I just watched Donny Darko

[-tronski-]

*cough* Jacobs Ladder *cough*

Lol, so it's not even that original!

They're not even remotely the same film

 Tronsky

[RTHolmes]

** SPOILER ALERT!!! **


Protagonist suffers life threatening event but miraculously escapes death.

Protagonist's life returns to normality.

Events proceed which make protagonist question the nature of his reality.

Regular meetings with a proxy of some kind (god/devil/angel) who hints but doesnt fully explain what is happening. It is up to the protagonist to work out for himself what is happening (closure/rite of passage?)

Eventual realisation that his death is inevitable, and indeed is/has happened already.


um ... which film am I describing?

[Estes]

They're not even remotely the same film

 Tronsky

Yeah, one sucked the other was a good flick.

[sluggish]

I really like films like this.  They don't follow the standard Hollywood formula.  Another of my favorites is Vanilla Sky.

[SKYGUNS]

Great movie....

heck yes

Donie Darko
Fight Club
Howard Hues

[-tronski-]

** SPOILER ALERT!!! **


Protagonist suffers life threatening event but miraculously escapes death.

Protagonist's life returns to normality.

Events proceed which make protagonist question the nature of his reality.

Regular meetings with a proxy of some kind (god/devil/angel) who hints but doesnt fully explain what is happening. It is up to the protagonist to work out for himself what is happening (closure/rite of passage?)

Eventual realisation that his death is inevitable, and indeed is/has happened already.


um ... which film am I describing?

Neither by the sounds of it... Jacobs Ladder was a thriller/horror about a vietnam soldier who's life is really an hallucination as he lays dying, Donnie Darko is a psychological drama about a troubled teen who's eventual understanding of time travel allows him to sacrifice himself to save his girlfriend....the only real thing that is the same is both have "dream" sequences and the twist endings

 Tronsky

[Gianlupo]

They're not even remotely the same film

 Tronsky

Never said something like that. I said Donnie Darko isn't starting from an original idea.

I really like films like this.  They don't follow the standard Hollywood formula.  Another of my favorites is Vanilla Sky.

In fact, they all have another formula... the same one, described by Holmes.

Tronski, better to watch the movie your avatar comes from!