Current Events > Donnie Darko was stupid

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what an awful movie
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I liked it when I first saw it (I was in my early 20's), but it is kind of meh now when I watch it.
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What an awful troll attempt, but I got to give credit where credit is due it got me to post so

I agree, it is a horrible movie and the ending made no sense.

Everyone that likes this movie always tells you how its so artistic and whatever the **** but it is trash. Just like Train Spotting.

SOMETHING HAPPENS THEN IM HEAD OVER HEELs
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Why are you wearing that stupid troll suit?
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No, but you are.
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Yes it was
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Sure, now tell me how Avengers 4 blew your mind.
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Agreed.
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You're a wizard, Donnie.
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Also the best thing about Donnie Darko was the soundtrack.
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yeah, that movie is shit
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it was cool when i was 16, like fight club and american beauty and stuff like that, now it's just eh
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Apparently you have to watch the directors cut or something
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Your brain is too basic to understand the abstract concepts tbh
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ECW1125 posted...

Just like Train Spotting

Hey I actually liked that movie, though I see how it would be annoying if people were making it out to be some super artistic thing. I thought it did a good job of portraying the mind of an addict.
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Big_Nabendu posted...

Yes it was

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Paper_Okami posted...

it was cool when i was 16, like fight club and american beauty and stuff like that, now it's just eh

They're still enjoyable movies, it's just people hype them up to be the greatest thing since Metropolis

Gary Jules ruined "Mad World."
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ReginaldClovis posted...

Gary Jules ruined "Mad World."

i like both the original and the cover, but I hate that Gears of War commercial that everyone worshipped because you couldn't fucking escape it

(kinda like how now you can't go anywhere without hearing Weezer's cover of "Africa" by Toto)

The ending was that Donnie wanted to do right by some other dimension, so he makes the ultimate sacrifice of letting the engine drop kill him as intended, so that his girlfriend can live on in the other dimension. Or something like that. He's also responsible for moving the engine to drop in his room or something?

Fuck lol I'm not nearly invested in this movie enough to adequately explain it. I'm not even arguing for this movie btw. I liked it when it was more ambiguous and it was just a standard time lapse or a dream sequence kind of thing. The actual explanation makes the move worse
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That people defend the explanation edit is worse.
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It came out when I was 18 and I hated it from my first time seeing it. Glad to see the world has turns on that garbage movie.
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KILBOTz posted...

It came out when I was 18 and I hated it from my first time seeing it. Glad to see the world has turns on that garbage movie.

????

It was blasted when it was new. What history are you from. The cult status came years later.
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Trigger_Volnutt posted...

KILBOTz posted...

It came out when I was 18 and I hated it from my first time seeing it. Glad to see the world has turns on that garbage movie.

????

It was blasted when it was new. What history are you from. The cult status came years later.

It was widely touted by the Indy crowd day 1.
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KILBOTz posted...

Trigger_Volnutt posted...

KILBOTz posted...

It came out when I was 18 and I hated it from my first time seeing it. Glad to see the world has turns on that garbage movie.

????

It was blasted when it was new. What history are you from. The cult status came years later.

It was widely touted by the Indy crowd day 1.

Yes, it had bad reception in the independent film festival it first premiered in. The underground love was later.
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It's ok but people really exaggerate how good it is. Some people treat it like a masterpiece

BruceWayneJr posted...

Sure, now tell me how Avengers 4 blew your mind.

You mean 3. Infinity war was avengers 3. Avengers 4 is not out yet

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/18/movies/film-the-resurrection-of-donnie-darko.html
Article from 2004 about how the cult following started growing in 2002 after an unsuccessful theatrical release.

lots of other articles have similar references.
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You didn't tell me anything new.

Maybe you didn't understand me but I've been sticking with the "it dropped and wasn't liked, then certain folks starting liking it". Which is what you linked... and what I said so?
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Great movie
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legendarylemur posted...

The ending was that Donnie wanted to do right by some other dimension, so he makes the ultimate sacrifice of letting the engine drop kill him as intended, so that his girlfriend can live on in the other dimension. Or something like that. He's also responsible for moving the engine to drop in his room or something?

Fuck lol I'm not nearly invested in this movie enough to adequately explain it. I'm not even arguing for this movie btw. I liked it when it was more ambiguous and it was just a standard time lapse or a dream sequence kind of thing. The actual explanation makes the move worse

I thought that was his sister not his girlfriend

It was I and most people my age group's intro to independant films. I loved it then, but now...I don't know. There's some entertaining stuff, but it's trying to do too much, and explaining too little. I understand it's intentionally ambiguous, but people tried to dissect it into more than it actually was. The Director's Cut, which literally had paragraphed title cards every few minutes, really doubled-down on over-complicating things. They tried to tie up loose ends, and just made it worse.

And then the guy's next movie, Southland Tales, THAT was a pretentious fucking disaster.
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They had to try and explain what was going on with the directors cut and still failed at it.

But I do like the trash talking at the bus stop.
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Zikten posted...

legendarylemur posted...

The ending was that Donnie wanted to do right by some other dimension, so he makes the ultimate sacrifice of letting the engine drop kill him as intended, so that his girlfriend can live on in the other dimension. Or something like that. He's also responsible for moving the engine to drop in his room or something?

Fuck lol I'm not nearly invested in this movie enough to adequately explain it. I'm not even arguing for this movie btw. I liked it when it was more ambiguous and it was just a standard time lapse or a dream sequence kind of thing. The actual explanation makes the move worse

I thought that was his sister not his girlfriend

Well the grand scheme was that his girlfriend is stabbed in the alternate dimension, so to avoid the possibility of that situation altogether, he let his original dimension self die by being crushed by the engine. Cuz he saw that him being alive will eventually lead to his girlfriend's death in one way or another. I think his family is relatively safe?
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I thought at the beginning of the movie a plane crashed into his sister's bedroom killing her? And at the end of the movie it changes so it crashes into his bedroom instead and we see his alive sister talking about it

I watched it once like 25 years ago or whenever it came out

Zikten posted...

I thought at the beginning of the movie a plane crashed into his sister's bedroom killing her? And at the end of the movie it changes so it crashes into his bedroom instead and we see his alive sister talking about it

No, that's way off the mark.
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Donnie Darko is hipster trash.
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ECW1125 posted...

Just like Train Spotting.

the fuck is wrong with you
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I dont really care if it is dark or artistic or smart, I just like the shit about fear and love with Cunningham and the Smurf argument. Also, Drew Barrrymore cursing loudly is so bad that its funny.
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I didn't like it either. It was boring.
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Clearly everyone shitting on the movie don't even remember it... the other girl was "stabbed" in the other dimension? WTF are you even going on about it's not even about dimensions.

It's a time loop. Whether Donnie willfully stayed in bed at the end, or if he thought it was all just a crazy dream is the audiences call to make, there is no official answer because it's not in the movie.

The beauty of Donnie Darko is that there is a lot going on under the surface if you're willing to look for it, now some folk will talk about manipulated dead this and that with multiple or even all the other characters from the film and I'll just cut to the chase and simply say the only true manipulated dead in the movie is Frank the Rabbit, Donnie Darko's sister's boyfriend who accidentally RAN OVER Donnie's girlfriend.

The girls mother was the one who was stabbed by her step dad, and that is why she had to move into Donnie's town in the first place, and choose the name Gretchen.

Either way, the whole point of the movie was for Donnie to learn or find "love" or rather something worth saving the entire universe for, which he found in Gretchen.

Obviously all the time loops colliding back together has everyone having some sort of dream / deja vu, Frank (the Rabbit) touches his eye that was shot by Donnie, Patrick Swayze character is crying hopefully about to turn himself into the police, etc.

It's a decent movie, and not trash.
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Even ignoring the meaning or whatever, its a funny and entertaining movie.
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Yazarogi posted...

Clearly everyone shitting on the movie don't even remember it... the other girl was "stabbed" in the other dimension? WTF are you even going on about it's not even about dimensions.

It's a time loop. Whether Donnie willfully stayed in bed at the end, or if he thought it was all just a crazy dream is the audiences call to make, there is no official answer because it's not in the movie.

The beauty of Donnie Darko is that there is a lot going on under the surface if you're willing to look for it, now some folk will talk about manipulated dead this and that with multiple or even all the other characters from the film and I'll just cut to the chase and simply say the only true manipulated dead in the movie is Frank the Rabbit, Donnie Darko's sister's boyfriend who accidentally RAN OVER Donnie's girlfriend.

The girls mother was the one who was stabbed by her step dad, and that is why she had to move into Donnie's town in the first place, and choose the name Gretchen.

Either way, the whole point of the movie was for Donnie to learn or find "love" or rather something worth saving the entire universe for, which he found in Gretchen.

Obviously all the time loops colliding back together has everyone having some sort of dream / deja vu, Frank (the Rabbit) touches his eye that was shot by Donnie, Patrick Swayze character is crying hopefully about to turn himself into the police, etc.

It's a decent movie, and not trash.

No, there was an explain it all sorta book for Donnie Darko. It's not a time loop. Donnie crossed over into another dimension and dropped an engine onto himself to stop the two dimensions from colliding and ending the world. This isn't even a joke lol look it up. This movie became worse when it stopped being about interpretation and speculation and the Word of God relating to this work explanation is exponentially worse than the classic time loop.
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legendarylemur posted...

Yazarogi posted...

Clearly everyone shitting on the movie don't even remember it... the other girl was "stabbed" in the other dimension? WTF are you even going on about it's not even about dimensions.

It's a time loop. Whether Donnie willfully stayed in bed at the end, or if he thought it was all just a crazy dream is the audiences call to make, there is no official answer because it's not in the movie.

The beauty of Donnie Darko is that there is a lot going on under the surface if you're willing to look for it, now some folk will talk about manipulated dead this and that with multiple or even all the other characters from the film and I'll just cut to the chase and simply say the only true manipulated dead in the movie is Frank the Rabbit, Donnie Darko's sister's boyfriend who accidentally RAN OVER Donnie's girlfriend.

The girls mother was the one who was stabbed by her step dad, and that is why she had to move into Donnie's town in the first place, and choose the name Gretchen.

Either way, the whole point of the movie was for Donnie to learn or find "love" or rather something worth saving the entire universe for, which he found in Gretchen.

Obviously all the time loops colliding back together has everyone having some sort of dream / deja vu, Frank (the Rabbit) touches his eye that was shot by Donnie, Patrick Swayze character is crying hopefully about to turn himself into the police, etc.

It's a decent movie, and not trash.

No, there was an explain it all sorta book for Donnie Darko. It's not a time loop. Donnie crossed over into another dimension and dropped an engine onto himself to stop the two dimensions from colliding and ending the world. This isn't even a joke lol look it up. This movie became worse when it stopped being about interpretation and speculation and the Word of God relating to this work explanation is exponentially worse than the classic time loop.

I agree but bear with me here, because even in the Director's Cut with the actual excerpts from The Philosophy of Time Travel, there are still a lot of ambiguous loose ends, like who if anybody besides Frank is manipulated dead, the philosophy of time travel is only there to help the average viewer in the world building aspect IMO, and help understand. It's still ambiguous as to whether Donnie actually choose to stay in bed or if he still thought it was a dream / time loop. There could still have been a million failures where he got out of bed and went to the golf course. It really is all up to the viewer to decide for themselves.

Furthermore this is only my opinion and personal take on the movie... there are a lotttt of theories and speculations out there, check out the Reddit for it if you wanna delve into it but some of them are pretty obviously dumb.
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ECW1125 posted...

I agree, it is a horrible movie and the ending made no sense.

Everyone that likes this movie always tells you how its so artistic and whatever the **** but it is trash. Just like Train Spotting.

watch the directors cut, and it will make sense.
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I liked it =P
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