Donnie Darko
POSTED BY: Dayve
UPDATED: Saturday, April 22, 2006 15:37
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ok, thanks Kayna...
i gave that version to a friend for her birthday....i'm pretty sure she would give it back.... she didn't like it....
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If I had to pick one word to bescribe "Donnie Darko":
Meh.
It just didn't do a lot for me. The acting was good, and the writing okay, but it didn't have much of a point.
In my opinion.
(And now ten people will get mad and start spewing out the little nuiances and plot details that it make this great epic...)
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The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. - Buffy
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Darko is a great flick. I really enjoyed it and Mad World at the end is wonderful too. BTW don't forget October Sky, thats another amazing early Jake movie.
(It's got model rockets and things that go boom!)
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That's too bad. Donnie just doesn't work for some folks. But still, I think it is great. And did you know that the girl who plays his older sister really is Jake's sister, Maggie?
You probably do, I just thought I'd mention it cause I thought it was kind of cool.
Since we're talking about favorite scenes, I have to say I love the school intro and the Smurf scene. And the Mad World scene does really get to you.
I read an interview with Tears for Fears, who did the original Mad Word were they said they perform it more like this version now. One of them also said that it kind of sucked when you felt like they were berforming a bad cover when it was thier song to begin with. They wrote it. I see that. And they didn't seem too bitter about it. Just making conversation. It's hard to tell a persons tone in print.
And oh yeah! My brother wants a Frank Costume.
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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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yes, October Sky was very good...
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yeah, i knew that about Maggie...i really liked the dinner conversation between bro. & sis....(suck a f**k????)
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I really liked it. I've seen it a few times and still don't really get it. I don't think I want to get it though. I saw the Director's Cut only once when it first came out (is that what you mean by special edition?). I thought it was ok...but really didn't like it as much. It didn't tie up *everything* and I don't like things being explained for me.
I loved the soundtrack for that movie.
Hm. You know, when I first saw the movie, it took me a while to work out that Frank was a bunny. My friend and I thought he was a bizarre alien. Freakiest bunny ever.
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Funny you should mention it - a good friend has been telling me about this movie for a while, and I finally watched it a few months ago. I LOVED it! Didn't get it at all the first time, but it's one of those movies of little moments (like Firefly) just every second of it has something interesting - the acting, the way it's shot, the music, the social commentary, the lighting...
The science part still doesn't work for me (and I'm a physicist and usually into things making sense) but that's not the point, not for me.
Anyway, it's really one of my favorites. EVER!
One comment I have - anyone notice that when they show those love/fear videos with Swayze (who's sooo funny), twice they show Swayze, ok, Cunningham, walking toward the camera and a horse whinnies in the background. They look like they're on a golf course, and there's no horses anywhere!
It's a beautiful touch.
m4p
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I didn't notice that. I loved the golf course scene though. Just the image of someone curled up and asleep by the 9 hole tickles the golfer in me.
One thing that I don't think anyone else has caught on is that the whole Frank think is a refrence to this old Jimmy Stewart movie called HARVEY. It's this movie based on a play about his guy Elwood. He's the nicest, most friendly man you've ever met. Not a single bad bone in his body. He's completely ordinary, except he thinks he has a six foot tall rabbit named Harvey following him. He's not freaked out by it at all though. He opens doors for him, orders him drinks and considers him to be his best friend, which freaks out his sister whose trying to kepp his "psychosis" under wraps.
In a weird way, DONNIE DARKO is like a nightmare version of that story.
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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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ok, so i watched the Director's Cut last night...i think i still like the original better... couldn't put my finger on it, but maybe the original was more mysterious...if that's possible....
still very good...and a flash back to the music of the 80's...usually not my favorite music, but i liked the score for this film....& the Swayze part dead on....
so, i would have to say that Darko is still one of my favorite movies....
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