Donnie Darko?

companionship probability = compatibility

I GENIUS

BTW, according to IMDB, teenpop flava of the month Ashley Tisdale was in this?!?!?!

This is one of three films I use as a litmus test to determine companionship probability.

-- Tape Store

ME TOO!

director's cut is worth watching. i never really "got" the movie - not in any straightforward kinda way. but that's part of what makes it so great; you don't need to fully understand every theme or subtext to really enjoy it.

"why don't you take off that stupid rabbit suit"
"why don't you take off that stupid man suit"

watching jake use the same tics he used in donnie darko later on in zodiac was truly annoying

get more acting skills

have you noticed how brad pitt is the same? i thought he was great in kalifornia, but he does the same head/hand/eye shit in all his roles.

Sexy Beast (2000) Vs Donnie Darko (2001)
http://www.bruner.net/blog/img/rabbit-sexybeast.jpg http://entimg.msn.com/i/parents_teens/DonnieDarko_150x208.jpg

Except for the scene where Donnie has a talk with his dad, the director's cut is awful. They replaced Echo and the Bunnymen with INXS, guh.

yeah, the INXS replacement was just dumb - the e & b song was so PERFECT for that scene. i still don't get why he did that.

I liked the INXS actually - Echo goes somewhere else now. Replaced it because he couldn't get the rights to the song originally.

I love that Sexy Beast comparison. Something I haven't heard before.

Made me cry, too, but just the scene where him & the girl are presenting their invention and the two rednecks make stabbing gestures at her. Oh god, the tears.

This is one of those movies (like Lost in Translation and Fight Club) that I loved the shit out of for a couple years during high school, but watched again recently and now find kinda ridic.

No aspersions cast on yall, though. Enjoy.

The main thing this influenced in my life was my first mushroom trip. And, that's all.

I identify with this film as much because it is set in 1988 which was my final year of high school so it really feels like "my time", I guess.

I identify with it because high school was fucking rotten, something "Rock 'n' Roll High School" and "Grease" did not successfully convey.

This is one of those movies that I loved the shit out of for a couple years during high school, but watched again recently and now find kinda ridic.

otFm

so?

I identify with it because high school was fucking rotten, something "Rock 'n' Roll High School" and "Grease" did not successfully convey.

-- Abbott

^^^exactly how i feel.

I might not connect with DD as much in five years (because of the obvious teenage isolationist aspects), but I bet it will still make me cry (mostly because it deals with death..."Every living creature dies alone" etc.).

so deep, man

Did I call it deep? Oh, I didn't? Huh, interesting.

I dont think I ever thought it was "deep", just really arresting and mesmerisingly strange and touching, in so many places.

And I had great fun working out the back story, but I do that sort of thing.

Trayce OTM!

and touching, in so many places.

And I have just realised how unfortunately I worded this. Heh.

This movie is horseshit, but quite watchable. I like how the cybernetic/New Age overtones -- none of which are worth a second thought -- adduced the film's teen angst.

I like how a lot of my friends got bummed when the director's cut made it clear that the movie was supposed to make sense in a shitty sci-fi way. Killed that teenage beauty for them a bit, bwah ha ha.

hahahaha otm. despite everything i like this movie. the directors cut blows, though.

Eh, I knew about the additional backstory even having not seen the directors cut, and it didnt spoil it for me at all.

I'm really pissed that I haven't been allowed to see Southland Tales yet.

It's always bothered me that the love interest, at the end, appears to be all of 12 years old (corduroy overalls + bike, right?).

Who Gretchen? Surely her and Donnie were both in final year high school (and thus 16-17?)

It's actually a strength that Richard Kelly's tonal control never wavers. If he ever winked at the material, it'd be a total disaster.

Jake's pretty good, but the perf that I most remember is Mary McDonnell's.

I kinda loved it in high school too, and I still like it a lot, but the performances by the family and Jena Malone are what keep me attached to it. It's a rather perfect fantasy for high schoolers - petty villains in authority to fight, understanding adults, doomed romance, trippy philosophizing that actually changes/saves the world. It's a mess, and it doesn't add up, but it's a hell of a lot of fun.

I feel like Kelly could probably write a fantastic straight family melodrama, if he got another cast this good. Southland Tales sounded pretty dire, though.

I'm going to go watch this again and get all "SHIIIIIT. I'll never be able to create something this moving." GOODNIGHT!

director's cut suckage reminds you that the v.o. is a pretty amazing debut -- and i say this with pretty robust and well-established views on goths.

kelly's own version of what happens is rubbish: basically a 'higher power' controls everyone in the movie so that donnie sacrifices himself and closes the hellmouth, which isn't very dramatic!

THE THEATRICAL CUT IS THE GREATEST FILM OF ALL-TIME

I refuse to watch Kelly's version.

alfred otm upthread

I identify with it because high school was fucking rotten, something "Rock 'n' Roll High School" and "Grease" did not successfully convey.

-- Abbott

lolol

Yea I too was a little disappointed in the director's cut, if not for other reasons then definitely because I was used to certain songs being used in certain contexts in the theatrical version. Didn't really like the different uses for Kelly's version.

alfred offtm -- more snooty bullshit as per.

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.

MovieWeb has reported that Jake Gyllenhaal and Maggie Gyllenhaal might have cameos of the twins in the live-action Justice League of America film.

that would be from here

They can work off this bit.

lol excellent.

Are you guys excited about Donnie Darko: The Play?

http://www.amrep.org/darko/