Viewing Thread:
"Donnie Darko"

Just seen it on BBC2 for the first time.

Hella weird film.

Kinda disturbing, in an odd sort of way. Gonna have to buy it I think and watch it again - try and make sense of it.

Memorandum! wrote:
> Hedfix wrote:
> What's poor is your amazing 'explanation' of the movie.
>
> "Well it was either this, this or this - but I totally
> understood it..."
>
> Well, you've said that it was supposed to be vague so the audience
> could make up their own mind, and he recognised what all the
> possibilities are...so...

Not the same thing as 'understanding it'.

blimmerfisch wrote:
> BREAKING NEWS!!11
> PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT TASTES IN MOVIES AND ENJOY DIFFERENT THINGS,
> ARGUING DEEMED "POINTLESS" AND "WASTE OF TIME"

Damn straight.

*Polishes rod*

Hedfix wrote:
> What's poor is your amazing 'explanation' of the movie.
>
> "Well it was either this, this or this - but I totally
> understood it..."

Well, you've said that it was supposed to be vague so the audience could make up their own mind, and he recognised what all the possibilities are...so...


"..."

Aha.

Such a reaction in this thread for a movie that didn't challenge you.

Yeah...

BREAKING NEWS!!11
PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT TASTES IN MOVIES AND ENJOY DIFFERENT THINGS, ARGUING DEEMED "POINTLESS" AND "WASTE OF TIME"









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That's right Hedfix. I was severely challenged by the film. If you like.

But by your rules you were also challenged by my views on the film, and the fact that maybe some people don't like it.

Heh, you were challenged by it. Do keep replying denying the fact that this film you didn't "care about" hasn't challenged you and therefore you haven't posted about it in this thread at all.

Hedfix wrote:
> Nothing, he just quoted Chr1s' post which I already answered.

Hedfix wrote:
> I'm not telling you.

and then...

> the film challenged you.


If you really want me to be challenged by it, Hedfix, then ok. If you have to make it seem as if it's a good film in order to justify your own enjoyment of it, then fine.

Chr1s wrote:
> gerrid wrote:
> I find that often, if things are left open, it's because the
> director
> or writer couldn't actually come up with the answers to their own
> questions. Obviously sometimes the questions aren't meant to be
> answered, but the problem with Donnie Darko is that it doesn't even
> attempt to explore the questions, it just leaves holes everywhere
> in
> the hope that the audience will make up their own mind.
>
> Maybe that was what the director intended...