Donnie Darko is stupid. You're the man now dawg.

[tdarko]

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It made me like Tears For Fears for about a day.

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what a great mood for the film huh?

[lucas9000]

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its got a cool looking visual of a freaky-looking rabbit but absolutely no depth, creativity, or replay value, plus a grade-z science fiction explanation of what would otherwise be a completely retarded non-ending.

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fyp

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worst fyp ever.