Care to explain why people flip out about Donnie Darko

[deathshead2]

Whats so great about it?

All I saw was a boring movie with a soon as you start the movie predictable ending.

 

[Alien Anal]

what was the predictable ending?

 

[Darkfly]

Liked it the first time, loved it the second time. Its different, it was out there, had a interesting story, it was touching, funny, & depressing all at the same time. And had a great cast, story, & dialogue to boot.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

I didn't really like it much either. The kid should have just bought a Morrissey Album.

 

[Symbiote666]

People have different opinions.

Being that DD made it onto the top list of a lot of critics and is at number 117 with an 8.2 on the IMDb top 250 movies, you're on the 'wrong' end.

If you don't see why it's good, nobody is going to be able to convince you otherwise.

 

[DIRECTOR]

what was the predictable ending?

ya, i'm curious too, what the predictable ending...............

 

[Dark Donnie]

the ending isn't really predictable at all.

 

[Gotham]

I loved the film. I'm saddened that Kelly hasn't been able to follow it up with anything worth while, though.

 

[Spider-Vader]

I didn't like it either.

 

[Darkfly]

I loved the film. I'm saddened that Kelly hasn't been able to follow it up with anything worth while, though.

Don't really care what other people say but I love Southland Tales, but you really have to think about it for a while to understand it but thats why I love it.

 

[Untilteld]

Donnie Darko is a cult classic, it was amazing and ahead of its time.

 

[Gotham]

Don't really care what other people say but I love Southland Tales, but you really have to think about it for a while to understand it but thats why I love it.

I liked Southland Tales, but I couldn't stand some of the performances. Hopefully The Box is much better.

 

[bullets]

i was a little dissapointed with southland tales but it did have alot of good moments.

I like donnie darko because i had picked it up at the video store without hearing anything about it . I saw Drew on the cover and thought this looks ok . It was alot different and better than I was expecting . It was one of the only films I had to watch again to figure out what i just saw.

 

[Darkfly]

i was a little dissapointed with southland tales but it did have alot of good moments.

I like donnie darko because i had picked it up at the video store without hearing anything about it . I saw Drew on the cover and thought this looks ok . It was alot different and better than I was expecting . It was one of the only films I had to watch again to figure out what i just saw.

I wonder if that's why everybody decided to watch Donnie Darko, the only reason I noticed it & decided to watch it was because of Drew Barrymore.

 

[xwolverine2]

i thought it was horribly boring...

it makes emo kids go wild though

 

[Cinemaman]

I couldn't understand it, when I saw it first time. But after the fourth re-watch I started loving it, and when I finally realized the whole concept (in my opinion, the movie wasn't about time travelling, but about "What if Donnie stayed alive..."), I admitted it was a masterpiece.

 

[X-Maniac]

I couldn't understand it, when I saw it first time. But after the fourth re-watch I started loving it, and when I finally realized the whole concept (in my opinion, the movie wasn't about time travelling, but about "What if Donnie stayed alive..."), I admitted it was a masterpiece.

Well, it wasn't really about time travel. As the Director's Cut shows clearly, an alternative universe (a tangent universe) is created when Donnie avoids death due to the rabbit character calling him. So Donnie gets a second chance to live his life; at the end, the tangent universe is corrected (you even see a divine hand doing it on the Director's Cut) and Donnie dies as he was meant to. There is time travel in there, with the rabbit guy, but it's really about someone getting a second chance and making an impression in life.

 

[Cinemaman]

Well, it wasn't really about time travel. As the Director's Cut shows clearly, an alternative universe (a tangent universe) is created when Donnie avoids death due to the rabbit character calling him. So Donnie gets a second chance to live his life; at the end, the tangent universe is corrected (you even see a divine hand doing it on the Director's Cut) and Donnie dies as he was meant to. There is time travel in there, with the rabbit guy, but it's really about someone getting a second chance and making an impression in life.

I didn't have a chance to watch DC, so I figured all this out myself. And as I said, "What if Donnie stayed alive..." or as you call it "alternative universe", worked great for the movie, most part of which was actually about time travel (don't you remember that book written by that old woman?)

 

[LegendaryCaleb]

I wasnt really diggin this film...so idk

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I've never seen the movie so i couldn't tell ya.

 

[블라스]

Here we go again.

 

[SuperFerret]

It's definitely weird enough to interest me. Too bad I dislike Gyllenhall in most things, especially this particular movie. Good story though.

 

[matthooper]

All I saw was a boring movie with a soon as you start the movie predictable ending.

Finally, a quote nobody else on earth can deny is the dumbest thing ever said.

Let's just forget the fact that the sentence seems like it's written by a dislexic chimp. Whether you liked the film or not is certainly debatable, but the ending being predictable is about as rediculous a statement that has ever been posted here.

 

[the a1ant]

I remember just really liking Jake Gyllenhaul (SP?) in that film. Can't remember if the film itself was amazing, but his performance pulled me in.

 

[zanos]

Donnie Darko = quite possibly dullest movie ever made.