― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
I've seen it already on VHS back in the day, but I want the dvd version of it badly.
― uh (eetface), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link
Sam, what movies do we have to choose from?
― Allyzay, Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link
(I love it FWIW, Ive seen it dozens of times)
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 6 May 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
(the school's going to six flags but the kids who can't afford it or who got in trouble are staying behind)
my kids range from about 13-16. they really don't know what goth means. i don't think they'd like it just b/c it'd bore them.
i don't know what i'm going to put on. maybe just another tape of the simpsons. like i said drumline went down massively last year but i can't think of another "urban" (read: black) pg movie that's come out recently.
hey, maybe i could get house party!
― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 6 May 2004 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― laura ultimatum, Thursday, 6 May 2004 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 6 May 2004 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 6 May 2004 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 6 May 2004 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Wait, are we talking the Len Cariou/Angela Lansbury Broadway version that was filmed for DVD? Cause that would rule. "MORE HOT PIES!"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 May 2004 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Since when did Dave Chapelle start posting here under a chick's name.
― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 7 May 2004 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm thrilled to see Sondheim fans (or at the very least, Sweeney fans) on ILM.
― uh (eetface), Friday, 7 May 2004 01:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― uh (eetface), Friday, 7 May 2004 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm rich, bioooooooootch!
― uh (eetface), Friday, 7 May 2004 02:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 7 May 2004 02:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Friday, 7 May 2004 03:07 (nineteen years ago) link
As far as "pretentious" goes, I think this word gets tossed around too liberally. I didn't see much pretense in Darko. Yea, it was one of those "artsy" films, but gimme a break, it didn't approach David Lynch or others in terms of bombast at all. (not that I'm knocking Lynch at all.) It was more on the level.
― uh (eetface), Friday, 7 May 2004 04:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― allyzay, Friday, 7 May 2004 07:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 7 May 2004 08:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Make them watch pink floyd's the wall or the rocky horror picture show - encourage the crossdressing/nipple shaving demographic in your class.
― queen grineeeefark, Friday, 7 May 2004 11:56 (nineteen years ago) link
Dave, you're right that would've been great. As it is I didn't make it to the vid store (as I supsected I wouldn't) as I was too busy bouzing it up. (world's greatest teacher! woohooo!) Instead I brought my tape of Simpsons and a tape of Space Ghost/Sifl & Olly. Hopefully with that and my deck of Uno cards the heathens will be soothed.
Yeah they'd love Friday but I don't think I could get away with showing that in school. They aren't quite HS age (have quite a few 15 & 16 yr olds but average age is prolly 14) but I don't think that'd matter. I just don't think they'd like Darko period. I dunno. . .
― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 7 May 2004 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 7 May 2004 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyway, my vote is for Fear of a Black Hat.
― uh (eetface), Friday, 7 May 2004 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― uh (eetface), Friday, 7 May 2004 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hank, Friday, 7 May 2004 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
The director's cut is supposed to be released pretty soon.
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 7 May 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Friday, 7 May 2004 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 7 May 2004 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― sadponce.com, Friday, 7 May 2004 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― uh (eetface), Friday, 7 May 2004 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Friday, 7 May 2004 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link
a) I don't understand you, you smart-arse bastard.
b) You've heard both the first two Cure albums? Yeah, I'm a big fan of Classical Literature meself.
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Friday, 7 May 2004 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.gamebooks.org/gallery/cjr40.jpg
FUCK DONNNY DARKO
― GET TO THA' (PRICE) CHOPPA!!!!!!!! ROFFLE!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 7 May 2004 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Some of us was playin' first editions of "Warlock of Firetop Mountain".
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Friday, 7 May 2004 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― GET TO THA' (PRICE) CHOPPA!!!!!!!! ROFFLE!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 7 May 2004 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― uh (eetface), Saturday, 8 May 2004 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― GET TO THA' (PRICE) CHOPPA!!!!!!!! ROFFLE!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Saturday, 8 May 2004 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― uh (eetface), Saturday, 8 May 2004 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 8 May 2004 02:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Why does every thread I start/revive end up overrun by googling morans?
I'm sorry my dear Ilx, truly I am.
― Sam @ Hank's, Saturday, 8 May 2004 04:41 (nineteen years ago) link
God, I just watched this again tonight...I cried a lot. Along with Inland Empire, this is my favorite film of the millenium. Is the director's cut worth it? I'm not into the sci-fi part of the film AT ALL, and based on the IMDB boards, it sounds like Kelly added a lot more of those elements. But obviously I like the scenes that make me cry. So, uh, verdict?
― Tape Store, Sunday, 5 August 2007 06:25 (sixteen years ago) link
the movie blows
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Sunday, 5 August 2007 06:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Emo vs. cynic in a fight to the death
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 August 2007 06:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I win
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Sunday, 5 August 2007 06:34 (sixteen years ago) link
This is one of three films I use as a litmus test to determine companionship probability.
― Tape Store, Sunday, 5 August 2007 06:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I use Salo.
― milo z, Sunday, 5 August 2007 06:35 (sixteen years ago) link
that's Donkey Darko, different movie
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link
overdosed on the original back then, to the point where now I don't think I could bare to watch again. Not seen the cut, what's the deal?
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 14:12 (two years ago) link
film kinda lost a little for me hwen I read the linear explanations by director of what happened in the end sequence.
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
iir (almost 20 years ago, details could be sketchy here) the dvd extras had the director explaining along the lines of Donnie being some kind of comic book hero. Which just didn't do it for me at all.
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
Can't remember details (easily looked up) apart from the opening song being different, but I (like many I guess) felt the DC was a big ol' let down and diminished what was intriguing and affecting about the film.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
overdosed on the original back then, to the point where now I don't think I could bare to watch again. Not seen the cut, what's the deal?― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Tuesday, November 2, 2021 2:12 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Tuesday, November 2, 2021 2:12 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah I only saw it once and I was really excited, but basically all it does is add in a lot of unnecessary expository scenes which spelled-out a lot of the more mysterious stuff. Plus they swapped around a lot of the music so the awesome "Head Over Heels" opening sequence was soundtracked by a different song and it just didn't work.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 14:55 (two years ago) link
what song was it? "My Ding a Ling"?
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
IIRC it was "Mad World" but it didn't work anywhere as close to as well as "Head Over Heels". That tracking shot was for a long time one of my favourite bits of any film because the music and the camera matched up so nicely. Opening the film with "Mad World" set a completely different tone for the movie.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
They used "Mad World" a second time in the director's cut? In the original, the "Head Over Heels" sequence near the start--the camera snaking through the halls of the school, with stop-motion speeding up and slowing down at intervals--is great, but so is "Mad World" at the end, the montage after the explosion. I wouldn't want to mess with either.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
The ease with which this can be discovered is going to make us look silly but I think the opener on initial release was The Killing Moon. That was swapped out for INXS - Never Tear Us Apart which was supposedly the original first choice.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
I quite like The Killing Moon and Head Over Heals but the film made me a bigger fan of both.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 15:53 (two years ago) link
Wasn't the opening credits song swap "The Killing Moon" (theatrical cut) for "Never Tear Us Apart?" I initially took "The Killing Moon" as a gag (Bunnymen--get it?), but Kelly claims that he had always wanted the INXS song for the opening. Really, the DC is just a bunch of examples of how Kelly didn't really seem to understand what it was that worked about his own film.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
"The Killing Moon"--not a fan, but it worked fine--did open the original. INXS would be a terrible trade for almost anything.
I sure hope they didn't mess with Sparkle Motion and "Notorious," in which case I'd have to doubt their commitment.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
(By the way--I think any teacher who's sat through a couple of dozen school talent shows will understand the genius of Sparkle Motion. And they're like the ultimate time capsule. I think the first year I taught, we had two or three Spice Girls routines; midway, it'd be Katy Perry; by the time I finished, Taylor Swift or Ariana Grande.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:04 (two years ago) link
dance routines are a huge step up from the school talent show performances I remember. it was all lip syncing. watching some poor schmuck mouth like a robot to Weird Al's "yoda", holding a yoda doll and body otherwise completely still. i've a clear and horrible memory of one kid wearing a hawaiian shirt, holding a pineapple, and singing a song that went "oh mama, let me taste the mango. oh mama, let me taste the mango. oh mama, let me taste the mango. i like to eat sweet juicy fruit."
― What it's like. Havana Syndrome. What it's like. Havana Syndrom (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
The ease with which this can be discovered is going to make us look silly but I think the opener on initial release was The Killing Moon. That was swapped out for INXS - Never Tear Us Apart which was supposedly the original first choice.― Noel Emits, Tuesday, November 2, 2021 3:52 PM (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, November 2, 2021 3:52 PM (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Ah yes, my bad. You are correct.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link