alfred offtm -- more snooty bullshit as per.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 2 November 2007 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
the worst thing about the dircut are the pages from the time travel book superimposed over the action!!!!
yeah so tacky.
jake and maggie g. should play siblings in more movies.
― Roz, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
MovieWeb has reported that Jake Gyllenhaal and Maggie Gyllenhaal might have cameos of the twins in the live-action Justice League of America film.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
that would be from here
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
They can work off this bit.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
lol excellent.
― Roz, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Are you guys excited about Donnie Darko: The Play?
http://www.amrep.org/darko/
― polyphonic, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Reading this thread has made me happy that I've never seen the director's cut. My biggest problem with the movie was that there was too much of the scifi stuff, not too little.
― Tuomas, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
btw, I just recently found out that "director's cut" is biz lingo for "rough draft," not "definitive version the director wants released."
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
with this one, he was given extra money for some effects shots, and reinserted some scenes deleted for time, and inserted these shots of pages from the book that had been on the website and dvd and 'explain' the sf aspects of the story. it's a bit like watching 'star wars' with pages from 'hero with a thousand faces' flashed up every few scenes.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 2 November 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
but he says neither of them is definitive.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 2 November 2007 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link
they're all terrible
― chaki, Friday, 2 November 2007 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link
says the guy who's favorite movie is Nacho Libre
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 2 November 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG NO
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/tapestore/darko09.jpg
― Tape Store, Friday, 2 November 2007 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/tapestore/darko02.jpg
Is that the English teacher or the therapist or what? The funniest bit in this flick is when he starts jerking it under hypnotherapy.
― Abbott, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link
nacho libre is amazing. its time for a critical re-evaluation.
― chaki, Friday, 2 November 2007 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
THOSE EGGS WERE A LIE STEVEN! THEY GIVE ME NO POWERS, THEY GIVE ME NO NUTRIENTS!
― chaki, Friday, 2 November 2007 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
May the lord bless you with strength and nutrients
― chaki, Friday, 2 November 2007 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
lol i love nacho libre
― chaki, Friday, 2 November 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I'll stick with Lucha Libre
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 2 November 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.allesfilm.com/pics/Nacho%20Libre_Filmbild%20mit%20Hector%20Jimenez_n.jpg I dont know why you always have to be judging me because I believe in science!
― chaki, Friday, 2 November 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll stick with cuba libre
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 November 2007 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Richard Kelly's follow-up Southland Tales is finally coming out this month.
― Alba, Saturday, 3 November 2007 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i have seen it. there is a thread. it's pretty fucked-up.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 3 November 2007 00:47 (sixteen years ago) link
say more
― jed_, Saturday, 3 November 2007 00:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I dont know why you always have to be judging me because I believe in science!
-- chaki, Friday, November 2, 2007 8:50 PM
classic line
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 3 November 2007 01:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I imagine this is Zach Braff's idea of a perfect movie. So edgy, so kooky and away from the mainstream!
― DavidM, Saturday, 3 November 2007 10:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going to go watch this again and get all "SHIIIIIT. I'll never be able to create something this moving." GOODNIGHT!
-- Tape Store, Sunday, September 9, 2007 5:00 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link
― Tape Store, Sunday, 24 February 2008 02:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Beating us to the punch, I see.
― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 24 February 2008 03:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I just watched this for the first time, but the DVD that I bought for $3.99 at the local used DVD emporium was damaged in some way, so it kept skipping and breaking up throughout the second half of the movie, so apparently I missed that after the party they went to Roberta Sparrow's house and the gfriend gets hit by a car and then DD goes back in time again. Oh, and there was no scene where DD sees Frank in the movie screen. But still, it seems that the version I saw was as good as the real version -- very oblique. "Mad World" was still in it.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 1 March 2008 06:38 (sixteen years ago) link
-- DavidM, Saturday, 3 November 2007 10:00 (3 months ago) Bookmark Link
Nice zing!
― caek, Saturday, 1 March 2008 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
What a shitty ass piece of crap movie. Where do I start with this? Ugh.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 1 May 2010 06:58 (fourteen years ago) link
by admitting that you're WRONG
― Yonder Mountain Zing Band (Tape Store), Saturday, 1 May 2010 07:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I havent watched this in fnyears.
― Eyjafjallalalalalatrolololol (Trayce), Saturday, 1 May 2010 07:07 (fourteen years ago) link
one day you will wake up with a jet engine crashing into your room but in the brief millisecond before you die you will remember this movie and you will realize how poorly created, told, and developed the idiotic story was and you will whimper STEVE SHASTA WAS RITE
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 1 May 2010 07:09 (fourteen years ago) link
try comparing it to Eternal Sunshine and maybe it won't seem so bad
― CaptainLorax, Saturday, 1 May 2010 07:09 (fourteen years ago) link
there's nothing idiotic about the story, it's v simple and v touching, and it's an impeccably crafted film, with the most incredible atmosphere ever--a mysterious, dark, ET-meets-Blue-Velvet vibe. maybe you accidentally watched the director's cut?
― Yonder Mountain Zing Band (Tape Store), Saturday, 1 May 2010 07:21 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmm... maybe you accidentally spelled "crapped" with a "-ft-" ?
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 1 May 2010 07:26 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh i have no idea what i watched only that it was a DVD called Donnie Darko and it was the worst film I've seen since Synechedoche, NY which lemme guess you loved as well?
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 1 May 2010 07:27 (fourteen years ago) link
now that I'm older & thinking about this movie I am kind of smh @ the tenuous connections that drive the storyline (e.g. the cellar door thing??)
there are still a lot of things about this movie I like tho
― Wir fahren fahren fahren auf der Autoban (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, 1 May 2010 07:28 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry, i hope this doesn't offend you, but are you getting old?
― Yonder Mountain Zing Band (Tape Store), Saturday, 1 May 2010 07:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I personally don't have anything against this movie (however I do think the ending sucks big time) but I do have to say that Donnie Darko ruined a couple good songs "Under The Milky Way" and "Killing Moon" by reviving them and making them popular amongst teenagers - bummer EMO kids in particular
It's really Eternal Sunshine that bugs me the most but I already mentioned it upthread
― CaptainLorax, Saturday, 1 May 2010 07:30 (fourteen years ago) link
perhaps i am old enough to see through jr hs fantasy scripts pawned off on the bedwetting mouthbreathing wikipedia generation, so yes??? this is not Blue Velvet meets ET, it's American Beauty meets Battlefield Earth dir by MNightShamwow.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 1 May 2010 07:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I was in my mid 30s when it came out and I liked it plenty. But I'm not cynical type.
― Eyjafjallalalalalatrolololol (Trayce), Saturday, 1 May 2010 07:39 (fourteen years ago) link
curtis, i think one of the things you have to do w/ this movie is reconcile the differences between richard kelly's DONNIE DARKO and your own DONNIE DARKO. like, he's all about the stupid-ass sci-fi elements (the way time travel works) and he actually thinks 'cellar door' is crucial shit (these things are v clear if you've seen SOUTHLAND TALES and THE BOX, which both feature some great elements but A LOT more of the tenuous sci-fi and literary references), but if you think of the whole movie as something happening in donnie's head, him going through the motions of justifying his own death (reinventing a life where he's a hero in school, the cool rebel), all of those superfluous things work because they're a part of donnie's mind, he's a naive teenager who thinks those things are "cool"
― Yonder Mountain Zing Band (Tape Store), Saturday, 1 May 2010 07:39 (fourteen years ago) link
(and fwiw Im no fan of Shamalama ding dong)
xp, yeah when i heard Kelly's 'version' of this film i was totally shocked and like "wtf that's totally NOT what this movie is about, i don't care if you're the director"
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Saturday, 1 May 2010 09:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I must admit he did over-explain it way too much.
― Eyjafjallalalalalatrolololol (Trayce), Saturday, 1 May 2010 09:30 (fourteen years ago) link