Who doesn't love a time traveling bunny? If you haven't seen this one it's streaming on netflicks. Check it out. Very cool.
I love everything about this film. From the cheesy eighties period reference sound track, (as well as other really cool songs) to the great, albeit confusing, storyline. Most of the acting is really good. Jakes could had been better. Maggie's too. But it worked for the vibe of the film.
I love the themes it touches on. I like Donnie's Christ-like attributes and how much of his behavior conflicts with that destiny so to speak. But in the end he makes the ultimate sacrifice (his life) to save the one he loves though it means some greater evils will prevail. And it's pretty perfect. His death could fix some things (or prevent rather) but then also some greater evil's will thrive. Namely Patrick Swazy's character Jim Cunningham will never be exposed as a pedophile with a kiddie porn ring.
You can’t help but wonder if Darko's motives are selfish (his biggest concern is to save Gretchen), but for the most part he seems like he wants to do the right thing.
As in any film dealing with time travel there are always going to be potholes. Throw in Schizophrenia or whatever illness he may or may not have, and you've got a real mind-boggle going on. Nonetheless, a few viewings can work out most the kinks and the plot makes as much sense as Back to the Future. You'd just be wasting time debating rather or not he was crazy. Rather the whole film was a hallucination or rather he really mentally travelled into the future so he could alter the present. Is not as important as themes like the apathy of youth, sin disguised by religion or righteousness, sacrifice, premonition, judgment, exploitation of youth(especially the sparkle motion)
Okay I've gone on long enough. What did you or didn't you like about this movie?
I *STILL* have never seen this movie. I don't know how it skipped past me when it came out. I'm going to have to watch it for this...
I've still never seen it either. Everything always makes it sound interesting but then I read something negative or it strikes me as being a shallow teen movie that's attempting to be deep or weird, and I end up passing. Which isn't a judgment on the movie ... I just never seem to quite give it a chance. I guess I should finally get around to doing that.
@Michael.
The sequal, S. Darko, (which wasn't written or directed by Richard Kelly who did Donnie Darko and hates the sequel) is exactly what you describe here. I wouldn't really recomend it is a great film. However anyone who has seen Donnie Darko might want to watch S. Darko, it tries to be the first and fails miserablly but it was entertaining nonethelees
Haven't seen this either. I guess now's the time.
Donnie Darko is a great movie. It's not a "shallow teen movie" in any way (this coming from someone who enjoys She's All That and Josie & the Pussycats on the same level as Cannibal Holocaust and Dead Alive). Donnie Darko has a very intricate idea/theory wrapped within a nice Holden Caulfield-esque story. And it leaves me with a very depressed, hopeless feeling every time I watch it, one that I can't quite explain.
The acting was fine, I thought the Gyllenhaal's were convincing as brother and sister, Patrick Swayze was great, it was probably the only time I have seen Drew Barrymore in a movie and not tried to turn it off immediately. A very young Seth Rogen even makes an appearance.
I like this movie a lot. I have no desire to see S. Darko, as it seems to have next to nothing to do with Donnie Darko. But the horror elements of Donnie Darko, specifically Frank the Bunny and everything related to him, are great.
What else do we do here? This is my first time and I'm a little nervous.
Swayze was good. I cannot fucking stand gyllenhaal (though I really enjoyed END OF WATCH), and as I recall (I saw it once when it came out, and not since), getting high and talking about the movie was much more intereting than the movie itself. I think it was more of a 'cool' movie than a really good one.
All that being said, if it's on Netflix, I will try it again and see what I think now that I am much older and HAVE DOUBLED MY PENIS SIZE WITHOUT PILLS OR COMPLICATED MECHANISMS CLICK HERE NOW CLICKHERENOWCLICKHERENOWCLICKHERENOWCLICKHERENOWCLICKHERENOWCLICKHERENOWCLICKHERENOW
I watched about a half hour of S.Darko before cutting it short.
Donnie Darko's like the only way to go.
I haven't seen Donnie Darko in quite a while, but I enjoyed it and thought it very Gilliamesque. It's almost a film that can't be taken on it's own. To unlock it's secrets you have to trawl through DVD extras, and the director's cut, and the website (which was always incomprehensible to me).
Spoilers ahead if you haven't yet seen it.
I've heard quite a few theories - it's all a dream in the moments before he dies; it chronicles Donnie's descent into madness; Donnie is the chosen one and his death cancels out an alternative universe by resetting the correct time-line and thus saving the world.
With so many of these things, I think if you look at it too deeply you start to see holes. Everything is connected in such an intricate way, but ultimately it's all contrivance. Frank saves Donnie, only to set him on a path that can only lead to his death. It's (dead) Frank that causes Donnie to flood the school, getting him the time to fall for Gretchen, only for live Frank to kill Gretchen after going on a completely unnecessary beer run, thus causing Donnie first to shoot him and then embrace his own demise in order to set things right.
Such is the way Donnie is pushed, with those around him acting in a way to aid this, the film seems to be suggesting the existence of a higher power who is making chess moves in order to fix things. Yet if the such a higher power existed, why play this game? Why not take direct action?
It's a film that makes you think (if nothing else, it makes you think about the asexuality of smurfs), no matter if you think it to be great story telling or contrived nonsense.
And now I want to re-watch it...
long time since i've seen it ,you all HAVE to rent it, so much fun, such a weird flick. but i absolutely loved it. at it's center, there is this strange beauty, kind of a love story, yeah?
This song makes the end hit that much harder.
