Donnie Darko is probably the best movie ever.
 

Yeah, ive seen it 4 times in the last 6 days and it definately rocks my socks quite hard! Has anyone else seen this cinematic masterpiece??

I wouldn't really go as far as calling it a masterpiece,sonny.Fairly decent movie but it says zero about zero.

yeah, it gets three out of four stars

hardly "best ever"









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Now you are being offensive atari.i'm really tired of giving you that injection as it doesn't seem to work.

I can't say I liked it all that much.

I liked it. But best movie ever? No way.

The original theatrical version is WAY better than the director's cut. And yeah, this is one of my favorite movies. But I won't watch the director's cut again.

What's different in the theatrical version?

In the theatrical version there was a better song in the opening credits and better music in the party scene, and there were no stupid computer monitor effects (purging files, etc.) toward the end. Also, the director's cut adds some very unnecessary scenes that take away from the pacing of the theatrical version--one such scene is the one where the parents are drinking coffee (?) on a veranda and talking about Donnie (or maybe they are at a restaruant...there are a couple of scenes like this....I only saw the director's cut once)--you must seek out the original version, it's better.

It was a good movie. I wouldn't buy it to own. My girlfriend loves it though.

give it to me. i don't even care what it is.

yeah, I've seen Donnie Darko a few times.
A movie I liked a lot, and quite an impressive directorial debut.
But best movie ever? No sir, i don't think so.

Most directors's cuts are better then the original but this was just lame. Granted people who discovered the original film found it confusing and probobly had to give it a second viewing or watch it on director's commentary, but it was much more open-ended. Anyone who saw the movie a couple times and/or watched the commentary can deduce what the film is about, but if you are that viewer, and then saw the director's cut you probobly felt that it was telling you what the film was about, rather then letting you bring your own ideas into it. Its actually what I said in the Lynch thread, the original "DD" allows you to put your own interperations into it, but the director's cut pretty much tells you what the film is about, and its becomes a lot less mysterious and open-ended. I didn't like that.

personally i thought it was retarded and i fell asleep. i fall asleep during a lot of things though.,

I fell asleep too, but that's because I hadn't slept in 2 days. Gotta see it again soon.

I did not pay too much attention as it is when I rent movies or have movies and watch it at home, so I need to see it with full attention.

It's good, but that's about all that I'll give it. Won't even make my top 10.

masterpiece my ass - good indy flick yes - cinematic genius NO

never watched it, dont know it,dont care

i didn't watch that movie ,but i heard that is piece of shit movie,but i must watch it

I also fell asleep the first time I watched it. The second time I thought it was an over-rated piece of arse.

So-so.

yeah its the best movie ever in your life maybe if you've been watching disney movies up to this point, but it's not SOOO great. don't get me wrong, i like it, seen it a few times & all, but it's not no its not no its not no no its not no the best movie ever

Somebody hasn't seen The Elephant Man...

One of my favourite movies.

i didn't bother to watch it more than once, what i saw of it was shitty enough for me to get the idea.

gladly i saw it before any hype raped me , and i totally fuckign loved it . its been a few years and i still love it - im gonna watch it soon now from this reminder - but hell even i wouldnt stop at this as being #1 and im quite the


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i had to see it more than once to understand it. but i liked it and would watch it again. but like everyone else said. it's not the best movie ever

it is one of my personal favourites, despite the trendyness of it (and another favourite: Nightmare Before Christmas/anything Tim Burton). fucking trendwhores ruining good movies.

yeah, where I lived it's really gotten lumped into the emo scene, and the underground/indie poser scene.

i think you could easily say its the best movie ever. The acting is wonderful. Name something that is better.

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

LOL@UNJAMMER

It's decent. I mean I love it but it isn't that great of a film.

Well, it is better than

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or any of those Matrix movies that also grew to be quite trendy with the know-nothing Playstation generation. Yeah, you read me right; I went there.

Donnie Darko was named 14th best on EW's "50 Best High School Movies" in the latest issue.

"There are funnier high school movies and ones with better soundtracks and more nostalgic value, but how many of those deal with time travel, alternate universes, fate, God, free will, therapy, censorship, teenage angst, falling airplane engines, pedophilia, and a scary freaking bunny? Point made. And while we still don't necessarily understand it all, few films deal so matter-of-factly with the sheer dread (both literal and metaphoric) of teen life."

I think you just easily proved you are very green when it comes to an appreciation of great movies.

Since it doesn't even make my top 100 and I'm not sure if it would even make my top 200, I could name at least 150 movies that are better.

I think the direction and concept were meh. Not horrid, not fantastic, but meh.

However, I also have a prejudice against all thinks Jake Gyllenhall, so that could have influenced it. His acting style is too choreographedly nonchalant to be convincing. Which amounted to the whole film as seeming like too much of an effort.

I'll admit the bunny gave me nightmares, but a lot of things do that.

A friend of mine keeps raving over Empire of the Sun, and I have yet to see that. But we split a newsgroup, and the asshole keeps hogging it. Torrents are wonderful, except when I'm seeding, it causes distortion on my phone as it's an internet phone.

Just in case anyone wanted that irrelevant drivel.

Jake was so cute in that movie. Don't deny this.

I don't go for 'cute,' unfortunately.

Ahh. Heartless bitch.

It works for you though, really.