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Wow.
I just got back from one of the best films I can ever remember seeing.
Explaining the plot is a mistake because it will inevitably sound trite unless you know all of it, in which case I would have spoiled the film. But I'm going to try anyway... Donnie is a mixed up teenager with issues, but not in a nu-metal smash stuff way, rather an intelligent person struggling to understand how the world can be the way it is. His psychological problems even extend to seeing a 6ft rabbit called Frank who tells him that the world is going to come to an end in 28 days, 6 hours, 40 odd minutes and 12 seconds (6ft rabbits are a sign of a great film as anyone who's watched "Sexy Beast" will testify to)
That's as much as I can explain without giving anything away, which is a shame because trying to sum up the plot makes the film sound crap. On seeing the film, however, I fell in love with it from the opening scene, which mirrors the start of Blue Velvet, with Donnie cycling through his blissful suburbia while people go around looking very fake (It's not quite as bad as Lynch's gurning, waving fireman, but it's nearly there) and as this takes place Echo and the Bunnymen's "Under a Killing Moon". This like so many moments in the film is just one little detail that makes the film so good; Bunnymen is an in-joke to anyone who spots that it's Echo and the Bunnymen, the lyrics talk of fate, which is one of the films over-riding themes and the lyrics referring to "Blue Moon" add to the Lynch reference. The choice of music alone is a sign that the film is good, as for once the songs are actually selected to fit both the 1988 setting, and to have some lyrical relevance to the film. It beats Vin Diesel snowboarding to some chugga chugga modish metal band because the studio wants to shift some soundtracks.
Of course some of you might be thinking that I'm reading too much into such a little detail? Well, no actually, the film is littered with tiny little details that seem almost insignificant at the time but are actually very clever and sometimes important. From the Citizen Kane tribute "Rosebud avenue" on which Donnie lives, to the repeated Bunny imagery in odd places. That said, this isn't intended to be an incredibly serious film, among it's numerous film references is one scene in which Donnie goes to watch "the Evil Dead" at the cinema and another which appears to quote the Doc from "Back to the Future". "Donnie Darko" isn't a horror movie but it does stay heavily in the black area of comedy. Most of the laughs are derived from people being incredibly fake, with one Mrs. Farmer heading the posse in her "God is Awesome" t-shirt and her utterance of what the Sight & Sound reviewer called his favourite line of the year: "Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparklemotion!" May not be funny now, but when you see it in context it's very funny.
The film also has a damn good script, guaranteed cult success because of the inclusion of a "completely surreal and random bit of dialogue", patented by Kevin Smith who had Dante and Randle discuss the fate of engineers on the Death Star in "Clerks". Donnie's concerns the sexual habits of Smurfs and in particular Papa Smurf, which was very funny.
You probobaly shouldn't go and watch this if you just want a bit of escapism, because it definitely makes you think. But having gone on and on about the lack of good films recently I'm glad to have watched a film that doesn't treat me like an idiot, and with a plot that isn't as unsubtle as a knee to the groin.
I will warn you that the film is not to everyone's tastes. Several people left the cinema where I watched it moaning about not understanding the film. One man even left chat to someone who was presumably his boss on his mobile, despite a closing song with the hopelessly appropriate lyrics:
"All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere...
... When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World"
It made me think.
It made me incredibly jealous of the first-time writer-director.
It made me feel something.
Go and see "Donnie Darko" because it's the best film I've seen so far this year.
I just got back from one of the best films I can ever remember seeing.
Explaining the plot is a mistake because it will inevitably sound trite unless you know all of it, in which case I would have spoiled the film. But I'm going to try anyway... Donnie is a mixed up teenager with issues, but not in a nu-metal smash stuff way, rather an intelligent person struggling to understand how the world can be the way it is. His psychological problems even extend to seeing a 6ft rabbit called Frank who tells him that the world is going to come to an end in 28 days, 6 hours, 40 odd minutes and 12 seconds (6ft rabbits are a sign of a great film as anyone who's watched "Sexy Beast" will testify to)
That's as much as I can explain without giving anything away, which is a shame because trying to sum up the plot makes the film sound crap. On seeing the film, however, I fell in love with it from the opening scene, which mirrors the start of Blue Velvet, with Donnie cycling through his blissful suburbia while people go around looking very fake (It's not quite as bad as Lynch's gurning, waving fireman, but it's nearly there) and as this takes place Echo and the Bunnymen's "Under a Killing Moon". This like so many moments in the film is just one little detail that makes the film so good; Bunnymen is an in-joke to anyone who spots that it's Echo and the Bunnymen, the lyrics talk of fate, which is one of the films over-riding themes and the lyrics referring to "Blue Moon" add to the Lynch reference. The choice of music alone is a sign that the film is good, as for once the songs are actually selected to fit both the 1988 setting, and to have some lyrical relevance to the film. It beats Vin Diesel snowboarding to some chugga chugga modish metal band because the studio wants to shift some soundtracks.
Of course some of you might be thinking that I'm reading too much into such a little detail? Well, no actually, the film is littered with tiny little details that seem almost insignificant at the time but are actually very clever and sometimes important. From the Citizen Kane tribute "Rosebud avenue" on which Donnie lives, to the repeated Bunny imagery in odd places. That said, this isn't intended to be an incredibly serious film, among it's numerous film references is one scene in which Donnie goes to watch "the Evil Dead" at the cinema and another which appears to quote the Doc from "Back to the Future". "Donnie Darko" isn't a horror movie but it does stay heavily in the black area of comedy. Most of the laughs are derived from people being incredibly fake, with one Mrs. Farmer heading the posse in her "God is Awesome" t-shirt and her utterance of what the Sight & Sound reviewer called his favourite line of the year: "Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparklemotion!" May not be funny now, but when you see it in context it's very funny.
The film also has a damn good script, guaranteed cult success because of the inclusion of a "completely surreal and random bit of dialogue", patented by Kevin Smith who had Dante and Randle discuss the fate of engineers on the Death Star in "Clerks". Donnie's concerns the sexual habits of Smurfs and in particular Papa Smurf, which was very funny.
You probobaly shouldn't go and watch this if you just want a bit of escapism, because it definitely makes you think. But having gone on and on about the lack of good films recently I'm glad to have watched a film that doesn't treat me like an idiot, and with a plot that isn't as unsubtle as a knee to the groin.
I will warn you that the film is not to everyone's tastes. Several people left the cinema where I watched it moaning about not understanding the film. One man even left chat to someone who was presumably his boss on his mobile, despite a closing song with the hopelessly appropriate lyrics:
"All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere...
... When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World"
It made me think.
It made me incredibly jealous of the first-time writer-director.
It made me feel something.
Go and see "Donnie Darko" because it's the best film I've seen so far this year.
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Wow.
I just got back from one of the best films I can ever remember seeing.
Explaining the plot is a mistake because it will inevitably sound trite unless you know all of it, in which case I would have spoiled the film. But I'm going to try anyway... Donnie is a mixed up teenager with issues, but not in a nu-metal smash stuff way, rather an intelligent person struggling to understand how the world can be the way it is. His psychological problems even extend to seeing a 6ft rabbit called Frank who tells him that the world is going to come to an end in 28 days, 6 hours, 40 odd minutes and 12 seconds (6ft rabbits are a sign of a great film as anyone who's watched "Sexy Beast" will testify to)
That's as much as I can explain without giving anything away, which is a shame because trying to sum up the plot makes the film sound crap. On seeing the film, however, I fell in love with it from the opening scene, which mirrors the start of Blue Velvet, with Donnie cycling through his blissful suburbia while people go around looking very fake (It's not quite as bad as Lynch's gurning, waving fireman, but it's nearly there) and as this takes place Echo and the Bunnymen's "Under a Killing Moon". This like so many moments in the film is just one little detail that makes the film so good; Bunnymen is an in-joke to anyone who spots that it's Echo and the Bunnymen, the lyrics talk of fate, which is one of the films over-riding themes and the lyrics referring to "Blue Moon" add to the Lynch reference. The choice of music alone is a sign that the film is good, as for once the songs are actually selected to fit both the 1988 setting, and to have some lyrical relevance to the film. It beats Vin Diesel snowboarding to some chugga chugga modish metal band because the studio wants to shift some soundtracks.
Of course some of you might be thinking that I'm reading too much into such a little detail? Well, no actually, the film is littered with tiny little details that seem almost insignificant at the time but are actually very clever and sometimes important. From the Citizen Kane tribute "Rosebud avenue" on which Donnie lives, to the repeated Bunny imagery in odd places. That said, this isn't intended to be an incredibly serious film, among it's numerous film references is one scene in which Donnie goes to watch "the Evil Dead" at the cinema and another which appears to quote the Doc from "Back to the Future". "Donnie Darko" isn't a horror movie but it does stay heavily in the black area of comedy. Most of the laughs are derived from people being incredibly fake, with one Mrs. Farmer heading the posse in her "God is Awesome" t-shirt and her utterance of what the Sight & Sound reviewer called his favourite line of the year: "Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparklemotion!" May not be funny now, but when you see it in context it's very funny.
The film also has a damn good script, guaranteed cult success because of the inclusion of a "completely surreal and random bit of dialogue", patented by Kevin Smith who had Dante and Randle discuss the fate of engineers on the Death Star in "Clerks". Donnie's concerns the sexual habits of Smurfs and in particular Papa Smurf, which was very funny.
You probobaly shouldn't go and watch this if you just want a bit of escapism, because it definitely makes you think. But having gone on and on about the lack of good films recently I'm glad to have watched a film that doesn't treat me like an idiot, and with a plot that isn't as unsubtle as a knee to the groin.
I will warn you that the film is not to everyone's tastes. Several people left the cinema where I watched it moaning about not understanding the film. One man even left chat to someone who was presumably his boss on his mobile, despite a closing song with the hopelessly appropriate lyrics:
"All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere...
... When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World"
It made me think.
It made me incredibly jealous of the first-time writer-director.
It made me feel something.
Go and see "Donnie Darko" because it's the best film I've seen so far this year.
I just got back from one of the best films I can ever remember seeing.
Explaining the plot is a mistake because it will inevitably sound trite unless you know all of it, in which case I would have spoiled the film. But I'm going to try anyway... Donnie is a mixed up teenager with issues, but not in a nu-metal smash stuff way, rather an intelligent person struggling to understand how the world can be the way it is. His psychological problems even extend to seeing a 6ft rabbit called Frank who tells him that the world is going to come to an end in 28 days, 6 hours, 40 odd minutes and 12 seconds (6ft rabbits are a sign of a great film as anyone who's watched "Sexy Beast" will testify to)
That's as much as I can explain without giving anything away, which is a shame because trying to sum up the plot makes the film sound crap. On seeing the film, however, I fell in love with it from the opening scene, which mirrors the start of Blue Velvet, with Donnie cycling through his blissful suburbia while people go around looking very fake (It's not quite as bad as Lynch's gurning, waving fireman, but it's nearly there) and as this takes place Echo and the Bunnymen's "Under a Killing Moon". This like so many moments in the film is just one little detail that makes the film so good; Bunnymen is an in-joke to anyone who spots that it's Echo and the Bunnymen, the lyrics talk of fate, which is one of the films over-riding themes and the lyrics referring to "Blue Moon" add to the Lynch reference. The choice of music alone is a sign that the film is good, as for once the songs are actually selected to fit both the 1988 setting, and to have some lyrical relevance to the film. It beats Vin Diesel snowboarding to some chugga chugga modish metal band because the studio wants to shift some soundtracks.
Of course some of you might be thinking that I'm reading too much into such a little detail? Well, no actually, the film is littered with tiny little details that seem almost insignificant at the time but are actually very clever and sometimes important. From the Citizen Kane tribute "Rosebud avenue" on which Donnie lives, to the repeated Bunny imagery in odd places. That said, this isn't intended to be an incredibly serious film, among it's numerous film references is one scene in which Donnie goes to watch "the Evil Dead" at the cinema and another which appears to quote the Doc from "Back to the Future". "Donnie Darko" isn't a horror movie but it does stay heavily in the black area of comedy. Most of the laughs are derived from people being incredibly fake, with one Mrs. Farmer heading the posse in her "God is Awesome" t-shirt and her utterance of what the Sight & Sound reviewer called his favourite line of the year: "Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparklemotion!" May not be funny now, but when you see it in context it's very funny.
The film also has a damn good script, guaranteed cult success because of the inclusion of a "completely surreal and random bit of dialogue", patented by Kevin Smith who had Dante and Randle discuss the fate of engineers on the Death Star in "Clerks". Donnie's concerns the sexual habits of Smurfs and in particular Papa Smurf, which was very funny.
You probobaly shouldn't go and watch this if you just want a bit of escapism, because it definitely makes you think. But having gone on and on about the lack of good films recently I'm glad to have watched a film that doesn't treat me like an idiot, and with a plot that isn't as unsubtle as a knee to the groin.
I will warn you that the film is not to everyone's tastes. Several people left the cinema where I watched it moaning about not understanding the film. One man even left chat to someone who was presumably his boss on his mobile, despite a closing song with the hopelessly appropriate lyrics:
"All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere...
... When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World"
It made me think.
It made me incredibly jealous of the first-time writer-director.
It made me feel something.
Go and see "Donnie Darko" because it's the best film I've seen so far this year.
Too right, I loved this film, got it on VCD a while back not really expecting much and was shocked to find that it was really good.
I've heard nothing but goodness about this. Except for the Drew Barrymore. But I will see.
The Smurf quote in all its glory:
"First of all, Papa Smurf didn't create Smurfette. Gargamel did. She was sent in as Gargamel's evil spy with the intention of destroying the Smurf village, but the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed her. And as for the whole gang-bang scenario, it just couldn't happen. Smurfs are asexual. They don't even have reproductive organs under those little white pants. That's what's so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf. What's the point of living if you don't have a *ahem* ?"
"First of all, Papa Smurf didn't create Smurfette. Gargamel did. She was sent in as Gargamel's evil spy with the intention of destroying the Smurf village, but the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed her. And as for the whole gang-bang scenario, it just couldn't happen. Smurfs are asexual. They don't even have reproductive organs under those little white pants. That's what's so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf. What's the point of living if you don't have a *ahem* ?"
That, for some reason, reminds me of the Superman chat between T.S. and Brodie at the cookiee stand in Mallrats.
"It's impossible, Lois could never have Superman's baby. Do you think her fallopian tubes could handle the sperm? I gaurentee he blows a load like a shotgun right through her back. What about her womb? Do you think it's strong enough to carry her child?"
"Sure, why not?"
"He's an alien, for Christs sake. His Kyrptonian biological makeup is enhanced by Earth's yellow sun. If Lois gets a tan the kid could kick right through her stomach. Only someone like Wonder Woman has a strong enough uterus to carry his kid. The only way he could bang regular chicks is with a kryptonite condom. But that would kill him."
:D
"It's impossible, Lois could never have Superman's baby. Do you think her fallopian tubes could handle the sperm? I gaurentee he blows a load like a shotgun right through her back. What about her womb? Do you think it's strong enough to carry her child?"
"Sure, why not?"
"He's an alien, for Christs sake. His Kyrptonian biological makeup is enhanced by Earth's yellow sun. If Lois gets a tan the kid could kick right through her stomach. Only someone like Wonder Woman has a strong enough uterus to carry his kid. The only way he could bang regular chicks is with a kryptonite condom. But that would kill him."
:D
Will have to see it. Is it on general release, or more independent cinema-ish?
Oh, and how's Uni? Does it make you happy that one day you will belong to the profession that causes all the world's troubles?
Sonic
Oh, and how's Uni? Does it make you happy that one day you will belong to the profession that causes all the world's troubles?
Sonic
I've ordered this on Region 1 DVD, should arrive on Friday along with R1 special Mallrats and Spiderman.
Dont give any bloody spoilers for this!
Dont give any bloody spoilers for this!
Goatboy wrote:
> Dont give any bloody spoilers for this!
The butler did it ;D
> Dont give any bloody spoilers for this!
The butler did it ;D
Goatboy wrote:
> I've ordered this on Region 1 DVD, should arrive on Friday along with
> R1 special Mallrats and Spiderman.
Yup, me too. Now that we don't sell DVDs anymore, I feel I can say good old Play.com.
> I've ordered this on Region 1 DVD, should arrive on Friday along with
> R1 special Mallrats and Spiderman.
Yup, me too. Now that we don't sell DVDs anymore, I feel I can say good old Play.com.
That site rules for DVDs
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