Donnie Darko
POSTED BY: Dayve
UPDATED: Saturday, April 22, 2006 15:37
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before Brokeback Mountain, Jake Gyllenhaal made a little movie entitled Donnie Darko....which has been the subject of plenty o'late night debates twen me & the crew.....
i thought it was brilliant - others, not so much....
any thoughts
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I really enjoyed Donnie Darko. It made me think and it was entertaining at the same time but it needs more than one viewing. It's one of my favorite movies.
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donnie - not donny - sorry
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Originally posted by Milt:
..... it needs more than one viewing.]
that's true...i've watched it several...ok, more than several times and i'm still curious about it...
don't know if you checked the website when the movie was new...but that was a little strange as well....
i'm still trying to put the whole time travel - mrs. swallow at the mail box thing together....
a great movie, no doubt
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It's Miss Sparrow. I don't think she was ever married.
And I liked Donnie Darko. I thought it was great and bizzare and thought provocking.
The Special Edition, not so much. Don't get me wrong, it's still good and a lot of folks think it makes more sense than the original. It was just ruined for me when I listeded to the commentary. It has Kevin Smith who is funny and the guy who made the whole thing, who I think in nuts.
He babbles about all this meaning and intentions that were nothing like the impression I or anyone else I know got from the film. And And some of it is just plain stupid, at least to my way of thinking. Now, when I watch it, all I can think about is all of that wierd crap he was spewing.
It was just not what I was expecting form the guy who created Donnie Darko.
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Op: You're fighting a war you've already lost.
Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.
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Gah! Double post! Sorry.
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Originally posted by Kayna:
It's Miss Sparrow..... the commentary. It has Kevin Smith ...who I think in nuts.
ok...so i start a thread and it seems i don't know what the hell i'm talking about...!
Miss Sparrow...yes, thanks for the correction Kayna.
I really have seen this movie (a lot)...things just aren't clicking for me today.... it's been a while since i've seen it....i will watch it again tonight.... I have the original version - haven't seen the special ED. (and now i don't want to....)
the original will do just fine....
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I kinda dug it. First time I saw it, I had a weird look on my face that I only get from a "What the Hell" movie. A "What the Hell" movie is the very rare kind of flick in which at the end of it, you wonder to yourself "What the Hell was that?" There are only two other flicks that fit that description. FIGHT CLUB and MULHOLLAND DRIVE.
But after the first time, when I re-watched the movies with the commentary tracks on it, I got some understanding of the movie, but not much. There were some bits of it that were cool (I loved the notion of an EVIL DEAD/LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST double feature) and the end montage set to the cover of "Mad World" has to be one of the saddest things ever put on film. But it didn't hit me on a gut level and make me a ravenous fan the same way that, say, CLERKS or GARDEN STATE did for me.
I'm still eager as Hell to see SOUTHLAND TALES though. Apparantly it's supposed to be even more fucked up than DONNIE DARKO.
As per the commentaries, I really liked the ones with Richard Kelly and Jake Gyllenhall and the separate one with Kevin Smith. Jake does a hilarious Chris Walken imitation on his track, and Kevin's always a gas to listen too. It's nice of him to throw in a zinger and a joke to break up the deep, pondering musings Kelly gives.
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"There's only one "Return" ok, and it ain't "of the King", it's "of the Jedi."
"Maybe we should start calling your friend 'Padme' because he loves 'Mannequin Skywalker' so much, Right? (imitating robot) Danger...danger...my name is Anakin...my shitty acting is ruining saga."
Excerpt of internet teaser for CLERKS 2.
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The special ediition is good Dayve. I didn't mean to scare you off. In fact I know quite a few folk woh like it better. I just advise against the commentary.
Even Mr. Smith (I'm not sure why he's on the commentary) seems confused by the creator's (I can't think of his name, sorry) wierd tangents and tries to stear the the coversation away from them. He tries to make it a joke but he doesn't really seem to care for those explanations.
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Op: You're fighting a war you've already lost.
Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.
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yeah, the EVIL DEAD/LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST double feature on the marquee was classic.....and Mad World will stay with you for a while too...
speaking of Chris Walken impersonations...i heard that the twins who play Fante & Mingo do a great riff on Walken
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