Donnie Darko

[NIGhtMAre]

who here has seen Donnie Darko? its a weird movie and this thread is for people to write out there therioes about the movie...I'll right mine later...

[robiskewl]

good movie. lots o crazy stuff. but people get WAYYY to into it.

[BakerStencil]

It was pretty wild but like Rob said its kinda developed a Cult around it and I'm not that into it.

[iamflameboy]

its a ****ing fantastic film..i got it on DVD and goiong to see the directors cut too hopefully...

[sk8withtheforce]

Yeah I have the dvd too, tis one of my faves. Well worth the effort to watch.

[NIGhtMAre]

yea i've seen people that are in it so heavy that they think about it WAAAAY to much...which is not healthy cuase its just a movie and that stuff could never happen.

[robiskewl]

well an airplane enginge COULD fall into one's house.but the whole frank thing, no.

[NIGhtMAre]

i mean the whole messing with time theory...

[robiskewl]

well... yeah

[NIGhtMAre]

unless your one of those late night talk radio people and claim you went back in time and stuff....

[Zac--]

Spectacular film. For those of you who have seen this movie, and are into the whole psychological thriller movies, I highly recommend the movie Fight Club.

[NIGhtMAre]

I've yet to see fightclub fully (i've seen like the 1st hour)

i hear they are making a fight club game..

I gotta see that whole movie, thanks zac--

[robiskewl]

what? how can you only watch an hour of that movie. i'd be so confused/pissed if i only saw an hour of it. it has quite the fantastic ending.

[Skate or Try]

awesome film

[sk8withtheforce]

I have fight club on dvd too.
Ed Norton is one fine hunk of man.

[robiskewl]

psh, edward norton is nothing compared to brad pit. oooieee ;)

[Skate or Try]

well DD ending had me confuzzled to begin with, until i read this

'As the clock runs out, Donnie makes love with Gretchen and then goes to Roberta Sparrow’s. He’s found love, and now he needs answers. If everyone dies alone, then it doesn’t matter that he loves Gretchen. What he finds is death, destruction, sorrow, and despair. The complete darkness of the fallen world is laid bare before him, and Roberta Sparrow is nowhere to be found. And then the sky starts to fall.

Donnie watches the clouds gather above his house, and then scenes from the movie run in reverse. Donnie is back in his bed on the night of his death. He laughs. He should laugh: he has time traveled, and now he will die—but Gretchen won’t be murdered. His family will weep but the world won’t come to an end at the close of twenty-eight days. He’s sacrificed himself to prove that God exists, that God is indeed sovereign over everything—and if God exists then no one dies alone, it is safe to die, and the world doesn’t have to come to an end. His death does change the future, profoundly, but he laughs because he’s learned that death isn’t the worst thing that can happen to a person, not by half. '

y'see now?

[NIGhtMAre]

Originally posted by robiskewl
what? how can you only watch an hour of that movie. i'd be so confused/pissed if i only saw an hour of it. it has quite the fantastic ending.

it was a while ago, I think we needed to go somewhere....

[robiskewl]

hey, way to ruin the end of the movie for everyone who hasnt seen it.

[KickTheFlip]

Donnie Darko is good but it doesnt come close to Fight Club. it is my fav film. fantastic move and you gotta see it. ive seen like ten times!

[Skate or Try]

10? whoa no need for that kind of extremety

[NIGhtMAre]

hmm, that made sense...thanks skate or try.

[Skate or Try]

my new theory:

'The end of the world is preventable, but only donnie can do it. If you want a modern day jesus christ - backed up by the qoute 'why are you wearing that stupid man suit'. The bunny guy how does when he is shot by donnie is say - an angel, he knows he is going to die by Donnie regardless of the end of the world so has an intentive to help Donnie save it, to save it Donnie just die in the jet engine crash like he does in the end. But first god wants Donnie to realise he will not be dieing alone as he fears so God takes him right to the end of the world where Donnie realises it is better for him to die and save the people he loves, gretchen and family. So when the ortal opens in the sky donnie travels back through it and dies. By doing so he realises that god trulky exisrs and he will not die alone. And by doing so saves the world (i don't know how, so answers on apost card here)

[NIGhtMAre]

thats intresting...really the movie hardly made sense for me..

[snakeyes17]

it made sense to me and even more after what skate or try said
it was a really good movie
is anyone here going to see the Director's Cut version coming out on Friday? I might...if it comes to my theaters
But i am wondering if it is going to be much different..i know it is 20 minutes longer

[robiskewl]

to my knowledge it's not coming out friday. but then again, i dunno?

[snakeyes17]

http://www.donniedarko.com/info/
New York, Los Angeles, and other cities

[evilcheese00]

i finally got my ass round to watching it.......****ing amazing movie, i love movies that actually make you think and have real meanings, and yeah i saw fight club a while back thats great too but i think darko is much better.

[shamoncowboy]

i are gay fags

[tryhard_skater]

^haha ok then. havent seen it but it sounds odd. i saw it in the video store. 'cult phonomenon' apparantly it has a talking rabbit in a thriller... odd. im renting 2 movies tonight... bowling for columbine and maybe darko

[shamoncowboy]

i dont see how donni darko is a thriller

[snakeyes17]

psychological thriller?

[shamoncowboy]

its never really thrilling though, i mean i guess the engine falling through is a bit frightening, but if anything its more purely philosophical.

[Skate or Try]

agreed.

[ROBODINOSAUR]

dude, i love that movie, its definately a favorite. the part in the end where donnies girlfriend, the one he always makes out with, is all like, oh my god what happened, i feel sorry for there family. that was the saddest part of any movie ive seen. than they have "crazy world" or "wierd world" or whatever the name of that song is playing in the background. its like she never met him, but they were the best couple. ever. yea i have to say, i almost cry everytime i see it. almost.

[shamoncowboy]

*mad world, yeah i know though, its always sad cuz they are like misfit kids and find like a partner, but hey, i mean its not as sad as if he didnt go back in time and die because then she would be dead after gettin run over by frank, and that would be a love lost.

My favorite part though is at the end where he says something like i cant wait for the world to end, because i will have so much to look forward to, or soemthing like that, pure genius.

another cool part is at the party when he sees the portal flying around and theyr playing the church under the milky way and the bagpipe or whatever instrument solo comes on, so cool

[Skate or Try]

Turns out I was completely wrong. And if you read the old ladies book;

HERE --->
http://ruinedeye.com/cd/time1.htm
Its quite easy to understand in the end, basiclly Time was corrupted when the Jet Engine was sent back from the future meaning a tangent universe was created and causing the world to end. Because Donnie was closed to the engine it was his quest to send the engine back to the old universe to save the world. Frank and his girlfriend die in the new universe meaning they are 'mainipulated dead' and could help Donnie correct the time corruption as they were 'ghosts' if you will.Donnie didn't have to die, but laughs because he enlighten and knew he was going onto a better place.

END>

[NIGhtMAre]

my friends explanation:

Donnie Darko was just a kid with problems, the first engine crash never happened and he imagined it, the second one was a coincedence. And he was imagining those lines outta his chest and stuff.

^^The only way it can make sense in "our real world"

[Skate or Try]

hahahaha, what a lamoid.

[shamoncowboy]

hahahha two engines from different planes flying nowhere near my house just happened to fall in my house at the same time. If he was imagining the portals coming out of his chest, then how could they lead him to the gun...i wonder, anyways does anyone know if theyre planning on releasing the directors cut.

[NIGhtMAre]

he must've sleepwalked one night and not remembered the guns, then his mind remembered it...?

[shamoncowboy]

yeah i guess, or schitzofrania(sp?)

[Zac--]

You people are thinking too into depth with it. James' theory is the what makes the most sense, being as when you buy the DVD version of Donnie Darko there is a book explaining Time Travel with it, hence explaining the movie's reasoning.

[Skate or Try]

if you don;t get it just read this http://ruinedeye.com/cd/time1.htm

[snakeyes17]

Originally posted by shamoncowboy
hahahha two engines from different planes flying nowhere near my house just happened to fall in my house at the same time. If he was imagining the portals coming out of his chest, then how could they lead him to the gun...i wonder, anyways does anyone know if theyre planning on releasing the directors cut.
well in some major cities it was realised on July 23 i am pretty sure

and isn't the book not even real?

[Skate or Try]

the book doesn't exist in real life, but you can read the verison in the film

[snakeyes17]

yeah...thats what i meant

and by the way if you want to see something else from Jake Gylenhaal(Donnie;sp?) he is in The Day After Tomorrow as Sam Hall.
here is a list of movies he was in:

Nautica (2005) (pre-production)
Me and My Monster (2004) (pre-production)
Brokeback Mountain (2005) (filming) .... Jack
Proof (2004) (post-production) .... Hal


Day After Tomorrow, The (2004) .... Sam Hall
Moonlight Mile (2002) .... Joe Nast
Highway (2002/I) .... Pilot Kelson
Good Girl, The (2002) .... Thomas 'Holden'/'Tom' Worther
Lovely & Amazing (2001) .... Jordan
Bubble Boy (2001) .... Jimmy Livingston
Donnie Darko (2001) .... Donnie Darko


October Sky (1999) .... Homer Hickam
Homegrown (1998) .... Jake/Blue Kahan
Josh and S.A.M. (1993) .... Leon
Dangerous Woman, A (1993) (as Jacob Gyllenhaal) .... Edward
City Slickers (1991) .... Danny Robbins

and his dad was in the Everwood tv series and coincidentally grew up in cleveland. jake was supposed to play spiderman in spiderman 2 but tobey maguire was able to.

[NIGhtMAre]

why would they switch tobey for jake at the 2nd movie>?

[snakeyes17]

im not sure but there was soemthing wrong with tobey i think

and if anyone has seen Shaun White's Burton snowboard it has Frank as the graphic on it. http://www.burton.com/burton/gear/products.asp?productID=28 board
http://www.burton.com/burton/gear/boardGraphicStory.asp?story=Shaun+White story

[shamoncowboy]

maybe theyre gonna be like batman and switch leading roles. for one reason or another

[snakeyes17]

hmm that would be weird

[NIGhtMAre]

that would suck...i'm waiting till venom hits the spiderman movies...!

[tryhard_skater]

well sorry to bring up an old thread but hey i need some answers.

So frank as the manipulated dead was able to come back and help donnie. because donnie went to roberta sparrows near the end of the movie, gretchen got run over and he shot frank. He was then able to understand time travel and sees the sky open up and goes back in time and lies in his bed. This will stop gretchen and frank from getting killed. And I know that to 'send the engine back to the correct universe and to stop a tangeant universe opening up he will save the world'. okay, but why the hell is this, as in how does donnie getting smashed by the engine send it back to the correct universe or even change anything. What difference does it make if it kills him or not. And it still didnt go to the correct world because at the end they lift it out and on the site in an article it says the engine killed donnie but they dont know where it came from.

so what im asking is 'why does donnie getting killed, instead of being outside and the engine missing him, change anything, why does that save the world???? thanks

[robiskewl]

well it changes the fact that he never meets gretchen or frank, or the old lady. and teh three combined probably have something to do with time

[DCsleepsalone]

He did not have to die, he could have still saved the world and got out of the bed if someone woke him up and he escaped death, but no one did. Many say his death wrapped up the movie well, but i disagree, it almost made you feel like crap at the end of the movie. He regards the whole thing as a dream which is shown by him laughing when he woke up, since he is relieved that its all over, thereore the reason he doesnt get out of bed to save himself.

[Craig Himself]

When you die, as far as you're concerned, the world ends.

Think about that.

[NIGhtMAre]

^_^ 1 l0vE t3h d0nN1e DaRk0 mOVi3s!!!!!

[Ramp]