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I agree with laymness.It was different and entertaining but nothing really special for me. I've tried it twice too and am still very confused!I'm usually good about things but I have my views on what it might be but really not sure.
Never got what the big deal on this was. I rented it a few years ago, found it to be very meh and confusing. I gave it a few years and decided to give it another go, this time watching the director's cut, and my mind didn't change. Just don't see why everyone gets a fat boner for it.
Posted By: frightenstein at 9:08pm, October 22, 2009
Dark and twisted. Great effects and soundtrack. Found myself sucked in.
this movie was groundbreaking when it first came out. a total psychological mind boggler that you might not understand at first but it was a very great film and i enjoyed it alot.
actually pretty funny too.
while its not a horror this movie is one of the best movies ever made!!!1 I loved it so much...its so different and unique and is really touching and is just a great movie
Sometimes I forget that some people can't rap their minds around something that just doesn't make sense in "our World". If you are one of those people this movie isn't for you.
This Movie is pure fantasy and should be treated this way. Its a Dark, tragic modern fairly tale,
with complex and equal characters.
The casting is as Stranger as the plot. And just as good.
When i first watch this film I could a brief moment on HBO. and was so hooked I drove to the movie store and rented the VHS... Hey remember VHS's. This is the first time I had ever stopped watching a movie that started ten minute before I turned it on, just so I didn't miss anything.
And for anyone who says this move is for 17 year kids to cry to, your wrong. And i feel you may have missed the point of the film.
This movie is for pissy little pubescent teenagers to talk about like it's the best movie of all time in the fuckin lunch room. Its made so at the end your feeling "wow what a great movie, uhh, im gonna go slit my fuckin wrists". Think requeim for a dream, except it made ABSOLUTELY no sense. Now as pointless as that movie was, at least it got its point across "drugs are fucked up". Now this movie. HOLY SHIT. It goes in so many different directions with stupid, sloppy, melodramatic parodies of characters,and rediculous scenarios, and in the end, it tries to portray how fucked up life really is , and how donnie darko figured out this time portal or way to escape it all, It shoves the end in your face like "now it all makes sense!" SEE! SEE! When it makes no sense whatsoever. Its one of those movies that idiots will argue like it had this big important meaning behind it. It didn’t mean shit. Yeah you might read this and be like "wow this guys an asshole" that was such a great movie" If that’s the case I hope your under 17.
This movie is amazing. Its so different and dark. I just wish that they would have not made a sequel. Its Donnie Darko, how the hell do you make a sequel out of it.
What a good movie. Some people hate this movie because its so out there but is it really? there a few life lessons to be learned in it and a lot of themes that hit home. I wish more movies like this came out instead of lots of the Hollywood drivel we see in theaters every 5 minutes.
BitterSweet.
Posted By: TheOutcast05 at 11:42pm, March 21, 2009
Just... wow..Intriguing, mind-blowing, no other movie like it...
"Why do you wear that stupid rabbit suit?"
"Why do you wear that stupid human suit?"
Time travel, alternate dimensions, evil rabbits.. This movie touches on so much.
It's obviously not horror, but this is real gem. It's creepy and dark, and more than anything else, it makes you think. Words fall short of how much I love this movie. Too bad there's going to be a sequel :(
Posted By: SeeScottSpaz at 12:46pm, February 26, 2009
Excellent film, truly beautiful in every way. It has interesting characters. Stunning effects. Richard Kelly does a fantastic job with this movie. One of the few movies that I believe to have a message to it that actually means something. Probably one of my favorite movies of all time.
Posted By: jakejeckel at 2:41pm, February 18, 2009
Not horror more of a suspense or thriller but i loved it since i saw it
Posted By: GOREGRINDwp13 at 7:42pm, December 3, 2008
yea this isnt horror
but I do love it.
A true classic
It never ceases to amaze me how people think they’re being original when they’re really not—oftentimes they’re following the oldest clichés without even realizing. Donnie Darko suffers from this, like most every movie in this somewhat overdone subgenre. More about that in a second.
The subgenre I’m referring to is the wannabe The Twilight Zone episodes turned into full length movies. Pretty much everything M. Night Shyamalan has written fits here, as well as Big Fish, The Invisible, The Cell, Donnie Darko, The Matrix, etc. But what confuses me is all the movies in this subgenre forget the others exist and act as if they’re the only one who has treaded the overdone “weird” path. In this sense, Donnie Darko is just as typical as the pointless movies released every year.
With that said, I liked Donnie Darko. I liked it because some scenes were absolutely beautiful and captivating, like the movie theater scene, the hit-by-a-car scene, and all the little hilarious details that I’m not going to bother mentioning. I liked the editing. I thought the relationship between Donnie and his girlfriend was well done, for the most part . . .
. . . but like a sledgehammer to the balls, the writer/director decided to use two of the most common clichés ever used in movies like this. Not only that, but he sacrificed such a likeable and original movie because he didn’t have the common knowledge to make the mundane original, not just the over-the-top elements:
- First, he makes Donnie have mental problems. According to the Unoriginal Hollywood Hand Guide of America, if your main character has fantastic visions he has to have mental problems; if your main character has super intelligence, he has to have mental problems. From an entertainment standpoint, this movie would have been so much more entertaining to watch if I didn’t have to keep thinking: “Wow, another scene with him acting like a retarded person . . .” every five minutes. It ruins the beauty entirely. It ruins the ability to take Donnie seriously, even after his visions prove to be real. From a critical standpoint, it’s ridiculously sad that a movie with this much originality would use such a tired cliché that every movie uses. Why couldn’t Donnie have just been a normal kid? That alone would have made this movie so much more enjoyable and original.
- Second, the ending. *Major spoilers* Donnie goes back in time to commit suicide. *End spoilers* Once again, this is the cheap, childish, cliché ending that every movie uses. When you’re watching a Twilight Zone wannabe movie, this kind of ending is the single most generic ending there is. You expect it from the first five minutes. Through the entire movie I kept hoping Donnie Darko wouldn’t end up with such a cliché finale, but it did. I assume it’s a misunderstood idea that all intellectuals must be pessimistic, and all intellectual movies must end with a generic tragedy. If a movie is truly intellectual, you’d think it would break this pathetic trend.
- Third, the subject matter of this movie is just as generic as the other two points I mentioned. Time travel. The movie is obviously trying to be weirdly intellectual, but, really, there is nothing intellectual about the same exact arguments in every single movie like this: time travel, the fabric of destiny, and the clichéd argument of God vs. free will. Once again, a truly intellectual movie would have thought of something new to argue about, but this movie follows the exact same formula as every other movie of its kind.
Overall, Donnie Darko (the movie, not the character) flirts with perfection so many times it’s sad I have to give it a rating as low as this. But, listen up future directors, it becomes so pretentious by thinking it is so original, and parts truly were, that is ignores glaring clichés that break the rest of the movie. It’s sad to see what could have been a truly superior film fall to mediocrity.
