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Title: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: yanksfan on November 27, 2008, 04:55:41 PM
 :huh
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: Estes on November 27, 2008, 05:07:31 PM
Bout time. :) Good flick.
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: dentin on November 27, 2008, 06:22:23 PM
:huh

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AWOT IMMHO.   :rolleyes:

Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: Raptor on November 27, 2008, 06:32:08 PM
Wrong forum but good movie. had to watch it twice to understand it
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: Anodizer on November 27, 2008, 07:37:26 PM
Great movie.... :rock
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: Tec on November 28, 2008, 10:25:13 AM
If you liked DD check out Southland Tales.
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: Gianlupo on November 28, 2008, 10:40:47 AM
Don't know why, but I suspect he didn't like it.... :noid
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: Bosco123 on November 28, 2008, 10:45:37 AM
Don't know why, but I suspect he didn't like it.... :noid
I believe your right. I liked the movie.
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: Gianlupo on November 28, 2008, 10:50:12 AM
I didn't see it, yet. When I read the review, I thought it wasn't worth the money for the ticket. I'll wait for TV or take the DVD one of these days.
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: RTHolmes on November 28, 2008, 01:07:08 PM
*cough* Jacobs Ladder *cough*
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: Gianlupo on November 28, 2008, 03:01:27 PM
*cough* Jacobs Ladder *cough*

Lol, so it's not even that original!
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: yanksfan on November 28, 2008, 07:55:49 PM
Don't know why, but I suspect he didn't like it.... :noid

Not that I didn't like it, it was just really strange.
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: Rollins on November 28, 2008, 08:00:43 PM
"Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?"
"Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?"  :)

Loved that flick.
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: SectorNine50 on November 29, 2008, 03:55:49 AM
It makes sense and makes the movie much more interesting when you realize that his decision changed everyone's lives for the better. (Tried to explain that without giving away the movie to those who haven't seen it.)  You kinda gotta think about all the events in the movie and how he influenced them as a person.

Really a pretty good movie! :)
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: RumbleB on November 29, 2008, 05:49:24 AM
This is general forum?

Also it's Donnie Darko.
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: -tronski- on November 29, 2008, 07:39:38 AM
*cough* Jacobs Ladder *cough*

Lol, so it's not even that original!

They're not even remotely the same film

 Tronsky
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: RTHolmes on November 29, 2008, 09:10:06 AM
** 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? :D
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: Estes on November 29, 2008, 02:56:46 PM
They're not even remotely the same film

 Tronsky
Yeah, one sucked the other was a good flick. :D
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: sluggish on November 29, 2008, 03:56:54 PM
I really like films like this.  They don't follow the standard Hollywood formula.  Another of my favorites is Vanilla Sky.
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: SKYGUNS on November 29, 2008, 06:47:49 PM
Great movie.... :rock


heck yes

Donie Darko
Fight Club
Howard Hues
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: -tronski- on November 30, 2008, 05:54:47 AM
** 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? :D

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
Title: Re: I just watched Donny Darko
Post by: Gianlupo on November 30, 2008, 06:30:42 AM
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! ;)