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Donnie Darko

Is the best movie on this entire planet.
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Agreed. Watching it at night is really trippy
05-30-2009 11:52 AM
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Movie is a mindscrew.

Doesn't make it any less sweet tho.
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11-12-2009 03:23 AM
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@ Freeman: Cool story bro.
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IllusoryDeath Wrote:@ Freeman: Cool story bro.

You don't like Donnie Darko? Would you prefer transformers?
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Fuck no. I wasn't mocking you. I just don't think that Donnie Darko is the best movie on the planet....doesn't meant that I don't like it.
11-12-2009 09:45 AM
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IllusoryDeath Wrote:Fuck no. I wasn't mocking you. I just don't think that Donnie Darko is the best movie on the planet....doesn't meant that I don't like it.
Haha alright. Just wondering, what is your favorite movie?
11-13-2009 08:27 AM
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Freeman Wrote:
IllusoryDeath Wrote:Fuck no. I wasn't mocking you. I just don't think that Donnie Darko is the best movie on the planet....doesn't meant that I don't like it.
Haha alright. Just wondering, what is your favorite movie?

Hmmm....I can never answer this question. There are just too many awesome ones haha. I think that my favorite trilogy is the Lord of the Rings, though. ^,.,^
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Freeman Wrote:
IllusoryDeath Wrote:Fuck no. I wasn't mocking you. I just don't think that Donnie Darko is the best movie on the planet....doesn't meant that I don't like it.
Haha alright. Just wondering, what is your favorite movie?

Hmmm....I can never answer this question. There are just too many awesome ones haha. I think that my favorite trilogy is the Lord of the Rings, though. ^,.,^

Lord of the Rings is the best Biggrin
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Freeman Wrote:Lord of the Rings is the best Biggrin
Heeeeell Yeees!

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EPIC BUMP OF EPICNESS

I just watched it. It was awesome.
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It is one of my favorites for sure.

I wish my friend had told me more what it was about though. I was on a medication causing me to hallucinate strange things at the time but I was too embarrassed to tell my doctors or parents. And then I watched Donnie Darko and Frank came up on the screen and I was just like, "OMG. Are you kidding me?"

But no. One of my favorites.
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The end was... wow. There were several points in the movie where I just wanted to hug Donnie for being awesome, and... well... not an idiot.

The closest I've come to hallucination is making myself hallucinate (pretty awesome, if you can do it right).

I thought it was so weird that he went all the way back in time just so he could die. Instead of figuring out how to stop the world from ending. But, I think that's why I loved it. This guy didn't much care whether everyone lived or died, because death just wasn't a big deal to him. Plus, it wasn't just another "ZOMG TEEN SAVES DA WORLD" story. I've seen enough of those already.
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CrayolaColours Wrote:The end was... wow. There were several points in the movie where I just wanted to hug Donnie for being awesome, and... well... not an idiot.

The closest I've come to hallucination is making myself hallucinate (pretty awesome, if you can do it right).

I thought it was so weird that he went all the way back in time just so he could die. Instead of figuring out how to stop the world from ending. But, I think that's why I loved it. This guy didn't much care whether everyone lived or died, because death just wasn't a big deal to him. Plus, it wasn't just another "ZOMG TEEN SAVES DA WORLD" story. I've seen enough of those already.

Dying was how he stopped the world from ending. It's strangely Christ-like.
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Wait, what?

Did I miss something, then? (my brain is half off. So I probably missed a lot of the idea)

I was playing around with the idea of his death saving the world, but I liked the "Whatever" attitude that a lot of mental people have. Shrug
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CrayolaColours Wrote:Wait, what?

Did I miss something, then? (my brain is half off. So I probably missed a lot of the idea)

I was playing around with the idea of his death saving the world, but I liked the "Whatever" attitude that a lot of mental people have. Shrug

He was supposed to die when the jet plane came through his roof. But he didn't die, he wasn't there. This created a tangent universe where time was running out. The world would effectively end if Donnie didn't use his agency to put the jet engine back in time to kill him and set the time line straight. Did you watch the theatrical cut or the director's cut? I love the theatrical cut but it leaves a lot of book excerpts out that help explain some of the crazy nonsense going on. I don't imagine how the film makes good sense without those book excerpts. Unless you're a nut like me and did all the cult internet stuff that also gave you access to excerpts from the Philosophy of Time Travel.

If Donnie sent the engine back in time but then saved himself. They would effectively have gone into another tangent universe and it just would have looped and the world would have been ending again but he'd relive it.

But if you look at all the crazy shit he does, each thing leads him to that final moment where he has to turn back the clock and send back the jet engine because Gretchen dies.

School Flooding directly leads to him walking Gretchen home.
Setting that freak's house on fire leads to that freak getting arrested and his Mom going out of town, enabling his sister to have the party.
Something about the mailbox and getting the book.
Cellar Door + Party at His House = Gretchen Getting Run Over
Leads to Frank getting Shot
Leads to Donnie setting things straight in the tangent present.
Leads to Donnie having Frank's help to set things straight int he past.

Frank is helping him with this whole thing. That's his purpose.

There's also lots of really nice small moments. There's a scene where they're in the arcade and Donnie is playing some car video game. A red car veers off the road and the screen flashes Game Over I think. Most subtle yet literal foreshadowing ever. Also, there's a guy who pops up with the flight investigators at the beginning, who is also the fat guy who interrupts their kiss, who also is outside in an orange suit monitoring the Halloween party. What's up with that?

Summing up, it's a movie worth watching three hundred times because you pick these things up.
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I get it now.

Yea, I saw the theatrical release, I think. It makes a lot more sense now, thanks.

Damn, this movie is great, and it still isn't the typical "OMG BOY SAVES DA WORLD" thing, because in most movies, the hero lives.
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Bump because what ever happened to freeman? He was a free man
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I LOVED this movie. It's probably one of or is my favourite movie of all time! But after watching it I randomly started feeling depressed again as my view on life has changed...somehow... :\

And I want to hallucinate NOW.
I've been researching all this stuff Wink
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...You fucking bumped a month old topic...
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Raikuron Wrote:...You fucking bumped a month old topic...

For this forum it isn't bad.

1 month, who cares? I really wanted to post in this thread. What do you want me to do? Make a new Donnie Darko thread?
(01-10-2012 02:15 PM)Maelstrom Wrote:  Efs, your nihilism is beautiful.
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