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Summary: Hot Damn
Review: People can not get the meaning the first time they watch this movie, thats why it appears "confusing" this movie has changed my life and has made me realize that any day could be your last and that you shouldnt waste your opprotunities. Ask out the girl you like take the risk its worth it because you just may be dead next time and not have the choice of taking the risk. This movie has openned my eyes and is easily a close close second favorite for me. This film has taught me to be more confident with my endeavors.
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Summary: A meaning to life
Review: I got a kind of different meaning out of the movie, on how life is short, it is precious. The movie made me want to go out and do things i wouldn't normally do because the film shows you how any day could be your last.It has helped me to become more confident in my endeavors. The song mad world by gary jules at the end was put into that scene perfectly. If you want a sense of thinking about death annd taking opprotunities you'd enjoy this film.
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Summary: Gets In Your Head
Review: for those who haven't seen this movie, it's a fantastic ride. i can't recall a movie that people are so eager to discuss. the use of music alone is as haunting as anything i can recall. matter of fact, i don't think i'll ever hear notorious by duran duran the same way again. definitely a good dvd to own, the more i watch it the more thought provoking it becomes...
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Summary: It's a happy movie
Review: Donnie's dies to save Gretchen. He is Donnie Jesus Darko.
But the thing that will really puzzle your noodle later on is:
Would she have died if he didn't try to save her?
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Summary: Conversing with G*d
Review: The movie started out slow, but that's called for, puzzle pieces here and there... The soundtrack is excellent, Jules and Kelly did a fantastic job meshing the song and the images together at the end, and it was at that moment...
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Summary: a wonderful film of incredible meaning
Review: donnie darko is by far my favorite movie. i adore it. it is thought-provoking, intense, beautifully filmed and written, and the song "mad world" will be stuck in your head for days. i highly recommend this movie to anyone looking for a truly original and gorgeous film experience.
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Summary: Ok, so whats the point?
Review: This movie was neat and had its good points, but in the end it was totally pointless and lacked any meaning. Sure, Donnie goes back in time and dies, but why, and how? They never even tried to explain that, or any of the other events in the movie, like, why was the bunny suit guy even in the movie? I didnt miss that part where he shot Donnies girl friend, but why did that make that guy into some kind of time traveling prophet?
This movie could use some tying up of lose ends, and only a fool would call it a great movie. I think a lot of people say its such a great movie only because they didnt get it either and they assume that if they dont get it, it must be real deep or some thing.
Sorry Richard Kelly, but confusion doesnt equal good.
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Summary: an emmersive movie that'll wipe you out for a week.
Review: this movie slipped under my radar for about 2 years. then some one told me it was good and i just ignored them. my interest in this movie was due to vanity.... sort of. i overheard some classmates talking about harry potter and time travel and i made a comment that i knew alot about time travel and asked if i could interject some one called me donnie darko . they were all like "you ARE donnie darko!" and i merely wanted to find out if that was complementary or not. i never figured that out, but i found a movie to dethrone fight club as my 2nd favorite movie and giveing tennenbaums a serious run for its money. when i heard this story i had no idea how "frank" the rabbit would present itself and i had no idea what the rest of the movie was about. after just visited the wbesite for the movie i just went out and bought the movie. it took me almost 6 hours to watch the movie cuz i kept watching the first 30 minutes over and over and over again. i didnt want it to end. this movie has the characteristics of some dreams ive had. you know , the ones where you think , that would never happen and in the world of donnie darko, they do. i dont wanna spoil the ending for all those who havent seen the movie but the ending, although good, just depressed me. i was wiped out for the rest of the week. but it was good sort of wiped out. anyway, if you open to something weerd and your smart enough not to just dismiss this movie as utter confusion then this will be one of yur favorite movies ever.
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Summary: Too incoherent to be genuinely great
Review: As it features Echo & The Bunnymen's single The Killing Moon within its first five minutes, and Joy Division's epochal Love Will Tear Us Apart within its last ten, Donnie Darko is the sort of film I have a natural weakness for. It plays like an 80's version of American Beauty. And while it's nicely ironic, well written and cleverly engineered - too cleverly engineered, really - I think it lets itself down badly in execution. An awful lot of signposts the movie needs to make it understandable are down, unclear, or just flat out missing.As a result the film is largely incoherent. Many of the positive reviews praise it for a dark post modernism which I really don't think was intended. There's a fine line between post modernism and incoherence, of course. A case in point: the episode where a jet engine falls out of the sky but which no-one reports as missing. Rather than being a wry satire of corporate responsibility and American victim culture, this is actually intended as plain old daft science fiction: it isn't reported as missing, because it has fallen through a wormhole in the space-time continuum from another universe. You don't discover this until much later in the film. But at least you do find out eventually: there are several aspects which are key to understanding what is going on that you can only discover by watching the director's commentary and having the incidents pointed out: While I was busy soaking up Will Sergeant's jangling guitars in the chorus of the Killing Moon, Frank appears briefly in the first scene of the film, driving past the camera in a red Mustang, having dropped Donnie's sister off after a date. He is also mentioned briefly as having died thirty years ago driving to Donnie's father's school prom. These are important to the exposition (and understanding whether Frank is real, an apparition, or a figment of Donnie's deranged mind) but without the director's commentary you would (on a first viewing) be none the wiser. Similarly underemphasised is the fact that, as Donnie leaves the house on the night of the jet engine incident, he moves into a parallel universe. There is nothing at all in the script that, as far as I could see, gave any hint of that. Nor of the fact that Donnie's pills are only a placebo. The film toys with the question of whether or not Donnie is schizophrenic, but never answers it. In general, Donnie Darko asks a lot more questions than it answers, and by the end of the show I was kicking around a further question: "what on earth was that all about?" Which I don't think is a good thing.
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Summary: Woah
Review: With cookie-cutter teen comedies a dime a dozen, this film manages to combine realistic and empathetic teen characters, an intriguing science fiction premise, black comedy, and just plain weirdness to create a startlingly original film. Jake Gyllenhaal is terrific as Donnie Darko, a highly intelligent and mentally ill young man who is perceptive enough to see through the phoniness of many of the adults around him, but still vulnerable and awkard in the endearing way teenagers are. Some of the characters who inhabit his world include his smug, Harvard-bound older sister (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a cheesy self-help guru (Patrick Swayze), the mysterious new girl in school (Jena Malone) and an idealistic teacher (Drew Barrymore). Time travel, a talking demonic rabbit, vandalism, a Star Search-bound dance troupe called "Sparkle Motion" ... these are all some of the plot twists that lead the film along to it's ambiguous and thought-provoking conclusion. Check it out!
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