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Summary: Donnie Darko excellent!!
Review: I rented this movie, and it's quite fantastic. the plot is confusing at first but after you think about it you can figure out the movie.the movie was very funny at times and extremely sad at others, scary and dark the whole way through.
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Summary: Overdone time-warp movie
Review: Donnie Darko is another time-warp movie. There's some originality to the plot, but the overall idea is not too original, or particularly coherent. This is another example of a movie made by drug addicts who put their crazed minds on screen, to pollute the American general public. Stupid movie with terrible acting. Avoid. You won't get anything interesting; only to make the drug addict filmmakers and their souless studio executive backers richer so they could buy more illicit drugs.
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Summary: Great movie that flew under the radar
Review: I didn't hear about this movie until well after it was released on DVD, and i have to say i heard about it strictly by accident, but picked it up cheap during a sale at Best Buy and i have to say it's one of the best movies i've seen in years. Damn good to say the least I'd highly recommend it to any and everyone
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Summary: DONT BE CONFUSED BY THE TITLE!
Review: WHAT KIND OF NAME IS DONNIE DARKO? SOUNDS LIKE SOME SUPERHERO... What makes you think it's not?
This is one of the best movies I have ever seen. just f*cking WATCH IT!!!
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: 'Donnie Darko' is a brilliant film that will suit many viewers' taste. The film is heartfelt, fun, humorous, and thoughtful. I've seen it numorous times and I still remain as satisfied as I did the first time I saw the film. 'Donnie Darko' is definately an entertaining flick viewers must tell their friends about.
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Summary: Donnie Greato
Review: There are so many good things to say about "Donnie Darko" that this review could be pages long. But, first of all and most important, this is a very original, thought-provoking and intense film. The script is like something Neal Stephenson and Stephen King would write togheter: dark, multi-elemented, fantastic characters, it grabs the viewer and tranports him to Donnie's reality without effort. Maybe you won't turn the TV set off feeling very well after watching "Donnie Darko", but you also won't forget it easily. Donnie sticks to mind. Relating things like depressive behavior with time-travel made this movie one of the most incredible I've seen in the last decade. Donnie is brilliantly played by one of the upcoming stars of the young generation of talented actors, Jake Gylenhaal. Donnie is a schyzophrenic, uncomprehended kid with lots of relationship problems. Sleepwalking, he does "errands" for a fantastic figure, a giant reptile-rabbit named Frank. These errands, always using violence and being supposedly pointless, are all part of a greater scheme conceived by Donnie and his immaginary pal, Frank. And this greater scheme is what is most interesting and original about "Donnie Darko". I don't want to give anything away, you'll have to watch it to understand. All characters are well-developed, no matter how little their on-screen time. For example: Noah Wyle's character, one of Donnie's teachers, is always eating someting, because the actor decided his character was diabetic (!). This is the kind of acting I'm talking about. Holmes Osborne and Mary McDonnell, Patrick Swayze, Drew Barrymore and, especially, Jena Malone, all of them created believable and coherent characters. But the best thing of all in this amazing movie is the dialogue. It's intelligent, fast, funny. There are many, many memorable quotes, one better than the other. Log on to the Message Board pages about "Donnie Darko" at Imdb.com to see what I mean. Watch it over and over again, pay attention to details, characters, situations and dialogues. Search the web for things related to "Donnie Darko". There's much more to it than it seems. Grade 9.3/10
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Summary: Three words... See this Movie!
Review: This is one of the most original movies i have ever seen and i wish i could have seen it in the theatres! The whole cast does an excellant job along with excelant direction and haunting music. the songs go so well with the pictire also "Head over heels etc. this is one of those films where after it is over you sit there in awe! I cannot believe people have called this movie stupid. Obviously they did not get the meaning of this movie. I also love the 80's feel to it. if you have not seen this movie do yourself a favor and watch it! recommended it! A beautiful, haunting and orgingal movie that will leave you speechless!
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Summary: Pretty Good!!!
Review: ... but not nearly the mind-bogglingly original 5-star masterpiece people on the internet are making it out to be. It amuses me to see how many people give this movie 5-stars. Where, then, does that put the truly suspenseful and original films of people like Polanski, Kubrick, Hitchock, Murnau and other masters? It also cracks me up to see how anybody who posts a negative review of Donnie Darko gets slammed with negative votes -- didn't Donnie's attitude about not following the pack influence anyone? I'm prepared to take negative hits. In fact, I'm going for the record, please help me reach it.
This is a good idea for a movie with a great sense of atmosphere, but Donnie acts likes a jerk most of the time. Richard Kelly is an interesting director. If his follow-up to "Donnie" deserves half the accolades his debut won, it should be the greatest movie of the decade.
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Summary: Donnie Darko
Review: I rented this movie and watched it five times in a row, and I could watch it again. There are not many movies that would stand that kind of close scrutiny, according to me. I also agree with the above about Catcher in the Rye and the Oscar-nominations. Buy it.
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Summary: What a cool movie.....
Review: Not much to say about this one. The less you know the better. It pretty interesting play on the time travel/alternate reality theme. The small town feel adds to the movie's ambience and the Patrick Swayze scenes crack me up every time. It doesn't really make any sense and you either like it because of it's ambivilence or you don't. The acting is exceptional by everyone except Gyllenhal but he isn't bad enough to ruin the movie. I listened to the commentary by the director and Gyllenhal and I swear that guy is the most self centered annoying twit of all time. WHO WAS THE AD WIZARD THAT CAME UP WITH THAT ONE! no but seriously he came off like a fifteen year old punk who just got his first movie and thought he was GOD. The music rocks to this movie with some nice 80's music but unfortunately they didn't have enough money to buy the publication rights so the soundtrack so they just put out an instrumental soundtrack. Bottom Line: Not for everyone but if you are a child of the 80's or a fan of originality check this out.
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