Donnie Darko

My sister was telling me about this movie, I guess I should borrow it, huh.

Still obsessed eh

No, just expressing my happiness that you've been banned twice.

What I don't get is the endless possibilities that Donnie acquires by knowing his future and then he decides hey wtf I guess I my life sucks so much that I will just kill myself.

I loved this movie. I especially liked the remix of Mad World that Tears For Fears did for the movie. It is so much better then their original album version.

WHAT? i am inclined to believe that you are both deaf and insane, afer reading that post.

Think what you like...the electronic drums in the original version drive me mad.

I have to apologize for philzilla. His frozen beer pops have gotten him depressed .

Mike

it is alive (thread) can we bury it again?

Not a Donnie Darko fan?

The poster for the Director's Cut has been released.

Except that Tears for Fears didn't do it. It's just that someone played Richard Kelly the song and he fell in love with the lyrics, and I think it's also been said that they didn't have enough money to buy rights to the entire song, just the lyrics. Anyway, the Gary Jules version fits the film so much better, and the lyrics are pretty eery.

Anyway yeah, I liked this too. It wasn't afraid to take the position of NOT HOLDING YOUR BLOODY HAND THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH, which was refreshing to say the least.

SPOILER

You should watch the movie again. He needed to stay in bed and let himself die because it was "God's plan" or destiny or whatever. It was because he followed Frank the first time that the fabric of the world started to deteriorate, thus the ending of the world after 28 days or whatever the time period was.

It was Donnie's destiny to die. God just showed him that if he didn't die, what will happen to other around him. God showed him "he didn't have to die alone."

I can't believe we had to wait over two years to have this movie released on DVD in Australia

And no - it wasn't God's plan for him to go back in time to die. He somehow knew how to go back in time from reading the old woman's book and (unfortuantely for him) he chose to return to a point in time that would kill him so that the person he loved would live.

Sounds cliched but when you truely love someone intensely and they die you would give anything to have them back again. Two years ago a very dear friend died from stomach cancer. I am normally a no-nonesense person - don't believe in God or reincarnation or afterlife but I refused to believe she had died for over a month. I even refused to go to the funeral. I guess I didn't want to let go.

Donnie gave his life so his girlfriend would live.

I sometimes doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion!

so now the question is when does the directors cut come out on dvd?? I know the movie got re-released at the end of July, but I don't think it ever came out in our city, or I just missed it...

Hopefully by Christmas time?

My understanding is he gives his life to save the world, not his girlfriend.

Yeah that's what I got from the movie as well ...